Watching the news lately, one gets the sense that world leaders and economists everywhere are staring at the unhinged figure leading the United States, quietly asking themselves how they’re supposed to manage four more years of this madness.
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It won't last 4 years.
Presidents are not guaranteed 4 years.
Americans know what they have to do.
Orange skidmark will encourage his own destruction.
As the deviant broken man-child always has.
What ? The world knew Trump2 was very possible. They made plans and strategies. America’s ego and greed is it’s downfall. It’s not just MAGA, its also do nothing Democrats.
You don’t get it, no country wants to be like America. America has money and that gives it power. USA has always been Trump
Cut the US out as much as possible. Sell treasury bonds, sanction us, boycott us, all of it. His supporters need to experience real pain. Not just temporary inconvenience that they think is pain.
“Four more years!” You know that the only way he will leave is in a box. He has the judiciary, the legislature and the presidency. The things he’s doing require him to stay in office to avoid prosecution.
He will never willingly step down. Laws and the US Constitution are irrelevant now.
my hope is that the cheeto in chief is somehow "indesposed" and once things are broken beyond repair, we get to build systems back that work well for all people, not just good for some and great for a very few. we don't want the old back we want new and better. dream bigger.
By building stronger relationships between them and not America. They know this and it's happening, it's why America is telling Europe they'd better buy US military goods and Europe is instead investing in their own military/industrial complex.
They will do what they have to do but the relationship with America has changed forever. They may negotiate a trade deal with trump. They will still seek to expand trade outside of the US. As a consumer all I can guarantee I will not buy American product.
Sadly, most US citizens either voted for him or didn’t care who won and didn’t turn up to vote. The truth is that Trump is what the US wanted.
And that’s a big part of why the US needs to be cut out of international politics. Sorry, but you guys are a basket case and we can never trust you again.
I hear you, and can’t defend the US. I told my husband that at least by the next election (if there is one), a lot more boomers will be dead so that should work for us.
Oh I will need it. It is a shxtshow here right now and many of us are terrified and angry. But thank you. Just know that many of us feel as betrayed as you all do.
Without us. Just make trade and deals excluding the USA. The US is a large country with a lot of resources, but it doesn’t have EVERYTHING we need to survive and thrive. Any successful country is Global, no way around it today. Look at North Korea!
Two more years .. maybe. There has to be a push for sane thinking ppl to take majority control of the House & > 2/3 of the Senate. A difficult, but not impossible task when rising costs & evaporated savings makes all US feel the pains of hunger &/or lose the roof over our heads.
When is everybody going to stop acting as if this business as usual? The only way Krasnov is leaving that White House is in a body bag. When you all accept that maybe that will mobilize you. If we don’t stop this now there isn’t going to be a “four years”.
Though I am critical of the British electoral system, they were able to remove Liz Truss after her attempted assault on their economy, though in a couple of weeks she did enormous damage. For now it looks like four years of Trump madness, all intelligent life form has abandoned the GOP.
The Senate and Congress Dems are as well connected as their Rep counterparts, they know whom to contact, they have access to security detail or can afford to task a private company...and even the laws are on their side.
And I'm pretty sure that they are aware of their powers.
This isn't being said enough. They're illegally disassembling US institutions. On January 6th they showed a willingness (incompetent though the attempt was) to overthrow a free election. Theyve brought guys like Musk in now. It's not hard to imagine a more artful second attempt now.
I don’t think he will last a full term tbh. I’m thinking if the midterms are a bloodbath for the gop he resigns and has Vance pardon him. He won’t want to be impeached a 3rd time and he knows that’s what’s coming if gop loses badly in ‘26
None of us should have to-there’s got to be a remedy-25th amendment; impeachment-he’s got to go-it can’t be that congress shrugs their shoulders and say “He was duly elected” use your fucking power to rein him in!
I think that in many countries there are a lot of private conversations being held in private rooms discussing possible scenarios and contingency plans. A former trusted ally has turned enemy almost overnight. They didn’t expect this.
Yes, but after the (amateurish) January 6th coup attempt anyone with intelligence who was in any doubt knew that the Republican party had been overtaken by fascists. The simple fact that they had no respect for the democratic process made that clear.
Robert Paxton himself wasn’t ready to call Trump a fascist until 2021. He is basically the country’s leading historical expert on fascism. People should have listened to him.
A number of them started out with authoritarian tendencies and only needed the push of a highly popular, intelligent, effective, world-respected Democrat President to push them to extremes.
We need to be more effective at calling a spade a spade, do to speak. Trump isn't a Conservative, do why is he allowed to run on a conservative platform. If he was forced to run on a fascist platform people would have been far less comfortable voting for him.
We've also allowed political parties to 'rebrand' their political stance for convenience, further muddying the public's perception of who stands for what and creating the 'they're all the same so I don't vote' syndrome.
I think a lot of conservatives have unconscious fascist sympathies in a similar way to a lot of socialists have communist sympathies. The problem is that, in the US in particular, we've allowed multiple ideologies to be conflated conflated under the same roof.
There’s so much appeal to move to another country right now… but there are issues literally everywhere & much of it can be directly blamed on the US! 😥
Well since no one wants to go to prison for, well you know, everyone seems to be trying to figure out why Rs won’t hold his feet to the law & Constitutional fire. There’s a whole lot of pearl clutching at the moment. What happened to those 2nd amendment radicals? They cowards too?
Don't accept that he gets to stay for four years. He can be driven out over his criminal conduct anytime the gutless Cabinet, Congress & federal courts stand up to him. Strikes can drive him out. International stone-cold rejection & hardball can drive him out. He chose confrontation: overwhelm him.
We may have to rely on the latter, because the Cabinet is in his back pocket, he will just blatantly ignore the courts, and Congress hasn’t got the collective cojones to stand up to him and his evil minions.
His compulsive cruelty will provoke strong enough backlash to force him out. It will be at a ridiculously, needlessly high cost. Only one of the powers that could remove him actually needs to follow through and drive him out. May that happen ASAP so we're rid of him. Worst case: just waiting.
Read these books by Dr. Bandy X. Lee: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and her follow up book: The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Psychiatrists discuss his severe mental illness. He is unhinged and can’t function in the real world. What Trump is doing is madness. Please tell people!
I’m not exactly on the lookout for anyone to get taken out, but I’ve seen those movies too where a fountain pen swoops in and saves the day like it’s the next action hero! No billing in the credits either! 🖊️💥
The US couldn't have achieved it's current hegemony without co-operation with other nations though. Jockeying for position is normal, trying to overthrow the post war International order, destroy democratic institutions and economically subdugate the whole world isn't.
"Co-operation," you mean strong-arm them into submission, because that's what they did in Asia and the Americas. Europe is different, but they were also essentially in debt after abusive treaties.
Also, there is no "international order," the U.S. always defies ICC and UN resolutions.
But the US, historically was also at the forefront of internstional democratisation and rule of law though. Theyve progressively deviated from that position in recent times though, which is extremely dangerous for everyone.
Yes, there's certainly been irrational leadership for a long time in the US. The attempt to contain communism in Asia through trying to kill them all and was fundamentally ill conceived and self defeating for instance.
If his being unhinged wasn't going to actually HELP the wealthy class, he'd be long gone by now.
They don't dispose of him because they don't have a huge problem with what he's doing.
I think the only way is to simply walk away from the USA. They wanted to be isolated, so let them. The rest of us have to forge new paths forward. No more deals (they don't abide by agreements anyway). Just cut them off. Let them be North Korea.
They need to plan. Trump will never give up his position of escaping persecution. There is literally nothing left for him but bankruptcy (7th time's a charm) and prison, or for his GOP abettors, or Musk. They'll make sure we won't have election for president in 4 years, 8 years, or ever again.
Yes, but they've already proven they are susceptible to pressure from trump - which means that with enough pressure from the public, business leaders, and wall street, they can be moved to action.
I hope you are right, although I wonder how high that threshold is? Kraznov seems to absolutely own many of them them, although we have seen some odd things lately, Rand Paul for instance. I guess there is some point reached where self interest becomes even more important.
It's bananas that things have gone so far unchecked, no doubt. But at some point Newton's Third Law kicks in - I think we are seeing that happen with the turnout today.
We need them to not blink. The United States is being run by a petulant decompensating man-baby - and needs to spend some time thinking about the consequence of its actions in the time out chair.
It’s not just them.. it’s people like me wondering how we end this bs BEFORE four years. We can’t take four more months of this damage to our way of life. This is not a perfect country, but it’s ours 😪🇺🇸
No they are doing something worse for U.S. ! They are all getting together to cut U.S. out! 8 Billion people in the world! 7.7 figure out how trading with each other cutting out the other 300 million! You know who that is? U.S!
Been screaming it from the rooftops. It's so frustrating. If we all circled back to that being a fact, even the fucking MAGAts would mobilize, but they are in strong denial. I even heard a pair discussing the other day about how we need to bomb the fuck out of Russia like we did Iran and get Putin.
I suspect many countries are asking themselves how they can shorten that timeline. If only he would turn on Russia, Putin seems to have no reservations about cutting the strings off his puppets.
My mom 🇨🇦, used to say that merkkkas pastime was ending presidents with prejudice. With all the meddling merikka has done to other countries leaders, now is the time to return the favour.
Putin has a lot more things to worry about between his failed war and his own countrymen revolting than trying to control Trump. He's powerless! I wouldn't worry about him.
Appleton, Wi is fighting against fascism. Are you with us? #fiftyfiftyone #handsoff
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Yeah, me too. I am nearly 69. I did not want to spend this part of my life fighting, stressing, worrying, struggling, thinking about the #TraitorTrump
Oh well
And asking “How did Americans let this happen? How did he win every single swing state?”
Dear foreign intel agencies, do the world and #America a solid, probe election machine results Starlink data transfers. Leak the results of your findings
Quite possibly some are having feasibility talks with their equivalent of what Iain M. Banks's Culture novels called "Special Circumstances." Doubtless Skum would recognise that.
I think when his ardent supporters figure out the grift it will get really ugly. They have been trained to violence in politics and they will be pissed! All of the attempts on his life so far have been angry republicans. The danger will come from his own.
Here’s the kicker- the rest of the world will manage by working around the USA…and IF this madness ends on 4 years, the US will find itself on the outside looking in. It’s become very clear the rest of the democratic world can work together successfully w/o the US.
The discussion is how to circumvent the US until he’s gone. Unfortunately, the US was instrumental in the pre-Donald world order so extracting them is challenging. Do you think his presidency will last 4 years?
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Presidents are not guaranteed 4 years.
Americans know what they have to do.
Orange skidmark will encourage his own destruction.
As the deviant broken man-child always has.
You don’t get it, no country wants to be like America. America has money and that gives it power. USA has always been Trump
He will never willingly step down. Laws and the US Constitution are irrelevant now.
32%💩
31%+💙
37%asleep 🥱 or too disengaged to bother 🤬
Maddening
My message to #Democrats: wake up and preach democracy, free enterprise, freedom and prosperity on every street corner, starting now.
And that’s a big part of why the US needs to be cut out of international politics. Sorry, but you guys are a basket case and we can never trust you again.
It's obvious he won't let the constitution get in the way of trying to push past 2028
Incarcerated.
As quickly as possible.
To hit Criminal Enterprise 47 where it hurts!
Answer: FUCK the U.S.
Yet we are living with nazis, a rocket man, clearly speed & now an
economic reset by a fool in the U.S. government.
So which moron thought it was a template ?
trump will win, fail fast,, and it wont matter because they have people lined up to replace him already
waiting to see what happens
gl to everyone that purchased tickets. 🤠
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It’ll be 4 months or 10years.
E.g. the Dems in Senate in Congress who are the first being able to end this madness.
The Senate and Congress Dems are as well connected as their Rep counterparts, they know whom to contact, they have access to security detail or can afford to task a private company...and even the laws are on their side.
And I'm pretty sure that they are aware of their powers.
None of this, and what will come, was necessary, America 😡
Jail time for everyone
(Sssh..the Jackal)
#democracyisdying but we WILL bring it back!
America has clearly lost its way. Why on Earth would anyone bother following them?
Also, there is no "international order," the U.S. always defies ICC and UN resolutions.
I think they are all taking themselves off into a quiet corner and screaming.
Reforge the global trade network to minimise reliance on the USA
Someone in the world knows something - release it.
They don't dispose of him because they don't have a huge problem with what he's doing.
The guy is a Malignant Narcissist who dismisses tariff chaos by golfing i.e., watching Rome burn while fiddling (see Nero).
Trump's a MEGALOMANIAC who BELIEVES he's GOD'S CHOSEN ONE.
HE. IS. INSANE.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/04/06/trump-les-republicains-stupides-un-jour-stupides-toujours
Supreme Court made him malignant
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/trump-tariffs-congress-constitutional-crisis/
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He is fading fast and looks lost.
Oh well
Dear foreign intel agencies, do the world and #America a solid, probe election machine results Starlink data transfers. Leak the results of your findings
Let alone this shtshow.