I wonder if America realizes that trust in America won't be rebuilt just by voting for a president with a different approach, if the threat of the current kind of president being elected is always looming.
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Oh I realize it. No country can depend on the US when the country is split 50-50 between stability and lunacy. It pains me to say this as an American. But it’s true.
This is multi-generational, planet-wide damage. Like the guy you were having a drink with turns into an angry drunk, kicking over tables and swearing at the staff.
Yes. This is a setback for humanity in many ways. I weep for the wasted time, energy and resources we will need to put towards defending ourselves and our allies now, that could have been directed to improving the human condition instead of survival.
Until they sort out the election gerrymandering, the Electoral College and the Citizens United ruling nonsense, I don't think the rest of the world can ever have confidence that the US people won't elect another lunatic.
This doesn't significantly alter your border point but I still think it's worth pointing out that Donald Trump has never received half the votes in an election.
He got 49.8% of the vote in 2024 and 46.1% of the vote in 2016.
Yeah, but it's roughly half. Hard to believe the USians would vote twice for this PoS.
That's a lot of very stupid people & I have no sympathy for them as he destroys their country.
I just always like to point out that Trump's "mandate" BS is... BS.
I think it's good to remind people that even in 2024 he got 3.9 million fewer votes than Biden did in 2020, and a lower % of the vote than any Democrat has since Clinton won 49.2% in 2000 (when Perot got over 8% of the vote).
My only solace here is Biden, once it was announced Trump won, took the necessary steps to inform our allies what he was planning and how to counteract it.
I will never trust the USA ever again, and I will teach my kids to never trust the USA either. And I'm saying this as someone who went to almost every state and whose family owned a condo in FL until recently.
I keep thinking that it would probably require constitutional or significant election law change to rebuild trust at this point, nd er mind years from now.
I think an entire revamping of the educational system. This issue is more with the population than the government procedure. How many Americans have a passport, are racist, don’t believe in evolution, deny the holocaust, value the collective vs self? These are the core reasons- I don’t/wont trust!
And biology, and critical thinking, and humanistic morals, and boundaries, and global interest, and philosophy (to understand that patriarchy doesn’t mean “men”), and justice, and history, yes- civics too! The list of what basic knowledge is not known by US voters is remarkable.
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Time to face the pain & work of disconnecting from them.
He got 49.8% of the vote in 2024 and 46.1% of the vote in 2016.
That's a lot of very stupid people & I have no sympathy for them as he destroys their country.
I just always like to point out that Trump's "mandate" BS is... BS.
I think it's good to remind people that even in 2024 he got 3.9 million fewer votes than Biden did in 2020, and a lower % of the vote than any Democrat has since Clinton won 49.2% in 2000 (when Perot got over 8% of the vote).
The rest?
Not a snowball’s chance in hell, to use a topical phrase.
The world can’t trust USA to make decisions
The salad days of … 17 weeks ago (!) won’t be coming back
It's an unfortunate flaw of the American political system.
I hope they figure it out before 2029 though.
I, personally, will not be visiting the U.S. again while Kash Patel is FBI Director, for example, and who's in the White House won't change that.
Americans should be 100x more angry than we are.
Us in 2024: Oh, Biden was the aberration.