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Vance is more protectionist than Trump. Trump has surrounded himself with a group of people who believe in American exceptionalism and isolationism like a religion.

Laura Loomer (far right conspiracy theorist who plays Jigsaw in the Saw horror film franchise) came in and advised Trump to fire National Security Agency director Gen. Timothy Haugh as well as multiple others for disloyalty, in favour of more Trump-friendly appointees.

This is usually a a step before we go full Emperor has no clothes because intelligence is supposed to be apolitical. If Trump only wants intelligence that feels good to him, then the US is truly fucked.

Its doubtful that America will recover from this. The rest of the Western world needs to figure out how to make their soft landing.

Worst case sounds like Trumps usual behavior.

Not the person you responded to, but no.

As long as the US does not fix it's broken two party system and reconciles it's divided society it cannot be trusted.

I’d say no. Regardless of it being stolen or not, the amount of damage done with no (read: few?) checks and balances does not present the US as a democracy at all.

It should have been impossible, but he and his team have found and abused every single legal loophole there is and it does not seem like the majority of politicians are interested in fixing them.

It’s not trust inspiring when one person can write a presedential order overuling a literal constitunional amendment.

I don’t hate Americans. Most are great people, but I do hate their rotten to the core political system.

Thank Peter Thiel.

Spot on take. It's not hopeless though; greedy and selfish people typically reveal their own weaknesses as a result of arrogance. I don't think enough people in the US take it seriously, but Im hoping that an entire generation of Americans does not want to die fighting over Greenland and Canada. We'll see though.

There are a lot of good and bright people in USA, unfortunately they are not the majority.
I thought for sure Americans learned something from 2 Presidential periods with Bush. But when Trump was elected first time, I knew the American people were "Beyond pedagogical reach". An expression used here about people who refuse to learn.

Hopefully this time will be bad enough for enough American people to finally understand the lesson, so this doesn't happen again in a life time. But I wouldn't bet on it.

I fucken hate it here.

I feel for the Americans that tried to prevent this, because they can see Trump is evil.
And anyone who denies that Trump isn't evil has to be both blind and stupid socially. Trump is a flaming malignant narcissist, and that's basically the definition of pure evil.

Actually it's pretty clear a significant portion of the American population is enthusiastic about this. I don't know what is provocative about pointing out that Americans are renowned for their racism, transphobia, and misogyny. This country had literal slaves for 200 years, has only let women vote for less than 100 years, and still pretends the Civil War was about states rights. Open your eyes: this IS what America wants, and who America has decided to become.

The other day I was on Facebook and a dude that flat-out refused to vote for Harris because of her history in California as a prosecutor, posted that Trump was a complete idiot when it came to economics..

I was like bro you didn't even vote... You and on a rant about how she was horrific at that anything would be better.. And now here we are..

STFU bro

@FilthyHookerSpit @Freshparsnip the thing I find weird is that not a single county flipped red to blue, but 88 flipped blue to red. Just demographic changes would usually mean one almost-blue changes hands. All one way hasn't happened since Hoover, so you'd think, from that, that Trump had a MASSIVE margin.

That is all suspicious

Yeah, right after the election, we all had a few days of reckoning with ourselves in realizing what we allowed to happen, and realizing that maybe the US really is just like this. And then a whole bunch of people, turned their own guilt around on trans people, and people who were against funding a genocide, and the concept of "woke," blamed them for the loss, and convinced themselves that they aren't responsible for what happens now.

And to Americans, I know that there are limits to what we can do when Trump has majority support of every branch of our Government, and we're rightfully scared of what they'll try to do to dissenters. I know how strong the temptation is to sit back and smugly watch the FAFO roll in. But we also need to be loudly rejecting this whenever we can, otherwise we're going to normalize it for a generation. I know it's gonna be difficult. I have some family members who are in the cult, and I don't know if I can talk them out of it. But sitting around waiting for my parents and grandparents to wake up on their own, or pass away isn't a good plan either.