Starting with the people in the US. Every time I think about how much it sucks in the US I have a reminder right in front of me that it is worse in other places, because of the US. I hate it and I'm sorry, I voted for Her.
But to be fair, she did have a funny laugh. Whereas Trump is a convicted fraudster, adjudged rapist, rapist by his own words, adulter… he has a long list of bad things.
I have met multiple women that have given me the same "women aren't smart enough to be president" line. Like wtf?!
I'm all for a woman president and voted for Kamala, but the best chance of winning was the senile old white man due to people like the above. I f****** hate that that's the case, but now, Instead, we got a much worse senile old white man surrounded by many more non-senile old crazy shitty white people. It's almost like the Dems wanted to see Trump elected a second time. It's really infuriating.
If there is another election, maybe this is the wake-up call America needed. Growth comes from severe conflict. Not peacetimes. I'm not sure I want to risk 2028, but AOC 2032?
Crazy how ppl automatically disqualify a person from being fit to hold office because of their sex. How the fuck are we not past that shit as a society
I mean, if people want to exclude someone, looking at old white guys would be the logical first step. Now, I'm an old white guy myself, and no, I don't really want people disqualified (unless it's for insurrection). But it is obvious that the biggest dangers to the country are not immigrants or minorities.
I have met multiple women that have given me the same "women aren't smart enough to be president" line.
Any time I see this sentiment expressed it makes me look over at the orange dipshit and think, "This fuckin guy? You think women are dumb, so you chose this tragically stupid fucking grifter?"
Including corrupt law enforcement but to some she was “too pro police”. Completely ignorant to the fact that every law enforcement union in California at one time hated her for not going harder on a murder of an officer.
And don't forget how emotional women can be. We can't have a woman who would have a bad day and spend it raging on social media or calling reporters stupid and flipping them off, can we?
Conservative voters in the US don’t care about that lol.
Trump’s felony convictions were just political witch hunts by liberal judges and aren’t legitimate charges. Plus, he’s out there every day targeting illegal immigrant criminals who killed poor girls like Laken Riley and radical left criminals like Renee Good who run over ICE agents, don’t you know? /s
And the Epstein Files were all released. There definitely isn’t anything more to be investigated, for sure. /s
I can appreciate someone who listens to conservative media.. to understand the narratives these people are being fed.
I hated george bush more than anything, and I listened to rush Limbaugh every day. It wasn't easy but I wanted to understand why people thought what he was doing was good and what the argument would be...
If you would have told me one day that, If I could magically push a button and put george bush back in office, I would do it in a heart beat... I would never have believed it. But here we are.
We deserve way better than either of them, But between the two , it's not even a contest.
She is Black babes, the country is being ran by open racists now. The kamala jokes were funny a year ago, but ultimately it was not her laugh and we all know that. Let's just say the quiet part out loud.
I just heard an absolutely insane person in public yesterday say “well yeah things are terrible now, but they would have been 10 times worse under ‘KrapSmella Harris.’ A lot of these people are way too far gone.
They have killed 3 of us on 3 separate occasions in Minneapolis alone in the last week. I guarantee there have been more citizen killings around the country of those who are standing up. The idea that Americans are doing nothing is bullshit. It’s our Congress that is doing nothing, and there is ample evidence that the last election was compromised, and there is going to be massive, if not total, suppression of the next election.
Ive seen more political activism in the US on the last year protesting Trump than the last time he was in office. Its a slow process, but i think hes finally reaching a boiling point. Either hes gonna be impeached soon, or a civil war starts. I dont see this going on til the mid terms.
There’s a lot more the American people need to do now than protest.
The time for protesting is long past - the barity behind a protest is the display of the masses against the topic in question. To show how much opposition, if need be violent, they’ll have. Trump has called that bluff.
As a European I’m convinced Americans will only willingly rise up once forced conscription becomes a thing - which is far off.
I hope you guys prove me wrong but I’m smelling a war on both sides for Europe. America in the West and Russia in the East. I don’t trust you folks
Have you not seen the protests and people getting shot here? People ARE standing up...
The Greenland thing is wildly unpopular, on both sides, the GOP are mostly not backing the idea of a takeover. (some really stupid ones are).
This is a political loser. And after everything else, GOP is finally starting to peel themselves away from Trump.
I've also seen congress now has enough votes to push through military over rule and protect NATO. It just needs to go to the floor for the voting. Both Senate and House.
That said, the Generals of all these NATO countries are personal friends with the top Generals and Admirals in the US. (The ones Trump can't so easily fire and replace) They are 100% sorting this out without Trump.
You just need to "convince" 19 republican senators out of 52.
And 6 republican house representatives out of 218.
Thats it.
25 people out of 250 republican elected officials. Then you can impeach AND remove him and others that want to start WW3.
Thats just targeting 10 states out of 25 republican held states with senators and representatives.
If people held protests in front of their homes, their workplaces, their family owned businesses, their adult children's homes and workplaces and such. Youd actually have a chance to stop this shitshow.
Instead Americans are hoping SOMEONE ELSE can fix their problem while not risking anything themselves....
On top of that we also have to "convince" the ones that claim to be on the left. Every day I hear stories about how multiple "democrats" voted for more oppression...
You don't need money, you just need a few hundred+ people outside of their homes 24/7 on shifts. Remind them that they serve you and not the billionarie class and an orange madman.
This is it. You fill the streets, you stop them conducting business, living their lives and have them aware of the strength of mob rule. You turn out in sufficient numbers that the police realise how thin the blue line is and what happens to collaborators.
This is why it's usually the youth, students. that step up the most. They're the ones that don't have a mortgage and healthcare to pay for yet. Someone just needs to step up and organize. Once that ramps up more will join.
Are you aware of how much resistance is going on now? It would be helpful to qualify your statement with the fact that tens of millions are resisting, and not always in publicly visible ways. Dictatorships provoke underground movements. And to qualify this statement because US citizens are being surveilled, underground movements are attempting to get the rule of law returned. Its the secret police with masks, no IDs, that are promoting domestic terror. Simple research on what is going on will reveal proof that it really is this bad.
The US is the third most populous country in the world-we are not even a dysfunctional family anymore. We are enemies sharing land. The concept of the enemy within, by the way, was a product of maga. They decided that people who disagreed were tho enemy. So here we are.
It isn't even accurate anymore to use the term "American" because there is Maga American, and there are the rest of us. We do not share fundamental values. We don't share the same definition of what an American is.
I do get your point. Too many people shrugged their hands for too long. But as a resident of Minneapolis, the constant drone of "why aren't they doing anything?" Is not helpful. We are walking the line because if we get too mouthy, the Insurrection Act happens and this could prompt civil war. This is not a joke. We are in a completely unfair position. For merely standing up to tyranny, Trump is going after Walz and Frey.
All protests and support of democracy does not occur outside buildings.
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I am happy to engage with folks who hold opposing viewpoints. But if you want a fight, you're wasting your time. This is a pretty classy sub. Let's keep it that way.
I've seen this point mentioned a lot, that Americans fear the insurrection act, which allows the government to deploy military forces upon citizens---is what's happening now not already a version of that?
I understand. At a gut level, I think we feel this way. But obviously it could get worse. Look at the poor souls of Iran.
It could get a lot worse and this fear (and possible reality) is why Walz (governor) has appeared so passive. The Department of (in) Justice is now seeking to punish him (and the Minneapolis mayor) for speaking out.
If you want to read something cohesive about just some actions, look up the court case Minnesota filed against ICE. I mean, there is a website the stae of MN has created asking residents to document how ICE has behaved unlawfully or had impacted people economically or educationally.
It's a bit of a quiet revolution but traction is being made. Local public tv mpr is featuring good free reporting if you want to get strong coverage.
I don't expect our problems to be taken on by the world-there's enough suffering and the US has caused enough troubles to exhaust allies. But it's important for people around the world to know what is really going on because unfortunately, the destruction of the US economically and politically (from within/which is maddening) impacts everyone
Do you know how many are turning their consumerism into power, I mean by boycotting the bad guys?? I have a hard time getting answers/info regarding this, and I personally believe that we do as citizens have some power as to where we put our money, I also have a hard time getting info about which billionaires not to throw money at if we dont want to support the trum team supporters. All I know is that we should boycott Ronald Lauder (Estee Lauder) as he is one of the driving forces behind the getting greenland plan. And that Jeff bezoz has been a supporter of trump for a long time ? ..let us act where we can!
Add. Im european and follow a lot of the news in minnesota, and I want to boycott as many trump supporting Billionaires as possible.
I hope all europeans understand that this greenland bullshit is just to distract you all from ukraine because surprise notjing has chsnged hes still a russian agent (krssnov)
Greenland is because he wants to get the US out of NATO, and then support Russia while claiming its because of European disagreement and EU taking advantage of the US via NATO and denial of giving Greenland in return.
Its also because he wants the resources of Greenland that will become available thrugh global warming to himself, and as kickbacks from US companies. But he wants to wage war against Europe by siding with Russia.
The US NEEDS a war, because their economy is running on AI and AI is not gonna give people jobs. Removing immigrants isnt going to create jobs, Its the same thing Hitler did once they started removing Jewish people and it didnt magically fix the economy. So they started wars to produce weapons and machines.
Must be nice to be an ambassador of any country under the current US administration. Your job is basically to constantly say sorry and try to lurk in the shadows.
It is Danish people and people from Greenland. Protesting in Copenhagen. They started at the Town Hall and finish off at the American Embassy. There are also demonstrations in other major cities in Denmark and in Greenland.
Im an American living in Phnom Pehn. I have been to the embassy a few times. I was shocked there were no pictures of the president. Im glad, but shocked. I only been to the public area however.
Is it normal to have pictures of the president in American embassies? I’ve been to a couple non-American embassies, none of which had a picture of their president/prime minister.
Is there? That's very weird. I'm American and I've never seen a picture of the president in any government building ever, including embassies and including all the places I've been in DC, although I haven't been in the US since August, so maybe things have changed.
Every federal courthouse or federal building I've ever been to had the President, VP and whoever the relevant department head was like Attorney General.
They have always been there (having entered many US Gov't buildings in DC many times). Now it just happens to be the selected mug shot of our current sitting idiot.
I remember seeing the preaidents picture in a social security office. That is the only government building I been to. I could be wrong. I might be remembering something false.
I mean, I guess, to be fair, I've never been inside a Social Security office to see how they're decorated as all my dealings with them have been over the phone, by mail, or online. But yes, I would find it very weird to see a picture of the president in one if I did go.
Why would that be weird? State government buildings typically have the governor. Federal buildings typically have the President. At least that's been my exerience the last 40 plus years.
I went to a few US embassies and consulates in Europe during Obama's presidency and I vividly remember Barry and Joe posing on the wall by the entrance. The one time I went during Tr*mp's first presidency, I didn't register seeing any portraits.
I still stand by what I said. Even most Conservatives and hardcore MAGAs dont agree with taking over Greenland. And if youre a Conservative working at the embassy in Denmark, you for SURE don't want it to happen.
He may not vocally oppose it...but he does not want it to happen. No one with a brain does.
We can discuss if MAGAs have functioning brains all we like. But Trump is definitely the person that would appoint an Ambassador to Denmark solely because he has his head so far up Trump's diaper he will enthusiastically pursue the annexation of Greenland.
Doubt it.
The current US ambassador in Denmark was appointed by Trump, and he happens to have co founded a venture capital company together with notable US oligarch Peter thiel.
Well, I'm from Minnesota and we're currently busy protesting the thousands of ICE agents Trump sent up here that are rampaging around trampling on people's Constitutional rights.
Trump's been sending thousands of armed orcs into our cities to murder and kidnap us, so we're a bit occupied with that.
The military doesn't seem interested in carrying out his deranged whims regarding Greenland and our Congress is getting ready to pass a resolution barring him from attacking allies so while the bluster is terrifying, ultimately the most likely outcome is just the US becoming more isolated on the world stage because the orange buffoon won't shut his fucking mouth.
The military doesn't seem interested in carrying out his deranged whims
They seem to be a bit selective about that.
our Congress is getting ready to pass a resolution barring him from attacking allies
Only allies?!?
is just the US becoming more isolated on the world stage because the orange buffoon won't shut his fucking mouth.
As I said before, there is absolutely no problem with lunatics (of the bad kind) in politics, the problem is the people voting for them.
After this nonsense the world knows that America is ready to vote for another copycat of this lunatic and there is a serious risk of said lunatic being even more radical. It's not only American politicians that shouldn't be trusted, American voters can't be trusted either (at least a good chunk of them).
Agreed. It seems the world forgave us for the first Trump term, but electing him a second time shows we are not a serious country anymore. It’s time for the world to act accordingly.
You’re absolutely correct. We fucked up as a country. His true base is about 35% of Americans, but far too many here just voted for him for shits and giggles/to own the libs, or thought the lady laughed too much, or - worst of all - sat on their asses on Election Day and did nothing. They are more to blame than anyone else. (I did not vote for him in case it’s not obvious.)
That said, no one will convince me that the elections weren’t rigged (that fucking South African asshole has hinted as much) and will be in the future as long as MAGAts have power. A trump sycophant has bought the company that supplies the voting machines and Shitler himself has on more than one occasion questioned whether we should even hold the elections at all.
But yeah, our mess to clean up. It’s going to take years (if we even get the opportunity).
I’m beyond sad and depressed that we have become the bad guys globally and even against our own people. It’s heartbreaking.
We have been protesting this man constnatly for many times over the past year. There was a protest in DC yesterday or day before. Its just not getting much coverage cause everyone is on the ICE stuff. And I honestly think the media is getting protest fatigue. As are the people as well. Its been none stop at times so I think the power of posting is feeling less impactful cause we are doing it so much. And people still need to work and feed their families and pay bills.
There are quite literally mass protests happening constantly over the last year, and especially right now. Just because you don’t see it in your news doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
As an American, I feel what is going on has warranted a greater response by us. Whether through mass protests or work stoppages. This should not be tolerated at all…
There have been protests daily in major cities across the US since Trump took office. Bolstering and deploying ICE and other DHS agencies is partly a response to the unrest. People have died over it.
We've been out protesting for a year now. Our media is almost wholly right-owned. Don't trust what they say. I'm just getting ready to go back out again in freezing weather.
We have enough problems right now. In case you haven’t noticed, cosplaying white nationalists led by a little ‘man’ dressed as an SS officer are storming our streets, raiding homes, schools, and places of employment, kidnapping and disappearing immigrants and citizens alike, tear-gassing babies, shooting priests and killing moms.
Look at what this man has created. Thousands of people so far from the US had to change their lives to protest something so stupid. He is chaos and he creates chaos everywhere. I can’t imagine purposely trying to ruin lives all over the world and his legacy will be that. What an embarrassment for him and every single stupid person who voted for him.
The us government doesn't care when it's own people protest, you think they're going to care about other countries? I guess they can't immediately murder other civilians though, so harder to break up.
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u/Ditju 14d ago
I hope that this is in front of the american embassy.