It’s the end of one of the worst empires in recent history, that’s a plus.
And he’s motivating the rest of the world to not vote right.
Well the rest of the world are enjoying the downfall of the empire
I was hoping his first term would lead to dialing back the new powers the executive branch has given itself since 9/11 but it didn’t happen and I don’t expect it to this time either
If he destroys the DoE, tuition rates will fall because there’s no more student loans and universities will have to compete on price
When we rebuild government, maybe it will actually improve service as we prioritize what is important now vs what was important historically
The crypto reserve idea might actually work, but it would work a ton better if it was less public because him tweeting about caused insane volatility in the price of Bitcoin.
He brought defeat to the Canadian conservatives from the jaws of victory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election#Opinion_polls
Look at that comeback 🤣
Same thing just happened in Australia apparently…
La Remontada!
He seems to have united the world… regrettably against us.
Also the word “bigly.” I use it all the time.
it means that the us empire is definetly going away soon.
I’ve picked up the gardening hobby and actually seem to be keeping up with it.
Nothing like a crisis where food is looking to be a concern to get ones ass in gear.
Ditto, never was into gardening but I’m going to try growing some herbs and tomatoes this year.
Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn’t elect their own Trump Wannabee.
Didn’t elect their own Trump wannabe yet.
Fascism is on the rise globally, so we must all be vigilant. There are enough warning signs that Canada could be just around the corner.
Australia has a federal election this weekend. Fingers crossed that hopefully they can make the correct choice.
I’d rather them make the left choice.
Ah, I get it. I really meant the “correct” choice.
Yea, we don’t want them to shift in the wrong direction.
Let’s hope Albanese can stick around.
This is what has me so depressed. This is a forever thing. They lost there for now, but they’re just going to get better at their manipulation as “they” have globally. Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control of all major media. It’s only a matter of time when fascism runs most major countries. :(
Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control …
They have been consolidating all control of the news AND more importantly, social media to blame the misery on various scapegoats caused by their ever increasing wealth disparity. The poor ignorant masses are bombarded relentlessly day in and day out with hate propaganda.
This has happened before. The Nazis were not the only fascists back in the 1930s, it was a global movement. The movement passed. This one will too. It’s just a matter of trying to keep the high tide mark down until then.
I’m just concerned the media landscape is so different now that we don’t have enough people living in the “same reality” to really ensure that. Hope you’re right though. Unfortunately no matter what I think we’re going to have to go through the worst of it before anything can change. :/
Exactly.
Authoritarians of all stripes love to lay claim to eternity.
We don’t have to believe them though.
Were it not for actual Trump, wannabe Trump was on track to win. It won’t take long for that to come back
The Conservatives increased their share of the vote compared to the last election (+7.5%), in particular among younger voters. The Liberals only scraped together just enough for only a minority govt because the vote for other parties plummeted.
From my European perspective:
- Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
- The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
- Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
- Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe
Europe has a handful of upsides. The growing independence is great to see, as well as an increase in domestic defense budgets.
The AfD nutters aren’t reconsidering. They just see the deportations and go “yay”.
Yeah, but I don’t think the nutters make up the full quarter of the voting population currently willing to vote for them. Lots of them are protest voters who are just vaguely “against”. Besides, I don’t think it’d be the deportations making some people reconsider, but the sheer economic stupidity of the Trump government as well as their attitude towards Europe. I fully expect Americans to be far poorer and more miserable in 2-3 years and that might do wonders to dispel the myth that the far-right could “fix the economy”.
The Canadian people are united like they have never been before. Canadian dollar as been rising. Canada is getting more doctors and high level professionals as some flee the U.S. Canada has been expanding trade ties around the world (exception is U.S.). Traveling Canadians are welcomed around the world.
The ever-accelerating demise of the American empire will remove their fingers from every political and economic pie in the world, creating a small chance that something even worse doesn’t fill the gap.
Maybe then we can finally just focus on improving ourselves instead.
It’s an accelerationist’s wet dream. Things are gonna get real bad here soon, and the best we can hope for is the when the backlash comes it will be swift and lasting.
