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We're supposed to have a new constitution every generation.

“There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.”

— Thomas Paine

The so called president doesn't care about the constitution, judges or laws. He gets away with it.

I don't think that's true. I think the MAGAs have lived in such a comfortable bubble of American privilege that they don't understand the implications of all this. They're used to making jokes about Canada, "basically being the U.S.," and having free and easy travel on the border that they don't think about the fact that it's a sovereign nation with it's own culture and interests. I think they see this as politicians arguing, not America becoming a hostile foreign power.

Even the administration doesn't seem to get this. They just had to cancel a, "cultural," visit from the Second Lady to Greenland because both the government and public told them they were unwelcome. Apparently, they're so steeped in American privilege (and probably used to people dismissing Trump ramblings as, "bluster," or, "hot air,") that it didn't occur to them that you can't just make a fun, friendly visit to a country the President threatened to invade.

He's so fucking stupid. I always like when reporters glaze on him before asking a question, since they know he's so manipulateable to this kind of shit. Ofc they don't mean any of what they say but he's way too dumb to realize it.

America was killed, by Americans, in a democratic election. And so many are still fondling the corpse, writhing with carrion bugs, and pretending it's still alive.

Twice. They did it twice.

You can almost (but not quite) forgive the first time. You could -maybe- write it off as an experiment, or that they were giving the 'real politicians' a scare to get them back in line. However that's a lot of 'almost' and 'maybe'.

But the second time, that's fucking unforgivable.

Oh...

I can guaran-fucking-tee you my opinion of so-called "Americans" will never recover...

I'm more concerned if the country is ever able to recover.

FUCK!! IT'S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE MONTHS!!

Much worse is yet to be realized.

And, yes, I'm a suitably embarrassed US'ian.

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America is the largest consumer state on planet earth. A huge amount of foreign economies rely heavily on export to the United States and tariffs can do a LOT of damage. Trump knows these tariffs are a huge bargaining chip, but it’s the type of chip you can only use to this degree once. And he’s cashing it in for… his own political clout. The natural response to this that we’re already seeing the beginning of, is countries restructuring their industry to be less reliant on the U.S. which will ultimately do far more damage to the U.S. than the U.S. can do to other countries. And once they’ve all done that, there won’t be a good reason to ramp that trade up again.

As an American this is going to suck a lot for us, but right now everything Trump is doing sucks for us. The shame of it is that no matter how bad it gets, I can’t realistically be mad at Canada, Mexico, or all of Europe over it. What other option have they been given?

He thinks our economy is strong enough to stand on its own and that's absolutely ridiculous.

It's pretty wild that the median income before tax in the USA is less than the median income in Denmark after tax (based solely on income tax). Just to put things into perspective.

With that said, it will only get worse for the American people if they don't get rid of this administatrion, and everything that has made it possible for this administration to do as it does. You think it's hard to make ends meet now? What about when you don't have any tradepartners anymore? Or when all your worker rights are stripped away?

This is by design. The oligarchs have spent decades consolidating power, paying politicians off for favourable laws and regulations, and forced the wage gap wider and wider. When reports come out saying a majority of Americans live paycheque to paycheque, they rub their hands in glee. The plan is working. You cannot afford to protest their take over of the government. You are a slave in almost every way. It is by design.