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.

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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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.

Lol I wish we were a country. Orange man dreaming big ;)

~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~37% voted third party or not at all.

Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.

That being said, Americans are dumbbbb

Edit: 37% didn't vote, not 67%. Thanks Lemming

As an American, same.

Well, I as (a well educated) European was quite surprised by the fact USA is a state... So... We're even?

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

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?

From the same supporters who will shoot themselves in the foot to own the libs, this is at a much larger level.

Also, a classic facist move. Get everyone to turn on you, then propagate "the world is out to get us", and once you instill that mentality on the people, it's easier for people to believe we're the victims, and we're fighting for our liberation.

He's a socially stunted bully (wait is that repeating myself?, not sure up to a certain age anyways) so yes, I think one of most satisfying wishes to make these days would be to give Trump self awareness and empathy.

Quick edit, like in the 90s Bedazzled movie with Hurley and Fraser where he asks to be sensitive.