amerika

[billy rubin]

anybody noticed that my country is going down the tubes lately?

it seems like it was reasonably normal as recently as december, if thats a thing.

not any more.

i dont recognize it.

[Dark Lightning]

It's getting pretty bad, 'tis true. Rule of law removing about 12 people from positions of power and substituting rational human beings would go a long way towards correcting that. #FATCHANCE

[Tank]

It's very visible from the outside. America is in the biggest trouble it has ever been in. Neither world war nor the cold war had the impact Trump and his cronies are having. And Trump said 'I'm just getting started.'

[The Magic Pudding..]

Zelenskyy is loved by the militant nice on Imgur, fervently.
I thought maybe it wasn't necessarily a good thing that the Trump hating rainbow folk were making him a poster child.

The tariff thing is interesting.

[The Magic Pudding..]

It's very visible from the outside. America is in the biggest trouble it has ever been in. Neither world war nor the cold war had the impact Trump and his cronies are having. And Trump said 'I'm just getting started.'

The Civil War was pretty nasty.

[zorkan]

What it needs is a fun president, like Mike Myers. 
Why should being Canadian be a problem?

[billy rubin]

It's getting pretty bad, 'tis true. Rule of law removing about 12 people from positions of power and substituting rational human beings would go a long way towards correcting that. #FATCHANCE

we re past that, im afraid.

trump has demonstrated that the rule of law only works if you do what it says.

but what opposition is there? nancy pelosi with her stock portfolio fattened on insider trading?

hakeem jeffries explaining that theres nothing that the opposition can do?

both the left and right wings of my government are in the game to enrich themselves and consolidate the power of their chosen billionaires.

the real problem is oligarchy. the rich dont care who is in power so long as the politicians do what theyre told.

elon musk is a bigger danger to america than trump will ever be.

[The Magic Pudding..]

I have here two Flanian Pobble Beads.
Will any one offer me 100:1 odds that the US$ will experience 100% inflation over the next 12 months?

[Icarus]

Inflation will not hit 100%  It may go toward the tens.

Trump is not good at understanding cause and effect. One of his damn fool promises was that he would reduce grocery prices on the first day.  AHA ! now the dumb ass has placed 25% tariffs on imports from  Canada and Mexico. Nobody told him that Mexico furnishes more than half of the vegetables that we Americans consume. Canada also sends us some food items. That is just food.................A whole lot of steel and aluminum comes from Canada.....

There is more stupidity in the offing...........woe is me.

[Tank]

Inflation will not hit 100%  It may go toward the tens.

Trump is not good at understanding cause and effect. One of his damn fool promises was that he would reduce grocery prices on the first day.  AHA ! now the dumb ass has placed 25% tariffs on imports from  Canada and Mexico. Nobody told him that Mexico furnishes more than half of the vegetables that we Americans consume. Canada also sends us some food items. That is just food.................A whole lot of steel and aluminum comes from Canada.....

There is more stupidity in the offing...........woe is me.

Don't forget the electricity.

[Asmodean]

Things be a-happenin'.

I expected Trump presidency to be bad news for muh Ukraine, and it is. However, there is a silver lining which may, in fact, be made of a far more noble metal.

Europe is starting to wake up from decades of cowardice, hippiness and, in case of Germany, probably a touch of prior bad experience, and as it does so, it's realising that European security is for us to sort out. Yes, we have counted on the American war machine for decades. I think that was a mistake. I think we have the capability to correct it - financially, scientifically, industrially and now, as one might hope, politically. I oppose any notion of a EU "common army," but support one of a European military alliance within or without NATO, based on the individual member states' military forces. And yes, we'll have to pay for that. Should have done so for the last half-a-century.

Whatever Trump administration does or does not manage to accomplish with regard to NATO, I'll give them that right here and now. Europe has needed a swift kick in the nuts in that regard for quite some time.

It is bad news for Ukraine though as it will take some time for Europe to grow the teeth it requires to decisively aid friendly nations when they come under attack.

That one issue aside... Yeah, things be a-changin'. I cannot yet say whether they are doing so in a direction I would consider positive, but countries are a bit like fully loaded supertankers. It takes some time from you turn the rudder until the ship "realises" that it must turn.

[billy rubin]

my state senator is now vice president. so far his sole claim to fame is that he appears to be an even more craven ass-kisser to donald trump than pence was.

lately trump has decided that its a good idea to stay in the headlines by demanding that denmark give us the territory of greenland. vance went there to make speeches and take photos.

except the local businesses wouldnt let him do photo ops in front of them and some apparently wouldnt serve him, either. so he went to our only miltary base there gave a speech about how denmark was neglecting military use of the island. there are 200 americans on that base.

he didnt mention that amerika used to maintain, 17 bases? i think, and 100,000 personnel in denmark to guard against the soviets.

but we walked away, and now its denmarks that is ignoring greenland.

stuff like this is a normal democracy is where i would call or write my representaives. but they are the ones doing this stuff.

[Tank]

We've been watching his antics. I can't believe what we have been seeing.

[billy rubin]

i listen to right-wing talk radio while i drive to try to understand them.

its chilling.

they literally percieve a different world  one based on rhetoric and false narratives.

just for example, they crow about all the criminal fraud that elon musk has uncovered in my government. how he has saved us billions of dollars already.

yet with all this fraud uncovered  there has not been a single arrest, indictment, or criminal charges of anybody.

im not an economist, but even i know that to transfer money you have to have a name of someone to transfer it to.

the radio people never seem to notice that no namez have been uncovered.

[Icarus]

I am thoroughly confused and filled with wonder.  I do not believe that all the right wingers are dumb bastards who are incapable of ordinary reasoning. But why???? Why do they adhere to irrational claims, refuse to anticipate an unfavorable result as a result of some of the dipshit ideas and pronouncements from their leaders.