To think that the USA is a dictatorship now?

And you just don’t like that people voted for Trump and he is the president.
Tough luck.

you just don't like what I have to say - all facts though.

Did you just ask AI and copied the answer here? 🙄

He got close to 50% of the vote in his constituency, and no-one outside of that constituency voted for him, because we have a parliamentary system and not a presidential one.

There are many Labour voters who voted Labour despite not supporting Starmer, who is regarded by many, in the party as the most right wing leader Labour have ever had.

You are saying you are not a US citizen. It also sounds like you are genuinely ill-informed on the impact of the Trump administration on the less well-off. His Big Beautiful Bill which was recently passed amounts to a tax cut for the top 1% and will negatively impact everyone else. It will also exclude from Medicaid/Medicare 15 to 20 million (depending on estimates) poor Americans who otherwise can't access healthcare. As for the Latina nannies etc, they're sent to fucking 'alligator alcatraz', sometimes abducted from playgrounds whilst looking after toddlers! Who in their right mind votes for such cruelty against ordinary working people?? And wait until the impact of the tariffs is felt in the Autumn. So far, it's just been chaos but they WILL bite, and soon. So many small business owners are already completely screwed because they don't have access to the right manufacturing infrastructure in the US. That can't be built at scale overnight. They have had to outsource to factories in China for the past decades- all of a sudden, they can't absorb the costs of importing their products for sale in the US. So a lot of them are already going bankrupt because they're hit with ridiculous customs bills. And what about the consumers? They are already feeling the pinch. Tariffs are an IMPORT TAX. A TAX. From a man who supposedly claims to put more $$ in American pockets. However, in the real world, all that's happening now is that the cost of pretty much everything is going up. Some big companies like Amazon have the capacity to absorb some of those costs (as mandated by DJT who went after Bezos when he suggested transparency on price increases caused by tariffs). Most independent businesses cannot. So, this is killing a whole swath of US entrepreneurs/ SMEs and causing hardship for American workers.
Such bullshit!

Not my "precious Queen", thanks.

And at least the son in question has no power or authority in the country, and would never have been elected to a position that gave him any.

Good grief, if the UK has the most communist country with Starmer's lot in charge, what on earth must you think of the Attlee government, that gave us the NHS and welfare state, or Harold Wilson's government in the 1960's?

Even Tory PM Edward Heath must have seemed like a communist to you.

If I was an American citizen I would have voted for Trump 😑

Who is anti Trump? The woke idiots. The well -to-do middle classes who are afraid that their cheap illegal migrant latina housekeeper will be deported and they will have to hire someone with an actual green card or American citizenship and have to pay her higher wages.

The Hollywood elite is also anti Trump because they don’t live in the real, ordinary world. They don’t experience homelessness, job loss, financial problems, street crime etc. They are barricaded in their multimillion-dollar villas and wash their bums in jewel-encrusted gold bidets.
University students are also anti Trump because what do they know? They are still in the education system that is heavily focused on brainwashing young minds into little woke drones.

You might care to consult a dictionary and a few history books before further comment. It will save you more embarrassment.

The police won't do anything about shoplifting unless the value of £200. You're going to need a lot of lettuce to spend that much.

Surely one of the reasons that Americans pay more for drugs is that the US healthcare system, which comprises a large number of smaller healthcare providers, doesn’t have the collective purchasing power of countries that do have a national health service. UK and EU health services can negotiate directly with pharma companies because they are buying huge volumes. Meanwhile in the US, thousands and thousands of smaller health companies and hospitals negotiate and buy their drugs independent of each other. In the Land of the Free, the answer to the consequence of this free market approach is price controls ;)

Trumps calls Putin "the Boss"

Says it all really.

Yep.
I wouldn’t say things in the US seem great but that’s by our standards - compare the US to any actual dictatorship past or present and the US will seem like a utopia

Somebody better explain to the OP what the First Amendment is.

Agree with all of this except for the last word.

America is not a dictatorship yet. I will reserve judgement on that point until we see if he tries to extend his term somehow, eg postponing the election for some spurious reason. He's got form, the events on Jan 6 showed us that.

Some of the actions the immigration service is taking in his name are appalling, and clearly contrary to human rights, like this US citizen child with cancer detained . Where's the due process, and right to challenge the action?

There's a lot wrong with the UK, for sure, but our government isn't locking up and deporting children, and certainly not children who are UK citizens.

What dictatorship still has freedom of expression?

Correct about PAG - protestors, when they support those terrorists, are supporting interfering with military aircraft. I don't see what's so hard to understand.

'Protest groups being classed as illegal.'

Palestine Action weren't banned for protesting. Heaven knows, we have hundreds, probably thousands of protest groups in the UK doing their thing every day of the week. They were banned because of stunts like breaking into an Raf base. I' my guessing if a similar group had broken into an USAF base they wouldn't have been arrested and their group banned, but would have probably been shot.

As to Russian meddling in US elections - from Trump's mouth to your ear.......

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/18/donald-trump-putin-2016-election-russia-cbs

https://time.com/5341137/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russian-meddling-correction/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election

The last is about a report from a Republican led Senate committee.

It absolutely matters to the rest of the world. Have you thought of the millions of people affected by the withdrawal of USAid? And for Europe, you may not give a shit, but the decisions your dismal administration is taking directly and deeply affects our security. I have two kids of fighting age. I care.
By the way, I have have been a regular visitor to the US for my entire life, am partly US educated and have my childhood friends in the US. They agree with me.

The UK doesn‘t have gangs of masked men lifting people off of the streets and sending them to CECOT with no due process.

The UK doesn't have DOGE rooting through its computers and passing confidential information to the Russians.

The UK isn’t starting a pointless trade war with the whole world, in which there will be no winners (but the US will be the biggest loser).

The UK doesn‘t have a head of state who let a violent insurrection happen.

The UK isn't deploying troops to suppress its major cities.

The UK isn't cracking down on academic freedom.

Do I need to go on? Yes, the UK is far better off.

All-powerful executive branch (well, one person only: POTUS) and subservient legislative and judicial branches (ie. removal of checks and balances), extreme gerrymandering potentially compromising the fairness of future elections , pressuring of academia and media, unaccountable beefed up agency dedicated to the removal of undesirables, military takeover of cities... I mean, it's not looking good. Anyone with any notion of political philosophy and history is in agreement that all of the above are telltale signs.

People die in the US because you have no health service & they will continue to die.

Trump being "the big i am" over Ukraine, his siding up to Putin, whats all that about??
Putin invaded, yet Zelensky is the bad guy....

Trump supports/excuses Putin at every opportunity, the real question is why??

Trump is actually a very poor "dictator" he is weak, very weak, you think you've a strong man but TACO is very real, does it on tariffs, does it over Putin.

My own belief is Putin has something over Trump.... You lot elected a Russian Stooge.

2 Tier justice? Trump ordered the release of people who tried to kill police officers at the Whitehouse and who he encouraged to overthrow an election.

...I'd look at your own justice issues and freedom of speech restrictions first.

Well said. Many of our citizens love to signal their virtue. They are obsessed with Trump and Farage, call everything they don't agree with Far right and/or racist. They will look for racism around every corner, while condescending POC. Being 'on the right side of history' - Gaza being a classic example - is a must for them. Luckily, the rest of us can just tell them to piss off, when they try to recruit you - except you can't say that as deliciously on here, as you can outside this bubble.

ETA@ @CerealForDinnerAgain

The one where a vulnerable autistic 16 year old was taken home by the police after reports she was intoxicated and at risk in the city centre? Seems her mother was concerned enough to film her being arrested but not enough to protect her from being in dangerous situation in the first place.

Do you think Putin is a dictator?