To be really glad I don't live in America right now

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I really feel for ordinary Americans. It's bad enough on this side of the Channel, hearing daily about Trump's latest petty, spiteful, idiotic bullshit - that rant against the Bishop who asked him to have mercy on immigrants, the ridiculous and insulting attempt to blame 'diversity' for the plane crash - but living under it must be so much worse. And heaven help you if you're LGBT or a woman. Or an immigrant. Or not white. Or poor. Or anyone else Trump and his freakshow of a government despises. I moan about the UK all the time, like everyone else who lives here, because god knows it's far from perfect, but at least we don't have a government in charge who is trying to strip huge swathes of the population of their rights and citizenship.

"It’s the same in Poland and Malta but no one argues that they would never want to live in Europe because of abortion laws.

The US has the same abortion laws that the EU does, which is that it’s up to member states to decide. Not sure why the US is particularly evil here."

And I don't want to live in Poland or Malta either!
But we are talking about USA here.

Last time, not this time. He won the popular vote.

i find it appalling but, honestly, as an American, I was more afraid of a constitutional crisis.

I have lived in the US, in a city that felt closer to here than some

I liked it but I don't feel a draw to be there

I think half are probably happy with their current choice, they sounded very happy in interviews

Generally though the US will likely be ok its withdrawing of funding that might make other places feel more difficult

I literally don't have time to argue with someone who thinks Trump isn't anti-abortion 🤣

I think your view is a bit extreme. He has different views on gender issues, immigration, etc., but he doesn’t seem to have any intention of making his country worse. He truly believes in what he wants to do, and I think that’s why he has supporters in his home country and won the election.

YANBU OP. I chose to let my green card lapse in 2017. It is only going to get worse.

Liz truss truly believe she was making the country better - that self belief isn't enough, in fact it's dangerous

A lot of Americans are actually very happy about him. His response to the wildfires, and he visited the storm victims in NC in his first few days in office which they were very grateful for,

I don't see the problem with him to be honest, and neither do the American people or they wouldn't have voted for him!

This time too actually
By the time the votes had all come in he had less than 50%

You can all cry out that he's a Saviour to women because he's anti-trans but we'll see how you feel when you are 5 steps away from A Handmaid's Tale...

If you're going to laugh at people for having reasonable opinions that don't align with yours and 'educate' people on biology at least get the words right.

It's sperm, not sperms. Only one sperm fertilises an egg.

The embryo implants, not implements.

Have no idea where the 14 days gestation comes from. Day 5 embryos and day 6 blastocysts are transferred into the uterus in IVF where sex testing is done embryos. Nothing lives in a dish for 14 days.

God forbid that anyone should view the pussy grabber as a saviour for women.

Exactly this. White male rapist wins over black female lawyer. Trump really doesn't need to bother getting rid of DE&I practices - unconscious bias is deeply entrenched anyway.

He didn't elect himself.
It's the ordinary Americans that wanted him and the total shitshow he promised to bring.

Which says it all, really.

I said for years before the Brexit referendum that if there was one, we'd be out of the EU. I also predicted Boris Johnson becoming PM long before it happened.

None of that changes my view that Britain is essentially a centrist country and there just isn't support for any kind of extremism in politics, left or right. As for Farage - no it's not worth engaging with him. And as he's never in the country and does no constituency work whatsoever, I can't see the people of Clacton voting him in again. I know people in that constituency. They're not impressed. Reform has no real policies or plan beyond a lot of shouting. And one of their MPs shouldn't have been elected at all, given he's got a conviction for battering his girlfriend (and we're supposed to think these people care about grooming gangs, LOL).

Please note I said before 14 days.
I don't know why my auto correct added a s to sperm (did it in this post too but I caught it this time) and oops with my dyslexia meaning that 8 again didn't see the auto correct changing implants into implements.
Also it's not an opinion that sex is encoded at conception it's fact. I was laughing at the poster because they tried pulling me up with misinformation sex is not determined at 6 weeks as the poster I quoted claims.
Perhaps you should shine your fact-checking light on them rather than picking on my typos or is it only posters who you disagree with that you do this with

And yet, there are people here suggesting as much
It's chilling

It wasn't the ordinary Americans really though
It was the House

Are there? I haven't seen anyone making that suggestion.

Would you mind quoting those posts?

I wish I didn't live here.

Personally I feel quite envious of them. To see a politician actually do what he said he would do, and so quickly, is astonishing. Here we have Keir Starmer who has no integrity or vision, has already reneged on his promises and seems intent on making everything in this country worse. I genuinely despair for the future of this country.

Hillary Clinton lost because half the country couldn't stomach the thought of another Clinton administration. Also Benghazi, missing emails, publicly calling Trump supporters (and US voters) "deplorables". And sheer arrogance and complacency. Not because she was a woman.

I agree with you re Fox but CNN is almost as biased.

We spend a lot of time in the US. My husband’s there right now. I think it’s fair to say that a huge swathe of the population is thrilled to bits with having Trump as president again. And every obnoxious statement he makes, or thing he does is met with support.

Our friends and family over there are (disappointed) democrats, but even they would not think they’re worthy of pity. They think we’re in a shit show of our own in the UK, tbh.

Well this Older Person agrees with ONE THING he's said, and that sex is binary and you can't change it.

Otherwise, he's an ignorant, certifiable, incomprehensible lunatic

See, THIS is the problem

'I'm right. Everyone else is wrong'

Everyone is likely to be right about something and wrong about something

And people need to listen to other's views. Sometimes they might be right