To worry about America?

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I used to love America and would holiday there every year. We have had some amazing road trips there over the years. We were due to go to New Orleans this year but I’ve cancelled, I no longer want to go.

They are completely alienating themselves from the rest of the world, talking about taking over other countries, turning on allies, suddenly best mates with Russia ….

I watched that awful woman speaking to the UK journalist this morning “we don’t give a crap about your opinion” - how rude and obnoxious. Don’t even get me started on trump - greeting Zelenskyy with “I see you’ve dressed up for the occasion” !!! I’m no fan of Starmer but could you imagine him greeting a foreign leader like that?

Imagine Rachel Reeves screaming at a journalist that we don’t give a crap about their opinion?

What is wrong with America right now and will they ever recover from this administration?

“Improper ideology” has shades of 1984.

I think we should worry about the state of the UK first. A lot of people around the world think we've lost our minds.

Who “around the world” thinks we have “lost our minds”?

I am also worried about the impact on the UK. Trump's economic instability and lack of regard for security is bad news for the UK. But at least I don't live there. My family do.

Can we talk about this administrations obsession with labelling every qualified woman and / or black person a “DEI hire” while thinking woefully mediocre people like Hegseth are competent.

Yes, Marjorie and Brian are a peach of a couple, aren't they? 😂 And Marjorie has always had form for this type of behaviour. An absolute nutter.

Do they? Elon, is that you?

TBF, they've thought that since Brexit, Boris and Truss.

If you look at the Doublethink and Doublespeak coming out of the US right now, you'd be forgiven for thinking they're using 1984 as an instruction manual.

America isn’t doing well - unemployment up, economy heading to a recession, stock market crashing and huge concerns over the falling values of 401k’s.

Indeed. I heard from a good friend recently, who is planning to visit the UK in August. She had to relinquish her British passport when she joined the US navy. She's currently in the process of applying to have it back, together with her children (US born). She views it as a sensible back up plan. I wholeheartedly agree.

They’ll be ok. They always are. They produce much of their own energy and food.

And they are 1/4 of the global economy. It’s likes of this irrelevant little island with people that have delusions of grandeur that needs to worry about how to pay its bills.

They will be in serious trouble if we here in Canada add tariffs to potash and restrict oil and electricity. The US isn’t as self sufficient as they think. Doesn’t help that neither Trump or his Press Secretary understand the basic principles of a tariff.

America DID vote for it however it was that individual Americans allowed Trump to win the election. Abstention, disinterest, allowing Biden to be re-nominated, then dumping him and allowing Harris on the ticket.
They ALL did this, not just those that put a cross beside Trump’s name.

That's a wise move. She's not the only one, many Americans are doing the same.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/dual-citizenship-interests-post-us-election/5995243/

The nationalists of the MAGA ilk are literally just franchising their formula - it's like a reality TV show but in politics. They're trying to sell their format to the UK and France now and are probably frustrated it hasn't happened yet. We the voters should tell 'em to fuck off.

it would be if it was true, yes

And by the way, I am using TV language on purpose because if you look closely you see an awful lot of TV clowns people there (Trump, Hegseth etc.)

If the Democrats weren't such a useless bunch of charlatans Trump wouldn't have been democratically voted in (TWICE).

Their whole system is screwed. And we're no better off either, so that woman refusing to take lectures from the UK isn't entirely without merit.

One of the key issues there and here is the donation system. The fact that wealthy donors can essentially 'own' a party's agenda is corrupt in and of itself.

It's very difficult when you're up against someone who tells lies to get votes. Should the Democrats have done the same? They'd just be competing against each other in a spiral of lies.

Not putting up a man in his 80s in serious cognitive decline would have been a start.

And then forced into making a late change with Harris an extraordinarily weak presidential candidate. Is that really the best they can do?

And so much of the woke/trans madness (which went insane last few years) comes from the Democrats and is just buying votes for the right.

If the Republicans hadn't chosen him, this wouldn't be happening. Plenty of other Republicans to choose from but they went with a serial sex offending, megalomaniac felon famous for his lies.

Ah well, he'll destroy the GOP too.

Once. He only secured a majority once.
But stop blaming the Democrats for MAGA.

Trump is a couple of years younger than Biden and also clearly not all there cognitively.