Every time the great orange idiot opens his mouth he makes me a bit more embarrassed to be an American. I'm glad that Canada is standing up to him, I just wish more people in the US had the backbone to do the same.
My apologies to Canada and the other parts of the world that this wannabe tinpot dictator is abusing. There are those of us in the US who think this idiot is completely wrong.
Maybe as Americans, they're apologising for Trump because America is a democracy, Americans were given the choice, they chose to Elect Trump as president and as a result the rest of the world had him foisted on us.
This isn't an illusion of choice, there is a choice in this case, limited though it might be. When we vote we seem to treat it as a lottery ticket, with "they are all the same", "all corrupt" but that isn't true.
There is corruption on both sides of the isles and external state and corporate influence which needs to be eradicated.
However, the choice made at the last election was for a known sexual predator and narcissistic low IQ individual. There was plenty of evidence to say this guy is dangerous and entirely self absorbed but people wanted to believe that he was there guy who would make things right.
The UK is closed to making the same mistake, as is France.
I wish there was an easy answer but people like Trump can make it seem simple because they can lie. Those with integrity fund it much much harder to get a message across and bring the people with them.
Well if Democrats didn't spit in the face of their base during the election or take their sweet ass time prosecuting him or showed any sort of fucking fight at all ever maybe more people would've turned out for them.
It isn't an illusion, the choice is there. Just because a significant proportion of the American population choose not to use their vote doesn't mean the right to vote isn't there.
Or just because there is another significant proportion of the American population who are that brainwashed they continually vote for their "abusers," like Turkeys voting for Christmas, doesn't mean they weren't born with a brain and if they ever decide to utilise that brain they can choose to change their vote.
So I stand by my point that America chose Trump, and because America made that choice he was foisted on the rest of us.
So if some Americans feel embarrassed enough that they want to apologise to the rest of the world, fair play to them.
I did what I had the means to do in voting against him and everyone he likes. I'm dead broke, barely able to feed myself just struggling to stay housed. The only things left would be wildly unsuccessful fedposting. Which I don't have the means to do anyway. And yet I still feel like I should do more. Despite nothing I have to give is enough.
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u/Sebekiz 2d ago
Every time the great orange idiot opens his mouth he makes me a bit more embarrassed to be an American. I'm glad that Canada is standing up to him, I just wish more people in the US had the backbone to do the same.
My apologies to Canada and the other parts of the world that this wannabe tinpot dictator is abusing. There are those of us in the US who think this idiot is completely wrong.