European countries are hardly helpless without the US. Also, western armies do not fight meat grinder/trench warfare tactics like the Russians, they fight with air supremacy.

… and in the meantime, fascist shitbags get to continue being fascist shitbags while the appeals court eventually rules that they’re allowed to be fascist shitbags. Rule of law means nothing in the US any more.

Why does the US court system work like this? If a court has ruled this action illegal, why is the bad actor allowed to continue doing it pending a failed appeal? Why is it not the other way around and the illegal action has to immediately stop pending a successful appeal?

The US justice system is a complete joke, designed only to oppress the poor and minorities. The sooner Americans wake up, the better.

Seems like a lot of words to say that they’re assholes.

Yeah, feels a bit too late for that. This isn’t going to stop until the non-fascist Americans drag them out into the streets and dispense justice. People are going to die and the good guys are going to need to organise a whole lot first.

it’s true, I hear they love it so much that they get up early to beat the crowds

Opinions man, we’ve all got 'em :)

Protests are a networking event for organising resistance.

Are they appointing the most incompetent people they can as an insult to America? It sure looks that way from the outside. This is kakistocracy.

and then what? She has no credibility as she is being either coerced or bribed. Neither does the current US government. Whatever she or any of them say at this point, it cannot be trusted.

The word “confabulation” is what you are describing - and it’s also a huge symptom of dementia.

“Losing it” ? The guy never had it! His speeches have been word salad and lies for at least 10 years.

I was very strongly against us leaving, and I would love the UK to rejoin, but give up the pound? That is absolutely not happening.

At least Scale AI isn’t 700 Indians in a trenchcoat like that company Microsoft poured money into.

US democracy dies cause Dems can’t/won’t fight effectively or message appropriately.

Really? It looks to me like US democracy dies because a majority of Americans voted for the overt fascists, largely based on disinformation, propaganda and prejudice, and helped along by a dollop of voter suppression.

Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not American.

“Justice will prevail”. Not until the whole rotten US administration is behind bars it won’t.

Most people book this kind of holiday a year in advance. The people still coming to the US booked their holidays last year. There’s going to be an enormous impact by next year.

I love the US, spent a lot of time there, worked there for years, I have family there. I’m not going back until Trump is gone and there is some kind normality returned - which might be a long time.

I still find it absolutely wild that the president of the US has this much power, that the president can be an unqualified, incompetent drooling fucking moron and they are allowed to veto sensible knowledgeable people and do dangerous, stupid things like control the dumping of reservoirs.

WTF is wrong with America? In my country we have a parliamentary democracy and a civil service of qualified, intelligent people. We don’t allow one total fucking imbecile to ride roughshod over everything and ruin anything they like. US congress is like some useless appendix right now when it should be in charge of making these decisions.