If you think things are bad now, then, brace yourself: it is about to get a whole lot worse. If you are alarmed at the speed with which the Trump administration has set about dismantling every institution of American government and every pillar of the international order, you must understand that this is not just the initial burst of activity, the “shock and awe” phase after which things will settle down: if anything, the pace will continue to accelerate.
The world has never before been faced with such a threat. The United States has handed the nuclear codes to a madman, a criminal, a would-be dictator and a moron, all in the same person. Whatever the purpose to which he directs these powers – to impress his dictator friends, to further enrich himself and his cronies, to seize absolute power or just to watch the world burn – we must hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
And that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. For the most part Americans are complaining but not willing to actually do anything about the situation.
I’ve heard people say the US couldn’t invade us because it would cause an uprising, but they aren’t willing to stand up and fight for their own democracy. They won’t stand up to fight for ours.
We’ve never been in a situation even remotely like this before. A lot of people aren’t sure that doing a coup would be fighting for our democracy because removing them from office would be removing the, as far as any evidence can show, legally elected government. It’s about as bad as it’s been in nearly 200 years, but what if we “destroy the democracy to save it”?
Invading a country that most Americans like more than their federal government is an entirely different question. This current bullshit is disgusting and heartbreaking.
Last time we had anything remotely close to this was 160 years ago. And this time the sane ones would be the ones going against the federal government.
It’s… we’re in the unknown as a country.
At this point, American democracy has already been destroyed.
The democracy we knew. Whether there is a new one, depends on us.
It always has.
Americans now want to invade and are cheering this on. It’s inevitable.
Bull fucking shit. Equating a minority of MAGAs that want to invade with most Americans only worsens the problem. Canadians could benefit from recognizing they have plenty of allies in the US and if the federal government chooses to invade our neighbors it’ll spark tremendous outrage and new alliances with Canada from blue states. Just to be crystal clear most Americans do not want this and see Canada as an important ally despite what you see on social media.
Who want to invade and are cheering it on? His followers will agree with anything he does, obviously, but who else?