Never thought I'd see the day where a democracy worked so actively against what they know is worst for their own electorate.
For both the short and long run.
#biguglybill #trump #usa #usapolitics #usapoliticsfromabroad #insanity #corruption #oligarchy
@stevesilberman
From Australia I'm absolutely terrified of what's going on in USA. We have the prospect of a criminal being elected, who will further remove citizens' rights and freedoms once he has secured their votes, ignore the constitution and norms of democracy with impunity.
The insanity of the "Christian" far right, with a brainwashed, uneducated support base and elite, monied corporate friends, will lead USA out of NATO and into an alliance with thug leaders around the world.
The free press will be silenced as in Hungary. Voting will become impossible as in China. Corruption will be rife as in India. Retribution will be a norm as in Russia.
NATO will be weakened giving Putin the green light to take Ukraine Moldova Lithuania Estonia and Poland. Any attempt to stop his advance in Europe will be met with a nuclear threat with zero support from an American former ally.
The election in USA is critical: a Trump win will herald in the end of global stability and we non Americans have zero voice to do anything about it.
Sheer horror.
#usapoliticsfromabroad #trump #magavotingfraud #MAGAvote #biden #autocracy #riseoffascism
I'm absolutely terrified of what's going on in USA. The prospect of a criminal being elected, who will further remove citizens' rights and freedoms once he has secured their votes, ignore the constitution and norms of democracy with impunity.
The insanity of the "Christian" far right, with a brainwashed, uneducated support base and elite, monied corporate friends, will lead USA out of NATO and into an alliance with thug leaders around the world.
The free press will be silenced as in Hungary. Voting will become impossible as in China. Corruption will be rife as in India. Retribution will be a norm as in Russia.
NATO will be weakened giving Putin the green light to take Ukraine Moldova Lithuania Estonia and Poland. Any attempt to stop his advance in Europe will be met with a nuclear threat with zero support from an American former ally.
The election in USA is critical: a Trump win will herald in the end of global stability and we non Americans have zero voice to do anything about it.
#usapoliticsfromabroad #trump #magavotingfraud #MAGAvote #biden #autocracy #riseoffascism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/17/trump-hubris-family-empire-new-york
Today's *essential* read, especially if you're in the #USA #usapoliticsfromabroad #TrumpFraud
(You can tell the libel lawyers have been all over this - it's what it doesn't say that matters)
#MarriedToTheMob
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/109636015893652539
Yup, already imagined that. (-:
Ironically, increased bipartisanship is the exact opposite of the outcome that the party-within-a-party wants.
One interesting thing to think about is how cohesive the party-with-a-party is over the coming years. If it is strongly cohesive, then the #USHouseOfRepresentatives effectively is a 3-party chamber, in all but name.
@ancientsounds Political parties in #USPolitics at the federal level are rather looser than they are in the U.K., but that's a rough approximation to what is going on. It bodes ill for what's going to happen for the next two years, as a deadlock _within_ the House majority party will block lots of stuff. Either there is going to be some bipartisanship, or the party-within-a-party will hold everything to ransom. #USHouseOfRepresentatives #USAPoliticsFromAbroad
@ancientsounds Political parties in #USPolitics at the federal level are rather looser than they are in the U.K., but that's a rough approximation to what is going on.
It bodes ill for what's going to happen for the next two years, as a deadlock _within_ the House majority party will block lots of stuff. Either there is going to be some bipartisanship, or the party-within-a-party will hold everything to ransom.
The last few years of USA politics have been quite the impressive soap opera. I'm not an Eastenders or Corrie kind of TV watcher, but I've watched 2 impeachments, an attempted insurrection, the insurrection hearings.
Its the most epic Law & Order final episode.
#LawAndOrderFinalEpisode
#USAPoliticsFromAbroad
#SoapOperaOfTheAges
#SpeakerOfTheHouse
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