A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against the US.
Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.
I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.
I appreciate the boosts on the thread above, which I take as support.
The defeatist replies make me despair a bit. Just to address some greatest hits en masse:
1. “Kick them out yourselves” → JFC, what the hell do you think we are trying to do, constantly, day after day, the amount of action and engagement against the federal invasion where I live is like nothing I’ve seen in my lifetime. WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP. Please do not be an ass about it.
2. “The US has too much power, nobody can possibly stand up to them” → I don’t know, dude, maybe ask to copy Canada’s notes? I am not asking for magic here; I’m just asking people to try.
3. “But standing up to a fascist US is too expensive for us” → Believe me, whatever it costs us all now (inside •and• outside the US), it will cost even more later.
Lately I have been wondering if all of the countries that have passed Magnitsky legislation could apply those rules to Donald Trump and those with him.
For example:
GOP politicians may not care about Trump's crimes; but they might care about not being allowed to take vacations in France or Italy.
assuming they'd take vacations outside the US. though that cruz guy in texas likes mexico so ... who knows?
Trump's family members seem to like vacationing in France.
And JD Vance and his family showed up in Italy a while back.
I understand that Mexico does not currently have a Magnitsky Act equivalent; but presumably there is some way the Mexican government could ban Ted Cruz from the country.
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