mekka okereke 1d ago

There is a reasonable path back. Everything doesn't have to be all existential all the time.

👴🏻"If we even have elections!🤡"

We are having elections.

👴🏻"The GOP is going to try dirty tricks!🤡"

So? The GOP always tries dirty tricks. Always. There has never been a modern election where they didn't.

I won't lie to you and say that making the right choices at midterms and 2028 will completely undo all this damage. Because it won't.

You can never trust Dr. Jekyll again once you've met Mr. Hyde. Everyone knows that the US is always 4 years and some white grievance away from being right back here.

Show threadLudwig Vielfrass
@mekkaokereke I loved what the French Foreign Minister said last year, paraphrased (and translated): "We cannot leave the security of Europe up to 50,000 voters in Michigan every four years."
Apr 12 at 11:55pmWeb
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.1d ago

@lerxst @mekkaokereke Thanks for reminding me. I checked the quote:

“We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years,” French Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad said on LCI television last week. “Let’s get out of collective denial. Europeans must take their destiny into their own hands, regardless of who is elected U.S. president.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-kamala-harris-jd-vance-tim-waltz-eu-nato-us-elections-weapons/

It doesn’t matter if Trump or Harris win. Europe has already lost.

U.S. interest in the continent has been in decline since the end of the Cold War.

POLITICO