It was hard enough after Trump the first time, but now American contrition will take much longer and require more.
The first time was easily forgivable. He didn’t even win the popular vote. Nobody knew what to expect. Nobody could see what was coming or predict just how bad it could really be. We had enough plausible deniability to be able to say “We didn’t know any better and it won’t happen again.” And if Trump never got a second term, I could see his presidency going down as a footnote in international history.
Then we saw how bad things could be. We saw the crimes he committed. We saw the corruption play out live and in real time. And we watched him campaign on doing exactly what he’s doing. And we voted for him again. And he won the popular vote. We have no excuses this time. He’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do, and the US voters voted for this. The rest of the world has the absolute right to tell the people of the US to fuck all the way off because we voted for this. He didn’t just accidentally his way into power this time. We actively gave it to him, knowing he was going to do exactly this. We have no excuse this time.
I’m talking like impeaching and removing a broad swath of this administration, rejoining international organizations (like the WHO, etc.),
Wouldn’t be enough. There’s nothing stopping US voters from electing another far-right cabal who repeats this bullshit again. Trust would have to be rebuilt through showing stability through multiple administrations over the course of decades. You don’t repair the damage Trump has done in 5 weeks overnight.
and joining others we hadn’t been in before (like the ICC).
This can, will, and should never happen. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Joining the ICC would be a direct violation of the Constitution. We do not, should not, and cannot subject ourselves to any other outside governing body. This is something I am very strongly against.
There’s nothing stopping US voters from electing another far-right cabal who repeats this bullshit again.
Agreed. Frankly, I think it will take a generation of reasonableness or maybe a really lethal strain of covid combined with a really effective vaccine for it.
I don’t know what the status in the rest of the world is, but at least in the US, we are dealing with a bird flu pandemic that is dangerously close to showing signs of jumping to humans, with a fatality rate that would make COVID at its worst seem like a mild cold by comaprison.
So we very well get that lethal strain. But instead of the really effective vaccine, you’ll see RFK standing on a pile of dead bodies denouncing the effectiveness of vaccines while an unmasked MAGA crowd cheers them on, wondering why they can’t stop coughing. This is the US we live in now.
Yeah, the vaccine part is the real pie-in-the-sky part, isn’t it? Did you hear about this one?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which Kennedy oversees, notified members of its vaccines and related biological products advisory committee on Thursday that the next meeting scheduled for 13 March was cancelled without providing an explanation.
No new date was set for a meeting and scientists warned that the cancellation risked undermining the development of flu vaccines for next year.
This is the group that assess the current flu strains and determines what strains should be protected against in the next flu shot. That decision needs to be made now so the vaccine can be produced.
The first time was easily forgivable. He didn’t even win the popular vote. Nobody knew what to expect. Nobody could see what was coming or predict just how bad it could really be. We had enough plausible deniability to be able to say “We didn’t know any better and it won’t happen again.” And if Trump never got a second term, I could see his presidency going down as a footnote in international history.
Then we saw how bad things could be. We saw the crimes he committed. We saw the corruption play out live and in real time. And we watched him campaign on doing exactly what he’s doing. And we voted for him again. And he won the popular vote. We have no excuses this time. He’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do, and the US voters voted for this. The rest of the world has the absolute right to tell the people of the US to fuck all the way off because we voted for this. He didn’t just accidentally his way into power this time. We actively gave it to him, knowing he was going to do exactly this. We have no excuse this time.
Wouldn’t be enough. There’s nothing stopping US voters from electing another far-right cabal who repeats this bullshit again. Trust would have to be rebuilt through showing stability through multiple administrations over the course of decades. You don’t repair the damage Trump has done in 5 weeks overnight.
This can, will, and should never happen. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Joining the ICC would be a direct violation of the Constitution. We do not, should not, and cannot subject ourselves to any other outside governing body. This is something I am very strongly against.
Agreed. Frankly, I think it will take a generation of reasonableness or maybe a really lethal strain of covid combined with a really effective vaccine for it.
I don’t know what the status in the rest of the world is, but at least in the US, we are dealing with a bird flu pandemic that is dangerously close to showing signs of jumping to humans, with a fatality rate that would make COVID at its worst seem like a mild cold by comaprison.
So of course, Trump cut funding for bird flu research while multiple MAGA states push to ban mRNA vaccines because politics.
So we very well get that lethal strain. But instead of the really effective vaccine, you’ll see RFK standing on a pile of dead bodies denouncing the effectiveness of vaccines while an unmasked MAGA crowd cheers them on, wondering why they can’t stop coughing. This is the US we live in now.
Yeah, the vaccine part is the real pie-in-the-sky part, isn’t it? Did you hear about this one?
This is the group that assess the current flu strains and determines what strains should be protected against in the next flu shot. That decision needs to be made now so the vaccine can be produced.