slip-ups with Trump saying “Elon is so good with the voting machines in Pennsylvania”

OK I hadn’t sen that, that’s an indication.

I admit I sometimes forget the sexist racist aspect, and I think you are right in that was a significant factor too. But it doesn’t make it less stupid I suppose as you hint at, it actually just makes it even more stupid.

don’t care which “side” is which,

So it’s OK to lose healthcare and you don’t care that the minimum wage is unlivable?
You don’t care mass shootings are a multiple times a week occurrence!
As long as the president isn’t bought?

Thanks I don’t think most Americans realize how bad it is, and how deep it goes.

I bet it’s true but it’s so stupid.
I’d rather lose my healthcare than vote for a woman. 🤣

I bet that’s true, and that just so incredibly stupid. We have a woman prime minister here in Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, and although I don’t agree much with her politically, there is no doubt that she is very competent.

Your state is one of 50, and not an representative of USA as a whole. I’m writing about USA as 1 country, not as 50 states and territories.
Just as when writing about EU as a whole and not about any particular member state.

The problem is not the size, it is the lack of democracy, and lack of respect between the states. For instance US no state can secede if it wants to, while UK was allowed to leave EU. No state can block a law in USA, while all countries of EU has that option.

USA see this level of respect and democracy towards each other as a weakness, but in reality it is a strength, and Europe has developed a society that is way better than USA, despite USA is about twice as rich per capita.

I don’t believe you, because there is not a shred of evidence of that.
Occam’s Razor tells us it is much more plausible that Americans are just stupid, and didn’t learn the lesson from 2 periods of Bush Jr. and the first period of Trump.
The American society is sociopathic and hold individual freedom as a religion. And they see Trump being a malignant narcissist as a perfect example of individual freedom, and they don’t recognize the sociopathy because they see it as a virtue.

This is to me the way more plausible explanation, that we have seen play out in many presidential elections in USA, Where already Reagan’s uncompromising war mongering campaign won over the much more moral and humane Carter that wanted environmental sustainability. Religious fanatics are fundamentalists, and fundamentalists vote to the right, and psychopaths are fascists and vote to the right. Trump election victory is 100% based in the insanity of the American society.

I am not saying all Americans are insane, there are many good Americans, but just as a person that has terminal cancer has cancer cells in the body that makes the body sick, doesn’t mean that all cells are cancer cells. And in the same way American society is sick, because there are so many “sick” people that behave in ways that are harmful, that the society as a whole is sick.

Seen from a country that is one of the best democracies in the world, there is absolutely no doubt about it. It is very obvious that American society as a whole is very very sick.

Huge difference between a large fraction and a small fraction.
I’m not saying it’s a major8ity anymore, but on election day a majority didn’t dislike him enough to vote to prevent him from winning.
As I wrote, when people are personally hit by his policies, either the sucking job market, or losing ACA and needing healthcare, then they realize it was not a good idea to let him win. But before that, most were fine with it, or didn’t care.

Only a small fraction of us actually like Trump.

Bullshit, he got half the votes, and those that didn’t vote didn’t dislike him enough to prevent his election.
So Americans like Trump plenty, until he does something that hurts them personally.
If you really believe your own comment, you are delusional.

Seems to me very likely that Harris would have been an above average president.
But sadly Americans chose the fascist psycho over Harris, because they didn’t think Harris was left wing enough, or that she didn’t support the Palestinians enough.

The logic being: I’d rather be killed by a fascist psycho than not be helped as much as I want by a way more moderate person, that isn’t actively supporting killing me.

The regime may stop it now, but as things have developed the past few years, the protests will start again later. And next time they will be worse. That’s how the development has been already.

The regime failed to protect Iran against attack from USA and Israel, which was basically the only legitimacy the regime had left.
And USA and Israel stopped attacking when they had hit the nuclear development facility, despite they had shown they could attack whatever and wherever they wanted. Sowing doubt about the Iranian propaganda that Israel and USA are out to kill Iranians.
Now the economy is so bad that people struggle to survive, and the outlook is that it will more likely get worse than better, as the Iranian economy continues to struggle.

Next time many people will know the stakes, and people will be better prepared for them. And more people will likely be ready to die revolting rather than die slowly in a daily struggle to survive.

Best of luck to the Iranian people.

You forgot Cuba.

Edit:
Sorry Trump didn’t threaten invasion, it was a threat about making “a deal before it’s too late” because they got a lot of their oil from Venezuela.

That “may” can include a vast range of uncertainties, likely no, may yes. How likely is it? IDK. But 100% for sure the chance of that is not zero anymore, when the president of USA has expressed he might do it.
The remaining two thirds are naive.

Even if this ends the riots, it will likely not be for long. Maybe 6 months maybe a year. It’s impossible to know.
But what is almost certain is that next time, the rioters will know the stakes, and they will riot with a lot more violence against the regime and any authorities that stand with the regime.
For many conditions are now unlivable in Iran, and unless the regime can solve that, people will riot even when risking to get killed.

Oh no the Chinese economy is crashing to grow only 4.8%. 😱
/s

To those who constantly claim the Chinese economy is crashing.

so that Trump has an excuse to cancel midterm elections. They know that if the elections happen,

Goddam the debates I have had, where people claim that is impossible, because the elections are run by the states.
I suspect we may see if it’s possible or not, because Trump and the administration are completely unhinged.

A civil war here wouldn’t be a war at all. More like a slaughter.

Unless enough of the people that voted for Trump switch sides or stay at home because they can see things have gone to far.
Nazi Germany only fell because they were defeated from the outside, that is not possible with USA. So it’s 100% up to the American people.
I hope you will have more political allies soon. At least the popularity of Trump has declined a lot since the election.
Even taking Maduro didn’t help on that, and such things traditionally gains the administration and president a lot of support at least for a while. But for Trump it failed completely to gain him any popularity.

I hope Iran will make a 2nd attempt at democracy, and that they will succeed this time.

It is the case, they are just not generally saying it out loud.
Germany is participating in all EU programs to curb dependence on USA, and are as active as everybody else in EU.
There’s a lot of holding back regarding saying what they mean, because it’s better for this ugly divorce to happen gradually, and prevent it from getting uglier than it has to be, because EU is not ready to cut ties with USA yet.
But Europe is preparing to not having to take shit from USA anymore. And these preparations are made easier by Trump undermining USA’s economy and political influence globally.
AFAIK after WW2 the US economy was almost a third of the global economy, and now it is only about a fifth. The economic dominance of USA is declining, and with it, the political dominance will decline too, and with declining economy, their military will also decline.
We just have to stop propping the US economy up with continued investments in it. And by we I mean all other countries and especially democracies.

Yes, absolutely uncompromisingly ruthless.