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From FaceBook:This is for all of you in America...this is on you...every one of you...no exceptions...
Susan Sloan
Alright, Im saying this as an Australian who is absolutely sick to death of watching the world hold its breath every time this blabbering blubbering blithering blustering baffoon opens his grotesque mouth.
You see folks, as far as I can tell, from the outside, this is what it looks like: America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he wont completely lose his grip on reality and drag us all into catastrophe.
You want to steal Greenland.
You want Cuba to make a deal before its too late.
You talk about bombing or invading Mexico.
You kidnap a President and knock off the peoples oil in Venezuela.
You joke about annexing Canada like it should be a shopping centre car park you can just claim because you feel like it.
Do you have any idea how insane that sounds to the rest of us?
This isnt tough talk. This isnt strategy. This is a deeply unstable old man threatening sovereign nations like hes flipping over a Monopoly board because hes losing. This is not normal behaviour. This is not leadership. This is not strength. This is a walking, talking international crisis.
And Americans, this is where it comes back to you. Not just MAGA, not just the people who voted for him, all of you. Because when the President of the United States starts talking about kidnapping leaders, annexing countries, and issuing ultimatums like a mob boss, the rest of the world doesnt get a vote. We just get the consequences.
You dont get to shrug and say, Well I didnt vote for him. That might fly at a dinner party, but it doesnt fly when nuclear powers are watching this circus and recalculating their own red lines. This is your system. Your presidency. Your responsibility.
From the outside, it looks like America lit the fuse and then wandered off while everyone else stands around the bomb wondering whos going to cut the wire.
And lets be brutally honest. This man is nearly 80. Hes frail. Hes clearly deteriorating. He is not some long term visionary playing chess. Hes at the end of his lifespan and acting like nothing matters after him. That is the most dangerous type of leader there is. A man with nothing to lose and an ego that demands constant feeding.
Why should the rest of the world pay for that?
Why should families in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, anywhere, have to worry about war, trade collapse, energy shocks, or global instability because America couldnt get its own house in order?
This is not about left or right anymore. This is about basic sanity. This is about stopping a psychopath before he does something irreversible. Because once a war starts, once a country gets invaded, once alliances fracture beyond repair, you dont get a reset button.
So yes, this falls on Americans. You got the world into this mess, and you damn well better roll your sleeves up and get us out of it. Impeach him. Remove him. Contain him. Do whatever your system allows, but do it fast.
Because the rest of us just want to live our lives, raise our families, pay our bills, and not wake up one morning to find out World War Three started because an unhinged old man wanted to feel powerful one last time.
This isnt funny anymore.
It isnt theatrical.
It isnt tolerable.
Get this lunatic under wraps before he ruins it for everyone.
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Thanks for causing this Australia- you created Rupert Murdoch and gifted him to us. By the way, this is global
Blues Heron
Friday
#1
This is global. Caused by who? JFC of course it is global but started by USA and your illustrious president
Bev54
15 hrs ago
#49
are you doing anything about it? It's just so simplistic and condescending to expect us to just oust the guy
Blues Heron
12 hrs ago
#64
You might think the political leadership in both Parties would be talking to each other?
kentuck
Friday
#5
I've seen similar posts on Reddit and Bluesky from people in Canada and other countries.
highplainsdem
Friday
#8
There will always be malevolent actors, but the guardrails, which have never been fully sufficient
Martin Eden
18 hrs ago
#43
Thank you for your clear-eyed perspective. We do need to face up to our collective responsibilites more.....
FadedMullet
Friday
#17
For people having a knee jerk defensive reaction and asking for solutions, think of it this way.
meadowlander
Friday
#30
36 doctors slipped SOMETHING into the Congressional Record at the end of April.
summer_in_TX
Yesterday
#33
We had one on May Day - did you participate? No work, no school, no buying?
Blues Heron
20 hrs ago
#41
She is sooooo condescending with that and the dinner party comment. Clearly she goes to a lot of dinner parties.
Blues Heron
12 hrs ago
#65
There is a very distinct first line of responsibility for this criminal president.
GoodRaisin
14 hrs ago
#61
Report today is the Iranian foreign minister is starting bilateral talks with our allies.
roamer65
14 hrs ago
#62