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Donald Trump is such an international embarrassment that entire nations are now reorganizing their governments out of sheer secondhand shame. Canada and Australia didn't vote for anyone — they voted against the cosmic cringe of MAGA cosplay infecting their borders. Meanwhile, Germany is one bad tweet away from declaring war on Florida.
The prime minister of Australia reportedly referred to Trump as a "literal retard" behind closed doors
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/04/hate-asparagus-try-it-raw--and-in-this-bright-pasta-salad/
MAGA foreign policy: So much losing!
From the Great White North to Down Under and beyond, Trump's chaos is an unexpected boon for normie democracy
Here’s a conspiracy theory for you: Mainstream political parties of the center-right and center-left, across a wide range of self-described democratic nations, were in big trouble as we neared the the 2020s. They were beset on all sides by anti-immigrant sentiment, worsening economic inequality and widespread mistrust in government. The ultra-fascist far right was on the rise; to a lesser extent, so was the socialist left.
But they had a plan! Install a vicious, undisciplined sociopath as would-be dictator of the United States, unleashing a worldwide reaction of anti-American loathing. (Which, if we’re being honest, was not far under the surface anyway.) In effect, the world’s most powerful nation would abruptly subtract itself from the international equation, compelling an entirely new set of global alliances — and the struggling neoliberal centrist parties would look far more appetizing, as the proverbial adults in the room.
No, that isn’t really what happened — or at least I don’t think so. (No rational person would or should discount the civilization-scale Russian roulette factor of the second Trump presidency.) But the global effects of neo-Trumpism, considered in total, have been so uniformly self-destructive that it might as well be true. Do your own research!
The prime minister of Australia reportedly referred to Trump as a "literal retard" behind closed doors
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/04/hate-asparagus-try-it-raw--and-in-this-bright-pasta-salad/
MAGA foreign policy: So much losing!
From the Great White North to Down Under and beyond, Trump's chaos is an unexpected boon for normie democracy
Here’s a conspiracy theory for you: Mainstream political parties of the center-right and center-left, across a wide range of self-described democratic nations, were in big trouble as we neared the the 2020s. They were beset on all sides by anti-immigrant sentiment, worsening economic inequality and widespread mistrust in government. The ultra-fascist far right was on the rise; to a lesser extent, so was the socialist left.
But they had a plan! Install a vicious, undisciplined sociopath as would-be dictator of the United States, unleashing a worldwide reaction of anti-American loathing. (Which, if we’re being honest, was not far under the surface anyway.) In effect, the world’s most powerful nation would abruptly subtract itself from the international equation, compelling an entirely new set of global alliances — and the struggling neoliberal centrist parties would look far more appetizing, as the proverbial adults in the room.
No, that isn’t really what happened — or at least I don’t think so. (No rational person would or should discount the civilization-scale Russian roulette factor of the second Trump presidency.) But the global effects of neo-Trumpism, considered in total, have been so uniformly self-destructive that it might as well be true. Do your own research!