Is there a specific reason this time, orrr…
Just a normal Monday
It was actually a holiday Monday
Man, that date stamp could be pretty much any day in the last decade.
I think I’m out of the loop, which of the thousands of possible things is he referring to?
I am pretty sure Scalzi’s trigger this morning is the letter to Norway, but it feels like a permanent and blanket statement for this administration.
Holy shit, that doesn’t read as bad president, that reads as mentally ill.
Also when I mentioned trump’s letter to my mom, she confusedly asked “he can write?”
letter to Norway
Holeee fuck
Oh jeeesus
Does he know that the Norway doesn’t control the Nobel board?
Also Fuck Trump and this stupid letter. What has he done for NATO except extortion and existential crises? It used to be an effective tool until he got involved.
Trump is a cult leader; it doesn’t really matter whether what he says makes any logical sense or not. It only matters that his brainwashed followers like, believe, and/or get behind whatever ridiculous thing he’s planning to do next
He wants to punish us for not being corrupt enough. Hope this is a clear sign for everyone here to deinvest away from anything US, as that is the only language the orange dumbbell speaks.
Its actually incredible how Trump can continuously behave like this, while governments all over the world still bend the knee to him.
Looking at the rest of the news this morning, I really don’t think “bending the knee” describe what world leaders are doing at all. For example, Canada just re-started relations with China and is increasingly looking like they might buy a fleet of Gripens instead of F-35s, and the EU signed a free trade agreement with MERCOSUR. Everyone is drifting away from the US. They are just doing so quietly, after all, the US is still the world’s biggest economic and military force.
This.
The manbaby is not smart enough to understand politics. He just understands force. By not doing anything “by force”, he just keeps being a manbaby while the world drifts away from him without him even realizing.
What’s going to happen here is that one day, the turd will start another tantrum and, instead of saying “yes, sir, you are right, now let’s keep being friends”, the same people will just look away the same way a parent ignores a kid throwing a tantrum over a snack they did not get.
Yeah i know they have been quietly working in the background to replace the US, but its too slow and they so far arent seriously considering the methods that would truly hurt the US regime. As long as they dont directly target the tech sector and remove this insane vulnerability at the core of our society, government and infrastructure, we will always be lagging behind. The EU cant be independent while we depend on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, Twitter, AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Cisco, IBM, etc. All those companies are ticking time bombs that could at any point disable large parts of our public and private infrastructure if they were ordered to do so by Trump.
I think his handlers are starting to think there’s a real opportunity to dissolve NATO, or at least get the US to leave/kicked out. Think how liberating that could be for…certain people. How hard it would be for the US MIC to lose all of those exports.
Because of money, at least partly?
whining to norway about not getting a swedish prize is 100% on brand for trump. fucking moron.
Nah the nobel peace prize is from a norwegian committee. The others are indeed swedish
Edit: It’s still stupid because it’s not the norwegian government that awards the prize
lol tfw i’m as dumb as trump
Nah, you’re not dumb, you just didn’t know!
Here’s some history for you: When the Nobel Prize was created, Norway was in a union with Sweden. Seeing as Norway didn’t have any direct diplomatic relations, they were chosen to handle the diplomatically sensitive Peace Prize while the Swedes handled the rest.
Nah Trump definitely had at least one person tell him that he was wrong and the told them to shut the fuck up and did it anyway
I’m too lazy to Google letter to Norway, can you explain it with a meme?
Still have it in my clipboard…
“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.”
America right now
It truly is a case of the Mondays.
What a deeply embarrassing platform to post this message to. Fuck X #Fedi is the way. It is known.
Bluesky, homie.
Baffling that so many people upvoted a comment that is, at best, a non-sequitur – at worst, snarling at the author for using a platform while being wrong about the platform used – simply because the comment is mad at the correct thing.
Meanwhile, the comment correcting the misinformation and accurately labeling the source of the post is sitting at middling 12 to 6.
They just haven’t hit their evil arc yet.
Blue sky just verified ICEs account
It’s an official US institution. What were they supposed to do? Don’t verify it? Ban the account? Should they also ban other US official accounts? How about accounts belonging to other authoritarian countries, like Iran, Israel, China or Russia?
Yeah…kinda?
I didn’t say that Bluesky is good. I am just correcting the assumption that it was an Xitter post.
I’m almost exclusively on Mastodon.
A modest improvement
Thats really everyday tbh
Might as well just repost this every day with the date changed.
Could set up one of those single page websites, something like ShouldUSCitizensBeEmbarassedToday . com and it always says Yes
That’s like every day whose name ends with y
Great Scalzi is not maga, can I continue to read his books or is there some other skeletons?
He has been very active in BlueSky since its early closed beta days. From what I can tell, he seems to be a descent guy.
Richard Kadrey is another author on Bluesky that seems very much against MAGA bullshit.
Just based on his books I’d be really surprised if he was MAGA. He’s got a lot of fun sci-fi ideas, but he also spends a lot of time championing virtues like ingenuity, empathy, and honesty.
That and the asteroid on asteroid action. That is a person who likely isn’t puritanical about sex.
But he’s a human-first alien-second xenophobe, according to his scifi series about alien races trying to take down Earth.
(I’m kidding, I’m kidding, but I honestly saw him as a Stephen King type, and glad to know he’s not)
I was also thinking that if Scalzi can write the Interdependency series that contains gender neutral titles (Emperox) and several of the characters is gay/bi, he can’t be maga.
Hey, I say that just about everyday.
What a coincidence.
sooo what happened? orrr is the joke that every day is a had day to ve an american?
Search “trump letter to norway”.
That’s my secret… I’m always embarrassed.
Hang in their buddy. The damage to the USA is enormous, but it can be repaired in ten, twelve years.
I honestly don’t think it can. They would have to elect probably three sensible presidents in a row, and that’s really not in the cards.
They’re never more than 4 years away from electing another Trump. Ever.
It’s done. They need to show 100 years of good faith before I’d consider trusting them, and I’ll be dead by then
Alternatively, we need to elect a sensible Congress that actually flexes it’s muscles in the areas it’s in charge of in addition to a sensible figurehead
And keep electing that Congress during the next midterms.
The main issue regarding that is not just the insane president. It’s the voters.
How can the EU trust Americans not to vote in another openly fascist president? Everyone saw his first presidency and heard everything he said he would do.
How can we trust the US population again?
Would it help if it came out down the line that he had Musk fuck with the voting machines? I’m still not convinced everything was above the board for the last election.
Winning every single swing state in a rematch election just reeks of foul play.
It would, and I’m surprised nothing came from Trumps statements about Musk and the computers. I thought the Americans would definitely challenge the outcome solely on that comment but 🤷
I know there’s plenty of protests on going across the US, but that so many of the voters still just accept when the president breaks the law is still adding to the trust issue. I mean, if the party I voted for behaved in the same way I would feel betrayed and embarrassed, and would have me on the barricades next morning demanding their resignation
The way he overperformed in basically every state make manipulation unlikely. We’re talking about a system of 50 state run elections that all have slightly different systems, all of which would require considerable effort to corrupt. Election meddling would at best flip a few states, and Trump won by a bigger margin than that.
Plus, Musk and Trump’s goons aren’t the geniuses who can pull off something like that. Their incompetency running the government makes it even less likely that they cheated. Thinking they cheated is just a distraction from realizing how effective their message was and how shitty the Democrat’s were. They lost fair and square, and they cannot rely on their enemy to be the only reason to vote for them.
As a European, I don’t think I could trust the US even after ten to twelve years.
It’s gonna take all MAGAites and fascists dying and/or turning back to normal and then a decade on top of that, before I’m even gonna trust anything there. And a lot of reform.
Hell, my grandfather refused to set any step into Germany after the war, never for all the 80 years after that period he lived through as a young adult.
As an American we need reeducation camps. A third of the population is literally not fit for society and isn’t going to just change overnight. I do not know how to fix it.
I think our isolation on a global stage is a big issue. On top of all the other issues these freaks have, they know nothing about other countries other than vague notions or Europe being the gay weak place.
That’s less than 2 presidents. We haven’t even successfully unfucked what Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, or Obama did. How can you be so sure about this when there is zero evidence? Not even all the Supreme Court will be gone by then.
it mostly definitely cannot lmao. the current catastrophe is the result of several decades of compounding issues. The only way things could be fixed that quickly is a revolution.
In the meantime, people in the US will be exposed to large amounts of pollution as the EPA rolls back rules, more people will die of preventable diseases due to vaccine guidance, healthcare being too expensive to use, and a brain drain of doctors, while the people get screwed over by corporations because consumer protections disappear, trucks get bigger and deadlier, the economy being shit due to deteriorated foreign relationships, over policing by violent psychopaths with incentives to fill private prisons, the supreme court decisions and jackasses that will stick around for much longer than a dozen years, and mass shootings continue to not even be national news. And that’s all going to get fixed in a few years while facing a far right headwind? I’ve got my doubts.
Every day adds a year.
!remindme in 2600 CE or so
I think the word you were looking for was “decades”.
You’re an order of magnitude off. It’s gonna take generations to undo this Gordian fucking knot.
Frankly, I’m not too proud of the species as a whole
Don’t make it about the species when it’s actually capitalism, which is the dominant system right now but doesn’t have to be
“Communist” states in the 20th century weren’t so hot, either, and we have been exploiting the hell out of the planet for thousands of years before (often to our immediate detriment). Capitalism is just more efficient at it.
Can we be done with 2026 already, please? It’s been one fuck of a decade.
