Lol do people really think a simple term limit is gonna stop him? The only thing that’ll stop him is if his companies go to shit so much that he either has to focus on them or go bankrupt. Besides, I feel like him focusing on the companies might honestly be a bad thing for them, he doesn’t have the best track record in charge.

When I grew up I used to love fireworks at new years here in the Netherlands. However, now that I’m older and more importantly, no longer live in the same neighborhood, I’ve grown a big dislike of them.

A big part of this is the vandalism and carelessness that people have. I literally have to move my car elsewhere to prevent it from potentially getting set on fire by some of our neighbors, who get super drunk and then set off fireworks and don’t take care of the leftovers, which often catch fire. They also moved fireworks to a patch of shrubs and trees before and if it wasn’t for me calling the cops and the weather being somewhat wet they could’ve set a whole area on fire. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Fortunately, there seems to be more and more support for a ban here. The only problem is that it’ll be very hard to uphold it after such a long tradition of having fireworks. They already banned some of the heavier stuff before and it never worked, people still had it. Hopefully it’ll be different this time.

Bold of you to assume there will be another election

Damn Biden comet

They more or less did that here in the Netherlands. Once the government let go, things slowly started getting worse and we’re now at the point where I’d say things are expensive, occasionally sporty and suboptimal…

Yeah but don’t you get it? For a person with his wealth it’ll feel like a minor disturbance. Who cares it’s not like that for everyone else /s

What makes you think they don’t already have that with who’s in charge now? If Trump is so close with Putin then he’s also automatically in kahoots with Mr pooh bear.

It’s insane that Trump has both manchild JD and mega cringelord Elon on his team. If Elon and Vance ever do an event together the venue will implode from their lack of charisma.

He also incorrectly tried to correct Zelensky on when his fucking country was invaded… Clown

I fully agree with you, sadly some world leaders benefit way more from dividing and isolating.

The only way forward as the human race in the long term will either be as 1 people (the UN is a good step towards this but clearly not enough) or as a post apocalyptic shattered, severely diminished population. Sadly it’s looking more and more like it’ll be the second one…

Yeah it’s kinda surprising actually, saying that the official language is Murican is way more up his alley.

Yeah but Bannon didn’t have unlimited amounts of fuck you money. Trump knows that if he fucks up with Elon, he’ll personally try to fuck him over in the midterm by suddenly becoming a Democrat again. Did you see the interview with that Fox news guy the other day? They might as well have done the interview with Elon and the interviewer sitting at a table while Trump was slorping on it underneath, he was so submissive and quiet, barely said anything and Elon even cut him off a few times.

I mean, I’m not an expert by any means but haven’t the republicans been able to very efficiently stifle democrat majorities before? If they just follow that playbook (delaying things, being pains in the ass, constant insistence on funky rules) they can at least annoy the shit out of them and hopefully slow things down. They’re way too polite for that tho, they’d rather just let it happen and hope they come out okay in the end then to risk the wrath of the annoying orange and his minions.

Good, if only the US did this before this shit fiesta started. I hope he gets the maximum sentence but I have a feeling the orange man is gonna try to save him and take him in…

I’d say the bigger issue for me was the fact that everyone can have a weapon with them and could literally kill you in seconds if they want to. As someone from a country (and continent) where this isn’t considered normal (the worst someone can carry is a knife and even that’s illegal) that’s just a real culture shock. Also, last time, our first day there consisted of being on public transport between the airport and our hotel where there was some crazy person shouting and trying to start fights with other passengers. We then got to our hotel, put our stuff away, heard noises outside and when we walked out we found out there had been a shootout at a restaurant around the block just minutes earlier.

So yeah, call it whatever you want but I wouldn’t call it safe.

We’ve gone to multiple places but is say the worst areas are the big cities. We visited Chicago and if you strayed a bit towards the outer edges of the downtown area it got sketchy kinda quickly. Downtown itself wasn’t too bad but at night I still felt a bit exposed walking around there with all the dark allies.

I feel like that all the time when I’m visiting the USA as a tourist. Lots of people walking around armed, sometimes visibly, who could just pull their weapon out and start firing. Any sort of public fight (like 2 people yelling at each other in a restaurant) had me on edge because things could go south quickly.

Yeah, most leaders here are busy tooting their own horns and aren’t focused on bigger geopolitics stuff yet… Like ffs, here in NL all they elected a right wing government and, surprise surprise, they’re shit at their job. Can’t get legislation passed, constant infighting, unpopular policies (for part of our population at least, unfortunately we also have a lot of idiots that voted for this), the list goes on.

I wish that Europe would step up more. The European Union is quite good at doing things bigger picture but they’re very slow and bureaucratic at times, could be nice if they improved a bit on that.

Hurray, time to cause even more Biden inflation /s

Kanye getting the “house of cards” treatment… Hard to stay relevant when everything else is starting to be even more batshit than you are.