Well 40 % of Americans are still supporting Trump as per latest polls.

Maybe decades of lead exposure in childhood are just not ideal for the development of a reasonable population in a country.

Spotted the American.

You have very little understanding about city development and planning. Otherwise you’d know that most of the transport corridors that are in use today were started in the Industrialisation period when trams were introduced.

A city with millions of inhabitants can’t be explained by looking at the small population in the centre.

Vienna has an amazingly good and inexpensive public transport system and quite good bike routes combined with fairly inexpensive housing due to good city governance over several decades (social democratic party by and large).

The difference between most North American and European cities in terms of availabke transport choices is not what happened hundreds of years ago, but what city planners did in the post war period (50s to 70s).

It’s not too late however, if you look at the incredible progress Paris had in the past 5 years.

Trumps approval rating still sits at 40 % (https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker).

Something’s seriously wrong with your people, USA…

Our self-interest is that Trump gets recked in the Mid-terms so that all the tariff and war madness gets a degree of oversight and setbacks. Reason number one to just let this play out. This will lead to worldwide economic downturn, but an unhinged and unchecked Trump for a further 2/3 years would be even worse for us.

Secondly the Hormuz Strait is not able to be controlled without boots on the ground in Iran. We did not start this war and we should not participate in it in any way.

Instead of participating in the folly, we should use the financial and personal resources to dampen the impact on the economy and speeding up our path to energy independence.

Unsurprising. If the war ends with the dollar having lost its place as the world’s reserve currency (only propped up by oil sales currently), then this would be the biggest defeat of the US in their history because it would mark the end of American global hegemony. I’m not sure that’s a good outcome for the world but it would be the result nonetheless.

Maybe the treasury knows something that we don’t?

Well his approval ratings in the US is still 44 %.

He has yolod the world into another war in the middle east and 44 % of Americans are like: “that’s my boy!”.

He could publicly execute his followers at gas stations now and they would still vote for him.

I mean that would be the result if the orange idiot goes through with his announcement, as the EU has a unified trade policy to protect their member states of attacks like that.

The USA needs a functioning education system. Ideally 30 years ago.

They are reaping the “benefits” of decades of decades of public school defunding, pseudo-christian home-schooling and widespread lead exposure.

Yeah that’s why I specified about the niche roles. If you want to work as a postman you will have to be proficient in the local language. If you are highly specialised, especially in a field that is in high demand, people are going to cater to you.

Well that’s at least what the right wing media wants you to believe.

Actually things are looking pretty good for the UK. Even Reform seems to have peaked in voter share and is on the way down. The most recent by-election is a race between greens and labour with Reform nowhere near those two.

There’s a subreeddit “GoodNewsUK” which is a pretty good reality check.

UK, Ireland, Luxembourg.

The more niche your field is, the more acceptable English will be anyway everywhere else.

It’s bring your child to work day in the US government now every day. Only the child is a geriatric buffoon with the emotional and intellectual complexity of a 3 year old and he’s calling all the shots unchallenged by any adult in the room.

Never forget that more than 50 % of the US voters knew exactly what was coming, had previous experience with him fucking things up for 4 years straight and went “yeah, sounds like a solid guy to vote for”.

So what about all these “deals” all the other governments like the UK, SK and EU did with the US to bring tarrifs down to 10 or 15 %? I suppose they are now all void as well?

Well people and businesses just love to invest in banana republics where the dear leader can change laws every 5 minutes for whatever thing he is just angry about.

Every day I’m grateful not to live in the dumpster fire that is the USA…

Now please just shut the whole stupid thing down forever.

It feels unfair that in our timeline Bush somehow won against Al Gore and Musk didn’t take out himself and Thiel before they could bring substantial damage to our societies.

Are we somehow just living in like the worst possible timeline after 2000?

UK cinema chain Vue’s will premier “Melania” at 3:10 p.m. at its flagship Islington theater in London, but so far only one person has bought a ticket

So Barron is in London right now?

“We licensed the film for one reason and one reason only — because we think customers are going to love it," the Amazon MGM Studios spokesperson said.

Karoline Leavitt has got a new job then I reckon?