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Swede

(38,415 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:04 PM 4 hrs ago

A little rant from an Australian.

Alright, I’m 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 won’t 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 it’s 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 isn’t tough talk. This isn’t strategy. This is a deeply unstable old man threatening sovereign nations like he’s flipping over a Monopoly board because he’s 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 doesn’t get a vote. We just get the consequences.
You don’t get to shrug and say, “Well I didn’t vote for him.” That might fly at a dinner party, but it doesn’t 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 who’s going to cut the wire.
And let’s be brutally honest. This man is nearly 80. He’s frail. He’s clearly deteriorating. He is not some long term visionary playing chess. He’s 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 couldn’t 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 don’t 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 isn’t funny anymore.
It isn’t theatrical.
It isn’t tolerable.
Get this lunatic under wraps before he ruins it for everyone.

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Irish_Dem

(79,950 posts)
2. This woman is right. We The People have to take responsibility.
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:09 PM
4 hrs ago

We elected another Hitler.
Even if he stole the election, we let it happen and didn't challenge it.

We let our enemies take control of our country.
We voted out democracy.

All roads lead back the American people.

ETA. PS: The rest of the world needs to step up and take responsibility too for kissing Trump's
ass every minute of the day.

They could stick out their necks and help the Yanks.
We need it.

Doodley

(11,656 posts)
3. I am not going to feel guilty for what other people have done. I have done more to prevent Trump than that Australian.
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:10 PM
4 hrs ago

Enter stage left

(4,278 posts)
4. Wow, that was undoubtedly the best description of TSF I have ever seen or heard...
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:13 PM
4 hrs ago

A blabbering blubbering blithering blustering buffoon!

Who can't keep his mouth shut.

Frasier Balzov

(4,890 posts)
5. Hey, call out his security detail
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:22 PM
3 hrs ago

for not expeditiously disposing of the problem.

"They're just doing their jobs by protecting him" is an insufficient excuse.

Tree Lady

(13,018 posts)
6. Most of us on this site especially those like
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:23 PM
3 hrs ago

Me who have been here 20 plus years are actively working on campaigns, protesting, raising money for democrats, calling, sending emails, letters, and most of us are over 60 on this site.

I turn 70 this summer. What more would you have us do?

I personally think the youth should be out much more than they have because this will be their future. We can show them the way but most of us are getting up there in age.

We aren’t the site like many others that jabbers about shit then sits back on our tech doing nothing. Most of us are some type of activists.

These days when we protest we are literally putting our lives on the line even if we do so peacefully and are here legally. Just being a strong voice on the left is a danger today and yet we don’t stop when they set up protests we go.

I wish I were across the world, if you find doing all those things for your life and family hard, imagine how it feels for us. The ones who fight so hard for change only to have it taken away time after time. All of us want peace in our lives and retirement. I have to hike, do yoga, take long walks and meditate to find a slice of calm. Just being happy you are not here.

Blues Heron

(8,416 posts)
7. Australia bears some responsibility for giving us one of the architects of this mess, namely Rupert Murdoch.
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:29 PM
3 hrs ago

They should not act like they are blameless here, this right wing movement is global.

3catwoman3

(28,632 posts)
8. "...blabbering blubbering blithering blustering buffoon..."
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:30 PM
3 hrs ago

That is a most impressive run of alliteration -

LonePirate

(14,336 posts)
9. It's all because this country did not want to elect a white woman and then a black woman as President.
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:56 PM
3 hrs ago

It's a shame that we and the rest of the world have to suffer because of the disgusting misogyny and racism that are rampant from coast to coast.

This board won't like to hear me say this; but we deserve this mess even if those of us here are not personally responsible.

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