Last time Trump was elected, the world (particularly America’s allies) said a lot about how awful he was but didn’t do anything to hurt him seriously.

When he won again, knowing he had the Project 2025 folks as part of his new regime, I feared the same would happen. That as he ground down the American people, the rest of the world would talk big but do nothing. Nations the world over have a bad habit of only intervening when you hurt people outside your own borders. So long as he hurt only people inside the US, nobody would want to turn off the US money printer.

But this time he stepped outside US borders, too quickly and too rashly with his tariffs. Nationstates may be slow to act, but the people of those Nations are acting faster. Boycotts, rally around the flag effects, backlash against right leaning groups previously aligned with Trump.

It’s not much, it won’t break the American empire by itself. But it’s more than I expected to happen, so I’m hoping it is just the start.

I don’t wanna risk getting hopeful before the empire and tyrant are properly toppled…but I am feeling more hopeful now than when he was first elected.

Why would we buy their energy? To prop up their dying coal/oil industry at the expense of our planet? Even if we did as he asked, to our own great harm, he’d find some other demand to make so long as we’re reliant on their military industry and tech stack.

He really is just the most pathetic person. “Empathy is a weakness.” -> “Feel bad for me, people won’t buy my cars.”.

“I’m a top gamer.” -> Dies in the tutorial mission.

“Europe is weak and liberal.” -> We should join Schengen and drop all tariffs.

It’d be funny if he wasn’t disgustingly wealthy and powerful.