Yeah, looks like we have idiots on both sides of the Atlantic, not least people who think the Democrats are the minority party in your Government.

They are not in government, they lost, all three branches (including the Supreme Court) House/Senate/WH are controlled by Republicans

'this cant possibly be real' is what most democrats are thinking. that and 'americans are so profoundly solipsistic that getting them to care about a single thing outside the confines of their house is a sisyphean struggle.' re: the latter point its not hard to see how you get there post-2024

Big sense in Europe that they have bigger things to deal with thanks to Russia and this is being kicked when they are down, and big sense in Canada of very visceral betrayal, and neither of these are a single election away from trivial repair

No no, on this point you've completely misread Europe. There is an absolute red line here actually shared by the European far right. There are no circumstances in which Greenland will simply be traded away. All the Euro far right parties are *nationalist* first, not Trumpist.

For clarity that's the Pete guy and not you Patrick!

Yeah, blocked, apparently I'm the nutter!

Not really visible inside the US, but yes, transatlanticists in Europe are being humiliated and losing power, and whatever happens in the US from here, every leader in Europe and US allies for the next generation will remember it.

The president of the worlds most powerful nation, and gaurenteer of the world system suddenly:

- acting like absolute monarch
- understanding IR in entirely zero sum terms
- having no real strategic vision and operating off gut instinct

Isnt something we're prepared for

I'm about 80% through building an accounting app, I know the output I want and need it's my day job, the only thing I've spent on it ia a lot of my spare time and around $250, I think we'll be ready for initial regulatory approval in a couple of months

The slowing down to look at a road accident of the nation.