The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/05/the-world-is-now-reversing-course-to-reject-trumpism/

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  3. If global governments would get one message…its DON’T AGREE ON A TARIFF NEGOTIATION. You’ll fuck yourself after this blows over. After 90 days Trump will cave. Hold back and stand your ground.

    Edit. I’m no poker player…but he’s got the worst hand imaginable.

  4. America is like the abused spouse who keeps crawling back thinking “This time will be different”.

  5. a few days ago the German government officially categorized the AfD as a proven right-wing extremist organization <3

  6. America isn’t likely to get out of this unscathed, but in a way, the world may end up in a better place because of Trump.

    We were headed down a very bleak path on the global stage. Things are still perilous, but democracy is having a pretty big moment.

    If Trump had been a competent authoritarian, he could have easily used America’s bully pulpit to plunge the world into an era of dictatorships the likes of which we had not seen in the modern era. He could have united the right across the nations of the Earth, and built a truly horrifying and lasting regime of terror.

    But instead, he is so profoundly incompetent, so utterly and totally incapable, that he will not be able to rise to his current moment and consolidate power. He will isolate himself and America, and in doing so he will catalyze other nations to end dependency on America for security and trade, and find other partners who share their values.
    he is awakening the people of the world to the terrors of being ruled by incompetent, greedy fools placed into power by the worst 1/3rd of the population.

    America is triple-fucked, but Canada, Australia, Germany, and other democracies may actually heed this wake-up call to reject their own domestic fascists and install new and more robust protections on Democracy.

  7. Would be great if the American people did the same. Polls sliding is a good sign. When those shelves are empty I’m hoping it’ll finally be the wake up call that some need. I still think he rigged this election with Elon. From last weeks speech I think it’s all been but confirmed. I wish we had a congress with a spine. It has been madness for a decade here

  8. When you’ve seen what it looks like when it’s rolled out, Jesus Christ, yes, you vote against it. Watching the US right now is akin to watching a car driving towards the Grand Canyon at 100 mph (160 kph for the rest of the world)

  9. One of the few silver lining I cling to in these times, is at least the majority of the rest of the world was pulled back from the brink of far right authoritarism

    Now if we can just make it to midterms, and actually hold them…

  10. See Richard Quest’s reaction to Trump advisers’ tariff remarks
    https://youtu.be/ajepCm-mYUE?t=79

    China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
    https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/
    > What China did wasn’t a ban, at least not in name. They called it export licensing. Sounds like something a trade lawyer might actually be excited about. But make no mistake: this was a surgical strike. They didn’t need to say no. They just needed to say “maybe later” to the right set of paperwork. These licenses give Beijing control over not just where these materials go, but how fast they go, in what quantity, and to which politically convenient customers.
    >
    > The U.S.? Let’s just say Washington should get comfortable waiting behind the rope line. The licenses have to be applied for and the end use including country of final destination must be clearly spelled out. Licenses for end uses in the U.S. are unlikely to be approved. What’s astonishing is how predictable this all was. China has spent decades building its dominance over these supply chains, while the U.S. was busy outsourcing, divesting, and cheerfully ignoring every report that said, “Hey, maybe 90% dependence on a single country we keep starting trade wars with and rattling sabers at is a bad idea.”
    >
    > Try ramping up your semiconductor fab or solar plant when your indium source just dried up. It’s a fun exercise in learning which of your suppliers used to be dependent on Beijing but never mentioned it in the quarterly call.
    >
    > The materials China just restricted aren’t random. They’re chosen with the precision of someone who’s read U.S. product spec sheets and defense procurement orders. Start with dysprosium. If your electric motor needs to function at high temperatures—and they all do—then mostly it is using neodymium magnets doped with dysprosium. No dysprosium, no thermal stability. No thermal stability, no functioning motor in your F-35 or your Mustang Mach-E. China controls essentially the entire supply of dysprosium, and no, there is no magical mine in Wyoming or Quebec waiting in the wings. If dysprosium doesn’t come out of China, it doesn’t come out at all. It’s the spinal cord of electrification, and right now China’s holding the vertebrae.
    >
    > So here we are. China has responded to Trump’s tariffs by cutting off U.S. supply of some of the most essential ingredients of the modern world.

    Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the US over tariffs
    https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-post-us-suspend-shipping-goods-tariff-0a52db6fc32e559cb6c5e42b8c9824d7
    >A government statement said Hongkong Post would not collect tariffs on behalf of Washington, and will suspend accepting non-airmail parcels containing goods destined for the U.S. on Wednesday, since items shipped by sea take more time. It will accept airmail parcels until Apr. 27.

    >“For sending items to the US, the public in Hong Kong should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due to the U.S.’s unreasonable and bullying acts,” the government wrote.

    Trump Tariffs Like ‘Delinquent Kid Extorting Somebody’—Japanese Lawmaker
    https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariffs-delinquent-kid-extorting-somebody-japanese-lawmaker-2061460

    >Oguma in a speech during a parliamentary committee hearing told Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya that the nation should resist Trump’s demands, likening the U.S. approach as a “delinquent kid extorting someone,” according to a Times of India translation.

    >”If Japan listens to this and bends the other way in response to the impossible demands of bargaining and deals, it will set a bad example as a customary and historical precedent,” Oguma said. “If you get mugged and put money in their hands, they will come back to mug us.”

    >Oguma called Trump’s tariff formula “a mess” and questioned if it was “safe for a serious person to go there” and negotiate with the U.S.

    >”Consider every option, but you should never make concessions to someone who is not straight up anyway,” Oguma said, adding: “I hope that you will never give in to the American extortionists. I know this is harsh to say, but they are extortionists.”

    >”If you listen to what they say, it will be a really bad example,” Oguma said.

    >Iwaya meanwhile has called for a diplomatic approach to the still-developing U.S. trade policy, comparing the regular changes to “a daily menu.” He previously called the tariffs “regrettable,” according to Japanese outlet Kyodo News.

    Japan Minister Speech | Japanese Leaders Attack Trump’s Tariffs: ‘US Tariffs Change Like Daily Menu’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDCtYgv9wI

  11. If the rest of the world governments simply wait until July or August, they will get a much better long term deal because the US economy will so totally screwed up that Trump will have no leverage.

  12. You have to stamp fascism out or it spreads, that’s why everyone went all in in the early 1940’s. It took a generation to forget where this leads and why we don’t want it to happen again.

  13. “Trumpism,” are they allergic to the term “fascism” or something?

  14. The world watched Trump 2.0 unfold and instead of following, they flinched. Turns out authoritarian cosplay doesn’t play as well the second time.

  15. About that AI-generated Trump as Pope picture…

    I hope it pisses off enough members of the College of Cardinals that any conservative candidates for Pope are tarred with the same stink as Poilievre and Dutton. With any luck, we’ll get a new Pope that is more liberal than Francis.

    Donald Trump just needs to keep talking shit and keep shitposting his shitty AI-generated images.

  18. I’d like to thank Trumpism for killing Trumpism. Kinda like the best thing Hitler did was offing Hitler.

  19. Must be nice. At least other people can see the dumpster fire and reverse course.

  20. the scary part is that it might be too late, he should have never been allowed back into white house in the first place. And also I fear that in a few years when the shock fades out people will jsut embrace it again…

  21. Trump got Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese elected but things aren’t looking so good in Europe.

    Reform UK won big in last week’s local elections, while National Rally and Alternative fur Deutschland could very well win the popular vote in their respective countries.

  22. Never make a deal with Trump’s administration. They don’t respect past deals so you’ll just get burned. He has a very weak hand and just shouts loudly to compensate. He’ll fold to all demands after the slightest pressure.

  23. You’re welcome world. We’ve sacrificed ourselves to save the rest of you. /s

    Please make this stop I want off this ride.

  24. It is completely inappropriate to call it “trumpism” – it’s *movement conservatism* AKA ‘fascism’

    Calling it trumpism lets modern conservatism off the hook for creating this mess. If you don’t address conservatism, we’ll just keep ending up here.

  25. It is crazy that trump is so obviously and universally terrible that it is stalling right-wing movements around the world. Like imagining sucking so hard that people on other continents go “maybe everything he is associated with is stupid. . .”

  26. For everybody who thought “elect the guy who says crazy things! He’ll shake it up a little bit”

    … they are now seeing that the world economy does not like to be shaken. Left unchecked, the guy who says crazy things ends up doing crazy things… and that’s not good for most people.

    They are now looking inward at their own countries, and re-evaluating their own folks running for leadership.

  27. It’s almost insult to injury to watch these other countries come to their senses instead of barreling down a path of nationalism, untethered capitalism, and hatred. I’m very relieved for these places but it’s disturbing that the USA can’t see the forest for the trees. Unfortunately, in the USA’s case, this current situation has been engineered over decades and is supported and empowered by complicit media organizations that have been purchased exactly for this purpose by twisted oligarchs, and citizens united has transformed D.C. into a spectacle of pure, unabashed corruption as dark money is now effectively used to influence elections and voters. The result? Many Americans are now parroting and spreading anti-democratic and anti-American rhetoric under the guise of “patriotism”. It’s quite something to see all these folks running around town in star spangled vehicles and clothing trumpeting conspiracy theories from the Kremlin and voting for the interests of rich Americans over their own.

  28. He has destroyed the world order , not changed . We are now aligned with Russia , North Korea , Iran , Hungary , El Salvador and any 2 bit dictator. We lose our freedom one Executive order at a time .

  29. As usual the Brits are going the other way to everyone else in Europe and will come to regret it like they did Brexit.

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