For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.
The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.
Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.
But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.
It’s not time to trust us. We still have a shitload of Dems who are basically part of the gop. Corporate dems are essentially republicans with favorable attitudes towards identity politics. These people are effectively part of the meta party which is comprised of people who are Neo liberals and believe in trickle down economics and the vaunting of corporations and the wealthy. They will do everything they can to keep the status quo and assist Trump as controlled opposition. Class war is first. Without cleaning up these people and addressing wealth and corporate person hood the U.S. will not change its trajectory.
Why would anyone trust us? We elected Trump, elected someone else, and elected Trump again. We’ve already demonstrated that a good election or two is no reason to trust us. Gotta wait until we’re actually rid of the rot
Can relate, don’t trust the us and I live here.
Americans really only care about domestic stuff. We do not give a fuck about the rest of the world or our relationship to it. Do not trust us.
Sad but true. The average American could care less about anything outside their state for the most part, let alone outside the US. Even though, their vote affects what happens all over the world.
Yes, Americans are much more likely to be bothered that we are spending money abroad than that we are killing and starving children abroad.
The mainstream argument against the Israeli genocide isn’t “we shouldn’t be supporting a genocide”, it’s “we shouldn’t be sending $4 billion to Israel”. The former wins a Democratic primary (only as of 2026), the latter wins a general election.
If this were true, we would have healthcare. Unfortunately our government cares about international issues that we don’t care about because its profitable.
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Wrong. We just care about domestic stuff more than international stuff.
Just like your country… and every other country.
Then how about America stops sticking their nose in the entire world’s business.
Oh, and fuck off funding fascist parties in Europe.
Oh, it’s the drunk guy from tenforward with the hot takes.
Trump’s still there.
If the democrats don’t prosecute him and every single one of his cronies, there is no reason to trust America ever again.
Nixon was never prosecuted why would Trump be? The us doesn’t really do consequences for rich white men
Nixon was a bad precedent and never should have been pardoned.
See also: Bush.
The people who voted for Trump are still there. That’s all that actually matters.
They will vote for someone like him again. It’s only a matter of when.
They won’t, so there is no reason to trust America again. Trump’s a tool, he’s not the boss. He can’t even clean his ass.
What are they even talking about? Tariffs are still there, EU passed laws that force countries to buy European weapons, they are finalizing a deal with Canada. Foreign policy is like a container ship, not a sports car. It took a lot of time to turn it around and it will not turn again anytime soon. The world is not going to just “trust America again”. It will take years to sign new deals and pass new laws and it will start only when US shows they are willing to seat at the table and talk which won’t happen in the next 2 years.
Also what has America done to gain trust? Votingnin blue is not even a beginning because it looks like they’ll just maintain the status quo.
Oh, it’s going to take years, if not decades, to repair the damage dumbfuck has done.
It’ll never be repaired. Schedule F, gutting of all government agencies and mass exodus of career SMEs (various disciplines)…
There is no recourse for an “organization”. Turning civil servants into political appointees will never go back to the way it was with a simple regime change.
We are very much still fucked albeit, slightly less fucked.
Never is a long time. Germany systematically murdered thirteen million people in the forties. Obviously that does come up, but Germany largely rehabilitated its image by the 90s. Maybe earlier if we’re just talking West Germany.
I’m not saying with any certainty that the US will ever be as comfortable in the world as it previously was. But if people can get over the Holocaust in fifty years, I think the US has a puncher’s chance to sort things out.
Germany was lucky. The rest of the world came over and gave it an attitude adjustment. This probably won’t happen for the US.
I don’t think anyone born before 2015 will live to see an America that has fully recovered from all the damage Trump and his millions of fascists (mostly boomer) supporters have done to this country.
Definitely decades
He appointed rather young folks to the Supreme Court. I figure we’ve got 40 years of every case that goes before them being decided for conservatives, the wealthy, and just our of sheer cruelty. We have rapists on the Supreme Court. Maybe not adjudicated in court, but proven being reasonable doubt in testimony before Congress. We will never remove that stain until he dies.
If the Democrats wanted to set things right, they would expand the size of the court and dilute the votes of the corrupt and partisan, conservative justices. They could also impeach the most blatently corrupt ones, but that would take 2/3 of the senate while changing the size of the court could be done with a simple majority. I think they could also , with a simple majority, change it from a life appointnent to some reasonable term, like 8 or 10 years, but i could be wrong about that. Will they actually have the balls to make things right? Will their donors allow them to fix our very broken supreme court? 🤷🏾
Quite right. It was bad enough when Biden pushed through the approval of Clarence Thomas by refusing to hear his victim’s testimony. The Trump appointees were way worse. You get the impression that Kavanaugh being a rapist is a big part of why Trump liked him.
You’d have to be a fool to trust the US again based on this. Getting the democrats to actually make progress on anything is not usually a winning bet.
You’d be a fool to trust the US again for generations, regardless of appearances.
Nor should they. Not until we’ve shown real, sustained change. Trump is still in charge and like 30-40% of the country are apparently irredeemably awful.
Nah, mate, this isn’t enough, not even when you vote out Trump. You guys gotta clean up your corruption, actually punish the violators, and restore the institutions and policies they have destroyed, along with restitution to the victims, including the foreign ones.
Otherwise, why would we trust you not to do it all again?
Agreed. And I’m an American. It’s not the government. It’s the huge amount of people who have been MAGA, tea party, Reaganites, McCarthyists voting for it. This shit has been going on for decades.
If gas were cheap right now the Republicans would still have won more seats. The average voter has a 1 month attention span and until that changes it’s a coinflip of if America will be evil or not. We just have to hope the cards fall right for gas prices to be cheap when the dems are in I guess 🤷
Just because the midterms didn’t go Trump’s way doesn’t mean US citizens have changed.
Most people who voted Republican in 2024 and Democratic in this year’s midterms did so for economic reasons, not because the Republicans in power are fascists, not because they disagree with what Trump has said over the last two years.
Trump is not a disease that has befallen the US and everything is fine if it’s removed. US citizens voted for him. They wanted what he promised: to make America great again and let someone else pay the price.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-exit-polls-2026-midterms-democrats/
Yeah … I’m not trusting American to do anything right any more. They keep repeating the pattern of ‘do stupid things’, ‘keep doing stupid things’, ‘hey guys I’ve stopped doing stupid things and I’m going to give you hope’, … then revert back to ‘do stupid things’ again … over and over.
It wouldn’t be so bad with any other country. The problem with the US is that they have such a big effect on the rest of the world due to the size of their military. It’s like having a really dumb neighbour and you can’t say or do anything about them because they have a really unhealthy number of machine guns and military grade weapons in, on and all over their house that everyone can see.
Trust won’t return until systemic changes that made Trump possible are in place, and accountability for those who raped people and this nation happens. These midterms were a good necessary first step along the way. That’s it.
We are at least two years from anyone being able to START to trust our country again. In order for that to happen, we will have to not only have to give the government over to the Dems, but we have to make sure that MAGA can never rise again.
It is clear that MAGA is an ongoing, enthusiastic National Security Threat, and that’s BEFORE we embark on the next two years, in which PeeWee Himmler is going to unleash unspeakable violence on the American people in an attempt to crush us, and eliminate elections.
When we get our country back, we will have to prohibit MAGA from existing, and anyone associated with MAGA must be purged from our government. They are Domestic Terrorists, by their own admission, and our elected officials take an oath to protect us from all threats, “Foreign and Domestic,” and MAGA is exactly what they mean by Domestic.
When we’ve purged MAGA, and passed laws that will shore up the weaknesses in our government that MAGA exposed and exploited (like increasing SCOTUS), and we start acting responsibly toward the rest of the world, then maybe the rest of the world can start to trust us.
We’ve got a lot of work to do to restore America’s reputation and place in the Free World.
Good, they elected a known child-rapist and 37-time convicted felon, ffs.
