Dennis Goris is bang on. image
Trump and Musk fired 9 percent of the federal workforce, and yet the Trump regime has increased federal spending by 6 percent.
“Tariffs is my favourite word”, said Trump, and now Massachusetts company iRobot who made 42 percent of all robot vacuums in the US, files for bankruptcy, after Trump slapped 46 percent tariffs on Vietnam, where iRobot produced their roomba vacuums.
When I grew up in the 1980s, I recall my dad having conversations with business relations. Some of them did not want to do business with the Germans because of the invasion of Denmark 40 years earlier. If Americans vote for democracy in 2026, I hope the world will keep loving the American people, and believe Trump never represented the Americans. If Trump is not stopped in 2026, I think the world will fundamentally change the view of the American people. For decades.
I see a lot of complaints that our politicians are not on Mastodon. Maybe we should look at this the other way round: Get everyone you know to join Mastodon — once we reach a high user count, the politicians will have to join to reach their constituents.