Personally, my trust in any specific individual is entirely based on that individual, regardless of their nationality or any other factor… Because I’m not bigoted like that.

However, my trust in the American government and my willingness to use American brands has been permanently altered.

Given how much surveillance most major tech companies do on their users, I’m just about ready to break out the tin foil. Shit is getting wild.

This. I live in a bubble in California. We still have decent folks here. When I travel the country I tend to encounter the chuds at airport bars. The key chud indicator is to respond that you’re from San Francisco when they ask. They won’t be able to contain the fox news eulogy for San Francisco and how it used to be a great state before it got "ruined "

beef has gotten really expensive in the US.

Here is one of those people who shouldnt be trusted.

You know Canadians burn down the white house, right? And the first nation people were the one that led the atk? Right?

It’s not Guantanamo you gotta worry about. It’s El Salvador and Alligator Auschwitz.

By your numbers, 30% of Americans voted to keep Trump away from the Presidency. The other 70% did nothing to keep him out of office.

70% of Americans were happy enough with a Trump presidency that they at the very least did not lift a finger to prevent it. And 50% of the 70% actively supported him.

Was there a car show on that day?

Why now do we want to say that the 70% that enabled Trump “do not feel the same way”?

I don’t blame them. I am (sadly) American, and I certainly don’t trust most Americans right now.

Edit to add: and don’t know that I ever will again.

I hate that I’m lumped in with these people but I also understand.

Yeah but that doesn’t fit into the rhyming scheme of the song

Americans always tell themselves these lies. Yes, only 65% voted, but the ones who didn’t vote weren’t all non-voting democrats. About half would have voted Trump if they’d voted. It’s not some small minority that supported Trump, it was a majority.

“This isn’t who we are!” cry the Americans, after the political violence that has defined the US since its inception rears its head yet again.

4 of 10 never trusted them to begin with

As someone who has MAGA relatives in the US, most of the people are definitely not mostly cool. His die-hard supporters may only be about 35% of the population (which is huge) but there’s at least another 15% who are sympathetic to the whole movement. At most, 50% of the population is mostly cool, the other half is mostly very uncool.

Especially because they were doing it to protect their smuggling profits, not out of some great and noble cause.

Ungrateful sods too, because a lot of the war debt that the tariffs were meant to pay off were the result of beating the French on the American continent so that it could be settled by English colonists. Ever wonder why so many places in the US have French names? Detroit, Louisville, St. Louis, Lafayette, Reno (a.k.a. Renault), Arkansas, Illinois…

Eh, I’m a pretty big fan of democracy. I kinda think I would have supported the side that wasn’t about hereditary dictatorship.

But clearly, a lot of history has happened since then.

And that overhaul is both far away and likely to be extremely painful.

I always tell Americans to just try to get out. Failing that, it’s about surviving and not making the situation even worse in the process.

In the sense that the government and the people are misaligned? Or is this one of those “you’re united statesian, there are 30 countries in America” takes?

The first. I don’t even know what the second thing is.

You never noticed that people from the USA are called “Americans” and that many people across the world call the USA “America?”