"It's your fucking responsibility to stop him."

[Swede]

Been carrying around this dread.
Venezuela was a crime and a test-run.

The list of nations the USA could attack to refine their technique is long.

“It’s your fucking responsibility to stop him.”

Yes.

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— Glendon Mellow (@flyingtrilobite.com) 2026-01-05T03:46:03.766Z

[dutch777]

1. Totally right but sadly like Hitler and the Germans doubt it will happen.

[HAB911]

5. Yeah, I used to wonder about the Germans

now, not so much

[PatSeg]

17. Yes, a lot of my questions have been answered

So this is how it happens.

[gab13by13]

2. This article is a distraction,

the next country to worry about is the United States.

[Swede]

6. Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc etc, all disagree.

nt

[Grim Chieftain]

12. He's already seized control of the US

with very little resistance.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Yes, yes, and yes

Why have the congressional Rs surrendered their power? How do we persuade them to reclaim it? What will it take?

[unweird]

28. No persuasion, simply eliminate them

Vote those bastard republicans out!

[31st Street Bridge]

4. Stop him?? How exactly??

Years of entrenched minority rule coupled to corrupt, complicit corporate media have fully unraveled the America we knew.
We're checkmated. Ain't nothing gonna stop these people short of remedies that can't safely be expressed here.

[jaymac]

16. hear hear

thank you 31st street bridge for reiterating what I've been yelling......who will stop him? we see the harm, we saw the way McConnell gamed the system, we knew Kavanaugh was a sexual predator, we saw his incompetent minions get confirmed.........how the hell do we stop him? If we demonstrate like Black Lives Matter he will order his goons to shoot us. years of right wing news reportage.......and not just fake fox, tooo often the right wing spin is allowed instead of truth telling in our MSM ............god I'm sick of it........on the 5th anniversary of J6 I mourn for what I thought was my country.........one to be proud of but no more. just sickens me.

[31st Street Bridge]

19. Imagine if Jan 6 had occurred in 1890

... They ALL would've been hanged. As it should have been in 2021.

[Cloudhopper]

7. So after what happened in WW2, the world is saying we're

on our own now with this Hitler-wanna-be??? Eff the rest of the world!!!


(I don't overall feel this way, except when I read crap like this.)

[Swede]

8. 70-80 million people died because Germany did not stop Hitler.

[Fords Crackpipe]

20. The countries being threatened with INVASION by the man your country elected do no give a fuck about your semantics

The countries being threatened with INVASION by the man your country elected do no give a fuck about your semantics

The US not only has the worlds largest armed forces - but the highest gun ownership among private citizens as well (you know, that so-called well-regulated militia stuff)

In other worlds only Americans control what happens in their own country.

AMERICANS OWN THIS. PERIOD.

[whathehell]

36. Maybe we don't give a fuck about their "semantics" either

..Such a productive exchange.

[Cha]

41. The DU member you're talking to is

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Canadian

[Celerity]

34. It's ultimately up to the US to stop the madman Trump.

[stevegc]

46. No, actually he's invading other countries...

...bombing sovereign nations, kidnapping presidents, threatening, harassing, imposing sanctions and tariffs, etc.

There's not much the rest of the world can do, since the Americans have put a psychopath in charge of the world's largest military and nuclear arsenal.

[Frasier Balzov]

9. Voters do? Or his security detail does?

Or the U.S. military does?

[orangecrush]

10. KICK

[kentuck]

11. It is our responsibility...

I don't know how we do it but it is up to us.

[jaymac]

18. but what????

certainly there must be. be a way. but I have not even seen a scintilla of an idea ( sort of like the health care plan the repugs have )

[JustAnotherGen]

13. Precisely WHO is supposed to stop him?

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This guy is clueless about AmeriKKKa.

Greenland - 1877 to 1965. What did they do with AmeriKKKa in that time frame?

Europeans, Greenland, Canadians bully Black Women Americans on Blue Sky and Threads can shove off. J'accuse! When it was *Us* it was hunky dory. Now that its THEM? They want me to put my life on the life for them?

It's a free world. He's welcome to drop in and invade any day now. I welcome it.

Donold proved it can be done by any country whenever they want. Better yet? Go attack our base in Greenland.

[Scrivener7]

15. No. This is on us. All of us. And you and I are now the "good Germans"

which is a distinction history will not make.

[whathehell]

23. Yes, we have collective responsibility,

but we're not the "Good Germans"...We're not pleading ignorance or keeping quiet. I think most of us are "good Americans" who just don't, at this point, know how to stop the bastard.

[Scrivener7]

27. I agree with that distinction.

[JustAnotherGen]

31. No - White folks own this

Republican, Democratic - doesn't matter.

I'm not putting my Black body on the line. I need to see a hundred thousand white folks take the beatings, the dogs, the slave catchers, the lynchers, the guns, the carpet bombs, etc etc - take them on.

We know what happened to Fred, Fannie, etc etc.

We told AmeriKKKa this would happen. "But Jaaaaag - Genocide!".

White America broke, bought it and has to fix it. Again - doesn't matter the party. Its all on the Dominant Culture.

The number of *supposedly* good people who STILL engage with their Nazi Maga families?!? Those asswipes can take the first bullets instead of crying about Fox brainwashing mommy and daddy.

[electric_blue68]

39. It's true that it's on White Americans to fix this, and ....

respectfully I can tell you as a NYC'r I and other white NYC'rs (and others in other cities) through the decades were while usually small in numbers compared to the general population out there protesting various ills, and also trying to avoid the police, especially on horses! Scary stuff.

As far as MAGA family the only ones (if they still are) live far away from us. Life, and people can be complicated. I can get those who totally repudiate those family members, and those with a mix of wanting to someway be in touch out of lovewhile abhoring those beliefs.

You can sometimes love someone, and hate what they have become.

[Joinfortmill]

14. Can't say I disagree.

[whathehell]

21. Have any ideas on how to do that, Joachim?

If not, I've no interest in responding to your "orders", or to your personal disdain for my countrymen, even those of us "who didn't vote for the guy.".

[kwolf68]

24. Yep

There are a lot of us who voted for Harris, a lot of us who saw Trump as a severe threat to our way of life, Democracy, the people and planet. I have a special disdain for anyone who thought this (Trump) was a good idea. They were all fucking fools.

[muriel_volestrangler]

37. Since you're out of ideas - contact all the people you personally know in the US military

and remind them to not follow illegal orders.

Then contact all your political representatives and tell them to prevent Trump doing it.

Then protest in the streets.

There. That's better than whining, isn't it?

[whathehell]

40. Um, no..It seems you've missed the point.

I'm less out of 'ideas' than patience, the patience needed to tolerate arrogant 'lectures' and snide 'suggestions' from those outside the country who don't understand what we're up against, or the constraints under which we have to work.

[muriel_volestrangler]

42. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but if you don't want to accept it ... (nt)

[Martin68]

22. Yup.

[mainer]

25. I wish we could stop him, but how?

I suppose we could spy on military maneuvers near the border, on behalf of Greenland, but Greenland is way up there.
War is so remote now that actual personal action by citizens is limited to protesting in the streets. And MAGA just ignores that.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Do what the CSA did

Gather an armed group and fire on a say - an ICE Detention Center.

The No.King's protests didn't work. Level.up.

[Cerulean Southpaw]

26. I disagree

This is nationalistic hate. It's not much different from telling asylum seekers "Fuck no you can't come in. We don't trust you because your country's leaders are corrrupt. It's your fucking responsibility to fix it".

[Skittles]

43. the real problem is the GOP is serving only Trump, not WE THE PEOPLE

yup

[bdamomma]

29. This is just going to

get worse, we have our own Hitler in the WH. How many times are we going to say this is not normal.
We got some sick MF'ers in office.

[Blues Heron]

30. It's up to the whole planet to stop him at this point, he's clearly going to ride this hell train as far as possible

[JustAnotherGen]

35. We can't even get

Europe to ban all trade with the US, and ban Americans from visiting. These are small things.

[Initech]

32. We've made multiple attempts. He has 3 continuously operating propaganda channels on his side.

And now CBS and ABC are acting like state run propaganda.

[BoycottTwitter]

38. Damn right it is and we'll do it!

He's right. At the end of the day to other countries it doesn't matter so much that some people supported him and some people didn't: the fact is he's doing bad stuff and he keeps doing it. So we need to step up our game.

Call your reps, protest, talk to your friends, family and neighbors. Make Trump the most unpopular president ever. The less popular he is the more Republicans will finally join Democrats in trying to stop him. We've seen it work as Trump's poll numbers went down we started to see a little resistance from Republicans. If you want to see more of that we'll have to get our message out.

[stevegc]

44. It's quite revealing to read so many comments from Americans saying "there's nothing we can do."

Theoretically, democratic institutions, the system of checks and balances, and legislation should be enough to prevent a president from becoming an autocrat.

In the democratic world, there is no such a thing as a president doing whatever he wants without suffering any consequences. A Trump would never exist in a country like Brazil, Chile, or France. He would have been impeached a long time ago.

It's time to question whether the United States is not, in fact, a dictatorship. A country that is absolutely powerless before its ruler can be called anything but a democracy. If 330 million people are being held hostage by a single man, why are we treating this country like a conventional political regime?

They talked so much about Maduro, but even he didn't have that much power in Venezuela.

[Emile]

45. I been saying this for sometime. It's our patriotic duty

to pay attention to whatever this crazy sob is doing. I get so sick of seeing his ugly face, and it would be too damn easy for me, to just look the other way.