Some worthy comments from an Australian:

[kentuck]

From FaceBook:

This is for all of you in America...this is on you...every one of you...no exceptions...

Susan Sloan

Alright, I’m saying this as an Australian who is absolutely sick to death of watching the world hold its breath every time this blabbering blubbering blithering blustering baffoon opens his grotesque mouth.

You see folks, as far as I can tell, from the outside, this is what it looks like: America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip on reality and drag us all into catastrophe.

You want to steal Greenland.
You want Cuba to “make a deal before it’s too late”.
You talk about bombing or invading Mexico.
You kidnap a President and knock off the peoples oil in Venezuela.
You joke about annexing Canada like it should be a shopping centre car park you can just claim because you feel like it.

Do you have any idea how insane that sounds to the rest of us?

This isn’t tough talk. This isn’t strategy. This is a deeply unstable old man threatening sovereign nations like he’s flipping over a Monopoly board because he’s losing. This is not normal behaviour. This is not leadership. This is not strength. This is a walking, talking international crisis.

And Americans, this is where it comes back to you. Not just MAGA, not just the people who voted for him, all of you. Because when the President of the United States starts talking about kidnapping leaders, annexing countries, and issuing ultimatums like a mob boss, the rest of the world doesn’t get a vote. We just get the consequences.

You don’t get to shrug and say, “Well I didn’t vote for him.” That might fly at a dinner party, but it doesn’t fly when nuclear powers are watching this circus and recalculating their own red lines. This is your system. Your presidency. Your responsibility.

From the outside, it looks like America lit the fuse and then wandered off while everyone else stands around the bomb wondering who’s going to cut the wire.

And let’s be brutally honest. This man is nearly 80. He’s frail. He’s clearly deteriorating. He is not some long term visionary playing chess. He’s at the end of his lifespan and acting like nothing matters after him. That is the most dangerous type of leader there is. A man with nothing to lose and an ego that demands constant feeding.

Why should the rest of the world pay for that?

Why should families in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, anywhere, have to worry about war, trade collapse, energy shocks, or global instability because America couldn’t get its own house in order?

This is not about left or right anymore. This is about basic sanity. This is about stopping a psychopath before he does something irreversible. Because once a war starts, once a country gets invaded, once alliances fracture beyond repair, you don’t get a reset button.

So yes, this falls on Americans. You got the world into this mess, and you damn well better roll your sleeves up and get us out of it. Impeach him. Remove him. Contain him. Do whatever your system allows, but do it fast.

Because the rest of us just want to live our lives, raise our families, pay our bills, and not wake up one morning to find out World War Three started because an unhinged old man wanted to feel powerful one last time.

This isn’t funny anymore.
It isn’t theatrical.
It isn’t tolerable.

Get this lunatic under wraps before he ruins it for everyone.

[Blues Heron]

1. Thanks for causing this Australia- you created Rupert Murdoch and gifted him to us. By the way, this is global

[Joinfortmill]

35. This. Is. On. Us. We let Murdoch in our country knowing who he was.

[Irish_Dem]

2. 100% correct. No longer about Trump, but the failure of the American people.

Who have given away their power or even worse, align with the evil American empire.

[kentuck]

3. Perhaps the political opposition is much weaker than we ever imagined?

There was not enough resistance?

[Irish_Dem]

31. Yes. We overestimated the power of the resistance.

And we way underestimated the power of the enemy.

[malaise]

4. A great OP

Rec

[kentuck]

5. You might think the political leadership in both Parties would be talking to each other?

Three or four from each Party?

That can see the danger and come to an agreement about how to handle it?

But never the twain shall meet...

[Joinfortmill]

36. This!

[canetoad]

6. She is correct

Nice deflection upthread with Murdoch. As if it was comparable.

Great comments, thanks for posting Kentuck.

[Disaffected]

7. Of course she is absolutely right about Trump

and his retched supporters but, it is not "..for all of you in America...this is on you...every one of you...no exceptions..."

At least 1/2 the country I'm guessing opposes these destroyers and criminals so don't blame everyone.

[PatSeg]

23. I agree

I don't think we can blame "all of you in America". Anyone paying attention would realize that a sizable portion of the U.S. has been actively opposing Trump for the past ten years and GW Bush before him.

There are other elements involved and they include the very wealthy and powerful who helped to buy and promote such authoritarian leaders.

Perhaps if critical Australians could actually see what is going on here firsthand, they might understand that there is an ongoing battle against this man and his cronies. Sanity still exists here, but you aren't bound to see that in the mainstream media that is primarily owned and operated by the authoritarians....i.e. Rupert Murdoch for one, the Australian gift that keeps on giving, BUT I don't blame everyone in Australia for him.

[Joinfortmill]

37. We're not doing enough, that includes me.

[highplainsdem]

8. I've seen similar posts on Reddit and Bluesky from people in Canada and other countries.

[kentuck]

9. I think the rest of the world mostly sees it as an American "problem"...

Not a Democrat or Republican problem.

It is on all of America.

[misanthrope]

16. Good. They should.

The facade is gone now.

[sop]

10. Completely agree.

[roamer65]

11. From an American to an Australian.

Run the blockade. Don’t put up with Dump’s crap.

Our allies need to STOP being our allies.

[mr715]

12. Australians have their own issues, too.

She is spot on about Trump.

If only it were that easy to hold snap elections. I get it, feel feel it too. It ain't great being in the minority when the majority is slavering at blood.

I'd rather my brothers and sisters around the world speak to uplift those of us on the left, that are really taking a beating. Or those on the middle, that need to vote their best interests.

So, my two cents, this kinda brings me down. I know we are a mess as a nation, but the post collapse WW2 order enabled this. We are a global hegemon with a dysfunctional legislative branch. That is an extraordinary problem for world peace.

[multigraincracker]

13. I agree and plan on working harder

to change things. That is my promise. I will continue to vote for our other side. I have and will continue to donate more than I ever have and promise to do as much as I can to get out the vote. If it takes more, I’m in.

[misanthrope]

14. Ms. Sloan is sadly mistaken

It isn't just "a deeply unstable old man." He is the avatar through which equally malevolent actors channel their evil desires. All the people both beside and behind him are what make his damage possible. That includes donors, administration officials, federal legislators, state level politicos and so on.

The U.S. is currently in the hands of anti-democratic activists and power brokers who are "inside the wire."

[Dan]

15. Valid points

But I am not sure how we can get this Lunatic under wraps given our system of government.

Even then, one-third of the country supports this insanity; one-third doesn't care and the final third is screaming;

How can we fix? Well probably one-third of the country doesn't want to hurt the feelings of the other third; one-third doesn't care along as nothing bad happens to them; and one-third is probably wishing for the rapture.

I also agree that the Lunatic is on his last legs and would probably find it funny to blow up the world on his way out - he is insane. But then one-half of the government supports his insanity because they are afraid of losing a seat at the table of crazy; one-quarter can only respond with strong letters of disapproval; and the last quarter is screaming from the rooftops;

Two-third of our SCOTUS is actively working to support the Lunatics dismantling of our democracy; two-thirds would bring back everything bad in our history is they could; and one-third can only write strong words of dissent.

I sometimes wish that we could just split - and that might be for the best. Not two separate countries (which we already are - one-half is reality based and one-half insanity supporting) but two-to-six different nations because that seems more realistic. Because as it is today the insane are running this country.

I just don't know what is going to happen but I suspect by the end it won't be pretty.

[FadedMullet]

17. Thank you for your clear-eyed perspective. We do need to face up to our collective responsibilites more.....

......than we have. The loyal opposition and folks in general are saying and doing too little, unless you count hand-wringing and waiting for the midterm elections.

[lastlib]

18. This person speaks for me!

If we don't soon get him into a white strait-jacket and locked in a padded room, the world is going to go to shit rapidly. It's no longer about which political party has power, it's about SURVIVAL.

[FakeNoose]

19. Somebody should tell the Aussies that WE are sick of it TOO!

This isn't how I planned to spend my retirement years. But this is how it turned out, you know? The crazy MAGAs and the Supreme Court have ruined it for everyone. The BILLIONAIRES - including Rupert Murdoch - have ruined it for all of us.

[GiqueCee]

20. Every word is true...

... but we seem to have become inured to the severity of the situation. The relentless onslaught of one jaw-dropping travesty after another – and that's before lunch – is more than the average mind can absorb before it suffers an aneurysm.
This is NOT politics as usual; this is monstrous evil of astronomical proportions, and even a cursory examination of recent history – 'recent' being the past 80 or 90 years – will tell us that WE WERE WARNED! Republicans are malicious, mendacious, and underhanded people obsessed with total dominion over the lives of others, more commonly referred to as POWER. Christ, there's even a shadowy pseudo-religious movement called Dominionists whose sole purpose in life is to impose their beliefs on ALL of us, whether we like it or not. That also includes a rigid and ruthless political element. The separation of church and state is anathema to them, and summary execution for even minor infractions is not just a supposition, it is very probably an essential element of enforcement. Imagine ICE, but with big, brass crucifixes to justify their murderous depravity. Christian Nationalists are carved out of the same turd, and we dismiss them at our peril.
The late Neville Chamberlain's influence is still alive and well in certain corners of our own beloved party, and acquiescence in advance just to maintain an illusory status quo, or Peace In Our Time, as Chamberlain's fevered mind envisioned it, will be the death of America, and there will be no resurrection. We can't count on an American Winston Churchill to pull us back from the brink.
The new Republican Party is a malignant cancer and must be dealt with accordingly.
I need a glass of wine.

[AlexSFCA]

21. yes, we also have a history of electing weak dems during primaries

the fact that the elected dems didn’t proactively fight all this is on us too. We are smarter now and only vote for the true fighters.

[sheshe2]

22. Guess I am in the minority on this thread.

This is for all of you in America...this is on you...every one of you...no exceptions...

This statement, posted on FB that just so happens to be run by a billionaire, sure sounds like victim blaming to me.

Sue stated "no exceptions"! She blames every man woman and child in this country, NO EXCEPTIONS! None.

Oh, and her 'You' paragraph, nice touch...not.

You want
You want
You talk
You kidnap
You joke
You claim

Sorry, I will take a pass on agreeing with her.

[Just Jerome]

25. Indeed.

Trying to keep up, calling, preaching, educating, voting, protesting. Doing what I can here, as are so many others. Perhaps I'll care enough some day to talk to her over a Foster's.

Whatevs.

[mr715]

28. Your observation about victim blaming is apt.

[sheshe2]

29. Thank you, mr715.

It was upsetting to read.

[mr715]

32. I should've said apt and astute.

It was, as your say, upsetting to read I couldn't quite articulate why. Dissonant. After reading your characterization, I think it is because it forces me into the always uncomfortable position as identity "victim". I don't want to be a victim. I don't want that to be part of who I am, but it is something gross that the President and Congress have enforced on me.

I understand the sentiment of the writer, but it is a consequence of American power internationally. It is a historical product of empire and changes to culture and language and ethics.

Humanity is a beautiful thing. We are capable of such glorious acts of benevolence. We, those that are fighting back, and those that are having our beloved rights infringed do not carry the blame for the failure of the (GOP) majority to govern. It isn't our show.

It is a subtle aspect of our system that our minority has no mandate to govern. You and I might even have disagreed on this feature in terms of political tactics. But it might be a subtle point lost on Commonwealth countries operating according to Westminster rules.

We have no King to take the middle way and "be" the American. In our system, the whore of Babylon Donald Trump serves in that capacity. While simultaneously enacting a governing agenda with real consequences.

We are likely the only nation truly able to end the world. Perhaps Russia, but I suspect that aren't the nuclear powerhouse they claim.

We DO have an obligation to be stewards of peace and liberalism (classical and modern, simultaneously).

When Sec. Clinton lost, I realized we were not the nation I was raised to believe we were, so it stings when people remind me. Especially from countries whose own racism is through the roof.

I appreciate you, sheshe, as I appreciate all the thoughtful Democrats on this forum.

We have endured a lot and we will endure more. But we will win in the end because the good guys always win and I unwilling to accept that existence isn't a classical comedy.

And yet, there is no balm for the harm done to the innocent and I hope we, as a government, can repair the damage that one generation has wrought.

I'm not willing to give up yet. But I don't want to be scolded for an acute pain I feel in my heart over the loss of my country. It is a canker sore I poke every day because Trump just won't go away.


You are appreciated. You are valued. Thank you for giving words to the amorphous unease this OP gave me.

[Joinfortmill]

38. We're becoming our version of 'the good German'.

[debsy]

24. Please, do tell!

Most of us do not support the lunatic but are open to your suggestions for how we can get him under control when he is funded by billionaire oligarchs, has the US military and all its weapons at his disposal, and has the support of so many wealthy, nefarious foreign autocrats as well. They cheat to win elections, use our tax payer dollars to support themselves so they don’t have to spend their own money, and strip us of all our rights. Please, tell us what we should do. We are all ears!

[kentuck]

26. Although we may disagree with the author...

...she is probably the majority in every nation on earth, except the US? They do not divide our country into Democrats and Republicans. They see us as one. Just as the world saw Germany as one in the 1930's. We don't accept their blame but they blame us anyway.

[sheshe2]

27. Thank you, debsy!

Mark Zuckerberg is currently worth approximately $270 billion.
As of August 2025, Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth is estimated at $270 billion, primarily derived from his equity in Meta Platforms, where he controls roughly 13.5% of the company’s shares, valued at $783.39 per share at that time (Benzinga). This places him among the top three richest people in the world, just behind Larry Ellison and Elon Musk

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Perhaps Sue should get off FB and stop supporting a man that has skin in tsf's game. Zuck is part of the problem.

[meadowlander]

30. For people having a knee jerk defensive reaction and asking for solutions, think of it this way.

Her point is that America is a body politic and there's no pretending you're not a part of it. Trump is the head of the most obvious giant festering pustule but he's not the beginning, the end or even the largest part of the problem.

The problem is that 69% of your body politic is too stupid to see what he is or too selfish to care. That's the percentage of voting age Americans that didn't vote for Kamala Harris. Some of those people are your family members, your neighbours, your coworkers, the people you go to church with or volunteer with or do sports or hobbies with or share an old college network group chat with. Talk to those people. Work on them. Don't let bullshit or intellectual laziness go unchallenged. You might not convince that person, but you might persuade other people listening. If you can't win over racist Uncle Joe, win over his kids and his wife. If you can't get him to vote for a Democrat, get him to give up on voting or at least shut up in public.

Reclaim every public space you enter. Do not tolerate cruelty, stupidity, bigotry or willful ignorance to get along with people. Do not throw your hands up and say "those people are impossible, I give up". Those people are your responsibility to manage. Make sure they are exposed to the truth and don't let them walk away from it. The right-wing propaganda machine runs on "62,400 repetitions make one truth". So it's boring and tedious but it's your responsibility that the people in your life are hearing the actual truth 62,401 times. The point of a society is to encourage its citizens into virtue. The right has spent decades corroding that. You have to be the opposite force. You can't wait for your elected representatives to do it for you.

What else can you do? Make sure the young people in your life are educated, can think critically, and can contextualise what they are being fed on social media. Be a good role-model. Support independent liberal media and amplify their voices everywhere you can. Boycott companies that are capitulating to or enabling Trump. Contribute to campaigns of politicians doing it right. Shut down anti-intellectual talking points and lazy attacks on social institutions from people who don't understand what they do.

Be shameless and brave. Get out of your comfort zone. Be inconvenienced. Expect the same from your representatives. They need to be out there every second of every day with a compelling counter-narrative and a plan to get back on track. Vocally support the actual solution to the actual problem - the need to tax the wealthy to support a functioning society.

You can't do anything about Trump? Really? Where are the general strikes? Where are the daily overwhelming protests that gum up the economy and demand attention right now? Not one big one every couple months where we dance around in silly costumes and then pat ourselves on the back and treat ourselves to Starbucks on the way home. Every single day. Where are the signs and the picketers on every single street corner saying this is not OK? He is a global four alarm fire and all the rest of the world is seeing from the American resistance is a couple mid- to low- tier Democratic reps or senators and some brave individuals in Minnesota running and throwing buckets of water at the edges.

There's a groundswell of resistance but it needs to be more visible, undeniable, relentless and absolute in its repudiation of the right wing anti-Democratic project in America. Figure out your part in making that happen instead of fighting with random Australians claiming you're just a victim in all this too. Because I guarantee you do have a role and so do most of the people you know. You may already be doing a lot of those things but ask yourself if it's really everything you could do? If you honestly do have more to give, then now is the time to be giving it.

[summer_in_TX]

33. 36 doctors slipped SOMETHING into the Congressional Record at the end of April.

36 Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History

Just before Nixon resigned, he was drinking heavily and talking to portraits on the wall of the White House. Lincoln was his favorite. His daughter and staff were terrified. James Schlesinger was afraid Nixon was in such an irrational state that he could start WWIII. So he quietly ordered those who could receive such an order from the president could only do so if he, Schlesinger, personally cleared it.

In January 2021 [while Trump was still president], the grown-ups stepped in again. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, called the four-star commanders into a secure room after January 6 and told them not to take launch orders from anyone — including the President of the United States — without him in the loop. He had a name for what he was doing.

He called it pulling a Schlesinger.

Now, we are on the third strike. On April 30, 2026, thirty-six American physicians slipped a document into the Congressional Record that every future historian will be forced to reckon with.

As of this writing, not a single mainstream reporter has touched it. The Times has not. The Post has not. 60 Minutes has not called. The MSM has done the math. They looked at what happened to the law firms, the universities, and Jimmy Kimmel and politely said, “Not my rodeo.”

Carlyn Beccia doesn't come right out and say it, but apparently they are now on record as warning Congress that Trump is unfit for office. She expects it to trigger consequences. I'm not so sure, but a girl can hope.

[Joinfortmill]

34. I'm with her. Enough is enough. I'll go first.

We need a country wide boycott and work stoppage. A day when it all shuts down, with the exception of emergency personnel.

SHUT DOWN THE COUNTRY. STAND IN THE STREETS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS AND SAY, 'IMPEACH DONALD NOW. NOT TOMORROW. NOW. THIS MINUTE.' And stay in the streets until they impeach this monstrous fascist pig.