Where does this leave the UK?

After the election of Donald Trump, the UK must look at its so called "special relationship" with the USA.

From the Guardian newspaper:-

This country (the UK) clings to the belief that it enjoys a special relationship with the US. Above all, this rests on the belief in a commonality of values, economic interdependence and a certain cultural shared space. The relationship is widely deemed to benefit Britain in hard and soft ways.
Yet where, after 5 November 2024, is the commonality? What do our largely secular societies truly have in common with a nation whose religiosity drives it to outlaw women’s reproductive rights and, in some cases, to see Trump as a leader sent by God to save the US from socialism? Our culture is not theirs, nor theirs ours. With Trump’s re-election, claims to commonality are dangerous self-delusion. We need to lose those infatuated stars from our eyes.

Yes, indeed we do.

The Guardian continues:-

The reality is that we are, as Oscar Wilde said, two peoples divided by a common language. Americans have just done their best to prove this. Polling in this country underscores the point from the other side. Only 21% of British adults thought Trump’s victory would be “a good thing”, according to one recent poll. Another found that 61% backed Kamala Harris against 16% for Trump. And remember, Britain is very much in line with other European countries on all this.

Good luck America!

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SandWitch · 26-30, F

I agree with you 100%. That same sentiment you speak of in UK is also reflected all throughout Scandinavia where I live and work from.

What Americans revealed to the rest of the world on November 5th was who they are at their core. Up to that point in time, Americans had been doing a pretty fair job of hiding it, but their truth was told when America's voters turned the USA into a sea of red MAGA supporters.

Countries around the world began creating an arms-length relationship with the USA immediately after Trump became POTUS the first time around in 2016 and since those times 8 years ago, those same countries have advanced further into that plan. That is what Macron of France was hinting at last week when he said that Europe should begin relying less and less on the USA for America's role in NATO.

What Macron didn't say, was that plan has been on the table since 2016.

LesDawsonsPiano · 70-79

@SandWitch I tend to read Donald Trump as one who thinks of himself as savvy in playing the World Stage. (Of course, the North Koreans simply made a fool of him) It remains to e seen just how many false steps he takes.

Sadly for us, the man is dangerous.

SandWitch · 26-30, F

@LesDawsonsPiano

I tend to read Donald Trump as one who thinks of himself as savvy in playing the World Stage.

That is precisely how Trump sees himself, as evidenced by every biography that has ever been written for Trump since the late 1980's. Notice I said "for Trump".

Trump has never written any book himself, but instead has alway hired a professional writer and publishing company to publish his autobiographies which are numerous. You see, Donald Trump has suffered from ADS (Attention Deficit Syndrome) since his youth, which is why Donald has never been employed by anyone in his life except his Late father Fred Trump.

Donald Trump does not own Trump Corp. In fact, Donald is not their President nor is he a CEO of the corporation. Donald is actually a salaried employee of Trump Corp which was set up that way by Fred Trump because Donald knows nothing about corporate business when off camera. That's why Donald talks in circles about money but actually knows nothing about money.

The perception that Donald has always created however, is that he is indeed very business savvy on the World Stage, but in truth, Donald could never get himself invited to house parties by New York's elite because none of them recognized the Trump family as anything more than slum landlords who owned low-rise tenement rental buildings in lower Manhattan NY.

Trump Corp itself is deeply indebted to Citibank of New York, which means Trump Corp has not a penny of it's own capital invested in itself. Citibank is also the prime mortgage guarantor for all of Trump Corp's golf courses, all of which are money-losing propositions as was Trump Atlantic City Casino which went into bankruptcy protection 6 months after it opened, followed by it's immediate closure.

Yes, Donald Trump thinks of himself as a very savvy American on the World Stage, but in fact, he's fiscally incompetent as well as socially inept as a man, but he does do an excellent job of being a typical American bullsh*t artist anytime he opens his mouth, no matter where he goes.