Come cittadino svizzero sono preoccupato per quella che viene chiamata democrazia negli Stati Uniti. Come può una persona così essere presidente di una nazione?

As long as we call a spade a spade, who cares if Trump sees a pitchfork

The USA will not easily recover from his administration. Trump completely wrecked the soft power the USA once had.

His brain amputated supporters think the USA can go alone with just their military might. It totally shows the mentality behind MAGA, where they think the best way to do things is to be aggressive and a “bad ass”.

We are watching an empire collapse in real time.

„Hey I also hate Trump, give me Karma“

If he could sell his ignorance, he’d be trillionaire overnight. His speech was an abomination. 😡

Because he got more votes than the other candidate?

if any, this should be encouragement to study, pick up a book – read and make sure your children get a proper education about what enables them to be free and enjoy the priviledges they are enabled to, in Europe

We need to let go of this idea that we somehow have a shared culture with the US. We don’t. They may have invented modern liberal democracy, but they never implemented it. It has been a country run by a ruling class exploiting the majority of their population since before it declared independence, and that has never really changed.

Elections don’t mean anything when your government is actively undermining public education and supporting a media ecosystem where the worst misinformation always floats to the top, and the owners of America have made sure of that for a very long time now.

I think what we here in Switzerland need to do is to ask ourselves why we have such vastly better outcomes than the US despite the fact that our political system (federalism and the same system of checks and balances) is modeled after theirs. I would say it’s a functioning education system and social safety net, the fact that our executive branch is not elected directly by the people, the fact that we’re not a two party system, and the fact that we have publicly funded information media. Not necessarily in that order. Those are the things that make us different from the US, and I would be very wary of people who want to destroy these things because we can see where that leads right now, in real time.

Should have stopped listening at “slimey”, dude clearly is a far left leaning pundit incapable of any logic in reasoning, or providing literally any example of his claims. Switzerland in the next 5-10 years will be solving very similar problems. Cost of living, high unemployment, unchecked immigration, increasing costs of goods and services (we already see this in things like insurance premiums). Perhaps this guy should be looking inward at his own country instead of pointing the finger. Also, “we are watching a geriatric patient”, is he serious? That was Biden. How about we replay clips of Biden and Trump side by side. I’ll show you geriatric.

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Dude has 34 subscribers on YT. Started making videos on Jan 14 2026. No wonder.

What I’m concerned about as well is how Guy kissed his ass.

You have trump derangement syndrome. Trump is fantastic

I am concerned and weirded out by what literally every other country calls “democracy”.

Switzerland is the only democracy in the world.

SRF has a good reportage about it, “my family in the US”.

Trump is just the product of their binary political system. What they need is an overhaul of it, more in line with for example the Swiss one, where there is also grey and colours in a parliament + not one führer.

If you are republican, you have only one senile 80 year old to vote for, because he knew best how to appeal the uneducated mass.
This is for them still better than voting for the other extreme, which is democrats. Like being SVP, but you need to vote SP or the other way around.

If we continue to dismantle societal guiderails, we will arrive at the exact same position as the USA down the line.

The upcoming SRF vote will be a watershed moment. We either stay in control of the political discourse, or we hand the control over to other people with an interest in extracting more money. And more money can be extracted if we’re continually fighting while the super wealthy do as they wish, with us too busy shouting at each other.

On the flip side, let’s get our leader Guy Parmelin to learn how to string 4 words in English without looking at his notes. What a shame it is to hear him praise Trump with the English level of someone who’s never left VD.

I know several people here in the Ostschwiiz that are redpilled Trump fans which worries me quite a bit, this complete disregard for intellectual/professional people in places of power is scary, especially combined with a society bound to their phones. All the right wing billionaires own all the platforms, why are we sucking up to them like this is the highest degree of social entropy we can create. Fuck that