Why are British people obsessed with US politics?

[@bt3743]

Because its like train crash. Horrific but you just cant look away in case it catches on fire

[@twofoursevenbeauty]

Yes! I'm completely obsessed with it atm. It's both hilarious and scary

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

Is your apostrophe key broken?

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

@@twofoursevenbeauty Yes, it's like watching one of those American soap operas, which are wonderful because they're so overdone and melodramatic that they're laughable... only it's real. Which is utterly terrifying.

[@teehasheestower]

Are you kidding? We had a reality TV host for a president. There is no barrier between our politics and show business.

[@derekmulready1523]

The First Hollywood actor who became Potus has held back substantial wage increases from his Trickle Down Economics. 40 years it's been proven doesn't work. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@keithscholes6158]

Spot on. Have you been monitoring my browsing habits?😃

[@jahazbrooga309]

And mine! 🙋And that's why Jonathon is the best reporter in the world.

[@margaretmcnamee6411]

Very funny Matt!! Here in America we need to laugh. Glad to hear you are a fan of Pod save America.

[@peterjohnson1091]

It's like seeing a huge lorry outside your neighbour"s with Mega Sheds written on the side.

[@oldgreybeard2507]

We will find out how important American politics are if the orange man wins.

[@ChristianeWinzenburg-uo4xb]

I agree ☝️

[@GuzzarAwan]

be prepared. he is coming

[@ChristianeWinzenburg-uo4xb]

I certainly hope Not, Nicht, Nada!!! It would be a great disaster. I hope for the sensible alternative 🤞🤞🤞🙏

[@barryevans791]

Yes, the lack of wars was awful the first time around.

[@TonyWhitley]

Despite the orange-utan's best efforts.

[@Mudge07]

Great roundup Matt. From bubble gum to sneakers, no snickers, no trainers, we seem to follow Uncle Sam with regularity to its trends and some extremes. At home, of course when the Opposition say you have no plan and then present one, it’s bound to ruffle some feathers. Didn’t we all laugh at Trump’s migrant pet-eating anecdote, it really backfired and energised even more of the cat ladies into action.

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

Why is the UK obsessed with US politics? It is a combination of it being distant enough that it doesn't have much direct impact but still powerful so that people are invested in the outcome, combined with it being an English speaking country so there is no language barrier, and finally also being basically a soap opera of lunacy and cringe takes.

[@chrisblagdon9582]

No the BBC is obsessed with america and has been ever since cameron put patton in charge of the bbc. They want to deflect the awful things they did to tje ordinary uk citizen. These days the BBC stamds for boring biased and conservative.

[@latheofheaven1017]

You think a Trump win will not have much direct impact on us?

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

@@latheofheaven1017 No it wont. It might have a lot of indirect impacts but direct impacts on the UK will be limited to probably tariffs. Even if he decides to nuke China the UK would only be effected consequentially not directly. He will have no direct control over the UK so the impacts will not be direct.

[@ellicel]

As an American interested in UK politics, I can say that "distant enough, but relevant and interesting" was why I started watching this channel at the height of the Liz Truss craziness 😂😂

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

@@ellicel Exactly

[@Woke_White_Woman]

I have been obsessed with US Politics for over 50 years What happens in the USA always impacts the U.K.. Particularly when The Tories are in power. Even if Harris and Walz win in November (🙏🌊💙) I will keep focused on the USA until Inauguration Day because Trump will probably try another Insurrection or maybe something even worse Then there are Trump’s Criminal Trials to watch…. I can do all this because I trust Keir Starmer and I know that the next 10 years are going to be tough in the U.K. after 14 years of those Monsters being in power but the Tories are now an irrelevance and we are now rebuilding Britain: brick by brick

[@Anev-ms5bn]

You...trust Keir Starmer? Really? After lying constantly, U-turn after U-turn, and taking bribes from big corporations? You...trust him?

[@oldgreybeard2507]

Agreed

[@Anmeteor9663]

You trust a serial liar and backstabber? 😢

[@jacqueslapidieux3182]

The Tories are in power...they're just called Labour now

[@barryevans791]

That's true of both Labour and Tories and has been since Tony Blair and I don't think calling people monsters is appropriate. Why is it always the lefty love your neighbour types that spews this bile?

[@beammeup8458]

Because it is easier to poke fun at /lecture others THAN TO FIX PROBLEMS AT HOME.

[@patchso]

You stitched me up like a kipper there. Guilty as charged ;-)

[@octavianpopescu4776]

As a foreigner watching both US and UK news, this is true. I watch US and UK news because I can sit back and just watch, instead of getting depressed over local politics. I can watch with detachment what's happening in other countries to people at least 2000 km away.

[@GreenJimll]

2000km - or as its known in the corridors of power "15 minutes by ICBM"

[@maxharbig1167]

Maybe it's because many of them think there's that "special relationship" which, strangely enough if like me you've worked and lived in the States, you don't really find much to back up that idea. Whenever some Brits get dewy eyed about it I tend to refer them to President Woodrow Wilson's speech to the the House of Commons that was made over a hundred years ago: “You must not speak of us who come over here as cousins, still less as brothers; we are neither. Neither must you think of us as Anglo-Saxons, for that term can no longer be rightly applied to the people of the US. Nor must too much importance in this connection be attached to the fact that English is our common language… no, there are only two things which can establish and maintain closer relations between your country and mine: they are community of ideals and interests.” So, if ideals and interests diverge bye, bye "special relationship".

[@mikerodent3164]

Nope, ... only you!

[@maxharbig1167]

@@mikerodent3164 Only who and/or what?

[@rachelatwood9555]

IDK--I wouldn't say that the "special relationship" is completely nonexistent in the wider American cultural context, but it's not a remotely equal partnership in any sense of the word. It's 95/5 for the UK, 97/3 for Canada, and 100/0 for everyone else, so you can pride yourself on that *_~

[@WeeShooey]

There are more BBC American correspondents than there are Scottish, Welsh and NI combined.

[@barryevans791]

Why would they have correspondents for different parts of the UK? They just use their regular correspondents as we are all part of the UK and not the other side of the world.

[@danielstickney2400]

That's because the BBC's American correspondents have a lot more ground to cover. The US has 40 states larger than Scotland, a national park larger than Wales, and a national forest larger than the whole UK. Going by correspondents per square kilometer the UK is far ahead.

[@Phase52012]

Why is it that when ever there's a budget deficit its the people with the least who have to cough up? How about a one time tax on all corporations to help pay to stop pensioners freezing. Or a transaction tax on the stock exchange. Make it 1 pence per 100 pounds of stock traded in any deal. That should cover the heating benefit. What if corporations complain? shame them in Parliament: "And he is a list of all the multi-billion pound corporations who want your grannie to freeze this winter, so their CEO can buy another Yacht".

[@Kaltagstar96]

Considering that Republicans especially seem to have a contempt for the UK (look at JD Vance's comments as well as MTG's), I don't know why we, as the UK, have to basically kiss America's ass in this special relationship when they clearly don't think too highly of us?

[@barryevans791]

Yet, it was Barrack Obama that told us we would be back of the queue for a trade deal if we voted to leave the EU. The special relationship is a one way deal and always has been regardless of who is in power in America. I would also point out that it was Biden who withdrew from Afghanistan after we followed them there without telling us the plan.

[@byrnemeister2008]

Indeed. We are now royally screwed. Upset all of Europe and now the US doesn’t see us as relevant except as a cultural enemy. Master stroke by the last gov.

[@Kaltagstar96]

@@byrnemeister2008 I mean, to be honest I don't give a toss if a muppet like JD Vance mocks us, he's a tool anyway. I think that instead of putting all our eggs into the America basket, we should have a special relationship with Europe for the simple reason that we're in the continent of Europe and they're closer. I do hope that we can at least get on better relations with them and re-enter the single market.

[@demonseed360]

Trump, Vance, and the MAGA movement are a national embarrassment, are openly fascist, and I'm gleefully voting against them in a few weeks. With that being said, a lot of their anti-UK and anti-European rhetoric didn't appear from thin air. They utilize many of the long time negative stereotypes that Europeans have for Americans,. That we're fat, stupid, and lazy, that Europeans love our money, but hate us, and that fires up his already xenophobic base. Though, you could argue that Trump himself is the embodiment of all those negative stereotypes. Most Americans are hopelessly in love with British accents and culture, though I can't say for sure that the opposite is true.

[@speleokeir]

The 'Special Relationship was chiefly about how we owed the US huge amounts of money from the loans during WWII. And the US threatening to call these in if we didn't do what they wanted e.g giving them our world leading tech, e.g Jets, cancelling development in areas that US companies wanted to control Following the US's lead in foreign policy, etc and basically being their bum boy. It's only very recently we paid those loans off. And then a combination of Covid & Boris giving billions to his chums and Tory doners has put us straight back into that debt.

[@TonyDean-y9c]

I am not obsessed with US politics, the British media/press are.

[@KeithNeilson]

Came here to say this. The media is not the people and opinion polls tell us not what the people are thinking, but what the media and their paymasters want us to think.

[@Gramsci]

Pensioners can cancel their Daily Express subscription... I fixed it. You're welcome

[@hypsyzygy506]

...but it burns so well...

[@Smoothjock]

But not as useful as the Daily Mail in a bog roll shortage!!

[@sketchsocial4785]

Don't buy any papers except Private Eye. No point it's all posted on social media anyway.

[@djoakeydoakey1076]

They forgot to cancel it after covid happened and all the toilet paper was taken.

[@Secretgeek2012]

I'm feeling very called out right now. Good work! 👍👍

[@steves7013]

Spot on as normal Matt 😂🙏

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

Matt nails it!

[@Deedumdee]

Diffuser on the ring light!

[@QALibrary]

very good and well done

[@Boahemaa]

"The most committed fans of Pod Save America" line got a bigger chuckle from me than expected. I like that podcast but I watched the highlights the following day😅

[@grahamturner1290]

Until this week I never regarded Presidential Debates as hilarious. 😊

[@garryferrington811]

From the moment the cats and dogs remark came out you might as well have had a sitcom-style laugh track.

[@paulyeomans1065]

OMG! Are you living in my brain??!

[@OniMorter]

I'm so used to your dry deliveries of obviously-absurd-and-fake things that when you mentioned the real moment about Trump saying immigrants are eating dogs, I shuddered at how bad things got.

[@arghjayem]

Because most don’t speak any foreign languages and we like to look down on others (that’s the class system in a nutshell- the frost report sketch). But we can’t really look down on the Canadians or the Australians as they’re in a far better place than us. Nothing really happens in New Zealand so the only other country to look to is our American cousins. So we point and laugh at them saying “you have a backwards political system with only two parties who are basically the same and your voting system means that true representation of the people will never be achieved!” It’s ironic. 😂🤔🤷

[@vivienclogger]

You're describing my life so accurately I'm wondering if I should check the house for hidden cameras.

[@w-james9277]

Jeez, politics has become so rotten!

[@notadoctora7956]

Thank

[@latheofheaven1017]

Had to laugh, having just posted on Facebook about US politics. Still wondering which of those UK politics tough choices Goodenough spelled out I'm going to have to plump for though!

[@richardcook9794]

Obsessed or just fascinated by the football team like unwavering almost cult support of just two parties

[@mitchhumlao]

Got that right.

[@stop-the-greed]

YOU SAID THAT CHICKEN WOULD BE READY IN FIVE MINUTES......"five minutes" ...i know I'd seen you before matt 😂😂

[@maureenlancaster1694]

I don’t need it on tv all the time. We can’t change anything so just give us the result and let us cope with it

[@kennethcorley9333]

Wit and insight. A heady combination

[@Whightwolf]

I mean I care about US politics because we literally live in their empire, just because we don't get a vote doesn't mean the outcome won't impact us.

[@debsamuels7626]

And i thought it was just me 😂

[@mikehiggins4079]

Where in Ohio do I send the Food Parcels to feed the immigrants and stop them hving to eat Cats & Dogs? Asking for a friend

[@oldgreybeard2507]

At least he stuck to cats and dogs and left out babies, you know the ones aborted at 11 months

[@mrslicener21]

Please don't spread his racist drivel by making jokes. It's bad enough that he said that shit on television

[@mikerodent3164]

They're so evil, they're so so evil, that they eat, that they wanto eat, that even if other things to eat are avail:- ... I was looking up what Ka-Mahler had to say about eating, eating, eating cats and dogs. Our cats. Our dogs. You know what she said? What Ka-Maaaahler said? Yeah that's right: nothing. A big. Fat. Zero. Ka-Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahler is so concerned about people who have escaped from Guatemalan MENtal institutions, eating YOUR cats and YOUR dogs... that. So evil, so so evil.

[@garryferrington811]

I'm happy he said that as I'm hoping many more people will realize he's crazy as f***.

[@weswheel4834]

Hang on, even if we think that Labour are just as bad as the other lots when it comes to the economy, that hasn't been the main problem with the Tories for the last 10 years!

[@Paul_C]

As much interest as in British politics: It is comedy gold.

[@pool-of-life]

Dallas , Falcons Crest,.... US politics...... 👍

[@ThoughtandMemory]

😂 Brilliant!

[@nickwalters5380]

So true.

[@redmist5890]

we love a comedy

[@mintywebb]

Most pensioners could turn on the heating in a cold snap without a thought...

[@micbroc6435]

Who can turn away when Americans do things like put up billboards that say “Eat Less Kittens, vote republican.”

[@msimms-lp5qw]

Right, its the number of Americans who take seriously everything Trump says that makes it compulsive viewing

[@Concreteowl]

I'm sick and tired of them to be honest but I am slightly anxious of an Oompalumpa with his finger on the nuclear button.

[@nangomanchay716]

Wow. On the nose 😂

[@andrewharvey3282]

Helicopter moms.

[@dombo813]

Getting into US politics is basically the same thing as getting into Lord of the Rings. Politics is inherently interesting, its fun to think about what the right answers might be, but like with fiction, it's nice to be separated from the consequences of the politics you're thinking about, and like LOTR, American politics is an accessible, reader-friendly introduction to playing politics about other countries.

[@ChristianeWinzenburg-uo4xb]

Thanks’… my stimulus & breather from Con-Don & the Maga’s….😵‍💫 🎶🎵

[@moonkeele]

We had the choice of being an equal partner in a United States of Europe or a vassal to the American Empire.

[@stewie7338]

Incorrect. The Remain Campaign was run specifically on the basis there would never be a United States of Europe.

[@moonkeele]

@@stewie7338 It may well have been run that way to try to appease waiverers, but I voted for a significant step towards the end of nation states.

[@J.B.Ram1]

UK starting to realize that it's special relationship with USA was based partly on UK's position in EU. Now that the UK has left, USA cozying up to Poland as their EU Trojan horse. UK of less importance to both the USA and EU now that it is outside the EU, UK will eventually have to return to the EU, but it won't have the special status it once enjoyed. Brexit will prove to be one of the dumbest referendum decisions in the history of western politics. Any referendum on crucial geopolitical decisions should require a supermajority (55%+), and not just a single vote majority.

[@blackdogbarking]

We share the same elite.

[@danmayberry1185]

Oh you can laugh, but when Nigel's close personal friend retakes the White House, you'll be choking on sauteed Spaniel.

[@wonderfullife3108]

9 seasons of American drama series and the bad guy still hasn't got his come uppance. Do Trump supporters cheer for for Darth Vader, Thanos or the Texas chainsaw murderer in the movies.

[@meh3247]

I'm not. Mostly because at this point in the reverse evolution of the English Language that the Americans are so keen on, I can barely understand any of the words that lazily dribble out of their mouths any more.

[@ellicel]

Maybe it's schadenfreude....sure it took a couple hundred years but look where all that "democracy" nonsense got us -- with half of the country ready to vote for the guy who *already* tried to overthrow an election. I wouldn't blame every UK citizen if they wanted ask us: so....what was that you were saying about not wanting a king? 😂

[@J.B.Ram1]

Excellent point. Trump essentially wants the unlimited power of a king, so if you give it to him what did you guys fight the revolutionary war for?

[@Emanon...]

Because the US president also decides UK foreign policy.

[@weswheel4834]

One word: "Donald Trump" :D Another politician known by a single name apparently. ;)

[@zetectic7968]

Like Jeremy Hunt

[@shuggiemcg1]

perhaps we know American politics affects us too!

[@hatherlow]

I could not give a flying squirrels shite. As long as madman , best healer in the world , Trump doesnt win.

[@ruthkirkparick3535]

Unfortunately, most of the world needs to pay attention to the U.S., generally. I would not be surprised to find many people also paying attention to Post-Brexit Britain. Perhaps to see if their outsider opinion would be validated. I pay attention to the home of most--if not all--of my ancestors because I was taught that, of all the democracies in the world, Great Britain was closest to the left edge of the centre line. Also my father's family was from Wales, the home of Aneurin Bevan, and a hero of my father's. I ache to see the consequences of Thatcherism playing out. And, whether or not Brexit could be considered just another consequence of that, I ache to see some real effort by any party in Britain to stop the bleeding. Because, as always, it's ordinary people like me, who are most adversely effected by corruption, greed, and so-called fiscal conservatism. I anxiously await the re-vitalization of the social programs and policies those people expect and deserve.

[@thaipankatima658]

I have to agree. Watching the American politics has been way more entertaining than my own country's election. Heck, I don't even know who's running in my place. It just doesn't have that much of an impact or even that entertaining. Trump might not have been that popular during his TV phase, but he's certainly a lot more (in)famous ever since he became president.

[@derekmulready1523]

Even with the increase in pension benefits. 11+ Million Pensioners receive the Lowest Pension Benefits in Europe. Irish Pensioner 🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@mikerodent3164]

State pensionwise the UK is in the lower half of the table of 44 countries, but by no means the "lowest" in Europe. When I'm in Ireland I'm also struck by how expensive things are, even than the UK after recent rises, particularly food and, gulp, drink, especially DRINKS IN PUBS. There seem to be quite a few LIDLs in Ireland now: lots of older Irish people must still have to buy from terrible ripoff supermarkets though.

[@davetitterton5914]

We are not.

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

Because its important. We know that many looks close to home. That is fine we need to do that. But if you think it has no impact on many many ways in dont know what you smoked.

[@axelaminoff9258]

American Republicans: Are we the baddies? Said no one ever.

[@J.B.Ram1]

For most people in other countries, Republicans are clearly the baddies. Americans are too insular to recognize this fact.

[@jakey4683]

Man looks like mr bean but with less sunlight and worse nutrition

[@apisyom1189]

They sublimate to feel better. The US is in direr trouble than they are in.

[@philippkemptner4604]

Everyone loves a beautiful dumpster fire

[@saralanier4271]

My old GB history school teacher refused to refer to us Americans as anything other than a bunch of ‘ungrateful colonial rebels’. He never really got over Britain losing the ‘colonies’ let alone the Empire.

[@saralanier4271]

I should have added that this is an attitude more common than is acknowledged. Rooted in a cultural historical sense of ‘ownership’ of the USA, equal to their historical ‘ownership’ attitude to France. The UK’s Monarchy and ruling class’ (BBC) approach to both countries is that of the fascination by an entitled Patrician of the antics of adult rebellious children.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I'm not British, but in all fairness, Washington and the others were traitors. The reasons they invoked for declaring independence were either made up or their severity was grossly exaggerated. They invented pseudo-philosophical reasons to make their crime seem justified. The mental gymnastics they did was amazing. It was a power-grab by malcontents. I was reading a book about treason in Tudor England and it was the same kind of people rebelling: those who were well off, not the poorest, but who didn't have enough opportunities for advancement. Washington and the others were just like that: they were doing well under the British, but they were greedy and wanted more. And it worked. They got away with it.

[@J.B.Ram1]

​@octavianpopescu4776 True, but in the longterm the UK was always gonna lose the Anerican colonies one way or another. They were simply too successful and isolated to be kept as part of an overseas empire. The loyalists to the Crown went north after the revolutionary War and founded English-speaking Canada, so in a sense not all British colonies were lost until Canada's independence.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@J.B.Ram1 Yes, I agree they would have lost the colonies over time. My alt-history scenario is it would have been US + Canada forming a single country later on in the 19th century with gradual process of becoming independent like Canada had IRL. I also think this alternate scenario would have included an earlier end to slavery and no Civil War.

[@onenote6619]

Well, having been dragged into two American wars in quite recent history, it makes sense to be a bit concerned. Also, Putin on the button for Russia's somewhat rickety nuclear force is bad enough. Trump with his wobbly fingers on the button (of a rather more reliable nuclear force) is rather more scary.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Reliable‽ John Oliver did a segment on the state of American nuclear weapons. They wouldn't be able to use them if they wanted to. They'll have to rely on their nuclear armed NATO allies. (Indeed, Macron argued that France needs nuclear power to deter Russia.) I've no idea what shape the Russian nukes are in, but probably no worse than China, India, Pakistan, France, and the UK. Not that it matters. An American general said that nukes are useless. They are expensive to build and maintain, and you can get the same level of destruction for less that a thousandth of the cost with conventional phosphorus bombs. Which is exactly what Israel is using on Palestine.

[@TheSpearkan]

It's always annoying when people treat politics like sports and go about cheering from the sidelines in an election that's not in their home country. Want to make a difference? Find out what's going on where you live and commit to that. It's not glamorous but it could be more monumental.

[@janegreen9340]

Tim Walz for Prime Minister!

[@J.B.Ram1]

He would be my choice for US president. Like him much more than Kamala, though Kamala is still light years better than Trump or Vance.

[@ljt3084]

Zeteo channel did a good summary on the next Donnie tenure, his first 100 days in office using only his actual tweets and talking points from his recent rallies and those of his closest allies in office. I think it was day 56 where the global economy collapses after mass rioting and Marshall law/military shooting US civilian protestors on the streets (as sanctioned by Donnie, promised as an executive order in one of his recent tweets) causes the New York stock exchange to fold. That's after he promised his followers he will effectively write an executive order making him a dictator on day 2.. Because the world respects a dictator. (His words not mine) Yes he said that out loud too at several rallies. So yea, a little disconcerting for everyone living in a capitalist society based on debt already struggling with heating and eating.

[@angeladavies677]

Because its like a soap opera

[@Rich-ng3yy]

It's on our broadcast news all the time and they rarely show other countries' political news. Social media still takes its agenda from the mainstream even if they're sometimes ahead of the analysis and smarter. But of course the safety of the world has been at stake with the vagaries of American politics for over 6 decades and their politicians' subservience to whoever's finance got them there. And if course everyone is just wanting some sort of happy resolution to the Trump crisis and keeps tuning in because it keeps being promised and then postponed.

[@gingedss]

So while its not my fav policy, as long as the guidelines for means testing mean that those valunerable pensioners are kept safe I am okay with it. If it can be avoided great, but it's not the worst. I am actually less interested in the US politics now because we have removed the Tory's. There was a funnel straight from 8Chan via Fox News to the Republicans and onto the Tory party for the worst political views. While that path remains, without the Tory party in power we are less impacted by culture was rubbish, so for now at least America has less of an impact on our politics.

[@hobbabobba7912]

I actually don't think british people are but rather the british political class are.

[@osroll2506]

Is it because our politics barely exists in comparison?

[@diekssus7194]

So british people now run their lives based on a mitchell and webb comedy sketch.... ....give it a few years and Matt is going to be prime minister.

[@J.B.Ram1]

The UK could do worse, and have in recent times (Johnson and Truss specifically).

[@susansantapola]

The orange one is clearly deranged.

[@J.B.Ram1]

Yes he is, and Harris will almost certainly win the popular vote comfortably, as Hillary did, yet the electoral college is neck and neck. I'll let people decide for themselves about what that says about the American electoral system.

[@Kerbal_fever]

Why are British people obsessed with US politics? Were not, its just that its the only thing that gets posted in r/interestingasfuck and r/pics these days

[@rabnori4836]

Ask Farage .

[@clemenshampel]

Alf eats cats.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

That's right. Alf is an illegal immigrant to the USA who does not eat dogs.

[@rebreaville9332]

As a person born in UK, lives in US, follows UK politics through podcasts like The Rest is Politics (etc), I’m astonished by the coverage of the US political race. Mostly the commentary is ok, but many times it makes basic errors. Makes me wonder if these commentators make the same errors about UK politics!

[@piccalillipit9211]

I know a little bit about Chinese philosophy and politics, at least enough to know when someone talking is bull5h!tting / clueless. The politicians and US security agency analysts apparently know absolutely nothing about China - I am left hoping they are BS=ing and gaslighting the US population, cos the alternative is they are genuinely utterly clueless.

[@Anmeteor9663]

Wrong podcasters perhaps?

[@Ology3121]

We're not. We're force fed it by the BBC TRUMP channel.

[@barryevans791]

Good question, there are loads of people with Trump Derangment Syndrome in the UK even though we don't get to vote either way. I currently have someone at work who thinks I am Hitler because I asked why she didn't like him and she couldn't answer the question, so I don't think it is that people are interested in American politics, but that they have been brainwashed by the BBC.

[@catherinewilson3880]

If she couldn't answer why she didn't like him, her brain must have frozen. I can think of dozens of reasons to dislike him.

[@J.B.Ram1]

Sounds like you have been brainwashed by fox news

[@zhengfuukusheng9238]

Why? Because if Trump gets in and starts supporting Putin, it's a whole new ball game in Europe. That's why

[@piccalillipit9211]

*PENSIONERS SHOULD CUT BACK* on the Worthers Originals and cancel The Telegraph Subscription Whats good for the millennial goose is good for the Boomer Gander

[@oldgreybeard2507]

Leave it out

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@oldgreybeard2507 HAHAH - NO. Pensioners brought us 14 years of Tory austerity, they brought us Brexit. They didnt care a jot when disabled people were Xing them selves cos their benefits had been cut under austerity, Gen Z stayed inside for 2 years to protect them, missing education and socialising, developing and all they do is complain about them.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@oldgreybeard2507 NO. Pensioners brought us 14 years of Tory austerity, they brought us Brexit.

[@Anmeteor9663]

​@@piccalillipit9211No I didn't. Never voted Tory, never will.

[@paulyeomans1065]

Meanwhile, back in reality, more women than men voted Conservative in 2024. What punitive measure do you propose for being female? Please stop this divisive nonsense, it plays into the hands of the right wing and damages society.

[@rogerterry5013]

Fascinated horror.

[@Jonny-w3w]

Are we ' ive never noticed this ' just like watching trump turn orange 🤡

[@keithsquawk]

We are only following the example set by a train of Tories (and a Farage). Hang on -- did you say French elections and the far right? At least the residents of Clacton will know where their MP will be - or will he be going to stand for elelction there?

[@wilsonflood4393]

Im not. Not at all. Don't have a vote for US.

[@Kanner111]

Starmer out is also approaching no-brainer status.

[@adrianwilson2635]

whos obsessed ?

[@mdaly4179]

The Tories made for better comedy!

[@michaelbuttle7772]

American politics are much more fun, it gives us a laugh thinking that they concider a person like trump can run for president, our polititians are boring.

[@J.B.Ram1]

Is there that much of a difference between Trump and Johnson? Both rich millionaires in it for what they can get out if it (I do concede Trump is worse, but my point is that he is not that much worse).