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The word trump, incidentally, is defined by NAOB as

1. {DIALEKTALT|DIALECTAL} {tung,|heavy,} {svær|enormous} {kar|fellow}
2. {MUNTLIG|SPOKEN} {tverr,|contrarian,} {vrang|difficult} {mann|man} {eller|or} {gutt;|boy;} {vriompeis|fogey}
3. {DIALEKTALT|DIALECTAL} {børsekolbe;|butt of a rifle;} {geværkolbe|gunstock}

Of course, this word is not pronounced like Norwegians pronounce the name Trump ("Trømp"), but it is still a little funny.

For me I can't really hide my American accent and I'm not fluent in Norwegian yet.

A strat I've seen a lot of people use in that situation is to just pretend they're Canadian, but I couldn't do that, frankly. I guess I just don't like making that part of myself invisible.

It just gets really annoying because I don't want to talk about politics every five goddamn seconds.

Absolutely, absolutely. I think I might have a higher tolerance for talking politics than most people, but Norwegians' fondness of hounding Yankees with political question after political question is one of the things that led me to develop my own current theories about the interplay of Europe and Seppoland. Like the reason why Americans in Norway get these questions is ultimately because Norwegians can on a deep level sense that their country is entirely beholden to the whims of another country whose policies they have no say in, but without any actual theory to make sense of this situation, this sort of deep-seated insecurity about the New Master's actions basically turns into an obsession with Seppoland's politics — and in turn Americans in Norway are turned into "fetishes" of the current vassal relationship, if that makes sense.

Seppoland, naturally, benefits from this arrangement: if anyone who tries to resign from settlerism is soon met with crowds of people who act Deeply Weirdly about the ex-settler's background, leading the ex-settler to feel frustrated and alienated, like they just can't fit in and can't carve out a life outside of the settler-colonial paradigm, then resigning from settlerism is made all the more difficult. This "McAfeeization" of settlerism becomes especially important during crises of the colonial system, where settlers' loyalty to the project cannot be so readily bought with "treats".

This is at least my current understanding.

A Norwegian trump supporter tried to Amerisplain me last night and I about lost it.

Jesus Christ, tell me about it. Young men are turning increasingly rightward, so there's a lot more Norwegian Redcaps than there used to be, and they are painful. Just completely disconnected from reality and their own interests. They lick boots that even liberals wouldn't lick, and Norwegian liberals fucking love to lick boots, so that's saying something.