The dark humor of this moment is not uniquely American.

In Germany, the AfD keeps growing. In France, Marine Le Pen's movement came closer to power than anyone comfortable with that idea wanted to admit. In Italy, a government with post-fascist roots is governing. The Netherlands elected Geert Wilders. Hungary has been running this playbook longer than anyone else. The project of dismantling liberal democratic norms while insisting it is all perfectly fine is operating in multiple languages and time zones simultaneously.

EGOPROOF made "This too shall pass but like holy fuck" as a response to what is happening in America. But the sentiment does not stop at the water.

In flats in Amsterdam and Leipzig and Barcelona and Warsaw, people are watching the same patterns play out locally while also tracking them in real time from the United States. The cost of renting in European cities has become its own political crisis. Housing in Amsterdam requires income levels that most residents do not have. In Berlin, the city where rent control was fought for and then struck down by the courts. In Lisbon and Porto, where remote workers from elsewhere priced out the people who had always lived there.

The far right has answers for all of this that involve blaming the wrong people while protecting the economic conditions that created the problem in the first place. People know this. They have been watching it happen for years.

This print goes on a wall in a city apartment where the person who put it up is politically aware, culturally engaged, and tired in the specific way that comes from caring about outcomes that powerful interests keep finding ways to reverse.

It fits in frames that use centimeter measurements. It goes above a desk in a home office in a city that has its own version of everything the text describes. It gets sent as a gift from someone in one country to a friend in another because the sentiment requires no translation.

Some feelings speak every language.