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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 11:02 AM Oct 2019

The international reputation of the USA tanked the day Trump was voted in...

...Who would have thought it could sink any lower? The Ukraine call has shown the world that the USA today is just as corrupt as the regimes of emerging democracies and tin post dictatorships.

Let’s face it, the section of America who voted for the vile pit of corrupt callowness knew who and what he was when they went into the voting booth. They champion his mob tendencies and applaud his ‘white America first’ policy agenda, which for outside observers looking it, tells us as much about America as it does about the President.

For a nation of laws America has always had the tendency to be operated by mob rule. This has been exacerbated by a gangster sitting in the white house. The rot set in a while ago and it has now seeped out into international territory. These countries who have looked to America as the beacon on the democratic hill are shaking their head in bewilderment whilst also enjoying (dare I say laughing at) the absolute spectacle of the fascist, loofa-faced shit-gibbon trying to chatter his way of his nefarious, shady double dealing. The citizens of the countries he has dragged into his unscrupulous profiteering know exactly what misuse of power looks like. They mostly live with it every day from their own leaders and see what they do mirrored in Trumps actions.

The apology tour when the uniquely under-qualified and overblown king of bragging and whining gets put out the door is going to huge…

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The international reputation of the USA tanked the day Trump was voted in... (Original Post) Soph0571 Oct 2019 OP
we have a lot of company lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #1
Agreed... Ignorant far-right wannabe bullies are the 'in' thing these days... Blue_Tires Oct 2019 #3
I think of the ones you quote it is the US and UK that are interesting Soph0571 Oct 2019 #5
Don't look at me; I tried to warn everyone... Blue_Tires Oct 2019 #2
The US never really lived up to our ideals, but we used to try... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #4

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
1. we have a lot of company
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 11:06 AM
Oct 2019

UK, Brazil, Turkey, Philippines, Russia, China, Italy...and I'm sure many many more

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. Agreed... Ignorant far-right wannabe bullies are the 'in' thing these days...
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 11:13 AM
Oct 2019

Also see Austria and Poland...

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
5. I think of the ones you quote it is the US and UK that are interesting
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 11:16 AM
Oct 2019

We spend our lives listening to how exceptional we are... seems like we are exceptionally shit

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