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Anne Welborn's avatar

So much damn stupidity it is simply unbelievable, but unfortunately it's true..

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Karen Borst's avatar

Yep. The U.S. has become the laughingstock of the world.

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John Steven Lasher's avatar

USA is the most hated country in the World. Ramposa is an “angel” (and I am stretching the word) compared to Trump, who in addition to being Putin’s puppet is an utter disgrace to the human race!

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Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap's avatar

NO Doubt about that!

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Carol Scott's avatar

It hurts to just read this article…

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

Everyone with any sense hates Trump and all that he stands for and rightly so. I'm right there with them. He will continue to behave as he does until someone finds a way to shut him down for the last time. An impeachment that removes him from office would work but not likely to happen. The most likely scenario, and liked by most GOP'ers, is the invoking of the 25th, declaring him mentally unfit. J.D. Vance is all about that, although he doesn't dare say anything outside of his boudoir. And even that might be bugged these days.

In the meantime, world leaders will have to endure these insults for now until they can move their countries far enough away from Trump and his United States and not have to worry about whether he likes something or not. I hear China is open for business and the Russians are doing all they can to cozy up to the different African coalitions on the continent. I have heard on some of the African political YouTube channels recently that these coalitions are growing stronger. I think it won't be too much longer before the rest of the world will have moved on away from the U.S. and Donald Trump. These world leaders will stop coming to the white house anymore at Trump's beck and call. maybe with the exception of Keir Starmer. He seems to think his current job position depends on making nice with Trump. I am hearing grumblings from certain sources that he is in a precarious position over his fawning of Trump and the so called trade deals that weren't actual substantial trade deals.

As I have no love for anything British, I could care less but I do have a couple of friends there whom I wish the best to in these trying times.

As I'm not overly fond of the British side of Canadian politics either, I hope that doesn't hurt my citizenship application. Maybe I should brush up on my Acadian french and immigrate to Quebec or New Brunswick to avoid difficulties over my lack of British enthusiasm?

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Thérèse Ralston's avatar

No matter how much Kia Starmer cosies up to the golden Trumpet of doom, the President can't remember who he is.

Or what he does. TRUMPET thinks he's part of the European Union.

Like, yeah.

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

I think the Europeans have disavowed that notion by now. Trump's only friend, outside of his inner circle, is Israel, and that is dependent on what he does for them on any given day.

Once the Iranians kick this off and U.S. soldiers start coming home to Dover in body bags, things will kick off in earnest here in the U.S. If people thought the No Kings protests were large before, they will be even more incensed once that starts to happen.

The American war machine will take off, like it did in 2003, and we'll have even more dead soldiers to bury.

Will the American public stand for this? I think it will be divided in the short term and definitely against in any long term war, if there is one. With a feckless congress stuck so far up Trump's butt on the one side, and the other half a bunch of cowards, a rebellion may ensue on the streets as the military trickles home from the middle east to be buried.

Meanwhile, everything else in the U.S. will continue to degrade until there's little left for the next president to inherit in 2028.

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Thérèse Ralston's avatar

I agree, in an ideal world. Unfortunately, every leader who goes to war gives himself an enemy for people to hate, while elevating his or her own popularity.

Think Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Zelensky, or Thatcher.

Trump’s fan base is so patriotic, they'll be loving it. Spewing out hate speech directed at Iranians ticks all their racist, redneck boxes.

It's just my view.

You don't have to agree.

But leaders who wage war become so popular with it, even when it's devisive, that they MUST keep that war machine going at any cost until they win.

They keep war going rather than lose face, lor lose the egotistical megalomaniac side that loves being popular.

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Sam W (She/Her)'s avatar

I don't know that I'd include Zelensky in that list, as the context for him is radically different. He didn't start the war, his country came under direct attack from a hostile foreign power and he's actively defending it and seeking aid in the fight.

That's very different from people like Hitler, Stalin or Napoleon.

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Thérèse Ralston's avatar

Trump gives the USA a bad name. Bad economic policy, horrendous foreign policy, a trade war, and makes citizens look as dumb and ridiculous as Clitus from The Simpson's.

His legacy will be hard to erase.

I wouldn't want to live in America.

I am so sorry that this madman was elected twice.

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Craig Rockwell's avatar

Thank you for the real truth about South Africa. The “trumped” up version is as we all have come to know, is Trump doing what he does best perform for the media, and lie like a rug.

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Radha Nichole Smith's avatar

You failed to give Donnie Dementia Dumbass the credit he desires for “making up the best word, equalizing.”

Seriously, this mentally deficient dolt actually seems to believe that he made up that word, “equalizing.“

The only people more stupid than him in USA are his supporters and cabinet. This is America’s worst administration ever, including his own first administration, and we do well to convict them of the crimes they’re committing and just take them out and execute them.

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Jill Leroux's avatar

I guess we can all see that the American president, that bastion of decency, is NOT the dumb clod he appears to be. There is a sloppy assed plan behind the farce, but its main goal is just CHAOS. That and trump will get to line his office with proverbial carpets to catch all of the lucre he can shake loose from the “digital” cherry trees.🫩

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