Can the United States Earn Back Respect?

[Disir]

Why don't we skip your ignorant bullshit and get right to the part where you discuss the price tag? The details of how you will purchase respect.....

"Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve."

If you believe that squandering respect does not have an exorbitant cost, you can opt for contempt and call it a bargain.

You don't have an answer. You are one of those good folks that doesn't grasp policy. You simply do whatever you are told. Thanks for nothing. Welcome to ignore.

 

[Mac1958]

Deft statesmanship and diplomatic finesses are not necessarily the tools that an egomaniacal, failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer brings to the international stage.

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The global consensus that Trump reeks leaves a stench upon America.

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America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency.​

Can Biden turn it around?​

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The Gallup organization conducts annual surveys assessing how others assess U.S. leadership. In 20 of 29 countries where Gallup has completed these surveys, approval ratings “are at new lows or they tie the previous low,” according to the report released last week. Among the countries where approval hit new lows are two of the nation’s staunchest allies, Germany and Britain.​

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Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans.​

Gallup’s findings square with a Pew Research Center report of a few months ago. Pew’s regular survey asks whether people elsewhere have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States. Among the nations where favorable impressions hit record lows or roughly tied them this year were a who’s who of traditional friends: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia.​

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[President Biden,] the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to reengage constructively with other nations, as has his designee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken. That will begin with allies in Europe, who have been treated badly by the current president.​

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“When he thinks foreign policy, he thinks allies, and when he thinks allies, he thinks Europe,” said Ivo Daalder, former ambassador to NATO ...​

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Trump has spurned or hectored allies in Europe and questioned the value of transatlantic alliances. Biden will embrace them all.​

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Showing up and saying the right words will be helpful in changing perceptions of the United States, but that might be only a first step in what could be a more challenging mission.​

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Biden will look to European allies for help in dealing with some of the most important foreign policy issues that await him, from U.S. posture toward Russia to Biden’s desire to change relations with Iran after Trump pulled out of the joint nuclear agreement.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

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I think so. The key is that we realized our mistake and voted him out, resoundingly. It would have been significantly different if we had voted him back in the same way. We are not the "ugly Americans" that many were afraid we might be becoming.

Anecdotally, overseas friends and family of mine essentially just breathed a sigh of relief and look at it as a one-off.

I'm not so sure, maybe. However with this extended election challenge brought on by Trump and his buddies and the fact that quite honestly someone like Trump could be elected again I tend to think our allies have to be questioning any sort of reliance or cooperation having to do with the United States may end up biting them in the ass one day.

My guess is that they know that shit happens. Hell, our allies have had their own internal struggles, and in fact, with some of the same kinds of people.

And it wouldn't happen overnight. Trump certainly did some damage, and we'll have to earn this, so we just have to avoid falling asleep at the wheel again.

But I do think the rest of the world WANTS us to take the wheel again.

 

[Correll]

The ungrateful bitching of ill mannered children.

That's just the sort of sniveling that wins friends and earns influence!

Dismissing complaints from people that depend on US, but are ungrateful,

is not "sniveling".


That your own response was to lie, is you admitting that you know I am right.


Because otherwise you would have challenged my statement, with something TRUTHFUL, that countered it.


But you didn't. Because you CAN'T.


Because you know that I am right.


Our allies and trading partners have gotten used to US being suckers. No one likes it when a sucker wises up.

Well, maybe any real friends.

All our allies who bitched, proved they were not really our friends.


They can all go fuck themselves as far as I care.

IMO, we should leave Nato, and slap major tariffs on all trading partners we have large deficits with.


Give them something real to bitch about.

 

[HappyJoy]

Deft statesmanship and diplomatic finesses are not necessarily the tools that an egomaniacal, failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer brings to the international stage.

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The global consensus that Trump reeks leaves a stench upon America.

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America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency.​

Can Biden turn it around?​

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The Gallup organization conducts annual surveys assessing how others assess U.S. leadership. In 20 of 29 countries where Gallup has completed these surveys, approval ratings “are at new lows or they tie the previous low,” according to the report released last week. Among the countries where approval hit new lows are two of the nation’s staunchest allies, Germany and Britain.​

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Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans.​

Gallup’s findings square with a Pew Research Center report of a few months ago. Pew’s regular survey asks whether people elsewhere have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States. Among the nations where favorable impressions hit record lows or roughly tied them this year were a who’s who of traditional friends: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia.​

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[President Biden,] the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to reengage constructively with other nations, as has his designee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken. That will begin with allies in Europe, who have been treated badly by the current president.​

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“When he thinks foreign policy, he thinks allies, and when he thinks allies, he thinks Europe,” said Ivo Daalder, former ambassador to NATO ...​

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Trump has spurned or hectored allies in Europe and questioned the value of transatlantic alliances. Biden will embrace them all.​

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Showing up and saying the right words will be helpful in changing perceptions of the United States, but that might be only a first step in what could be a more challenging mission.​

​

Biden will look to European allies for help in dealing with some of the most important foreign policy issues that await him, from U.S. posture toward Russia to Biden’s desire to change relations with Iran after Trump pulled out of the joint nuclear agreement.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

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The Great Flatulence should cling to power! ​

Alienating the global community while.... ​

dividing America is a boffo idea!".....​

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I think so. The key is that we realized our mistake and voted him out, resoundingly. It would have been significantly different if we had voted him back in the same way. We are not the "ugly Americans" that many were afraid we might be becoming.

Anecdotally, overseas friends and family of mine essentially just breathed a sigh of relief and look at it as a one-off.

I'm not so sure, maybe. However with this extended election challenge brought on by Trump and his buddies and the fact that quite honestly someone like Trump could be elected again I tend to think our allies have to be questioning any sort of reliance or cooperation having to do with the United States may end up biting them in the ass one day.

My guess is that they know that shit happens. Hell, our allies have had their own internal struggles, and in fact, with some of the same kinds of people.

And it wouldn't happen overnight. Trump certainly did some damage, and we'll have to earn this, so we just have to avoid falling asleep at the wheel again.

But I do think the rest of the world WANTS us to take the wheel again.

We will need to be on our best behavior.

 

[Gdjjr]

This current hoax is nothing new, as similar events have happened before, and have been played out over and over again in real life and in staged table top exercises meant to condition the public for future planned actual incidents. This was a way to set up, to promote, and to prepare the public for events that could be used to alter society and change the common mindset from one of individual liberty to one of collective compliance. Of course, this change began very long ago, but it has escalated beyond imagination over the past two decades, and in this past year alone, the idea of a society based on total voluntary servitude has seemingly come to fruition. It is all a set up!


In 2001, an exercise called “Dark Winter,” a favored term of Joe Biden about our current situation, was set up by Johns Hopkins and others to simulate a covert smallpox attack on the U.S., and to see what a government response might look like under those circumstances.


In 2005, “Atlantic Storm,” was organized by the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. This was a simulation about an international smallpox outbreak that turned into a pandemic.


In 2010, a Rockefeller Foundation paper called Lock Step, analyzed a scenario as to how governments would respond with authoritarian measures to react to a worldwide flu pandemic. This is very similar to what is happening today. “During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets.”


In 2017, a novel coronavirus outbreak was simulated in Minnesota. This exercise was called “The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028,” and comprised a futuristic scenario that illustrated communication dilemmas concerning medical countermeasures (MCMs) that could plausibly emerge in the not-so-distant future.


The next exercise in August of 2019 was a Trump administration and Health and Human Services major exercise called Crimson Contagion. This simulation was almost identical to the Covid-19 plot today. “It tried to model what would happen if an influenza pandemic that started in China spread through the U.S. with no treatment, leaving 7.7 million Americans hospitalized and 586,000 dead.”


The last exercise that took place was the evil Gates Foundation Event 201 in October of 2019. This was nearly an exact replica of what has happened this past year concerning the response to this fraudulent virus pandemic. The fact that the Gates foundation along with Johns Hopkins were involved in this set-up to prepare the sheep, is damning at every level, and exposes that all government tyranny is planned in advance, and telegraphed in order to condition the public.
There Is No Covid Health Crisis and There Is No Virus Pandemic: There Is Only Long-Planned Orchestrated Tyranny

 

[schmidlap]

I'm not so sure, maybe. However with this extended election challenge brought on by Trump and his buddies and the fact that quite honestly someone like Trump could be elected again I tend to think our allies have to be questioning any sort of reliance or cooperation having to do with the United States may end up biting them in the ass one day.

I'm concerned that nationalists are rearing their ugly heads elsewhere as well, and strident, servile, dogmatic authoritarians are not just a recent American phenomenon. Democracy is more fragile than some had assumed, and the Cry Baby Loser's tantrum is not helping the realization of self-governance in America or elsewhere.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Deft statesmanship and diplomatic finesses are not necessarily the tools that an egomaniacal, failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer brings to the international stage.

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The global consensus that Trump reeks leaves a stench upon America.

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America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency.​

Can Biden turn it around?​

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The Gallup organization conducts annual surveys assessing how others assess U.S. leadership. In 20 of 29 countries where Gallup has completed these surveys, approval ratings “are at new lows or they tie the previous low,” according to the report released last week. Among the countries where approval hit new lows are two of the nation’s staunchest allies, Germany and Britain.​

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Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans.​

Gallup’s findings square with a Pew Research Center report of a few months ago. Pew’s regular survey asks whether people elsewhere have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States. Among the nations where favorable impressions hit record lows or roughly tied them this year were a who’s who of traditional friends: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia.​

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[President Biden,] the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to reengage constructively with other nations, as has his designee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken. That will begin with allies in Europe, who have been treated badly by the current president.​

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“When he thinks foreign policy, he thinks allies, and when he thinks allies, he thinks Europe,” said Ivo Daalder, former ambassador to NATO ...​

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Trump has spurned or hectored allies in Europe and questioned the value of transatlantic alliances. Biden will embrace them all.​

​

Showing up and saying the right words will be helpful in changing perceptions of the United States, but that might be only a first step in what could be a more challenging mission.​

​

Biden will look to European allies for help in dealing with some of the most important foreign policy issues that await him, from U.S. posture toward Russia to Biden’s desire to change relations with Iran after Trump pulled out of the joint nuclear agreement.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

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The Great Flatulence should cling to power! ​

Alienating the global community while.... ​

dividing America is a boffo idea!".....​

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I think so. The key is that we realized our mistake and voted him out, resoundingly. It would have been significantly different if we had voted him back in the same way. We are not the "ugly Americans" that many were afraid we might be becoming.

Anecdotally, overseas friends and family of mine essentially just breathed a sigh of relief and look at it as a one-off.

not with your Commies in charge

by the end of Joe Biden's short half served term, and at the beginning of Kami Harris' term, America will be 5th at best.

do you feel like a cocksucking idiot yet?

 

[schmidlap]

This current hoax is nothing new, as similar events have happened before, and have been played out over and over again in real life and in staged table top exercises meant to condition the public for future planned actual incidents. This was a way to set up, to promote, and to prepare the public for events that could be used to alter society and change the common mindset from one of individual liberty to one of collective compliance. Of course, this change began very long ago, but it has escalated beyond imagination over the past two decades, and in this past year alone, the idea of a society based on total voluntary servitude has seemingly come to fruition. It is all a set up!


In 2001, an exercise called “Dark Winter,” a favored term of Joe Biden about our current situation, was set up by Johns Hopkins and others to simulate a covert smallpox attack on the U.S., and to see what a government response might look like under those circumstances.


In 2005, “Atlantic Storm,” was organized by the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. This was a simulation about an international smallpox outbreak that turned into a pandemic.


In 2010, a Rockefeller Foundation paper called Lock Step, analyzed a scenario as to how governments would respond with authoritarian measures to react to a worldwide flu pandemic. This is very similar to what is happening today. “During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets.”


In 2017, a novel coronavirus outbreak was simulated in Minnesota. This exercise was called “The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028,” and comprised a futuristic scenario that illustrated communication dilemmas concerning medical countermeasures (MCMs) that could plausibly emerge in the not-so-distant future.


The next exercise in August of 2019 was a Trump administration and Health and Human Services major exercise called Crimson Contagion. This simulation was almost identical to the Covid-19 plot today. “It tried to model what would happen if an influenza pandemic that started in China spread through the U.S. with no treatment, leaving 7.7 million Americans hospitalized and 586,000 dead.”


The last exercise that took place was the evil Gates Foundation Event 201 in October of 2019. This was nearly an exact replica of what has happened this past year concerning the response to this fraudulent virus pandemic. The fact that the Gates foundation along with Johns Hopkins were involved in this set-up to prepare the sheep, is damning at every level, and exposes that all government tyranny is planned in advance, and telegraphed in order to condition the public.
There Is No Covid Health Crisis and There Is No Virus Pandemic: There Is Only Long-Planned Orchestrated Tyranny

Yes, there is always the crackpot fringe to consider, of course, but the more deranged are less of an actual threat to our nation.

 

[harmonica]

Deft statesmanship and diplomatic finesses are not necessarily the tools that an egomaniacal, failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer brings to the international stage.

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The global consensus that Trump reeks leaves a stench upon America.

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America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency.​

Can Biden turn it around?​

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The Gallup organization conducts annual surveys assessing how others assess U.S. leadership. In 20 of 29 countries where Gallup has completed these surveys, approval ratings “are at new lows or they tie the previous low,” according to the report released last week. Among the countries where approval hit new lows are two of the nation’s staunchest allies, Germany and Britain.​

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Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans.​

Gallup’s findings square with a Pew Research Center report of a few months ago. Pew’s regular survey asks whether people elsewhere have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States. Among the nations where favorable impressions hit record lows or roughly tied them this year were a who’s who of traditional friends: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia.​

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[President Biden,] the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to reengage constructively with other nations, as has his designee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken. That will begin with allies in Europe, who have been treated badly by the current president.​

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“When he thinks foreign policy, he thinks allies, and when he thinks allies, he thinks Europe,” said Ivo Daalder, former ambassador to NATO ...​

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Trump has spurned or hectored allies in Europe and questioned the value of transatlantic alliances. Biden will embrace them all.​

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Showing up and saying the right words will be helpful in changing perceptions of the United States, but that might be only a first step in what could be a more challenging mission.​

​

Biden will look to European allies for help in dealing with some of the most important foreign policy issues that await him, from U.S. posture toward Russia to Biden’s desire to change relations with Iran after Trump pulled out of the joint nuclear agreement.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

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total babbleshit crap---you people are IGNORANT of history--they've been saying that shit for decades!!.......the world has been FKING over the US for decades----FK them and fk you

 

[Mac1958]

Deft statesmanship and diplomatic finesses are not necessarily the tools that an egomaniacal, failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer brings to the international stage.

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The global consensus that Trump reeks leaves a stench upon America.

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America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency.​

Can Biden turn it around?​

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The Gallup organization conducts annual surveys assessing how others assess U.S. leadership. In 20 of 29 countries where Gallup has completed these surveys, approval ratings “are at new lows or they tie the previous low,” according to the report released last week. Among the countries where approval hit new lows are two of the nation’s staunchest allies, Germany and Britain.​

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Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans.​

Gallup’s findings square with a Pew Research Center report of a few months ago. Pew’s regular survey asks whether people elsewhere have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States. Among the nations where favorable impressions hit record lows or roughly tied them this year were a who’s who of traditional friends: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia.​

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[President Biden,] the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to reengage constructively with other nations, as has his designee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken. That will begin with allies in Europe, who have been treated badly by the current president.​

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“When he thinks foreign policy, he thinks allies, and when he thinks allies, he thinks Europe,” said Ivo Daalder, former ambassador to NATO ...​

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Trump has spurned or hectored allies in Europe and questioned the value of transatlantic alliances. Biden will embrace them all.​

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Showing up and saying the right words will be helpful in changing perceptions of the United States, but that might be only a first step in what could be a more challenging mission.​

​

Biden will look to European allies for help in dealing with some of the most important foreign policy issues that await him, from U.S. posture toward Russia to Biden’s desire to change relations with Iran after Trump pulled out of the joint nuclear agreement.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

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The Great Flatulence should cling to power! ​

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I think so. The key is that we realized our mistake and voted him out, resoundingly. It would have been significantly different if we had voted him back in the same way. We are not the "ugly Americans" that many were afraid we might be becoming.

Anecdotally, overseas friends and family of mine essentially just breathed a sigh of relief and look at it as a one-off.

not with your Commies in charge

by the end of Joe Biden's short half served term, and at the beginning of Kami Harris' term, America will be 5th at best.

do you feel like a cocksucking idiot yet?

But I can't wait to go commie, bro!

Commie Commie Commie!

It'll be a CommieFest™! A veritable CommiePalooza™!

You'll love it! I promise bro!

 

[HappyJoy]

I'm not so sure, maybe. However with this extended election challenge brought on by Trump and his buddies and the fact that quite honestly someone like Trump could be elected again I tend to think our allies have to be questioning any sort of reliance or cooperation having to do with the United States may end up biting them in the ass one day.

I'm concerned that nationalists are rearing their ugly heads elsewhere as well, and strident, servile, dogmatic authoritarians are not just a recent American phenomenon. Democracy is more fragile than some had assumed, and the Cry Baby Loser's tantrum is not helping the realization of self-governance in America or elsewhere.

Yep, I agree and Mac made the same point. However we have that huge military and from what I can tell we are the ones who've gone further down this line than our allies have. But yes, that could change.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Let's be direct, WPost is a China First operation owned by the guy who ships more stuff produced from China than any other business.

What does "back" really mean? Get fleeced again by the Communists and sit idle? Or, instead of gaining $6k per household on average in 3 years, gain $400 bucks in eight?

How America can return back to it's glory and retain it's position is to take on China. Head on. Openly and directly and demand other Western nations do the same. While, also drawing the best and brightest and rejecting so-called "allied" states efforts to undermine it's global influence.

America needs to be an Empire. Unabashed, unashamed and unapologetic, so that the rest of the world who love their liberty, going on vacations, getting drunk, (if they choose), worshiping God, (if they choose), and continuing to make merry are free to do so.

Anyone who believes they can just hoodwink the Communist government at Will, is terribly mistaken. A traitor in many instances. You have to do so loudly.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Who should Joe how to first

 

[Gdjjr]

Yes, there is always the crackpot fringe to consider

Learn to read simple English, stupid.

In 2001, an exercise called “Dark Winter,” a favored term of Joe Biden about our current situation, was set up by Johns Hopkins and others to simulate a covert smallpox attack on the U.S., and to see what a government response might look like under those circumstances.

You may not be a "crack pot"- but you ain't real bright, either. You're simply a godvernment acolyte of a Party persuasion (religious sect) that feels your side is better than the other- you can't see the forest for the trees standing in the middle of the forest, stupid. If that goes over your head, it validates what I know to be factual and truthful- your indoctrination worked.

 

[pknopp]

Let's be direct, WPost is a China First operation owned by the guy who ships more stuff produced from China than any other business.

That's called Capitalism.

What does "back" really mean? Get fleeced again by the Communists and sit idle? Or, instead of gaining $6k a year per household on average in 3 years, gain $400 bucks in eight?

Millions for some, $5 for others. Average it out.

How America can return back to it's glory and retain it's position is to take on China. Head on. Openly and directly and demand other Western nations do the same. While, also drawing the best and brightest while rejecting so-called "allied" states efforts to undermine it's global influence.

There we go, as I pointed out before. We try and drag other countries into our spats and they are tired of it. On top of that it isn't going to happen. When Trump stopped farmers from selling to China there were plenty of others willing to step up and sell them what they wanted. That's called free market capitalism.

America needs to be an Empire. Unabashed, unashamed and unapologetic, so that the rest of the world who love their liberty, going on vacations, getting drunk, (if they choose), worshiping God, (if they choose), and continuing to make merry are free to do so.

Anyone who believes they can just hoodwink the Communist government at Will, is terribly mistaken. A traitor in many instances. You have to do so loudly.

Sorry, I initially took you seriously. My mistake.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Deft statesmanship and diplomatic finesses are not necessarily the tools that an egomaniacal, failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer brings to the international stage.

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The global consensus that Trump reeks leaves a stench upon America.

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America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency.​

Can Biden turn it around?​

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The Gallup organization conducts annual surveys assessing how others assess U.S. leadership. In 20 of 29 countries where Gallup has completed these surveys, approval ratings “are at new lows or they tie the previous low,” according to the report released last week. Among the countries where approval hit new lows are two of the nation’s staunchest allies, Germany and Britain.​

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Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans.​

Gallup’s findings square with a Pew Research Center report of a few months ago. Pew’s regular survey asks whether people elsewhere have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States. Among the nations where favorable impressions hit record lows or roughly tied them this year were a who’s who of traditional friends: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia.​

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[President Biden,] the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to reengage constructively with other nations, as has his designee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken. That will begin with allies in Europe, who have been treated badly by the current president.​

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“When he thinks foreign policy, he thinks allies, and when he thinks allies, he thinks Europe,” said Ivo Daalder, former ambassador to NATO ...​

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Trump has spurned or hectored allies in Europe and questioned the value of transatlantic alliances. Biden will embrace them all.​

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Showing up and saying the right words will be helpful in changing perceptions of the United States, but that might be only a first step in what could be a more challenging mission.​

​

Biden will look to European allies for help in dealing with some of the most important foreign policy issues that await him, from U.S. posture toward Russia to Biden’s desire to change relations with Iran after Trump pulled out of the joint nuclear agreement.​

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

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Go outside
Leave the smart phone inside

BAM! signs of real life appear

 

[Gdjjr]

America needs to be an Empire. Unabashed, unashamed and unapologetic, so that the rest of the world who love their liberty, going on vacations, getting drunk, (if they choose), worshiping God, (if they choose), and continuing to make merry are free to do so.

ALL Empires fall. Period.

The US needs to abide by the rules it's elected servants take an oath, swearing in the affirmative, to protect and defend those rules. There is nothing in those rules about being an Empire- the rules were agreed on (ratified) a long time ago and not one elected person since then has proven to be wiser-

The rest of the world can do as it pleases and we have the ability to defend ourselves- invading sovereign nations, pre-emptively, is *offensive* (in more than one way) and an insult to what liberty stands for-

 

[shockedcanadian]

Let's be direct, WPost is a China First operation owned by the guy who ships more stuff produced from China than any other business.

That's called Capitalism.

What does "back" really mean? Get fleeced again by the Communists and sit idle? Or, instead of gaining $6k a year per household on average in 3 years, gain $400 bucks in eight?

Millions for some, $5 for others. Average it out.

How America can return back to it's glory and retain it's position is to take on China. Head on. Openly and directly and demand other Western nations do the same. While, also drawing the best and brightest while rejecting so-called "allied" states efforts to undermine it's global influence.

There we go, as I pointed out before. We try and drag other countries into our spats and they are tired of it. On top of that it isn't going to happen. When Trump stopped farmers from selling to China there were plenty of others willing to step up and sell them what they wanted. That's called free market capitalism.

America needs to be an Empire. Unabashed, unashamed and unapologetic, so that the rest of the world who love their liberty, going on vacations, getting drunk, (if they choose), worshiping God, (if they choose), and continuing to make merry are free to do so.

Anyone who believes they can just hoodwink the Communist government at Will, is terribly mistaken. A traitor in many instances. You have to do so loudly.

Sorry, I initially took you seriously. My mistake.

What you should take serious is the threat posed, and the efforts by some in the West and even in America, who denounce their own ability to project power and influence.

If you believe the communist system and those suffering under it is a better system than the America one based on your constitution, than just who should not be taken seriously?

Empires are only a bad words in centuries gone when used by tyrants. America has done more good for the world when other nations would not. It must continue. For it to continue, you must succeed.

 

[pknopp]

Let's be direct, WPost is a China First operation owned by the guy who ships more stuff produced from China than any other business.

That's called Capitalism.

What does "back" really mean? Get fleeced again by the Communists and sit idle? Or, instead of gaining $6k a year per household on average in 3 years, gain $400 bucks in eight?

Millions for some, $5 for others. Average it out.

How America can return back to it's glory and retain it's position is to take on China. Head on. Openly and directly and demand other Western nations do the same. While, also drawing the best and brightest while rejecting so-called "allied" states efforts to undermine it's global influence.

There we go, as I pointed out before. We try and drag other countries into our spats and they are tired of it. On top of that it isn't going to happen. When Trump stopped farmers from selling to China there were plenty of others willing to step up and sell them what they wanted. That's called free market capitalism.

America needs to be an Empire. Unabashed, unashamed and unapologetic, so that the rest of the world who love their liberty, going on vacations, getting drunk, (if they choose), worshiping God, (if they choose), and continuing to make merry are free to do so.

Anyone who believes they can just hoodwink the Communist government at Will, is terribly mistaken. A traitor in many instances. You have to do so loudly.

Sorry, I initially took you seriously. My mistake.

What you should take serious is the threat posed, and the efforts by some in the West and even in America, who denounce their own ability to project power and influence.

If you believe the communist system and those suffering under it is a better system than the America one based on your constitution, than just who should not be taken seriously?

Empires are only a bad words in centuries gone when used by tyrants. America has done more good for the world when other nations would not. It must continue. For it to continue, you must succeed.

Hey, look over there.

 

[Gdjjr]

That's called free market capitalism.

Indeed- but, the really intelligent, our cream of the crop, elected idiots in empty suits know better- their interpretations are beyond questioning- they are gods, omnipotents-