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Jacobs-Meadway Roberta's avatar

Making America what Again? A great big joke? An example of what not to do? Irrelevant? Unreliable? All of the above?

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Alice Elliot's avatar

To the rest of the world ...HELP!!!!!

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Sylvia Griffith's avatar

I hope you get more attention to this post because it is outstanding! I'm 89 years old and in all my long years have I ever heard a president's speech like this. What an embarrassment! Please vote for a leader of this country that will give us back our pride to be an American!

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Joseph L. Peascoe's avatar

Absolutely! I’m with ya. I’m a progressive Republican that doesn’t fit in the fascist pedo protection club….oh, I mean MAGA. I ain’t no damn maga. I didn’t vote for this ass clown three times. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, well…that didn’t happen. Fool me every damn day and lie to me like I’m some simple dumbass? Yeah, it’s a cult. A really unnecessary shit stain on US history. I hate getting lumped in with these losers. I may be a Lincoln Republican, but I ain’t a MAGA RepubliKKKan. Let’s be real. There’s no similarities between the progressive party of Lincoln and this bullshit Party of Trump…the pedo.

#countryoverparty.

JLP

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SNARK Avenue's avatar

Amen to that! ✨

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Sharon Riggle's avatar

Thank you for this. I agree. And as a former UN staffer who worked high-level week for 10 years, I feel the need to weigh in to yesterday’s spectacle.

I don’t need to repeat that his speech was completely unhinged. But it’s a great insight into his personality that he would rant at length to a roomful of global leaders, that they might find it interesting. What I think less people realize is that such a display impacts the seriousness with which every country delegation will take the United States for the next year at least.

Usually speeches in the UN are highly nuanced, with everyone hanging on for the slightest change in wording. He was more than just a bull in a china shop; he was a meteor from outer space causing the extinction of the dinosaurs.

On a policy level, everyone has realized there is no coherence in the US position and that everything depends on the irrational whim of our current president. This is highly destabilizing globally, but also for the US’ ability to achieve any meaningful work in the UN realm—not that they have great policy goals in an institution they have defunded.

The blowback from these few months of Trump’s presidency will take us decades to recover from. More than 200 years of forward progress of being an example of democracy and hope, has been irreparably damaged.

This is not to say that it cannot be clawed back with concerted effort and creativity. This is I’m sure what a non-Trump-aligned administration will attempt to do when it is next in office, be it Republican or Democrat.

But our superpower status is no longer ours. The reputation of being a giant, pioneering, melting pot of opportunity and stability, is gone. Yesterday sealed it.

Our best course of action is to continue pushing back at every opportunity, and reinforcing international links at the state and local level. That will be the basis for renewing our global status post-Trump.

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John Norman's avatar

Painted goon strikes again.

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Jonathan's avatar

As in the namesake.. Trump's Repulsive Unhinged Misinformed POS the world has never seen before or will ever see again that showcase the bestest of the worst the magacult has to offer to magaland or the world. Someone needs give him some Tylenol to soothe the world headache listening to his foul mouth. 🤷🤦🙄

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Joseph L. Peascoe's avatar

#fdt

I also write mockery of this Trump nonsense. As a Lincoln republican, I’m aware he’s full of shit. That’s why I voted for all democrats last year. There’s no similarities whatsoever between the Party of Lincoln and the dumbass cult Party of Pedo Prez. I can’t stand this bullshit. Straight up.

JLP

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Lea Moonlight🐉🌌☯️✨🪐's avatar

All Apologies from N. America to the World

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Stanley's avatar

This was a display without comparison. He made America an international laughing stock. We were once the epitome of leadership. Trump has made us a clown car to be mocked and derided by the World.

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Michael Floyd's avatar

If you elect a Clown, expect a Circus? Thanks Republicans.

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GIG's avatar

You can tell that Stephen Miller write Trump's speeches. Miller is a dumb guy who thinks he is smart. Those speeches are simplistic and full of nonsense.

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Joseph L. Peascoe's avatar

Yep. I’m with yall. #RepublicansAgainstTrump

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Joseph L. Peascoe's avatar

Stephen Miller eats his corn on the cob “the LONG way.”

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Joseph L. Peascoe's avatar

I hit subscribe. You speak my language. I know I speak yours already. We’re gonna be homies.

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Joseph L. Peascoe's avatar

Hey, I hit subscribe for sure. I think I just might have found a crew of folks that I like reading. Yall enjoy this. Just finished it.

JLP

#countryoverparty

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Heather bruce's avatar

It's a shame they applauded I stead of walking out….and many are quoted as praising hi….particularly his ‘peacekeeping’….such cowards

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Bluebird's avatar

I want to live in a democracy. America is not it.

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Donna's avatar

Moronic mofo🤬🤬

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