Whenever I hear something like that, I want to grab the speaker by the lapels and shake them, screaming “WHAT MESS??!?!”
What was that Onion headline back when Dubya was first elected? “Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over”?
Fucking search engines. I put in a 3 word search and, of course, the first hit was
Odd that they failed to offer me onions. I mean, I like onions.
Prolly my all-time favorite Onion headline. I printed it out the day it was posted, for posterity.
Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’
Somewhat prescient, too:
Recently Pew Research polls 1000 people in each of several countries once per year to learn how they feel about the U.S. and its policies.
In 2016, 73% of all surveyed “trust[ed] the U.S. President when it comes to world affairs.” In 2017 this figure plummeted to 27%. 2016 was a good year for Obama; in 2015 only 63% had confidence in him but, since some countries were not surveyed in 2016, I’ll use 2015 for the following.
In South Korea the plummet was from 88% in 2015 to 17% today; Germany from 73% to 11%; Mexico from 49% to 11%. Thank heavens for Russia, the only country with a substantial rise, 11% to 53%.
The pollsters also asked more general questions. “Do you view the U.S. favorably or unfavorable?” In Mexico the 2015 result was 66 to 29. For 2017 this almost completely reversed: 30 to 65. The French also changed their view, with the U.S. favorable number falling from 73 to 46.
I’m actually surprised the unfavorables aren’t higher. Perhaps Mr. Trump’s address before the UN today will provide that little extra push.
Idiot-In-Chief just used the term “Rocket Man” twice in his speech to the United Nations.
I couldn’t watch it, precisely because I was sure he would do something this petty and juvenile. A complete embarrassment to our country, and what an indictment of our citizens for having elected him, even with all the help from Russia.
America: “Me fail democracy? That’s unpossible!”
He took a stand against extremists…then said that if North Korea threatened anybody we would destroy them.
If I were in that room, I’d have cameras trained on every senior aide’s face. It has to take incredible self control to not wince or otherwise react to what Trump is saying. Definitely wouldn’t want to play poker with those crazy assholes.
He didn’t mention “Crooked Hillary,” boast about his historic Electoral College win, or mock the failing Emmy awards show for losing all its viewers thanks to unfunny losers like Alec Baldwin— so on my personal scale of Abysmally Low Expectations, his speech was a phenomenal success. Sad!
Later on he made a reference to “loser terrorists”…as if “winner terrorists” were a thing. It was like a live version of The Trump Twitter Show.
I can’t believe he opened with an irrelevant laundry list of domestic “successes” since his election. Actually, I totally believe it. He’s just that petty.
Sure there is. If you win, you aren’t a terrorist anymore. Just ask any Israeli veteran of the Irgun.
There was undoubtedly a meeting a few months ago, where some advisor told him: “everybody knows that biggest insult in your vocabulary is “Loser”–so, own it. Make it your brand. Refer to terrorists as Losers at every opportunity.”
And he did.
Trump has a report about the economic effects of immigrants. It shows that he’s full of shit, so he squashes it. Just like everything else about him, his immigration stance is based on complete bullshit.
We know who the “winner” terrorists are. They’re his voters, busy supporting the new confederacy. That whole thing in 1865? Forget that. It was a dry run.
I can’t believe Trump really understood what he was getting himself in for when he nominated Jon Huntsman to be US ambassador to Russia. In his Senate confirmation hearing today, Huntsman said, “There is no question that the Russian government interfered in the U.S. election last year.”
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/351347-trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-russia-says-no-question-moscow-interfered
John Kelly literally face palmed.