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Donald Trump a global joke

joG said:
But you must understand! Mostly they are trying to prop up true own, at least in the Eu. It is a mess and they need exterior enemies and dangers to scare their populations into sticking together. The unisono nastiness is very much as false headed as the liberal media tirades in the US.
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It is not in a mess.
 
RetiredUSN said:
The Euro's have a long tradition of anti Americanism, and is still 24% anti Semitic.

What else is new.
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Anti-Americanism is a global thing. There's a lot of it in Canada, and more in Mexico and if you want to see it up close and personal go to Japan. One of the reasons is in keeping with your post, instead of asking 'what are we doing to offend everyone?', you attack the people who criticize you. Both as a nation and as individuals America s often a very poor neighbor.

As the saying goes, if everyone is telling you you're an asshole, you're probably an asshole
 
Bergslagstroll said:
If you watch Fox News Europe is a messy and scary continent.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/11/fox-news-steven-emerson-birmingham-muslims

https://www.thelocal.fr/20150115/are-there-really-no-go-zones-in-paris

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...or-no-go-zone-remarks/?utm_term=.3f5be8a25a5b

Notorious Swedish right-wing extremist touted as expert by Fox Business

Swedish police featured in Fox News segment: Filmmaker is a madman - DN.SE

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/he-fil...mp-saw-the-material-was-not-edited-ethically/

While the reailty is that many European countries are doing just fine, even if we just like any countries have our problems.

Take for example my country Sweden that have a strong and innovative economy. For example that Sweden is the best country for business according to Forbes.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017...ost-other-countries-at-just-about-everything/

Also Sweden have a murder rate of 1,1 per 100 000 compared to USA that has 4,9. If you look at individual city the rate for Malmö is 3,4 compared to St. Louis with 59.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a...tion-in-sweden-compared-to-the-us-in-4-charts

Sweden also for example have 480 days of paid parental leave and nearly free healthcare.

https://sweden.se/society/10-things-that-make-sweden-family-friendly/

That fake stories about Sweden and Europe have become big business in USA. To that degree that even poor Macedonians can earn a lot of money by luring Trump supporters to their homepages with fake news about Europe.



So I think you Americans can let us non Americans having fun at your politicians. Ecpecially then you elect as incompetent, wacky and dangerous president as Donald Trump.
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One reason the swedes are enjoying life is because they spend very little on defense compared to the US.

They can hide behind America's shield as do so many countries
 
Mac77 said:
One reason the swedes are enjoying life is because they spend very little on defense compared to the US.

They can hide behind America's shield as do so many countries
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I wonder, did you MAC77 ever hold that 'shield' for any time?
 
Rexedgar said:
I wonder, did you MAC77 ever hold that 'shield' for any time?
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I normally don't answer personal questions about myself on the internet

So I decline to answere
 
Mac77 said:
I normally don't answer personal questions about myself on the internet

So I decline to answere
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That's OK. Got what I expected.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Anti-Americanism is a global thing. There's a lot of it in Canada, and more in Mexico and if you want to see it up close and personal go to Japan. One of the reasons is in keeping with your post, instead of asking 'what are we doing to offend everyone?', you attack the people who criticize you. Both as a nation and as individuals America s often a very poor neighbor.

As the saying goes, if everyone is telling you you're an asshole, you're probably an asshole
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Meh..... The USA supports 10-12% of Mexico's population for them.

If the USA was that bad, it wouldn't be the 2nd most visited place in the world by tourists.

Been to 49 countries myself, so I must love being surrounded by assholes because I kept coming home. ;)
 
Mac77 said:
One reason the swedes are enjoying life is because they spend very little on defense compared to the US.

They can hide behind America's shield as do so many countries
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I don't know who you guys think you're 'protecting' anyone from. Stop doing it, if it bugs you. Bail out of NATO and every other pact you're part of. Isolationism, that's the ticket. Who needs allies?
Remember though- two Portugese soldiers died in Afghanistan. How many Americans have died because Portugal was attacked?
 
Oh my, how times have changed.

Doesn't seem that long ago that the extreme right wing were falling over themselves to praise and embrace the KGB thug whilst turning a blind eye to his clear and very obvious agenda which has been to diminish America’s influence in the world and belittle her leader. That's apparently ok though.....
 
It’s official: if you want to dramatically improve the quality of your life, move to Europe. That’s what the 18th annual Quality of Life survey from consulting firm Mercer suggests—cities in western Europe dominate the top of this year’s list of the world’s best cities to live in.
Only seven US cities made it into the top 50, and New York wasn’t even the highest ranked among those. Vienna was named the number one best city in the world to live in (again). Other German-speaking cities did well, too—Munich, Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt were all selected into the top 10, and Zurich (where a majority of the population speaks Swiss German) was ranked the second best city in the world to live in.
https://qz.com/622894/this-is-why-life-really-is-better-in-europe/

13 Reasons Why Life Would Be Better If You Were European This Summer

16 Ways Europeans Are Just Better At Life | HuffPost
 
RetiredUSN said:
Meh..... The USA supports 10-12% of Mexico's population for them.

If the USA was that bad, it wouldn't be the 2nd most visited place in the world by tourists.

Been to 49 countries myself, so I must love being surrounded by assholes because I kept coming home. ;)
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Can't argue with that logic! :)
 
I heard Trumpy sang a little song for the Russians (behind closed doors in the Oval Orifice)

"Hey, I just met you.
And this is crazy.
But here's some intel
From an Israeli."
 
Best thing I read about Trump -- pardon if already mentioned -- is that NATO folk have been asked to limit their comments to 4-5 minutes to keep him from getting bored or confused. Didn't believe it. Still don't want to, but looked it up and it appears it might be true. Sad. Still hope it's not true.

But I suppose that a 4-5 minute limit is better than a 140 character limit.
 
I can understand how it is completely possible that many others across the globe believe that since the American voter selected Trump to be POTUS, and they also understand that Trump is a complete ****ing idiot, these very same people likely see Americans in general to also be complete ****ing idiots.

It is not difficult to see that is basically how the rest of the planet currently perceives the US; how sad.

Thanks Don Cheeto ...........
 
Mac77 said:
One reason the swedes are enjoying life is because they spend very little on defense compared to the US.

They can hide behind America's shield as do so many countries
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The EU countries together already spend over three times more on their military than Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union#cite_note-eda.europa1-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

Then it comes to Sweden we have invested a lot in our military during the cold war, like for example we had compulsory military service, we developed our own fighter jets, and we would probably even have had our own nukes, if the project wasn’t stopped because of political reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_program

Also, there are a lot of other ways to contribute to a better world. For example, Sweden rank highest on the Good Country Index.

https://goodcountry.org/index/results

cuban smokes said:
I can understand how it is completely possible that many others across the globe believe that since the American voter selected Trump to be POTUS, and they also understand that Trump is a complete ****ing idiot, these very same people likely see Americans in general to also be complete ****ing idiots.

It is not difficult to see that is basically how the rest of the planet currently perceives the US; how sad.

Thanks Don Cheeto ...........
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As I understand a big reason for Donald Trump's victory was your low voting turnout in USA. That the biggest group was people that didn’t vote, then Americans that voted for Hillary Clinton and thirdly people that voted for Trump. That your voting turnout was around 55 % compared to around 80 % in many European countries.

That maybe Trumps victory can lead to that Americans realize that politics and voting actual matters. That who is in the White House have a big impact. That at the same time both politicians and the media have a large responsibility to get people to be knowledgeable and care enough to vote. That as I understand it American politicians have been focusing too much on negative campaigning for a long time. While your media focus to much on polls and controversies instead of policies.

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/
 
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Bergslagstroll said:
As I understand a big reason for Donald Trump's victory was your low voting turnout in USA. That the biggest group was people that didn’t vote, then Americans that voted for Hillary Clinton and thirdly people that voted for Trump. That your voting turnout was around 55 % compared to around 80 % in many European countries.

That maybe Trumps victory can lead to that Americans realize that politics and voting actual matters. That who is in the White House have a big impact. That at the same time both politicians and the media have a large responsibility to get people to be knowledgeable and care enough to vote. That as I understand it American politicians have been focusing too much on negative campaigning for a long time. While your media focus to much on polls and controversies instead of policies.

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-general-election/
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America is FULL of bull**** riff raff; many here have no idea what voting even means. These folks are more concerned with sucking on the government teet, doing their next drug deal, getting their next bottle of whatever flavor of alcohol they are addicted to, getting their next hit of whatever legal/illegal drug they prefer, being a general sloth, not being employed, doing harm to others, various & sundry criminal activities, etc. Yes, America is FULL of riff raff bull**** that could care less about self directing their own futures via a vote.

Me? I voted for Gary 'what is Aleppo' Johnson. :cool:
 
OlNate said:
Yes, American only cares what the rest of the world thinks when they're winning. When they're losing...ya, not so much...lol
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Except, America isn't losing. This is the best country in the world, unless you are a socialist or, what's the new term? Ahh yes, snowflake.

calamity said:
Let me get this straight

Trump is considered a good president by the same morons who criticized obama?

Don't make me laugh
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Better so far, by a wide margin.
 
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Mac77 said:
Let me get this straight

Trump is being criticized by the same morons who thought obama was a good president?

Don't make me laugh
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Socialists always make me laugh.

joG said:
If I were a journalist or comedian and wanted cheap and sure applause, .....
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I agree with that comment.

joG said:
There are certainly a lot of those.
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Yes.

Mac77 said:
Particularly foreign assholes who really should worry more about their own miserable little countries.

And i am referring to the foreigners featured in the op not the foreigners posting here
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Yes. :thumbs:

ocean515 said:
I've always found it interesting that many foreign countries, so despicable and guilty of horrendous treatment of their citizens, millions and millions of their citizens left, or continue to leave, for a better life in the United States, would think anyone in the United States should care about what they think of our President.
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The greatest country in all the world. The others think they have freedom, they really don't, they are controlled.
 
alicesees said:
Except, America isn't losing. This is the best country in the world, unless you are a socialist or, what's the new term? Ahh yes, snowflake.
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Hi, welcome to DP! :) As a part of your introductory experience, given that you've only posted 8 times, maybe I'll even have the honor of being the first to tell you to Google what place America is in, in relation to other countries in the world....lol... I guarantee you by now most of us have, despite some of you not being happy with the answer.

PS: No one here gets their feelings hurt by the words snowflake, libtard, or sheeple anymore either... Just a couple helpful hints for the go forward. Good luck, and have fun! :)
 
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