• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    One of the biggest things I remember about his presidency was the fucking embarrassment. Other countries were mocking us and for good reason.

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      2 months ago

      I recently rewatched the video of the UN assembly laughing to his face. Insanity that he’s still respected as any kind of statesman

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      2 months ago

      That’s not unusual for Americans, though. Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon… Americans have been putting up turds to the Oval Office since President Kennedy’s term abruptly ended.

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        Turns out Kennedy too was more of a turd than most people suspected at the time. Not in the same league with your list, but still a real mess once you know enough about him.

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          Turd on turd violence. But it did seem like Kennedy was ready to fix Truman’s mistake in kicking off the Cold War.

          And then…

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        That’s not unusual for Americans, though. Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon

        All of those guys were way more respected than Trump. And of the rest, all of the others not Bush jr were way more respected than Bush jr.

        The current period IS very unusual for how badly our reputation has fallen. Although you could also say America’s reputation around the world was unusually high from 1945-2000.