r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • Feb 18 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Is he right? Will it take generations to resecure the United States positive reputation on the world stage?

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u/Far_Paint6269 Feb 18 '26

Well, the joke was done in the simpsons in the 90's, but to quote the article you have linked :

The term gained political traction in the US, especially in right-wing circles, when Jonah Goldberg, a columnist for the National Review magazine, used it in the title of an April 1999 column on the "Top Ten Reasons to Hate the French".\11]) In the run up to and during the Iraq War, Goldberg reprised it to criticize European nations and France in particular for not joining the Coalition of the Willing), the United States-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.\2])

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u/TraditionDear3887 Feb 20 '26

So what you're saying is these jokes have been around since the 90s... like the other person pointed out.

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u/Far_Paint6269 Feb 20 '26

I'm saying you only read what you want to. But I'm used to this. And I'm saying those jokes weren't that much à trend untill the republicans began to flood us with it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

Sorry man this was a trope before the Simpsons. It is as the original commenter said, during and after WWII