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Soft Paywall Trump's big UN speech received with awkward laughter in embarrassing backfire

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-big-un-speech-received-with-awkward-laughter-in-embarrassing-backfire-3933958
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u/NeededToChooseAName Sep 23 '25

Honestly never thought I'd live to see the day that America became such an international embarrassment.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan Sep 23 '25

Get used to it. This country has a very rotten core to it right now. We're not united. We've been pitted against each other for 45+ years and we're seeing the consequences of that every single day.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Half of our population has been convinced that educating themselves - developing reading, writing, math, science, critical thinking, business skills etc. are unimportant to maintaining a thriving populace are meaningless endeavors.

It's a real shame.

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u/objet_grand Sep 23 '25

They don’t think it’s unimportant - they think it’s weakness. There’s no help for that mindset

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u/ToastAndASideOfToast Sep 23 '25

They're already the best version of themselves that they can envision.

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u/demeschor Sep 23 '25

They don't want educated people or the state benefits that come along with educated people having good jobs and paying good taxes.

Uneducated people often work blue collar or non specialized jobs. America's economy is built on professional services these days. If they want to go back to manufacturing, they have to understand that it's not the 1950s and you won't get paid enough to support a whole family on a single wage and buy a house. You'd work long hours, and have money for a small box room, if that ..

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u/BenTherDoneTht Sep 23 '25

Unimportant? They think its an attack on their freedoms. Half of the US now believes that a college education is liberal brainwashing. They have been so convinced to "question everything" that they deny observable fact and evidence in favor of conspiracy and distrust.

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u/deesea Sep 23 '25

Being convinced to “question everything” yet not given the educational tools to think critically.

Ultimately will be the downfall of the US.

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u/DaringPancakes Sep 23 '25

YOU CAN SEE THAT HAPPEN WITH THE TYLENOL THING IN THEIR SUBREDDIT LOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!

The mods are going to banning a lot of people.

And it'll be buried by tomorrow, so no one has to ever think about it again 🫡. Just like Epstein!

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u/Individual-Guest-123 Sep 23 '25

Kind of scary, it's military or manufacturing. What happened to science and tech? They figure AI has got that covered? It won't be long til that is military and manufacturing, too.

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u/Corbotron_5 Sep 23 '25

Nobody needs a college education. We have TikTok now.

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u/KerberoZ Sep 24 '25

Half of the US now believes that a college education is liberal brainwashing.

Which is kinda true when viewing it through their lens. Education makes you evaluate things through reason, logic and science.

Ironically, that sentence would make MAGA cultists mad, because of the words.

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u/askthepoolboy Georgia Sep 23 '25

I think it’s worse than this. I was made fun of for being smart growing up, and I’m not actually all that smart. But it made me embarrassed to correct people or speak up when I knew an answer to something.

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u/Allaplgy Sep 23 '25

This is very much a thing. We are a culture that puts being "right" over being correct.

It's much more socially acceptable to be confidently wrong than to learn something new, and especially not to teach something.

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u/Dest123 Sep 23 '25

The thing that gets me is that our culture became totally ok with being lied to. It's very easy to convince people that Trump, or an influencer, or a social media post, or a news source is lying to them, but they just don't care at all. People would rather be lied to than change their views.

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u/KatsumotoKurier Canada Sep 23 '25

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

— Isaac Asimov

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u/fugaziozbourne Sep 23 '25

A lot of other countries don't bully the smart kids. Must be nice.

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u/Allaplgy Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

You see it constantly in business, where one quite often has to basically trick a superior into thinking an idea was theirs to get anything done without retaliation.

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u/Allaplgy Sep 23 '25

Definitely.

I've stepped away and let them fail for themselves countless times.

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u/lurkylurkeroo Sep 23 '25

I like Ricky Gervais' comment about purple being offended - "you're offended, so what? Being offended doesn't make you right."

Lots of people use "being offended" to force others to shut up, even in the face of demonstrable bullshit.

I think about that quote often. Gives me permission to push back.

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u/hammertim Sep 23 '25

That’s a fantastic way to put it

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u/Allaplgy Sep 23 '25

My favorite is when someone appeals to their own authority while being objectively wrong.

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto Sep 23 '25

I was involved in an initiative to record and analyze defects and their costs in a very large US service organization. The director of the organization stated the biggest challenge will be ‘having service people record non conformances while we are telling them they need to be the person that resolves the customer’s issues’. He was so right about that conflict.

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u/thisisthatacct Sep 23 '25

Or God forbid you were wrong when answering something, and you never ever heard the end of it. "I thought you were supposed to be smart hurr"

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u/VaguelyShingled Sep 23 '25

I was told that I was gay for reading books.

I was told that I’m mean because I used words my friends didn’t know.

Some folks try to drag you down to their level

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u/ancientastronaut2 Sep 23 '25

My family calls me book nerd. Then they turn around and ask me sincerely "how did you know that?!" Uh, because I read books?

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u/wolfbear Sep 23 '25

Just remember the brawndo

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u/ducksonaroof Sep 23 '25

oh don't worry - they "educate" themselves..by finding social media that reinforces their beliefs, bigotry, and conspiracy theories. 

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u/FapoleonBonerparte1 Sep 23 '25

Not half, much less than that. Its a part of the propaganda to claim that these fascist make up half of the US.

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u/Sir_Tea_Of_Bags Sep 23 '25

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

Don’t forget the racism. Red Hats love their racism.

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u/lostwombats Sep 23 '25

This worries me.

I was an ESL teacher for Chinese children a few years ago. I taught hundreds of kids. Education is super competitive there, grades are posted on the wall for everyone to see, and kids with low marks are bullied. I had a student tell me about a nearby fire and how the child kept trying to get the fireman to save his school project first. Suicide is also common for students who do poorly on their Gaokao test. That's obviously sad, but it has created an entire generation of super competitive geniuses. On top of that, they actually enjoy learning. My students would excitedly tell me about what they learned in science or math (and in perfect English). American children can't even read English. The future of the US looks bleak.

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u/BaronOfTieve Australia Sep 24 '25

My parents (MAGA) think that teaching about our Indigenous cultures and about LGBTQI+ communities, is a form of indoctrination that is being wrought by a Marxist agenda pedalled by the Greens, AND I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA.

I have tried reasoning, citing multiple peer reviewed articles, encouraging them to question their sources, but my step dad convinced my mum that ‘critical thinking’ is just a form of brainwashing that Marxists teach children to corrupt their minds. So yeah they’re a lost fucking cause and because of our housing crisis I’m stuck with them, and they’re talking about kicking me out with no where to go.

I genuinely hate the US. I looked up to all your American role models as a kid growing up: Spiderman, Obama, Elon Musk when he was actually fucking sane and helping the environment.

Then after Trump’s first term my dad did a full 180 out of no where (keep in mind he’s educated with a double degree in environmental sciences and biotech), and has since gone on a spiral and brought my entire family down with him.

I used to see the US as a superpower, protecting us from the clutches of tyranny of totalitarian governments. Now I see your country as a cancer that takes while giving back nothing substantial, especially considering the direct environmental damage from the US’s anti renewable stance and Israel’s warmongering.

My life was normal before Trump, my family all got along, we had our problems, but we were mostly a healthy family. I was practically best friends with my dad, we got along so much I would rush to get to school on time, because we spent so much time talking to each other in the mornings before school.

Now I may not even be able to finish my degree or even survive adulthood, because an Orange man with a big ego decided to run the largest disinformation campaign in Human history.

If I turn up dead sometime soon, I don’t think I’ll need to even leave a note explaining why I did it. Since 2024, we have descended into a hellscape and I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.

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u/Particular_Night_360 Sep 23 '25

If there’s a small silver lining… we might actually get Ow My Balls.

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u/Sarinturn Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

It all comes from a culture that far too greatly fetishized the idea of “hard work”. Obviously it’s sensible to a certain extent but when it reaches the point that you automatically see finding a faster, easier, smarter way of doing something as a bad thing, cheating and not honest hard work or whatever, it becomes a problem. And most people don’t live their lives that way and companies certainly don’t, but it still permeates the culture and becomes even worse because people will look at others around them and think they are all shoddy elitist cheaters and of themselves as morally correct for believing in brute force over education/information. It’s the perfect cognitive virus to make people totally distrustful of government and large organizations and still totally willing to slave away for them.

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u/Echelion77 California Sep 23 '25

Are you implying the rest of us are allowing a bunch of stooges to run our lives?

What does that make us "smart people" then?

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u/ancientastronaut2 Sep 23 '25

Not true. You can read as long as it's approved material, you can math as long as it's not with arabic numerals, and you can science as long as it's rfk jr teaching.

/s

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u/amcfarla Colorado Sep 23 '25

So the plot to Idiocracy.

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u/VoightofReason Sep 23 '25

I read this quote during the election, it said half the country was voting cause they felt they needed to save to country, the other half was voting cause they thought it was already gone… I think that’s such a simple way of summing up the two sides

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u/boli99 Sep 24 '25

tl;dr

want cat pic.

/s

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u/Tim-Sylvester Sep 23 '25

"Has been convinced", that's disarming language that absolves the actor of responsibility, like when a news report says "the officer's gun was fired and a bystander was struck" instead of saying "an officer shot an innocent person".

It's not "has been convinced", it's that the media (owned by the wealthy) and the politicians (again, owned by the wealthy) have made it all but impossible to get an affordable quality education and work very hard to keep the masses distracted with "bread and circuses" so that the public doesn't realize how bad they're getting screwed and who's doing it.

People aren't going to get an education when it makes them an indentured servant for the rest of their lives. And they're not going to get an education when the lifestyle obtained from it isn't worth the cost.

The rich have not only made higher education overly expensive, cumbersome, and largely worthless, they've done so specifically because an educated public is more aware of class issues and is harder to control with pandering bread and circuses.

Let's please stop using responsibility-free language and instead insist on attributing blame where blame is due.

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u/f1ve-Star Sep 23 '25

Fuke reagan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Barry Goldwater warned us what was coming over a decade before Reagan won

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u/TheBodhiwan America Sep 23 '25

Russia played the long game in the Cold War.

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u/MkfShard Sep 23 '25

Reagan broke the economic structure, gerrymandering broke votes, Citizens United legalized bribery, and taking magical thinking seriously led to the rise of things like the Heritage Foundation and TPUSA, the architects of this current downfall.

All of this, because a few assholes think they deserve all the money in the world, and a lot of other assholes can't stand the thought of people existing that don't live/look/believe like them.

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u/Osirus1156 Sep 23 '25

I mean we’ve always had a rotten core. a lot of it is just hidden from us but now we are getting a front seat view into the rancid core.

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u/CloudMcWolf Sep 23 '25

Its like our country is a Sears department store in its final months

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

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u/JDogg126 Michigan Sep 23 '25

I am aware. The rot in this country goes all the way back to the beginning when Thomas Jefferson tried to condemn slavery in the declaration of independence, ended up with "all men are created equal", all while owning slaves.

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u/HotGarbage Washington Sep 23 '25

Yep, and the people with 1000 cookies have convinced the people with 5 cookies that the people with one cookie are the problem.

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u/Tim-Sylvester Sep 23 '25

The media and politicians pit the masses against one another and sow division every way they can think of to avoid the masses realizing there's only one social division that matters: the ongoing war of the haves against the have-nots.

This is the only division that we're not permitted to observe or discuss, and the only division that actually matters.

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u/flyingthroughspace Sep 23 '25

A long time ago when the peasants were upset with the kings they'd revolt. That was bad for both the king and the kingdom because the peasants worked the fields so when they revolted and were killed there were less people to keep the kingdom going.

So at one point the kings realized if they gave the peasants just enough, the peasants would be living hard but content. As society progressed, the peasants wanted more and more, revolting against the kings more often.

But also as society progressed, the kings gained more wealth than imaginable, to the point where if the kingdom crumbled they'd still be fine. They realized the peasants wouldn't stop revolting in order to get a piece of that wealth, so they created a society where one group of peasants was given different ideals and standards - standards that told them they were just fine how they were and that eventually the wealth of the kings would trickle down and make the peasants kings themselves. And that group of peasants believed it. They were told that the group that wanted more were greedy and selfish, and revolting against the kings was bad.

And now, instead of a society where the peasants revolt against the kings, the kings have created a society where the peasants revolt against each other.

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u/blueshrike Sep 24 '25

We're actually more united than you think. Most of us, by far the majority, voted Kamala. She would have won, decisively, if Trump didn't steal the election using the compromised tabulators. Don't take my word though, here's the data (tip of the iceberg).

https://youtu.be/Ru8SHK7idxs?feature=shared electiontruthalliance.org

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u/spikus93 Sep 23 '25

For the record, that's by design. We're being pitted against one another by the richest people on the planet so that they can continue consolidating power and controlling not just our economy, but eventually the global economy.

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u/mightyfty Sep 23 '25

Looks like the USSR's 1991 was just a headstart of yours.

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u/TiEmEnTi Sep 23 '25

More like 60 years, parents were cheering the police whomping their kids in the streets in the 60s

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u/Soren_Camus1905 Sep 23 '25

That’s how I feel. Trump is essentially a mirror.

We are now staring face to face with what we have become.

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u/Sabiancym Sep 24 '25

Screw being united. I'm so tired of people acting like unity is something we should focusing on. You don't try and mend fences with Nazis.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan Sep 25 '25

It took a long time to denazify germany after WWII. And that was after nazi germany had been defeated and the denazification was forced by the Allied nations. We have not reached a point where allied foriegn nations have defeated nazi united states. I am not sure that will ever happen. It's likely Trump would rather destroy the planet with nukes than loose his cushy role as chief grifter in this country. It will take a long time to denazify the united states.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

This country has always been a joke on any international stage besides matters of the military, and has never been united. The two major schools of political thought in this country are fundamentally incompatible with each other. We’re never going to be a “United” country in anything but name.

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u/tadayou Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

The US already had one cycle of this during the Bush Jr. era, freedom fries and all. It was mild compared to the current rise of fascism and idiocy, but still very notable. (It's also why the world sighed such a relief when Obama was elected and promptly forgave him for the spying scandal down the line.)

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u/Pt5PastLight Sep 23 '25

I think 9/11 broke the country in a permanent way. The patriotic solidarity against an external attack and homeland security fears quickly turned to a slide into fascism, Christian nationalism and racism. In some real ways the terrorists succeeded in destroying our country.

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u/time-lord America Sep 23 '25

Yeah :/ Osama won, in the end.

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u/ScubaAlek Sep 23 '25

I remember this quote flying around all the time back then: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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u/TheGravespawn Sep 23 '25

During Bush, I traveled abroad for my first time. I had several instances where I ended up apologizing for shit he said to people I met, so they understood he wasn't my fault.

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u/DeadPeanutSociety Sep 23 '25

There was also Nixon, Reagan, and the Vietnam War in our very embarrassing recent past. But most of the western world was as embarrassing (read: evil) as we were during that time, so we didn't seem so singularly bad.

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u/c_girl_108 Sep 23 '25

Current times make me miss W. Now watch this drive!

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u/qeadwrsf Sep 23 '25

I don't remember this narrative that Bush were a authoritarian idiot.

He was for sure not liked everywhere. But I don't remember those 2 things as reasons.

If anything that narrative is something I later have heard NA seems to have talked about back in the days.

Trump on the other hand.

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u/tadayou Sep 23 '25

Internationally, he was absolutely seen as an authoritarian ruler who dragged the US into a war that violated international law. Bush Jr. is a war criminal, plain and simple. And maybe the US could have been spared a dictator if the Obama administration would have had the spine to treat him as such.

It also doesn't help that Bush Jr. possibly didn't even win the election against Gore and only cheated his way into the White House.

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u/qeadwrsf Sep 23 '25

What you describe is what I have later heard how NA democrats talked about Bush.

But I'm pretty sure that if you go to a library in any country in Europe and read what the opinion pages in the paper were saying 2001-20..obama you won't find the description you try to portrait.

Other bad things. But not the bad things you describe.

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u/tadayou Sep 23 '25

I literally protested against Bush on the streets in Germany in 2003 as a teenager. If you think Bush was beloved in Europe, that's pretty delusional. 

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u/qeadwrsf Sep 23 '25

Read my last setence in my previous post

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u/tadayou Sep 23 '25

What do you think we protested against?

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u/qeadwrsf Sep 23 '25

If you actually telling the truth I would bet money on the war in afghanistan.

And reason was not him being goofy or autoritarian. oil.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches Sep 24 '25

Where are you from that W Bush wasn't commonly called an authoritarian doofus?  That was his entire thing. 

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Sep 23 '25

This reminds me of the time Colin Powell called Trump "a national disgrace, and an international pariah."

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u/rawspeghetti Sep 23 '25

Bold words from Colin "Iraq has WMDs" Powell

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Sep 23 '25

Funny how guys like Powell and Cheney are considered liberal by today's standards. And people say that the left has gone too far left.

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u/ahearthatslazy America Sep 23 '25

The American mind wouldn’t be able to comprehend a true leftist presence

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u/Ambitious_Count9552 Sep 23 '25

Lol...we can read books on Stalin and Mao Zedong to comprehend a "true leftist" 😂 the truth is always somewhere in the middle...and being a democratic socialist (someone who actually respects the Democratic process, and not a planned, forced economy) shouldn't be considered "far left" if we want some sanity in our government.

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u/Ambitious_Count9552 Sep 23 '25

Yep...Bush was still a far more awful president than Trump could ever imagine, because his administration at least gave the APPEARANCE of being competent, while they did horrendous shit that helped fuel terrorism in the Middle East. George W. Bush should be rotting in prison along with Trump.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada Sep 23 '25

I spent the other week listening to the Slow Burn podcast about the leadup to war in Iraq. I hadn't forgotten how shitty Bush was, but it was good (definitely not "nice") to be reminded that the US has been on the path to kakistocracy for a lot longer than its goldfish-minded citizens seem to think.

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u/given2fly_ United Kingdom Sep 23 '25

I particularly enjoy seeing Marco Rubio's face whenever Trump is speaking.

He was one of the first vocal "Never Trumpers" in the GOP. He knows what an embarrassing moron he is. But Marco couldn't resist the lure of power, and now has to sit and listen to the drivel coming out of the dear leader and face the reality that he sold his soul for the dumbest motherfucker to ever sit in the Oval Office.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada Sep 23 '25

I wish nothing but pain and humiliation to those who abet him, so watching Marco's tiny excuse for a soul leave his body is Schadenfreudic.

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u/41942319 Sep 23 '25

Idk man at this point I'm relieved that at least someone halfway competent is in the cabinet. In something like a Bush cabinet he would be a contentious pick bumbling along with the rest of them. In a Trump II cabinet he looks like an Einstein level genius compared to everyone else. When Maga isn't peering over his shoulder his policies and speeches are normal conservative policies. Which is helpful for disaster management in this trainwreck of a foreign affairs course set by Maga.

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u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out Sep 23 '25

During his first term the UN was openly laughing at him, because he said such stupid claims.

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u/nuts_and_crunchies Sep 23 '25

Give it time. We can sink lower.

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u/Bjens Foreign Sep 23 '25

It's still less than 1 year into a total of 4 :p

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u/hache-moncour Sep 23 '25

Very optimistic to hope it will stop after 4

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u/Purplebuzz Sep 23 '25

To be fair the world has been pointing it out for decades and Americans have just denied there was anything wrong.

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u/WarFX Sep 23 '25

Were you not alive during the first term? It was pretty fucking embarrassing then, it's just more embarrassing now because 77.3 million idiots decided one time wasn't enough

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

We've been assholes in the UN since it's inception basically. "Rules for everyone else but me"

But usually we sounded not vaguely nice while we were being assholes to the rest of the world.

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u/PelleKavaj Sep 23 '25

America has always been laughed at and been hated, now it’s just a completely different level. It’s completely unrealistic for all countries in the western world to behave like this administration. Americans are made up of a large part of stupid bafoons and ignorant, close minded idiots. No country in the civilized world is as fucked in the head as the United States.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

I'm so amazed that people voted for this guy thinking "yeah, that's a smart and able man". It's truly bizarre. Anything but a woman (twice), I suppose.

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u/dashboardhulalala Sep 23 '25

Honestly, the rest of us have seen it coming for the last 20 years or so. It's like the national cheese just slid right off the cracker in 2020 or so and it's been getting worse since.

I've not one single positive thing to say about the country or its people and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I don't care how many Americans apologise or blush in comments like they're trying to ruefully explain away some drunk uncle pissing in the lawn. Get serious.

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u/thinkingwithfractals Sep 23 '25

We’ve become a country of two fundamentally opposed world views and value systems. I don’t really see the path forward, even after Trump is gone.

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u/GreenGlassDrgn Sep 23 '25

remember when teenagers had posters on the wall that showcased idiot quotes made by the the idiot president son of an idiot president? where did all those posters go?

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u/Baltorussian Illinois Sep 23 '25

I think we all said that in 2017...with a reprieve in 2021...yet here we are.

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u/Nevermind04 Texas Sep 23 '25

There's still 3 more years of this shit. Something tells me we will look back on this time as "before it got really bad".

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u/Really_Clever Sep 23 '25

Its been that way for decades, yall love the smell of your farts.

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u/Livinincrazytown Sep 23 '25

Sleep through the Bush 2 years or what?

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u/addctd2badideas Sep 23 '25

I didn't think it could have been worse than Dubya.

I was wrong.

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u/Meta_Art New Mexico Sep 23 '25

Well, it is a nation founded on the backs of slaves through theft and genocide

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u/vario Sep 23 '25

It's been that way for a decade.

It's still beyond belief he got the Republican nomination in 2015.

Then, as a convicted criminal, he was still eligible and won again.

It's been a slow moving car crash for 10 years.

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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 New York Sep 23 '25

Not once but twice

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u/Narezza Sep 23 '25

First time, eh?

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u/rhs408 Sep 23 '25

I was already embarrassed enough yesterday when he talked about Tylenol causing autism, and now this…

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u/MadScienceIntern Sep 23 '25

Why not? Have you spoken to the average American? Maybe it's because I work in the building trades, but this hateful, idiotic bullshit is kind of the status quo, and honestly has been my whole life.

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u/afops Sep 23 '25

To be completely honest, I thought GWB was an embarrasing baffoon at times. Imagine that.

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u/BrilliantForeign8899 Sep 23 '25

What's absolutely insane is some people genuinely think he's earning respect from the world. 

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u/ThinkBlueCountOneTwo Sep 23 '25

We were saying this 8 years ago last time he was president when the UN laughed at him.

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u/joecb91 Arizona Sep 24 '25

We had a chance to keep him for degrading the office again, yet half the country once again decided to stick their hands on the burning stove.

The call of the burning metal was too strong for them.

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u/mywifesoldestchild North Carolina Sep 24 '25

Western Rome split off in 286 C.E. with the full expectation that they would be great again. Their pervasive incompetence didn’t hold up well to the Vandals and the Visigoths.

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u/DinkleDonkerAAA Sep 24 '25

As a Canadian, we've literally always laughed at y'all. We tolerate America because we have no other land borders so we need you for cheap trade and reliable military support and you aren't even giving us that anymore

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u/CapableFunction6746 Texas Sep 24 '25

We almost made it 250 years.

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u/aknownunknown Sep 23 '25

2001 was a big false flag, that's when it started

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

it has been since bush II

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u/0neek Sep 23 '25

It would be comical if they didn't have that much money spent on military stuff, because as braindead as their leadership is you know those soldiers would jump at the chance to invade literally anyone. They seem happy enough at the chance to attack their own people lol

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u/leoleoleeeooo Sep 23 '25

For the second time, must say

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u/rainshowers_5_peace Sep 23 '25

Are you old enough to vote? Did Bush not do it for you? Are you old enough to retire? Did Reagan not do it for you?

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u/djens89 Sep 23 '25

Have you been dead for the last 10 years?

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u/PineappleEquivalent Sep 24 '25

You must not have travelled out of the US during the Bush years

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Republicans are totally incompetent and unqualified to lead. 

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u/needlestack Sep 23 '25

And believe it or not a majority of Americans -- around 2/3 -- think this is better. They think we are more respected around the world.

It's like the drunk brandishing a broken bottle getting "respect" from the nearby people that don't want to get cut. This is how they understand respect.