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Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
3. Our country has lost credibility the second TFG was "elected".
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:18 PM
Aug 2022

Our allies are skeptical of us since then. They aren't even sure if TFG would get re-elected in 2024 so I am sure they are conservative when they share secrets with us. Trust is lost in matters of seconds but takes years to gain back.

MOMFUDSKI

(5,530 posts)
6. Biden spoke of
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:22 PM
Aug 2022

telling our allies, that "America is back" but the question was "For How Long?". The orange menace has done incredible damage to our country that will take a long time to repair. Makes me sad that a handful of people allowed this to even happen.

Irish_Dem

(47,053 posts)
4. Yes it hit me soon after the raid.
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:21 PM
Aug 2022

It is taking awhile for the American people to understand fully what happened.
And what it means.

Half our country is full of ignorant, foolish, dangerous buffoons and sociopaths.
We willing put ourselves and others in grave danger.

Our standing in the world is greatly diminished.

Irish_Dem

(47,053 posts)
10. Or in the intelligence agencies, or any government agency for that matter.
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:26 PM
Aug 2022

It is mind boggling. There is no bottom for these folks. None.

Irish_Dem

(47,053 posts)
2. The US as a superpower is humiliated, looks dangerously foolish and ungovernable.
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:16 PM
Aug 2022

We not only greatly damaged ourselves, but hurt out allies as well.

They should not trust us, and rightly so.

Irish_Dem

(47,053 posts)
9. He does considerable damage to western democracies every time he opens his mouth.
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:25 PM
Aug 2022

He makes democracy look like a failure.

And brings more attention to the espionage he committed.

CrispyQ

(36,464 posts)
8. They're watching to see how we handle it, too.
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:24 PM
Aug 2022

Will we use the election to kick the can down the road? Or will we act with the urgency this demands?

tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)
11. Not only that, Frank Figluizzi talked about hostile nations taking advantage of this
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 10:08 PM
Aug 2022

How many people laid eyes on those documents? Cleaning staff? Other employees? He said those people are prime for adversaries to try to turn. Chump is a security nightmare.

Xolodno

(6,390 posts)
13. Oh it gets worse.
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 10:52 PM
Aug 2022

If you are a person being targeted to flip and work for the CIA, you are going to look at what happened and decide not too.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
14. It has occurred to me numerous times
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 10:57 PM
Aug 2022

They are thinking rol is dead here and we can’t be trusted. I just heard don lemon saying on cnn, dump just had the documents and so doj just wanted them back and who knows if he will be indicted etc., WTF DL. More evidence of the insanity going in here. They walk everything back and I expected it but it is always so hard to believe when you hear the crap they come up with to yet again try to EXCUSE THIS MONSTER for all of his numerous crimes.

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