Our country's image of being sober & mature under President Obama is over

[lunatica]

Last edited Fri Jan 6, 2017, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Now the image of our country is of a terrible twos toddler throwing a never ending screaming tantrum.

Sigh...

[RKP5637]

1. I've thought about that over and over again. Stable, well thought out and caring. Now, we have a

madman that trashes many and acts/thinks like a child, and commands the most powerful military force, and has ushered in extremely questionable cohorts in all areas. In short, the US is totally fucked into the future. And on top of that, this ass has no idea what he's doing!

[lunatica]

3. The world has good reason to be nervous and scared now

Trump can wreak havoc on the world just with a tweet. Imagine what he can do with all the updated nuclear weapons he wants now.

Or not even that. He wants to "bomb the shit" out of ISIS without telling anyone beforehand so all the innocent civilians won't be given a chance to leave. Of course, he's said it's OK to kill all families of terrorists, because they do that to us.

[democratisphere]

2. Leaders of the Insane World

with little or no credibility anymore.

[lunatica]

4. No one even knows what his tweets are saying either

In the last week I can't tell you how many times all the pundits and the media were asking what he meant in such and such a tweet. Sometimes you can tell he's being sarcastic by ending a tweet with "Nice!" after criticizing someone, but what do North Korean's think he's saying? That Trump thinks someone is nice just after he tweets criticisms? Trying to translate his words can't even be done by Americans, much less people who hardly speak English.

[lunatica]

5. .

[crazycatlady]

6. Half the country was never mature in the first place

[lunatica]

7. yeah, but I'm talking about how the rest of world perceives us

I'm an American Citizen, but I spent my first 25 years in another country, so I'm aware that our conceit in this country as to how the world sees us is way off the mark. During the early half of my life the US was seen as a country who was pretending not to be an Empire in the making. People in the country I grew up in feared the military might of the United States.

I know, from talking to my friends in that country that they think President Obama is a great man and their image of the USA as an Empire has changed. At least up to now that Trump is our President Elect.

For the first time in my 68 years I was happy and relieved to know that we were respected and not feared. Now, as President Obama leaves that is over. We are now feared more than we ever were.