RandAlThorOval Office stunned as Trump fires Pearl Harbor joke at Japanese PM
Americans must be so proud of their commander in chief. Well at least 40% still are. That’s all you need to know about the United States. In regards to the world, you lost all respect and trust that took 80 years to built.
If any other foreign leader would use this language, he would be in a white padded cell within hours.
I actually think someone like trump could exist in more countries than we are willing to acknowledge. He plays terribly as someone else’s leader, but as your own leader, people seem to love the jingoism, bravado, and shamelessness in a lot of countries.
People like him do exist in other countries. But without a cult of personality they don’t really achieve very much, and no one can do cults like the US.
The MEGA equivalents in other countries are actually having a bit of a problem because everyone can see a live demonstration of what their policies would actually look like, and no one likes it.
PDFuegoThat’s basically what happened in Australia’s last election. The Liberals were trying to play up culture war shit & wanted to emulate DOGE, and it backfired hard. I was waiting to lock up a polling place for the night in Western Australia which is a couple of hours behind the eastern states, by the time they’d finished packing up the votes to be counted it was already so lopsided that even if every remaining vote was Liberal it wouldn’t have mattered.
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