The Guardian nails it " US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/12/us-global-reputation-rock-bottom-donald-trump-coronavirus

International relations expert warns policy failure could do lasting damage as president insults allies and undermines alliances

(all of this is worth reading - I can only put 4 paragraphs, below - read it all at the link above)

Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, which he once dismissed as a hoax, has been fiercely criticised at home as woefully inadequate to the point of irresponsibility.

Yet also thanks largely to Trump, a parallel disaster is unfolding across the world: the ruination of America’s reputation as a safe, trustworthy, competent international leader and partner.

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Trump’s surreal televised Covid-19 briefings are further undermining respect for US leadership. Trump regularly propagates false or misleading information, bets on hunches, argues with reporters and contradicts scientific and medical experts.

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Do Americans realise how far their country’s moral as well as financial stock has fallen? Perhaps at this time of extreme stress, it seems not to matter. But it will matter later on – for them and for the future international balance of power.

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(my thoughts - of course we realize it! Democrats do, anyway)

[Iliyah]

1. The USA hit rock bottom when shithole and the . . .

republican party stole the election.

[malaise]

2. THIS

[RicROC]

5. multiple coups

2000 Bush v Gore

2004 Bush with Ohio and other irregulaties

Impeachment of Bill Clinton- attempted coup

2016 Trump coup

[dailytroubadour]

28. Bingo

This and the gerrymandering and the Citizens United Supreme Court Decision. Chickens have come home and are roosting...

[Lock him up.]

12. Not to forget the Bernie purists & Jill Stein ideologists.

If they had voted for First Lady Clinton in three states instead of (whatever irresponsible "protest" attitudes), the orangevirus would not have fired the Obama/Biden pandemic response team, and all the other destruction of their good works).

Thousands of lives would have been saved from a horrible death.

[Person of Interest]

15. They're back for November.

And Senator Sander’s cultists are doing their very best to undermine the Democratic Party again this November.

[Dem4Life1102]

21. Same people who voted for Nader in 2000

And gave us the Iraq war.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend.

[Girard442]

4. There's a bottom?

[Lulu KC]

19. Exactly

We've hit it so many times already, and then?
I'd love it to be true.

[Stuart G]

6. Kick and recommend

[sarcasmo]

7. Vlad has achieved his goal.

[wnylib]

24. It's not Vlad alone. There are American

oligarchs who are pleased with how Trump "handles" things. Regarding covid 19, Trump and his puppetmasters are quite happy to let covid 19 kill off "the weak, the old, and the minorities."

He is not bungling from incompetence, although it is true that he is not competent to deal with the situation. He is deliberately not only allowing people to die through inaction, but pushing the idea that it's ok to do that. Deliberate mass murder, not incompetence.

Lock 'em up and then string 'em up.

[sarcasmo]

33. Opening up the country on May 1st is all Vlad's idea, three phone calls in the last 10 days.

Lock em up is right. Leavenworth.

[wnylib]

36. May 1 was a significant date for Soviet Russia.

Don't know what significance it might have now, if any.

[Beartracks]

8. Even with a solid, smart, competent post-Trump President, what country...

... is going to want to work with the US on ANYTHING since there will forever by the threat that the next spiteful Republican asshat that manages to get in the White House is just going to undo everything?

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[Girard442]

9. I used to say that 9/11 was the most successful terrorist attack of all time.

The destruction of America through Russia's support of Trump and McConnell makes it look like petty vandalism by comparison.

[grumpyduck]

10. Diagree.

Equating the U.S. with this piece of amoeba excrement occupying the Oval Office is bullshit. The American people and the American government are still worthy of their long-standing reputation. The ones who have gone lower than rock bottom are the amoeba excrement and the fucking pricks in the Senate who have enabled him.

So yeah, talk about the Senate pricks all you want, but don't throw the American people and government in with them.

[smirkymonkey]

11. K&R

Can you imagine where we will be with four more years of this disaster of a president?

[AllyCat]

13. No. Please don't tempt him.

He always manages to make each new rock bottom even worse.

[demtenjeep]

14. he has succeeded in ruining America

in 3 LONGGGGG years

[lunatica]

16. Except this pandemic is hitting every other country too

The real effect will be what every country does AFTER the pandemic.

For us it looks like we’re electing someone who will actually help this country recover as well as possible. Other countries will do the same. Let’s see how the world comes out on the other side of the pandemic.

Perhaps we will emerge and not be a superpower. Who says that’s a bad thing? Only Jingoistic warmongers will cry over this. The rest of us have roots in every other country on the planet.

[oldsoftie]

18. If only China & Russia are left as superpowers; yes, thats a BAD thing.

[lunatica]

25. We have no idea what's happening in Russia and China

This pandemic and it’s aftermath are far from over. Thinking that Putin and Xi are suddenly telling the truth is exactly what they want us to think and it’s a mistake. It’s part and parcel of their 20th Century propaganda.

[oldsoftie]

31. According to the Kremlin, Moscow hospitals are overflowing

https://news.trust.org/item/20200411160429-y70ij

For what its worth

[Hekate]

27. Yes it is. That's why it was called a BALANCE of Powers from 1946 onward...

For all our mistakes as a nation, we WERE the indispensible counterweight to those 2 massive totalitarian regimes (now popularly renamed authoritarian).

Crap, and when I remember the knock-down drag-out fights I had with "progressives" over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, who they despised Obama for and used as one more reason to vote against Hillary. Right up to the last week before the election I met people IRL who simply could not see it was about reining in China.

[oldsoftie]

32. Thank you!

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. 60million+ Deplorable Republican voters think they

have a true leader leading the free world- great majority of the other 4billion+ adults on the planet know he’s an ignoramus - amazing how stupid a sizable portion of the American electorate is when u think about it.

[PatSeg]

20. With Trump, there is NO rock bottom

No matter how low he goes, he can always go lower.

[Hekate]

22. As I said in the days after the coup: all without a shot being fired

Which begs the question: what the hell good are all those personal arsenals and Don't Tread On Me flags?

Anybody else old enough to remember Nikita Kruschchev's visit to the UN? Where he pounded the table with his shoe? And promised America: "We will bury you!"

Putin's the clever man who figured out how.

[Nacht Owl]

23. Already Done

Sorry, The Guardian. That happened over three years ago.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. We're #1! We're #1! We're #1! Give me a foam finger to jam up 45's ass.

[Mickju]

29. Hell yes, I realize it.

Our country is in desperate shape because of Donald Trump. Good God!

[SouthernCal_Dem]

30. Excellent article, but one quibble....

The damage is reversible IMO and we can reverse it starting in November.

[Martin Eden]

34. "the ruination of America's reputation as a safe, trustworthy, competent intl. leader and partner"

Putin's plan coming to fruition.

[calimary]

35. Yep. Painful. Horrifying.

[UCmeNdc]

37. The world is laughing at Trump and his incompetence.