Watching the Ken Burns Vietnam special (twice), has shown me things have always been fucked and we're not nearly as bad off about opinions of our democracy as we were 50 years ago. Everything is just a different flavor of pseudo-democracy we call the American government.
I think international opinion will be much more influenced by who gets elected in 2020 than a procedural sideshow. Trump won't get removed from office, so whether or not we re-elect him is what people are going to care about. Obama did a lot to improve our image elsewhere and the next person can do the same. I'd argue kids dying in schools has a lot more influence of people's opinion of us than anything that asshat has done.
Regardless, we've probably seen peak pro-American sentiment for quite awhile. This Pew Research data, which predates Trump getting elected, shows many countries feel we're on the down slope of relevancy.
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I think international opinion will be much more influenced by who gets elected in 2020 than a procedural sideshow. Trump won't get removed from office, so whether or not we re-elect him is what people are going to care about. Obama did a lot to improve our image elsewhere and the next person can do the same. I'd argue kids dying in schools has a lot more influence of people's opinion of us than anything that asshat has done.
Regardless, we've probably seen peak pro-American sentiment for quite awhile. This Pew Research data, which predates Trump getting elected, shows many countries feel we're on the down slope of relevancy.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth