US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return

It's actually been quite nice here in Canada lately, in the last few years we've been quite politically divided but once Trump started talking about annexing Canada it seemed like everyone I know came together to be like he can fuck right off lol.

Our household is still refusing to buy anything American or go anywhere near the place until (at the very least) Trump is gone and the US can demonstrate that something like this won't happen again.

Color me shocked.

Careful, that might get you detailed. No colors allowed.

Turns out most of the world doesn't like felon rapist liars.

'Merica does though.

Don’t forget they don’t like people who are best friends and love to party with pedos

You’d have to mad to want to go to the clown show Nazi pedo-nation.

No, no, MAGAs keep insisting that the world finally respects us again!

To be fair. Respected and loved are two different things. I don't think the rest of the world respects the US more than 1 year ago, just saying.
- Respect? A LOT less.

Trump is the symptom not the disease

He's a cancer, and it has spread.
wdym?
- I've been saying for a while that George W. Bush was the one who sold the doors and windows to the house. Trump is just the inevitable crack head that climbed in and started living on the sofa.
- Our culture is trash and it finds trash to represent it.
- Trump is a result of American culture, not driving it.
  Trump is a representative of America, not an outsider.
  Trump happened again secondary to the diseases of hate and greed, not in advance of.

I think US popularity is collapsing in the US as well. I know I'm starting to hate it here.

US ~~popularity~~ is collapsing - FTFY.
Yup, half our population is now defending human trafficking and statutory rape.
Never in my long life have I considered leaving America, but I'm looking at options now.
I've been trying to convince my wife to leave since 2016. I'm 99% sure the main reason she won't agree is because she will burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything.
- When I married my wife in 2005 she told me she'd NEVER leave her home and family. Took her to Australia for the first time in 2015 and within an hour of landing she was ready to move, which we did in November 2015, right before trump 1.0. Now since last November she's looking into Australian citizenship and says she's never going back. Don't give up hope!
- Sounds very american of her.
- Why not get a new wife?

nowhere more than in the us. Ugh these flag wavers. If you want pride in the country the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!

I think a lot about something I read years ago. It said something like, "Some people love their country the way a child loves a parent. The parent is the smartest and the best and perfect. Some people love their country the way an adult loves a peer. They see the strengths, the potential, but also the weaknesses and problems that need to be addressed."
Conservatives are generally children. Driven largely by emotion with a very simple moral framework. Much like you will likely struggle to explain to a toddler that taking the other kid's toys, screaming constantly, and shitting in the sandbox won't make a lot of friends, explaining politics to a conservative is likely to be an ordeal. They don't care. They have feelings and that is their reality.
It's also kind of funny how conservatives are the ones who typically say "reality doesn't care about your feelings". Everything is projection.
- "reality doesn’t care about your feelings"
  but science is woke
- The qons are very much into performative bullshit that they think is patriotism. They'll cry about how someone kneeling while a song plays and a piece of cloth is displayed at a sportsball game hurts "the troops".
  Then they'll proudly vote for a party that treats the men and women of the military like a used Kleenex, and embrace a figure like Taco who called them suckers and losers.
  They'll blather about free speech, then cry about Hollywood airing shows they don't like. They'll talk about liberty and The Constitution, but want xtianity to be put on a pedestal.
- Man over the years that projection thing just gets more and more. Which is just crazy when they spend most of their time accusing their opponents of things we eventually find out they are actively doing at the time.
the country first has to act and function in a way that elicits pride!
ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you
- to you. Seriously though. Every time I see a god bless america it annoys me. America be worthy of gods blessing.
The patriotic thing to do now is fly them upside down.
- Thats how I wear the little one on my black armband at protests. Definately in distress.
I've always said I'm happy to have been born where I am and I feel privileged, not pride, for that. Unfortunately I've been feeling less and less privileged recently.
- I'd rather live here than maybe 80-90% of other places, but if I could've chosen where I was born, it would not be here. Anywhere with universal healthcare is better.

Is this really surprising to anyone?

I think they love the hate. Because it's the only emotion they get from anyone.
- They do, they think it's "winning" somehow.
- They love the hit of Dopamine they get. There's lots of ways to do that, but they've socialized themselves to get their fix in response to political outrage.
  FoxNews knows this, so they oblige by offering various outrages all day, every day, so MAGA Nazis can stay constantly cranked up.
  They're addicts, it's as simple as that.
Probably only hardcore MAGA. Actually probably not them because they wouldn't believe an MSM article that claimed Trump was hurting the image of the USA, even if they could read
- They probably believe it but think it's because Trump is playing hardball and making them pay their fair share and that's why they're mad.
It is to me. That means the popularity came back after the Bush years and after Trump's first term. It'll come back after 2028 too because people have the memory of goldfish.

But Trump said the world loves us?

By world he means Russia and US oligarchs.
- Nah, the oligarchs only love themselves. Fuck the little guy
Whatever he says, the opposite is true.

420 standing by.

when US was popular in the world? can you call a bully the popular kid?

Basically the same way the douchey rich kid who's tolerated because he's got a Playstation AND an N64 is "popular".
- N64
  OK Grandpa, let's get you inside for a nap! 🤣
“What popularity there was”

This article is 2 months old.

And it’s only gotten worse

But Taco said we were hot, and we weren't hot when Biden was in office, because "worst president evar" or somesuch.

I have to trust dear leader and not any kind of real data, just like I believe him when he says we had the worst economy ever under Biden, in spite of all the evidence.

Good

It’s not the US, it’s the current government and all it is doing. The rest is fine.

The government is a reflection of the electorate which is a reflection of the culture.
American culture is dogshit. That's why our politics are dogshit.
yeah, that's why you have christians hellbent on increasing the suffering in the world sothat christ comes back faster
and "suffering builds character" and such
- I'm so fucking sick of governments allowing religious whack jobs to indulge whatever fairy tales they want, in the name of "Religious Freedom." We don't need Freedom of Religion, we need Freedom FROM Religion.