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Comment on how the world sees the USA, found on Facebook. (Original Post) Swede Oct 31 OP
This should be flung into the faces of every single republican scumbag... SWBTATTReg Oct 31 #1
They don't care Mossfern Oct 31 #2
Yep. All they care about is money, and the power to do Justice matters. Oct 31 #4
Republicans don't care, Dave Id Oct 31 #10
fake meme, Paul F. Haacker doesn't exist Celerity Oct 31 #30
Fake or not, it's still a great quote. OMGWTF Oct 31 #33
(#34 has it - don't worry) muriel_volestrangler Oct 31 #34
here Celerity Oct 31 #37
Oddly, the first line is contradictory. defacto7 Nov 1 #50
that part was written (and yes, very poorly) by the re-poster (ronald_lee94), not the imaginary Canadian journo Celerity Nov 1 #51
Believe it or not... MiHale Oct 31 #3
And... canetoad Oct 31 #22
So, the repugs decided to take our freedoms away..... lastlib Oct 31 #26
Every one of those listed failures is a sacrosanct MAGA virtue. Orrex Oct 31 #5
It's all part of the republican's grand philosophy of, "We don't care". patphil Oct 31 #6
'I Don't Really Care, Do You?'....first TSF term. nt wiggs Oct 31 #7
Yeah, I remember that. patphil Oct 31 #8
Was that Putin broadcasting to the world through his installed wife-proxy? erronis Oct 31 #9
Yeah, their plan is "GOPeeDon'tCare." lastlib Oct 31 #11
* with great sadness Ponietz Oct 31 #12
Kick. N/T Upthevibe Oct 31 #13
A good description of the barbarians that have taken control here. MLWR Oct 31 #14
Tragically the Canadian Public Journalist, Cha Oct 31 #15
fake meme, Paul F. Haacker doesn't exist Celerity Oct 31 #29
The world is asking us the same question Frank Zappa asked of Suzy Creamcheese on the Freak Out album DFW Oct 31 #16
Hungry Freaks, Daddy......... BurnDoubt Oct 31 #19
You Are What You is Mr. Evil Oct 31 #24
I stopped looking at fb... Maj. Dude Oct 31 #17
Print it on his Happy Meal with a Maze ending at a Crown. BurnDoubt Oct 31 #18
I went to the MN Wild vs. Winnipeg Jets hockey game ... OldBoss Oct 31 #20
You could sing "Oh, Canada" LNM Oct 31 #23
My sister in law is a flight attendant for major carrier who does overseas flights kimbutgar Oct 31 #21
Kudos, Mr. Haacker NoNameGranny Oct 31 #25
fake meme, Paul F. Haacker doesn't exist Celerity Oct 31 #28
who cares who said it Skittles Nov 1 #43
I care. Celerity Nov 1 #45
yeah Skittles Nov 1 #46
Truth matters for me. Celerity Nov 1 #48
fake meme, Paul F. Haacker doesn't exist Celerity Oct 31 #27
Here's his instagram account Swede Oct 31 #31
Oh please, that account is not a Canadian journo. Celerity Oct 31 #35
So this person is an antisemite. Mosby Nov 1 #52
It dates back to at least June 2018; then attributed by an American public radio journalist to "Paul F. Haacker" muriel_volestrangler Oct 31 #36
Thanks for that. I am still going to call fake on the new, altered meme, per Mike Crawley, an actual CBC journo Celerity Oct 31 #39
193 likes for a fraudulent meme GusBob Oct 31 #41
because it is true Skittles Nov 1 #47
Fucking Dump and his enablers are the scourge of the nation Blue Owl Oct 31 #32
Personally Timewas Oct 31 #38
Stay strong. Joinfortmill Oct 31 #40
A rat eating its own tail. Aussie105 Oct 31 #42
216 Recs as of now. n/t flvegan Nov 1 #44
K&R BlueWavePsych Nov 1 #49

Justice matters.

(9,390 posts)
4. Yep. All they care about is money, and the power to do
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 12:49 PM
Oct 31

whatever they want when they want, laws, norms and rules be damned.

And they love to be cruel to the core to all who are not white like them.

Dave Id

(239 posts)
10. Republicans don't care,
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:44 PM
Oct 31

they'll just blame Biden for the nation's downfall. Like their MAGA king, they don't take responsibility for anything.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,562 posts)
34. (#34 has it - don't worry)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:00 PM
Oct 31

imgur.com and the UK government are having an argument about verifying ages for what children can access, which means imgur blocks UK IP addresses.

defacto7

(14,160 posts)
50. Oddly, the first line is contradictory.
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 09:02 AM
Nov 1

"It is without great sadness ..." which means I'm not sad to hear [bad stuff about the US]
I doubt a journalist would make that mistake, or is it a mistake? Ether they meant, "It is with great sadness" or they didn't.

Celerity

(53,687 posts)
51. that part was written (and yes, very poorly) by the re-poster (ronald_lee94), not the imaginary Canadian journo
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 09:26 AM
Nov 1


then

MiHale

(12,626 posts)
3. Believe it or not...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:56 AM
Oct 31

So many of these people are the same one that 10-15 years ago would be screaming…”America, love it or leave it.”

They lied then just like today…they shoulda left.

lastlib

(27,548 posts)
26. So, the repugs decided to take our freedoms away.....
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:28 PM
Oct 31

so they wouldn't have a reason to hate us any more. Problem solved.

(Does this apply? or is it too close to truth?)

patphil

(8,731 posts)
6. It's all part of the republican's grand philosophy of, "We don't care".
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:23 PM
Oct 31

Which appears to be the name of their health care plan; the one they've been working hard to implement for the past several decades, and now just might be able to do it.

There's a lack of love in the words and deeds of the republicans that Paul Haacker has identified so well in their policies and programs. There's nothing Christian about these people. They have wrapped themselves in hatred, and are dragging the US down into the depths of their darkness; their vision of American "greatness".

And this is the republican sin, their lovelessness.

lastlib

(27,548 posts)
11. Yeah, their plan is "GOPeeDon'tCare."
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:46 PM
Oct 31

I've been callling it that since 2009. I could've gone back another 60 years.

MLWR

(776 posts)
14. A good description of the barbarians that have taken control here.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:48 PM
Oct 31

Neither Krasnov, nor the republiSCUM that support him show the remotest belief in the Christianity that was preached by Jesus. But they bear close resemblence to the nazis before them, the inquisitors before the nazis and the crusaders before the inquisitors, all of whom claimed, as they do, to be such great christians, while "perverting and debasing its tenets."

DFW

(59,730 posts)
16. The world is asking us the same question Frank Zappa asked of Suzy Creamcheese on the Freak Out album
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:40 PM
Oct 31

Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese? WHAT'S GOT INTO YA?

Mr. Evil

(3,435 posts)
24. You Are What You is
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:13 PM
Oct 31

is my favorite Zappa album. If you're familiar with it (I know that you are!), my favorites are:
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Dumb All Over
Heavenly Bank Account
Suicide Chump
If Only She Woulda
Drafted Again
Teen-Age Wind

Maj. Dude

(34 posts)
17. I stopped looking at fb...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 03:58 PM
Oct 31

at the beginning of this year when I saw clips of the inauguration of the wannabe king and all of the grossly wealthy fools hanging on for dear life.
And thought if any of those people had any empathy or a heart, they alone could spread some kind of good deeds towards their fellow humankind.
But I was right, they don't.

Now the world sees us, the United States of America, as the laughing stock of the world.

Thank you ultra wealthy tax cheats, you got what you wanted. A dying country.

OldBoss

(66 posts)
20. I went to the MN Wild vs. Winnipeg Jets hockey game ...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:09 PM
Oct 31

I went to the MN Wild vs. Winnipeg Jets hockey game on Tuesday evening. People boo’d and shouted ‘Fcuk Canada’ during Oh Canada. It wasn’t hundreds of people, only dozens - but it was obvious to anyone paying attention. I was soooo pissed and ashamed. But literally, what can you do??? Run them down and beat them? Chase down a security guard and do what? The biggest heart-breaker for me is that a big chunk of the fans were children, maybe 15-20%, they were everywhere. Again it was not an arena full of boo’s but you couldn’t miss hearing them. What does a sane responsible parent tell their children about abhorrent behavior like that??? Sorry, three days later and I’m still frggin’ pissed!!!

LNM

(1,224 posts)
23. You could sing "Oh, Canada"
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:09 PM
Oct 31

That is terrible thing those fans did and as a fellow Minnesotan I’d be ashamed of them.

kimbutgar

(26,801 posts)
21. My sister in law is a flight attendant for major carrier who does overseas flights
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:25 PM
Oct 31

And people in several countries have expressed their sympathy to her what is happening to her country after she admits she is not a tuckfrump supporter.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,562 posts)
36. It dates back to at least June 2018; then attributed by an American public radio journalist to "Paul F. Haacker"
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:18 PM
Oct 31

though he didn't say Haacker was a radio journalist. A right winger objected, and claimed it looked like Haacker was from New Jersey, though didn't show his evidence:

The Public Radio Journalist’s View of the United States
June 20, 2018/by Justin Katz
Perhaps it’s proof that cynicism is imperfect protection against naiveté, but I find it genuinely shocking that Rhode Island Public Radio political analyst Scott MacKay would post something like this on Facebook with implicit agreement:

“Here in Canada, many of us believe we are witnessing the fall of the U.S. empire. Would a civilized country limit health care or food assistance for the poor; leave crops rotting in the fields; destroy the educational system; target women and attempt to eliminate their reproductive rights while refusing to help resulting babies; abuse desperate immigrants; pretend to believe in Christianity while perverting and debasing its tenets; and refuse to protect the Earth from destruction? The world is watching.” – Paul F. Haacker

As far as I can tell from a quick online search, Haacker is actually a Jersey boy like me, not a Canadian, but it doesn’t really matter. That an American analyst for a public radio station would pass this along is what’s objectionable, and it is so both because he’s an American and because he’s supposed to be a political analyst. There is no analysis in the above quotation, and it certainly isn’t constructed so as to permit response and debate.

https://oceanstatecurrent.com/the-public-radio-journalists-view-of-the-united-states/

Timewas

(2,639 posts)
38. Personally
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:30 PM
Oct 31

I am so utterly and completely disgusted with our government I cannot even express it in words.

I am a liitle elderly, I lost my father and an uncle in WWII they died fighting the same shit we are dealing with right here in the country they died defending... FUCK the repugs and anyone who voted for them.

Aussie105

(7,651 posts)
42. A rat eating its own tail.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 09:57 PM
Oct 31

Trump says . . . doesn't that taste good?

Americans out on the street . . . that hurts!

Rest of the world says . . . welcome to CrazyTown! Used to know you, used to like you, but now, not so much.

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