More than half of the French, Germans , and Britons consider Donald Trump a “dictator”, according to a poll by the think tank Destin Commun, which also found that 47% of respondents in Poland share the same view, as the US President attempts to broker a peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow.

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  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    I’d like a source on 2008.

    What I remember is that the world was already laughing at Bush for 8 years, and Obama restored their respect.

    GOP has always been the party pushing candidates that the rest of the world has laughed at.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      2008 is 17 years ago.

      You gotta be pretty young if your parents don’t remember that.

      • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        I remember 2008, and stated how I remembered it.

        We have both shared our priors (biases).

        What I was essentially asking: who was saying that Obama would be worthy of ridicule, especially compared to Bush?

        And by posing it more directly, I remember that our current president was being a racist birther at that time. I also knew some other racists at that time, and by recalling these have answered my own question.

        I remember that the international community of politics was more on the side of ridiculing Bush and welcoming Obama, regardless of what was said domestically.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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          11 days ago

          I was living in New York in 2008.

          I remember picking up a copy of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post days before the election, and reading the op-ed page.

          There were two pieces that particular day. One said a vote for Obama was a waste, because he was just a warmed over neoliberal who’d push conservative ideas weakly. The writer thought that instead of a wishy-washy softy it was better to have a real conservative.

          The other writer, on the same page, felt that Obama was a fire breathing leftist; a revolutionary who’d destroy America if he had half a chance.

          The GOP was throwing everything it had at Obama, regardless of whether it made any sense whatever.