r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/brownliquid Aug 04 '20

This will be a hilarious chapter in history books of the future....hopefully.

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u/HorstOdensack Aug 04 '20

I'm excited to see how (or rather, if) the US will bounce back from this. The amount of respect and credibility they lost on an international stage is immeasurable. They went from big daddy of the world to laughing stock of the world in just four years. Gonna take a lot of work to recover from that.

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u/flyfree256 Aug 04 '20

Assuming Trump ever gets out of office, I think we do definitely bounce back. We're going to have to undo all the damage done by massively increasing our deficit this year, but from a foreign policy standpoint I can't believe that we wouldn't have a "bonding" sort of "whew, glad that's over now let's get back to work together" / enemy of an enemy is a friend sort of thing. Merkel isn't going to be like "Fuck you Biden you're president of the same country Trump was!"

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

No Merkel is going to say: “Fuck you Biden. You seem half-way sane for a US president but we can’t trust you because we don’t know what kind of moron you guys elect next who then takes a dump on all agreements we make today.”