What in the world must they think of us in other countries

[Peacetrain]

Our media is losing its mind because the President misspoke? Corrected himself.. but its stuff every single one of us do every day. Its not lack of knowledge of things important.. its a verbal flub.. Its not an attack to destroy another person.. its a verbal flub

I had to correct one of my own ops just a few minutes ago.. They must think that Americans are all a bunch of snowflakes.. Its absolutely embarrassing how some of our punditry acts.. sheesh

[BlueCheeseAgain]

1. In the UK, the Conservatives went through five PMs while not losing an election.

Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. Replacing your party's leader isn't that unheard of.

[Peacetrain]

3. The Tories in England got their butts handed to them because of magical thinking

not verbal flubs..

[captain queeg]

2. That's good question. I think I'll ask the ex who is in France right now.

[Peacetrain]

5. That would be interesting.. France

I have come cousins still in England.. they think we are all bonkers.. hard to disagree

[Ex Lurker]

4. To be rair, other countries have thier own problems.

They have little room to point fingers.

[onecaliberal]

7. Not one of those countries tried to elect a rapist.

[comradebillyboy]

19. Don't be so sure. There is no shortage of

scoundrels and scum bags in European politics. The US does not have a monopoly on bad people.

[onecaliberal]

20. Not one of the elected has been found by a court to have raped a woman.

[BeyondGeography]

6. I'm in France

I’ve had a number of people ask me how a guy as old as Biden can be running for President. It’s a genuine head scratcher for them. The debate got a lot of coverage here. These same people like Biden and are praying for him to win because they think Trump is a very dangerous buffoon.

[Peacetrain]

8. That is so interesting,,,

As I posted to someone else I have a few cousins still in England and they think we are way over-reacting.. then again they are not exposed to this never ending election cycle we have here..

[MOMFUDSKI]

9. They see shades of Hitler. And they are

scared to death

[Peacetrain]

13. Yes I can see that

[captain queeg]

10. According to my contact in France they report it but their caught up in their PM drama.

I saw an interview with Macron a couple days ago and they were try to get him to say something about Biden. He wasn’t biting.

[Peacetrain]

12. I am not going to kid with you.. that LePen thing with the first round of voting made my heart almost stop

That is one scary group..

[ITAL]

11. Most foreigners I hear from

Think Biden is far gone mentally and can't understand why the Democrats don't get rid of him. They also don't understand how Trump is still as popular as he is and can't believe he might actually win again.

Basically they think we're a failing democracy with no good choices.

[Peacetrain]

14. They better be praying for Biden.. thats the choice..

Biden or Trump... and Trump has already said he will tell Putin to bomb Nato nations.. who he says do not pay their bills

[ITAL]

15. I mean they'd prefer him to Trump

But they also think he's too old to be president, approaching senility, and wonder why (since they're sure he isn't gonna last four more years) we don't just cut bait and run Harris instead.

[Peacetrain]

17. First of all thank you .. It reminded me of what Trump wanted to do to our Nato allies

so I just put up a quick op and link on that. American elections are different .. its like moving a pyramid.. first of all.. VP Harris is not going to go along with that fairy tale some of have in their heads.. If anything goes wrong, the President gets sick, etc etc.. she is already there to take over.

[StarryNite]

16. Sounds like they're swallowing all the MAGA BS.

That's a shame. If the orange POS winds up in the White House again they will suffer along with us.

[ITAL]

18. I mean they fear Trump

Don't get me wrong about that.

But most of these countries have a Parliamentary system where Prime Ministers can be knocked off from with inside their parties all the time. They don't understand why we can't/don't do that here.

[JI7]

21. But they hate Trump. They would easily vote for Biden over Trump

even if they thought Biden was too old and had other issues.

Trump would have no chance in most other places.

[Melon]

22. This is my experience...

I work a lot both in EU(Germany) and the Middle East. I feel like I’m in another world when I’m on DU. I was on a video call with Germany and endured the first quarter on a large video call of our President being dragged for calling the President of Ukraine Putin and calling his VP Trump. From what they were saying other leaders were caught on video making fun of Biden as well.


I am not hearing any international support for Biden. Even Japanese colleagues expressed concern and they normally don’t bring politics up at all. The foreign press is playing the gaffs on the television constantly. This is definitely shaping my views on what others view from outside.

[Deek1935]

24. If so they are acting like idiots. His NATO summit and press conference were MASTERFUL. Everyone makes a misspeak

now and again. EVERYONE. My goodness, it is a world of dumb little children. Anyone who watched the WHOLE press conference saw a MASTERCLASS on foreign policy. But of course DUMMIES want to pick out one unintentional verbal mistake. On the Putin one, he immediately corrected himself. He didn't realize he made the mistake on the other as he was referring to how Harris could beat Trump and had just been talking about Trump. My god. The media are CHILDREN. Biased ridiculous little silly children.

[Melon]

26. I don't disagree with you..

This is not what is being televised internationally nor what the conversation is. My experience is not isolated to one experience. What they are evaluating is his mental competency, and calling the Ukrainian President by their biggest enemy or your VP by your biggest enemy is getting a lot of play.

[Deek1935]

23. They think we are dumb as a bag of hammers. It's fucking embarrassing.

[Sympthsical]

25. I can't say what the rest of the world is saying here

Because . . . it's not great. And people wouldn't like it.

But it starts with "Really, America?!"

[sinkingfeeling]

27. I was in Dublin, Ireland during the debate and after barrage of comments. I

didn't hear a single person agree that Biden should be replaced. Just alot of chuckles about crazy Americans.

[Xolodno]

28. It depends where in the world...

But attitudes I've surmised from my travels:

1. The USA acts like the leader of the free world, but can't get its act together at home. So why do we listen to them?

2. LOL! Serves them right for messing in our elections "X" years/decades ago.

3. Good! Then maybe they will leave us alone as they are buried in their own antics.

4. Sad to see a once hopeful and thriving empire slowly die.

5. Thier loss in stature in the world is our gain.

In general, not the best. A good portion of our populace has arrogant views that do not reflect reality. For example, we give aid to nation XYZ. But the populace see's that as nothing more than a bribe and perhaps even being used to keep them down.

[obamanut2012]

29. I ahve friends in the UK. Ireland, Camada, and Australai

They think Americans liking Trump are nuts, and are appalled at what some Dems are doing to Biden. They all see Biden as their protector, too.

[XanaDUer2]

30. I'm embarrassed nt

[Marcus IM]

31. No comments on the Latin American vibe.

The US has always had a monstrous history in the Latin Americas and Caribbean.

Not much change in my homeland.
The US still has universally condemned extraterritorial sanctions on Cuba, collectively punishing an entire nation for no good reason.

It continues.

I had hope during the Obama admin, but tRump policy remains in place.

So, no change.