Americans on Lemmy, and especially republicans/conservatives, how do you feel about your president and vice president after the press meeting with Zelenskyj?
Besides politics, I’m interested in what you think regarding the behaviour of the two most powerful men in the world, scolding another country’s leader on TV?
It’s such an remarkable happening that political commentators in my country just comment it with ‘I lack words’.
Tldr: Americans, mainly republicans, how do you feel about your presidents recent amateurish and somewhat unexpected behavior against Zelenskyj?
Edit: more exactly how do you feel about these two persons being the ultimate representative for your country against the rest of the world
Feels bad, man. I just hope other countries pay attention. Y’all are seeing swings to the right too. Germany, Canada, Sweden, France, more, check yourselves before you find yourselves in the same spot.
I’m from the Netherlands, we were just ahead of the US elections. I know the hardcore Trumpers will never be convinced by any amount of solid proof that they are wrong but we somehow elected a populist blowhard and after a very difficult formation (it’s what happens when you need to form a coalition to form a cabinet usually necessary if you have more than two parties) we got a state government of people so incompetent, I wouldn’t let them preside over a local gardening club.
I was kind of intrigued when they picked a former director of the Dutch intelligence agency to be prime minister but that dude just screams ‘I don’t belong here and I disagree with everything my cabinet does’.
Now, they haven’t fundamentally screwed the pooch on anything that the Netherlands has built over the last three decades, but there are definitely plans to make our country less of a refuge for people in need of help in spite of folks who take advantage of a too friendly system.
The (western, I can’t speak to a world I’m no active part of) world is changing. It’s becoming tougher, and that essentially means that if you have either money, power or both you’ll be fine. If you don’t, well… dark days are ahead.
The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Any time you feel you are witnessing an injustice, think to yourself, what would good men (I’m obviously saying ‘men’ to mean ‘humans’) be doing to make evil not succeed?