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2016 Postmortem

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4. Our allies are talking about us the way we used to

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 10:31 AM

Dec 2016

talk about unstable despots who served as our proxies.

Bush at least knew enough to pretend to care about diplomacy.

Only figures comparable to the US President are Rodrigo Duterte and Kim Jong Un, both of whom have committed murder while in office.

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China on Traitor Trump - He bears no sense of how to lead a superpower... [View all] iluvtennis Dec 2016 OP

Trumpster is a world stage embarrassment.. pbmus Dec 2016 #1

Sorry I am not going to take the word of an adversary exboyfil Dec 2016 #2

Our allies are talking about us the way we used to geek tragedy Dec 2016 #4

Silvio Berlusconi? exboyfil Dec 2016 #5

That is the first one that pops in my mind PatSeg Dec 2016 #6

LOL. my ex is from Italy and despised Berlosconi nt iluvtennis Dec 2016 #8

I always thought of him PatSeg Dec 2016 #10

LOL iluvtennis Dec 2016 #11

Berlusconi is venal and corrupt, but relatively moderate and sane compared to Trump nt geek tragedy Dec 2016 #9

I'll take the word of ANYONE over Trump's word mtnsnake Dec 2016 #7

America has been reduced to a pawn in the cold war between Russia and China. baldguy Dec 2016 #3