The united states is supposed to be the leader of the free world. Not because of our economic and military preeminence. But because of what this country stands for and what it represents.

Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism

 

Why should we care what they're bitching about, we can't control that. Their thoughts and views have zero effect on the USA. A homeless, drug addled and drunken bum on skid row in Detroit has more leverage than a foreigner.

 

So happy that Scalia’s speech was brought up, because it was spot on. The very last paragraphs so perfectly explains why we have two separate legislative bodies, elected in different ways, but with equal power, no other country has this.

 

I don’t have a problem with the foreigners talking about what happened at their capital.
As far as foreigners go, Americans aren’t all that bad.

 

(Not sure how that happenred... lol)

 

Foreigners can say what they want about America, this is a free country after all,

...its just their opinion doesnt come from the experience of being born and raised in America,
so the opinion cant be as definitive as an Americans....My history is not theirs and they cant understand the American Experience the way I do....
....shall I start talking about life in Europe and judging their events, of course not, last I learned about Europe was WWII, ...I'm a little behind the European times, rebuilt I heard!


And the title ...it wasnt a coup, MSM calls it a riot, calm down and stop inciting

 

From foriegner's point of view.......first we had Guiliani's phone call to Tuberville only Rudi cannot dial the correct number.....



Then we had the Trump insurrection speech............



Then people stormed the Capitol and people started dying........



The sequence of events is undeniable but shitter and the two faced twat would have you believe such a sequence of events were completely unrelated.

Thinskin

 

Foreigners have a place. It is usually in line with their hands out.
For some reason they seem to think they know more about what is going on than the people who are living here.

 

Most foreigners that comment in Politics amount to America hate and starting arguments among the forum, they insult, lie, and deliberately antagonize others,

they hide behind a pleasant projection but their true heart is black ...they should keep their hateful opinions to themselves or keep it in their own country

 

A foreigner putting down America is ...expected...but an American who does nothing but use the American Political situation to bash their own country ...Mafia has a term for that...a Rat!

 

The exact words from his speech:

"We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

 

No body has been "bashing" America. The repukes who enabled Trump's lies about election fraud have soiled themselves and the country. Even a week away from Biden's inauguration, many repukes are still pushing baseless voter fraud. Trump himself on Jan 6th called Biden's election illegitimate. The peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of American democracy, Trump is the first president to ever openly attempt a coup against this country.

Be proud repukes, be proud!

 

Voices heard about what exactly? Congress was certifying the rightful slate of electors. the nonsense.

 

Well it looks like foreigners are critiquing Twitter, Facebook and Google on the way they took Trumps access away. Merkel said the action was problematic, UK’s Health Sec’y Hancock and EU commissioner Breton, both expressed concern that the CEO of a tech firm can pull the plug on the POTUS’s loudspeaker without checks and balance is perplexing.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/ger...lematic-trump-ban.html?recirc=taboolainternal

 

'Attempted Coup'?

Do you Libfucks even understand what a 'Coup' is, and what it would constitute to be called a 'Coup'?

Seriously? This is just more rabid hate mongering from the Left, with ZERO basis in fact.

More phony outrage.

 

Why was Trump lying about voter fraud? Why does he claim the election was stolen. Why does Trump claim Biden didn't win the election? Why did Trump tell a Georgia election official to find 11,780 votes and threaten legal action if he didn't help Trump find those votes?

No Trumps goal was to overturn a fair election and keep himself in power. That is called a coup attempt.

 

World warily watches America's postelection aftershocks

By LORI HINNANT
Yesterday

PARIS (AP) — For America's allies and rivals alike, the chaos unfolding during Donald Trump's final days as president is the logical result of four years of global instability brought on by the man who promised to change the way the world viewed the United States.

From the outside, the United States has never looked so vulnerable — or unpredictable.

Alliances that had held for generations frayed to a breaking point under Trump — from his decision to back out of the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal, to quitting the World Health Organization amid a pandemic.


And then, by seeking to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, Trump upended the bedrock principle of democratic elections that the United States has tried — and sometimes even succeeded — in exporting around the world. How long those aftershocks could endure is unclear.

“It is one of the biggest tasks of the future for America and Europe — to fight the polarization of society at its roots,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said. “We will only be able to preserve the belief in togetherness, in democracy as the most humane form of statehood, and the conviction in science and reason if we do it together.”


But in many ways Europe has already moved on, forging ahead on the deal with Iran, negotiating a trade agreement with China spearheaded by Germany, and organizing global actions to protect the environment.

On the same day an angry mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn the presidential election won by Biden, a record number of Americans died of coronavirus. One other recent event also showed U.S. vulnerability: the cyberespionage operation still working its way through an untold number of government computers and blamed on elite Russian hackers.

World leaders who saw the deadly violence in Washington “will need to consider whether these events are an outlier event — a ‘black swan’ — or whether these extremist white supremacist groups will continue to be a significant influence on the direction of U.S. foreign and domestic policy, instead of receding with the end of the Trump administration," the Soufan Group, a global intelligence and security firm, wrote Tuesday.

People tend to think of fragile countries “in terms of war as the biggest problem, rather than violence, and thinking in terms of state collapse as the biggest problem rather than states that internally disintegrate,” said Rachel Kleinfeld, a scholar of democracy and violence at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kleinfeld, like many others, said the assault on the U.S. Capitol may have come to a head in a matter of weeks but was years in the making.


And the U.S. capacity to fight for democracy was already tarnished before the mob egged on by Trump sought to overturn his election loss. For many, those events were merely confirmation.

Adversaries including Russia, China and Iran used the violence to question U.S. democracy more generally.

In an internal note on the State Department's “dissent channel” obtained by The Associated Press, American diplomats said Trump’s actions had made their job harder. “It is critical that we communicate to the world that in our system, no one — not even the president — is above the law or immune from public criticism,” the note said. “This would be a first step towards repairing the damage to our international credibility.”


Trump showed no contrition, however, saying Tuesday his fiery rally remarks to supporters were “totally appropriate.”

In Iraq, a country that still struggles with the controversial legacy of a U.S.-led invasion in the name of democracy, many people followed the Washington events with a mixture of shock and fascination.

Then-U.S. President George W. Bush boasted that Iraq would become a model of democracy in a region ruled by dictators. Instead, the country fell into protracted war between Sunnis and Shiites in which tens of thousands of people died. Although it has an active parliament and regular elections, it is a dysfunctional democracy based on a sectarian power sharing agreement, with corrupt parties haggling over ministries and posts so they can give jobs to supporters while lining their own pockets.

Ahmad al-Helfi, a 39-year-old Iraqi political cartoonist, said what happened at the U.S. Capitol is a blow to the democracy it tried to bring to Iraq and other countries.

“By mobilizing his followers in an effort to overturn the results of the election, Trump confirmed that instead of exporting democracy to Iraq, America imported the chaos, non-peaceful transition of power, and failure to accept election results,” al-Helfi said.

Anahita Thoms, a German lawyer and trade expert who spent years living and working in the United States, said last week's events would indelibly mark America’s image abroad. Thoms is a board member of the Atlantic Bridge, a think tank promoting cooperation between Europe and the U.S. — the kind of organization founded in the aftermath of World War II when the U.S. helped to rebuild the economies of many countries in western Europe that had been destroyed by the war.


Germany was one country that benefited the most from those U.S. financial and democracy-building efforts.

Looking ahead, she said American officials may have a tougher time promoting democracy abroad.

“The U.S. remains a country that lives its democratic values. But this aspiration, which is presented very strongly to the outside world, mustn’t get too many cracks," Thoms said. "I think a lot of diplomatic skill is going to be necessary to counter those pictures.”

The International Crisis Group, which normally focuses on global war zones, wrote its first assessment ever about the risk of election-related violence in the United States in October. Stephen Pomper, who helped lead the work on the report and lives in the D.C. area, said in the best of circumstances, the United States could eventually point to the decision of Congress to resume certification of Biden's election after the breach as a first step in successfully protecting its democracy.

“Look, we created these institutions. They did become a source of resiliency for us. They helped us get through this very difficult period. Let us help you develop the same kind of resiliency,” he said, describing a hypothetical future conversation between the U.S. and a struggling government. “That would be a positive story to be able to tell at some point, but I don’t think the pieces are quite there yet.”

Pope Francis was more optimistic, telling Italian broadcaster Mediaset: "Thank God this exploded” into the open because “we have been able to see why this is, and how it can be remedied.”

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Associated Press writers Kirsten Grieshaber and Frank Jordans in Berlin, Abdulrahman Zeyad in Baghdad, Matt Lee in Washington; and Frank Bajak in Boston contributed.

 

Dont know much about American political history do ya?...you think this is a new found revelation?.

Seems you're the prime example and result of the revisionist history movement..

At least RINO McConnell has no interest in entertaining Pelosi with her newest version of a political witch hunt.