We Are Hated as a Nation. There's One Man to Blame.

[sheshe2]

““We are hated as a nation now.

One man has done this.”

— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T21:54:37.739Z

The only time I saw Dennis get angry was when, somehow, the government of the United States came up in casual conversation. This included the World Baseball Classic, in which Venezuela was playing a U.S. team chock-full of MAGA-curious dumbasses who seemed to think they were playing ball on Omaha Beach. The intensity of my new friend’s contempt for this government surprised even me. If we’ve incurred the dislike of Irish émigrés on St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve passed a point of unpopularity that I thought we’d never come near.

Venezuela beat the insufferable cult members of the USA for the world baseball title. On Monday, when Venezuela beat Italy, this is what the president of the United States posted on his money pit of a social-media platform:

Wow! Venezuela defeated Italy tonight, 4-2, in the WBC (Baseball!) Semifinal. They are looking really great. Good things are happening to Venezuela lately! I wonder what this magic is all about? STATEHOOD, #51, ANYONE? President DONALD J. TRUMP

Oy.

I have watched as the entire world has responded to his appeals to help him bail himself out in his very excellent Iranian excursion by telling him that, no, can’t make it, gotta grout the tub. I have seen that the United States has been downgraded in the democracy index, a respected international survey, based partly on the administration’s continuing assault on free expression and the First Amendment generally. I have heard the president trying the blackmail Denmark into surrendering Greenland; and his towering foolishness regarding Canada, including referring to the country’s prime minister as “Governor Carney”; and how he should be “involved” in picking the next leader of Iran; and, most recently, how he could “do anything I want with Cuba.” The Emperor of Adderall, he brings to mind the passage from Exodus:

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Read More: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70790567/united-states-reputation-falls-democracy-trump/

[Blue Owl]

1. A fat fuck they call tRUMP

[bluestarone]

2. THIS!!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Unfortunately

I think (but hope not) the American people as whole may have also earned this contempt by reelecting him.

[Irish_Dem]

4. In a democracy the people are responsible for their leadership.

We cannot blame it on one man.

The congress, courts, institutions are gave Trump power.

[John1956PA]

7. This is off point, but I am reminded of a bit of dialog from a TV movie from the early 1970s.

At the end of the movie, the main character, a detective, observes, "Some people say the community gets the police force it deserves. I say the community IS the police."

[tanyev]

5. One man plus everyone who paved the way (GOP) and everyone who voted for him.

[Cirsium]

6. Millions

Millions are to blame.