I wonder if other countries genuinely believe Donald Trump represents the thoughts and opinions of America as a whole. Cuz as far as I’m concerned most of us see him as a mistake an an embarrassment. I wonder if they see what he does and think “that’s what all Americans are like, that’s what all of America wants” or if they see us as a captive audience to his bullshit

sashayed:

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I don’t know, hopefully the latter, but he’s pretty much every negative stereotype about Americans. 

jon shieber tweeted this, saying it’s “from an american friend of mine working with the un in iraq”:

so if we’re worried about american image issues we better keep protesting

this is important for many reasons, but one of them is – i think we need to accept that we are going to lose a lot of these battles, and lose big, and it’s going to be fucking ROUGH. and in those moments we will need to remember that we can make a difference not just by winning, but by showing up to fight.

I was talking to a friend in Greece and he commented on how sad he felt about everything happening here, but how encouraging it was that people are protesting and fighting back.  So yes, the awful stuff is making it overseas, but so are the positives.