Jesus H. Christ! Look at this mess! Trump hastens the U.S.' gradual march to irrelevance...

[BrokeLoser]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

 

[Pogo]

Donald Trump: Making liberalism irrelevant since 2016.

The weird thing is --- you don't seem to know why you're right about that. At least that's his intent.

Here's a hint.

​

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump.

The world loved Obama before he became president.
He ended up being awful.

 

[Pogo]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

"REAL American is" [sic]
Cult of Ignorance strikes again.

 

[whitehall]

My God, what a freaking change for the better that the rest of the world would view the President as "arrogant" instead of a pushover pussy. Only six months and the sissie lefties are hysterical that Trump is making America great again.

 

[usmbguest5318]

Does Trump Want a 19th-Century World Order?

It’s not hard to fathom why the last two administrations wanted to increase U.S. engagement in the Asia. It remains one of the fastest growing regions in the world, with annual growth rate of 6.8 percent in 2014, accounting for about 40 percent of global growth. In 2015 U.S. trade with Asia totaled over $1.5 trillion. In 2014, U.S. exports to the Asia-Pacific region represented 27.8 percent of total exports. In 2012, 32 percent of U.S. export-related jobs -- 1.2 million American workers -- were employed in trade with the region, an increase of 52 percent over 2002. In 2011, 68 percent of all congressional districts exported more than $500 million to the region, with 39 states sending approximately 25 percent of their exports to the region. Moreover, the United States has some $778 billion in direct investment in Asia; Asians invested another $513 billion in the United States.​

Trump and his Trumpkins would sooner discard the opportunities of the Asian sector, in the name of "America First." And to what end? The U.S. is not going to see anything like the economic growth rates Asia-Pac will and does, yet Trump doesn't want the U.S. and its citizens to have a part, material part, let alone controlling role, in that growth.

Noooo....Trump and his band of merry fools want to keep out of Asia-Pac and deny to "average" Americans any hope of participating in it, not on the supply or demand side. Trump himself, however, secured almost 40 trademarks in China.

• China provisionally grants Trump 38 trademarks – including for escort service

Nope, Trump's not missing out on Asia-Pac's growth, but he's making sure "average" Americans do. Why not? That's just more for him.....Oh, and what is he making in China? Clothing....yep, that'll bring manufacturing back to the U.S....

 

[BrokeLoser]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

"REAL American is" [sic]
Cult of Ignorance strikes again.

Haha...I know how "you people" hate truth and facts.

 

[Pogo]

I'll take Trump over Merkel or Hillary any day, and I'm not a Trump fan.

Merkel?

Why?

It's not because she can put a coherent sentence together is it?

 

[Pogo]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

"REAL American is" [sic]
Cult of Ignorance strikes again.

Haha...I know how "you people" hate truth and facts.

Yyyyyyeah ummmm.... I ain't the one running away from the OP's charts with a am I Hunior?

Change the topic much?

 

[pismoe]

Western Europe's rating is very high in the middle east. They let people come in and rape their women non-stop.

Yeah, maybe it's not such a great thing to have a high rating and get fucked in the ass. This is the sort of "losing with dignity" shit that we are all so tired of. I rather get tired of winning.

"Confidence in the USA" measures only how confident they are that America will suck their cock after bending down and spreading its legs, that's all you need to know.

--------------------------------------------------------------- you said it Best so far Norman !!

 

[Lewdog]

This thread is like a flame that attracted every Trump supporter moth to it. It's amazing to watch.

 

[BrokeLoser]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

"REAL American is" [sic]
Cult of Ignorance strikes again.

Haha...I know how "you people" hate truth and facts.

Yyyyyyeah ummmm.... I ain't the one running away from the OP's charts with a am I Hunior?

Change the topic much?

It's just more desperate reaching from Loons. Why haven't you realized that our guy can't give two shits about popularity...particularly global popularity. He'll do what's right for the right people, the right Americans and the rest will feel fucked over....this is so simple. If you're feeling fucked over you may want to ask yourself a very important question...haha

 

[Pogo]

My God, what a freaking change for the better that the rest of the world would view the President as "arrogant" instead of a pushover pussy. Only six months and the sissie lefties are hysterical that Trump is making America great again.

The Pew charts would seem to indicate the exact opposite.

What do you have --- "alt-charts"?

 

[usmbguest5318]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men​

Oh, lord. Another clown who thinks that arbitrarily citing unquantified pieces of information in abstraction is meaningful.....You just keep doing that....

I'd write more, but Edith said what I am thinking so much more succinctly than I ever could....

Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dullness. Because a bluebottle bangs irrationally against a window-pane, the drawing-room naturalist may forget that under less artificial conditions it is capable of measuring distances and drawing conclusions with all the accuracy needful to its welfare...
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth​

 

[BrokeLoser]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

​

Not the green or the orange but the grey. Rump has the fewest respondents who are not sure.

That's as polarized as it can get.

Would it make sense that we focus on what's going on here and now? Fuck the rest of the world. Now, here's some shit that actually matters to people who matter.
Jobs...UP
Consumer confidence / spending....UP
Real estate values...UP
Stock market....UP
Deportations of third world filth....UP
illegal immigration....DOWN
High quality REAL American's feel confident in government again while the piece of shits continue to piss their pants and feel like the piece of shits they actually are...haha...I could go on and on...this guy is absolutely KILLIN' IT and our whackos, criminals, illegals and bottom feeders can't stand it....hahaha

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men​

Oh, lord. Another clown who thinks that arbitrarily citing unquantified pieces of information in abstraction is meaningful.....You just keep doing that....

I'd write more, but Edith said what I am thinking so much more succinctly than I ever could....

Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dullness. Because a bluebottle bangs irrationally against a window-pane, the drawing-room naturalist may forget that under less artificial conditions it is capable of measuring distances and drawing conclusions with all the accuracy needful to its welfare...
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth​

Haha...yeah, how dare I apply real world simple logic while you're digging deep for meaningless data. Sorry you wasted a shitload of time bud...although I have a firm feeling you had nothing better to do. You are officially the smartest dumbass on this site...CONGRATS!

 

[JGalt]

Donald Trump: Making liberalism irrelevant since 2016.

The weird thing is --- you don't seem to know why you're right about that. At least that's his intent.

Here's a hint.

​

Why wouldn't I know why I'm right about that? It's one of the main reasons I voted for the guy.

 

[Pogo]

Donald Trump: Making liberalism irrelevant since 2016.

The weird thing is --- you don't seem to know why you're right about that. At least that's his intent.

Here's a hint.

​

Why wouldn't I know why I'm right about that? It's one of the main reasons I voted for the guy.

Because you have no clue what Liberalism actually means.

I gave you a hint.

Again.

 

[blackhawk]

Yeah other countries view America the same way people do lawyers they trash them look down on them and have no respect for them until they need one then they love them.

 

[JGalt]

Donald Trump: Making liberalism irrelevant since 2016.

The weird thing is --- you don't seem to know why you're right about that. At least that's his intent.

Here's a hint.

​

Why wouldn't I know why I'm right about that? It's one of the main reasons I voted for the guy.

Because you have no clue what Liberalism actually means.

I gave you a hint.

Again.

I don't care what some lofty ideal meant 100 or 200 or 500 years ago. When I say "liberalism", you know what I'm referring to.

 

[OKTexas]

The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."

The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.

​

And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!


The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.

The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.

Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.


Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?

• The Port of Los Angeles | Finance
  
• The Port of Seattle’s Economic Impact
  
• Alaska's Strategic Role in the Defense of the United States and the Vital Role of Missile Defense

Now, the DPRK situation was not created by Trump, but the fact remains that as POTUS, it's his situation to manage to a peaceful solution, or at least to attenuate it to so that it doesn't erupt into a war yielding calamity in the U.S. Accordingly, POTUSes who did/didn't do "whatever" before Trump matters materially to no one other than chroniclers of history and individuals who'll read the record to inform subsequent action, and we know informing himself of the "forest and the trees" of foreign relations, or much of anything, is not something Trump embraces doing.

What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.

And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.

The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.

Yep, we get rid of the socialist POS from the WH and Europe cries, their dream that the US would become a democratic socialist country like them, dashed. LMAO


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America will be made great as they wither to irrelevance, the Islamists never thought the countries would become so cucked that they could just march in and take over. This will never happen with Trump...

They made their bed, they can deal with it.


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