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

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Thanks for the Fake News update! But as Norman indicated it is a positive sign if third world scum and their enablers dislike our President. Also it is sad that The Donald was forced to sign the idiotic "sanctions" developed by the Swamp Rats against our one true ally against third world scum, Russia.
Silly little ignorant fuck, those nations are first world. And some of the European nations enjoy a higher living standard than we do. You 'Conservatives' have to be some of the dumbest and most ignorant asses on the planet.

The treasonous fat senile old orange clown has ceded the leadership of the free world the Merkel.
 
no i didnt really read your liberal garbage but thanks

it gave me an opportunity to post that Trump has already lowered the debt

trump-national-debt.jpg
 
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."


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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.

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PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-11.png


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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?
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.
So Goddamned awful that the market tripled under President Obama. Unemployment went from 10% to under 5%. And he gave us an imperfect health care system that the American people prefer by a large majority over anything that Trump or the GOP has offered.
 
no i didnt really read your liberal garbage but thanks

it gave me an opportunity to post that Trump has already lowered the debt

trump-national-debt.jpg
Fucked up stupid ass, the treasonous fat senile old orange clown has yet to have a budget of his own. So the credit for that reduction goes to President Obama. God, you 'Conservatives' are dumb fucks.
 
Trump has squandered a lot of US soft power around the world.

Other world leaders consider him toxic... Merkel is fast becoming the trusted voice in the west... Trump can't behave in the way he does and expect others to adopt his views... The GOP will regret not having the courage to back away from him earlier...

Trump is way out of his debt and has been shifting the chairs on the Titanic since November... If his numbers don't rise soon the GOP will have to cut bait or otherwise expect problems in 2018...

It seems to me that "The West" is less and less West. Germany is welcome to lead this "New West." The US was always more "Old West" anyway. Hopefully, Germany will pick up this "policeman of the world" shtick, too, but I doubt she has the firepower for it. It's pretty expensive and everyone hates you for it in the end anyway.
 
Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

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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.






Wow, look at that....globalists favor the globalist over the nationalist. Who woulda thunk it. The fact is the US can go it alone. And the more I watch the globalists screw over the middle classes of the world in favor of their elitist pals I say we should.
 
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."


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PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-4.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-6.png

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.

PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-9.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-11.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-13-1.png


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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?
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.


Maybe the Hag and Company could win somewhere else - she could not win here.
 
no i didnt really read your liberal garbage but thanks

it gave me an opportunity to post that Trump has already lowered the debt

trump-national-debt.jpg
Fucked up stupid ass, the treasonous fat senile old orange clown has yet to have a budget of his own. So the credit for that reduction goes to President Obama. God, you 'Conservatives' are dumb fucks.


fuck you tired of you dumb fuckers never taking responsibly for the situations added too
 
Lots of revealing stuff but this one makes a subtle point ---

PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-4.png

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.

Wow, look at that....globalists favor the globalist over the nationalist. Who woulda thunk it. The fact is the US can go it alone. And the more I watch the globalists screw over the middle classes of the world in favor of their elitist pals I say we should.

That post has nothing to do with the "globalist" or "the nationalist" -- whatever they are. That post is an observation that more respondents are polarized by Rump than by anybody else.

Not that that should be any kind of a surprise.
 
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."


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PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-4.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-6.png

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.

PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-9.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-11.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-13-1.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-0.png


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?
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.
So Goddamned awful that the market tripled under President Obama. Unemployment went from 10% to under 5%. And he gave us an imperfect health care system that the American people prefer by a large majority over anything that Trump or the GOP has offered.

So Goddamned awful that the market tripled under President Obama.


Is that what he intended? Helpin' dem ebil rich folks?
 
The plunging confidence in America thanks to Trump translates into businesses around the world thinking twice before investing here and even when they do they invest a lot less. Business craves a stable environment and Trump offers the world the exact opposite.

There are consequences for your actions cons.
 
The plunging confidence in America thanks to Trump translates into businesses around the world thinking twice before investing here and even when they do they invest a lot less. Business craves a stable environment and Trump offers the world the exact opposite.

There are consequences for your actions cons.

Hmmm...that's weird. Are investors investing less here?
You may have heard of this little website: www.google.com
You may want to do a tad bit of research before making these claims.
"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"
 
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."


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PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-4.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-6.png

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.

PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-9.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-11.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-13-1.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-0.png


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?
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.

Just goes to show how susceptible Europe is to propaganda by the media.
They brought the world Marxism, communism, fascism, and Nazism....all of which led to many wars. Now they push globalism and multiculturalism, which is once again destabilizing Europe and will lead to another war.

So pardon me if I don't care what the gullible Europeans think of America and its President.
 
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."


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PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-4.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-6.png

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.

PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-9.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-11.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-13-1.png


PG_2017.06.26.US_Image-00-0.png


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?
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.


I had a discussion with someone who works for the DOJ--who travels a lot and just came back from Europe. Trump is a joke to them. You''re final paragraph hit's it on the head. His supporters are ignorant of policy--either foreign or domestic economic knowledge, and yet the irony is he won on ignorance.
A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supporters’ brains

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Just a general comment regarding my "No" vote. Just as I am not into conservative talk radio or liberal late night comedians I'm not fond of threads that simply post an article. I'd rather read opinions of members and if they wish to link an article as their source of information that's fine, but I really don't come here to read articles. Although sometimes if the subject strikes my fancy I'll investigate it on my own using sources I trust.
 
The plunging confidence in America thanks to Trump translates into businesses around the world thinking twice before investing here and even when they do they invest a lot less. Business craves a stable environment and Trump offers the world the exact opposite.

There are consequences for your actions cons.

Hmmm...that's weird. Are investors investing less here?
You may have heard of this little website: www.google.com
You may want to do a tad bit of research before making these claims.
"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"


Another 'real Americans' loser. You join the rest in the ignore bin. Buh bye.
 
I want to thank oreo for not posting that video of homosexual Shep Smith.

Folks "confiidence" in America is reflected in the stock market (at all time highs). Do your homework!
 

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