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Trump administration 2024-2028

I think it remains to be seen if the near unanimous approval of the Epstein release represents a fracturing of the GOP. There is speculation that more moderate Republicans will continue to oppose GOP bills, which could conceivably pave the way for potential impeachment after the mid-terms. Congress taking back its power over tariffs would be an additional indicator.
 
The Biden administration had the Epstein files. Considering everything that has been thrown at Trump over the years, do you think if there was anything harmful to Trump in the Epstein files which were under is opposition's control, it wouldn't have somehow managed to leak out? Given that, a reasonable guess is there is nothing that will harm Trump.
 
ModlrMike said:
I think it remains to be seen if the near unanimous approval of the Epstein release represents a fracturing of the GOP.
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It represents Republicans calling the Democrats' bluff. One of the most useful pressure points in politics is the alleged scandal - there's something hidden there! To take away the hidden is to take away the pressure point.

This'll go through the same futile desperate squeeze as the Mueller report. First it was "we need the full report and we'll show Russian Collusion!". Then it was, "we need the unredacted report and we'll show Russian Collusion!". Finally it was, "selected members of Congress need the full report without the grand jury redactions and we'll show Russian Collusion!".

As long as there is some part of Epstein's correspondence that hasn't been fully publicly released, the conspiratorial wishful thinking will continue.
 
QV said:
The Biden administration had the Epstein files. Considering everything that has been thrown at Trump over the years, do you think if there was anything harmful to Trump in the Epstein files which were under is opposition's control, it wouldn't have somehow managed to leak out? Given that, a reasonable guess is there is nothing that will harm Trump.
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Investigators at the DoJ had the files, along with whatever was held locally in Florida etc, as there were multiple investigations and incidents. There was also active and ongoing court cases that more or less wrapped up when Epstein 'killed himself' and Maxwell went to prison.

Was anyone in the Biden administration promising to release the files while in charge? Maybe, I don't think so though.

Very different when you very loudly campaign on it and make it a point when in opposition, then do nothing once elected for over a year until it is a boiling point. Your whataboutism is largely reinventing history to suit the current narrative, from the same people that lied their asses off and flopped around from 'it's on my desk, and about to release it', to 'it doesn't exist and is a Democratic hoax'.
 

The Economist, working with GlobeScan, a consulting and polling firm, asked 32,000 people in 32 countries for their views on China and America between July and September. The results are startling. Since we last asked the question a year ago, China has made big gains as the world’s preferred “leading power” (see chart 1). The share of respondents favouring China jumped by 11 percentage points to an average of 33%. Meanwhile, support for America slipped below a global majority to 46%.
China wants to be seen as America’s peer. Preference for China as the world’s leading power has risen in every place sampled by GlobeScan. Perhaps most surprisingly, that includes America, where support for Chinese leadership doubled to (a still low) 6%. Meanwhile, two in every five Americans thought that China’s influence in the world was “mainly positive”, up from a quarter during Mr Trump’s first term.
Preference for China strongly correlates with age: the younger the respondent, the more likely they are to welcome Chinese leadership (see chart 2). Among 18- to 24-year-olds America and China are nearly tied for support at 41% and 39% respectively. Among those over 65 years old, America has a commanding 30-point lead. Many youngsters use Chinese products and services, like the video-sharing sensation TikTok, or follow social-media influencers who have visited China.

When it comes to picking China as the leading power, the largest regional increases were in Latin America and Europe. In Brazil, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and Spain, preferences for China rose (and support for America fell) by about 20 percentage points. The single largest increase was in Indonesia, where support for China leapt by 23 percentage points to 62% to make it the second-most pro-China country, behind Egypt. There were only fractional rises in China’s neighbours. Security concerns dominate views of China in Japan and South Korea, where no more than 5% of respondents preferred China.
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The fall from grace this administration has been responsible for is absolutely stunning to watch. Young people globally, and in the west view China as favorability as the USA and the USA still has room to drop.

Just watch what happens when more and more of those young people become active voters, and think that between America and China, China is the lesser evil.
 
Altair said:



The fall from grace this administration has been responsible for is absolutely stunning to watch. Young people globally, and in the west view China as favorability as the USA and the USA still has room to drop.

Just watch what happens when more and more of those young people become active voters, and think that between America and China, China is the lesser evil.
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A hostile media with Chinese backing will do that.
 
QV said:
A hostile media with Chinese backing will do that.
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In every country in the world? With this year's drop in americas standing being one of the largest?

That's not the media. That's just Trump.
 
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