
At the risk of being redundant, what a fricken' shit show.
This is the warm up act.At the risk of being redundant, what a fricken' shit show.
What do you mean?This is the warm up act.
Wait until the US SC throws out the tariffs and wait to see if they rule that all the money collected has to be returned…
What do you mean?
Oh I know that part, I was just curious about what he meant by warm up act; just an interesting tangent to me.What happens if the Supreme Court rules Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs illegal?
How the Supreme Court’s IEEPA Ruling Could Recast US Tariffs
This is definitely an issue to track...
Seen.Oh I know that part, I was just curious about what he meant by warm up act; just an interesting tangent to me.
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.I think it remains to be seen if the near unanimous approval of the Epstein release represents a fracturing of the GOP.
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.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.
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.
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.
In every country in the world? With this year's drop in americas standing being one of the largest?A hostile media with Chinese backing will do that.
Meanwhile...Some one needs to execute him for treason.
Seriously doubt it would ever succeed even if they were dumb enough to try.Meanwhile...
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Pentagon threatens to court martial Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video that sparked Trump and MAGA fury
Navy veteran faces ‘serious allegations of misconduct’ over statement that prompted Trump to call for his imprisonmentca.news.yahoo.com
I’m not even sure if they legally can recall a sitting senator back to active duty?Seriously doubt it would ever succeed even if they were dumb enough to try.