2 minutes ago, swissie said:

Currently, the "approval rate" of European voters supporting "Donalds Universe" is about 15%.  According to polls.

You need to support this with some sources. Whilst you're at it how about adding the current US approval rating.

1 hour ago, swissie said:

Currently, Donalds approval rating is around 53 % in the US, while the rest of the "western world" wonders how something like this could have happened.

Wondering how a guy can put "the western alliance" in jeopardy that has benefitted all the members of this alliance since WW2.

 

In Europe, the Person that is named Donald J.Trump is being considered as a pompous, erratic, overbearing character. If not for his money and fame, he would be spending his time in a psychiatric institution for his own good. General consensus.

 

Europeans are still puzzeled: What is so terribly wrong with the political/economical system in the US, that has elevated Donald into the highest office that this nation has to offer?

 

Me, and the overwhelming majority of Europeans would just like to know why the American electorate came to the conclusion, that the time is ripe for a person like Donald. Or, in other words: What is so terribly wrong in the US that made them vote for Donald?

 

I look foreward to many contributions from US posters. The more, the better. It might help Europeans to better understand what is happening in the US. Europeans (and the rest of the "free world) hunger for an explanation, boiling down to 1 word = WHY?

 

Frankly, we don't care what you Europeans and the rest of the world think. 

51 minutes ago, still kicking said:

So Australia is buying nuclear subs worth 500 billion buy Boing aircrafts and getting threatened with 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium   

Easily fixed, pull out of the deal. There will probably be underwater drones costing a few thousand dollars to take them out by the time we get them anyway.

 

The current US trade surplus with Australia is $14.4 billion. America has had a trade surplus with Australia for many years.

 

That means if our government has the balls to respond with a 25% tariff on all American imports, it will hurt the USA worse than it hurts Australia.

 

We can always buy aircraft from Airbus, and French submarines. Without Pine Gap, North West Cape, and Darwin, America loses half its surveillance capability.

 

Trump is a bully. The only way to deal with bullies is a good smack in the mouth.

3 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Frankly, we don't care what you Europeans and the rest of the world think. 

IMO after your little bout of electoral insanity, the rest of the world doesn't care much for America either.

 

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Physics.

 

Trump is going to find out the law applies to tariffs too.

1 hour ago, swissie said:

Still looking for comments like: " What is so terribly wrong with the political/economical system in the US, that has elevated Donald into the highest office that this nation has to offer?

 

 

This is the system that kept you people from being ruled by either Russians or Germans.   

22 minutes ago, UWEB said:

I would be more than happy to see the criminal Fascists of the German NSAFD banned, better yesterday then tomorrow.

That’s very Nazi of you. 

54 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Americans were primarily concerned because 5 or 6 million people came into the country illegally and were given money, living, accommodations, and health care, while nobody even bothered to check what their backgrounds were. Americans don't like that and did something about it. Apparently, Europeans don't care who comes into their countries and lives freely off them. 

Hench the rise of more right leaning parties.  The people are tried of this stuff. 

25 minutes ago, swissie said:

Currently, the "approval rate" of European voters supporting "Donalds Universe" is about 15%.  According to polls.

Donald is American. He does not care what farangs think about him.

Trump Says Relocated Palestinians Won’t Have Right Of Return To Gaza Under Proposed Plan

Trump Says Palestinians Won't Have Right Of Return Under Proposed Plan

If that is not ethnic cleansing I don't know what is  

Trump has permanently damaged the American brand.

The U.S. empire is in inevitable decline regardless but there are rational ways of managing that and irrational ways that Trump represents. 

He has rapidly speeded up the decline dramatically and the pain Americans are going to feel from that will be much worse and happen much sooner as well. Just as there will be a lot of international suffering as well. It's been estimated that cutting off USAID will result in the deaths of at least 10 million people globally. Allies being threatened such as Canada and the EU have been banking on a stable U.S. and will be reeling from the shock that that is totally over.

21 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

You need to support this with some sources. Whilst you're at it how about adding the current US approval rating.

 

The same kinds of polls that had Kamala well ahead of Trump. The same polls that said Biden was the bees knees.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

IMO after your little bout of electoral insanity, the rest of the world doesn't care much for America either.

 

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Physics.

 

Trump is going to find out the law applies to tariffs too.

Newton is dead and US is a far bigger nation than most. Smaller nations have more to lose by playing tough.

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Trump has permanently damaged the American brand.

The U.S. empire is in inevitable decline regardless but there are rational ways of managing that and irrational ways that Trump represents. 

He has rapidly speeded up the decline dramatically and the pain Americans are going to feel from that will be much worse and happen much sooner as well. Just as there will be a lot of international suffering as well. It's been estimated that cutting off USAID will result in the deaths of at least 10 million people globally. Allies being threatened such as Canada and the EU have been banking on a stable U.S. and will be reeling from the shock that that is totally over.

So why is the US dollar not dropping a lot?

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Trump has permanently damaged the American brand.

The U.S. empire is in inevitable decline regardless but there are rational ways of managing that and irrational ways that Trump represents. 

He has rapidly speeded up the decline dramatically and the pain Americans are going to feel from that will be much worse and happen much sooner as well. Just as there will be a lot of international suffering as well. It's been estimated that cutting off USAID will result in the deaths of at least 10 million people globally. Allies being threatened such as Canada and the EU have been banking on a stable U.S. and will be reeling from the shock that that is totally over.

He has not damaged the brand.  Stop being a Karen. 

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's been estimated that cutting off USAID will result in the deaths of at least 10 million people globally. 

 

Garbage. 

 

Now Trump is more lethal than covid. I have heard it all.

 

2028 cannot come fast enough. 

And more

15 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

IMO after your little bout of electoral insanity, the rest of the world doesn't care much for America either.

 

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Physics.

 

Trump is going to find out the law applies to tariffs too.

Politics do not follow the laws of physics.  You should know this. 

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

. It's been estimated that cutting off USAID will result in the deaths of at least 10 million people globally. Allies being threatened such as Canada and the EU have been banking on a stable U.S. and will be reeling from the shock that that is totally over.

 

Spare me this hyperbolic made up BS. 

36 minutes ago, UWEB said:

I would be more than happy to see the criminal Fascists of the German NSAFD banned, better yesterday then tomorrow.

That would be a bit fascist, no?

Just now, Mike_Hunt said:

Politics do not follow the laws of physics.  You should know this. 

I said tariffs.

 

What do you think China is doing in response to Trump's tariffs?

Just now, Mike_Hunt said:

 

Spare me this hyperbolic made up BS. 

It was over your head.

Just put me on ignore.

Just now, Lacessit said:

I said tariffs.

 

What do you think China is doing in response to Trump's tariffs?

China will do what's in the best interest of China.   Trump is doing what's in the best interest of the USA.  

5 minutes ago, still kicking said:

And more

 

Is this not a good thing ? 

Just now, Jingthing said:

It was over your head.

Just put me on ignore.

 

I will reply to all of your dumb posts.  Which there are many. 

Just now, blaze master said:

 

Is this not a good thing ? 

Sunshine is the best disinfectant. 

37 minutes ago, swissie said:

Currently, the "approval rate" of European voters supporting "Donalds Universe" is about 15%.  According to polls.

maybe based almost entirely on his obnoxious personality.

no one knows what he will do.

since he's in bed with elon, and elon is pushing self-driving cars, i expect self-driving cars to take off in the next few years. 

a lof of people don't like the idea of self-driving cars.

but no one knows 99% of what he will do yet. 

 

Just now, Mike_Hunt said:

China will do what's in the best interest of China.   Trump is doing what's in the best interest of the USA.  

Funny that you say that.

Who is celebrating the most from Trump's actions?

China and Russia. 

Who is freaking out the most from Trump's actions?

The U.S. traditional allies.

How that is "good" for the USA?

Just now, Mike_Hunt said:

 

I will reply to all of your dumb posts.  Which there are many. 

You're welcome. Engaging with maga cultists is of no interest to me. 

9 minutes ago, still kicking said:

And more

That's cool. 

Yet he's still hiding the Epstein files. His good buddy.

 Hmmm. 

1 minute ago, Mike_Hunt said:

 

Spare me this hyperbolic made up BS. 

Trump has pulled out of the WHO.

 

Polio is still endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Africa is a witches' cauldron of diseases.

 

COVID killed 7 million people, over 1 million in the US. It had a quite low death rate compared to Ebola, which is 50% on average.

 

It's not hyberbolic to point out viruses don't care about borders.