Phil1111

Agree, even AI couldn't find statistics on the humour component of international attitudes towards America's Trump blight.

So you think that Trump became president by royal decree? Instead of the votes of more than 50 million Americans? That the policies Trump has implemented are not supported by those who voted for him? That the failures of his policy, failures of his charter, failures and blind obedience of his party. Have not embarrassed the US? That the insults of other world leaders, insults of other countries, from Trump, his party, his cabinet leaders. Is blamed upon republicans instead of the US? Is blamed upon Marco Rubio, secretary Vance, instead of the US? If individuals in other countries separate Trump from the the US itself. Why would these ratings have fallen?

Agree, but in parallel with that thinking Trump puts 100% sanctions on Norway until they give him one or two Nobel peace prizes. The committee itself will never give it to Trump because of his unlimited support of the Gaza-Netanyahu war. But what if Trump figures that out before the end of his presidency? Shaking down Norway for such awards is certainly within his wheel house. I'm personally surprised that Pete Hegseth hasn't nominated Trump for the Medal of Honor. After all Trump is the commander of the military. He has already saved the lives of over 75% of the countries population. Even Audie Murphy can't claim that.

IMO Putin was the first to calculate the praise-flattery angle with Trump. The post Alaska summit with NATO-EU leaders was a perfect example of how world leaders also got the message. Endless praise and flattery changes the whole dynamic in Trump's brain on how he views any subject. ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you’: A diplomat’s guide to dealing with Trump Christian Science Monitor Aug. 21.

Nah this is the real reason: Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Was Stuffed With Flattery for Dear Leader "Every so often, Donald Trump will convene his closest advisers at the White House and smile as they lick his boots to a mirror shine. These Cabinet meetings are effectively televised devotionals to the president’s greatness, with his appointees taking turns lauding him shamelessly. Attorney General Pam Bondi went so far as to credit Trump with saving the lives of 75 percent of America’s population, during a Cabinet meeting back in April. Trump held another Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. It was no different, with the table full of lackeys dutifully praising Trump for rescuing the United States from the brink of destruction. The spectacle lasted over three hours as Trump fielded questions from the congregated media. The adulation clearly went to his head. “I have the right to do anything I want to do,” he said of sending federal troops into cities. “I’m the president of the United States. Here are some of the most shameless examples from Tuesday’s roundtable of the Trump sycophants running the government praising their leader:" “This is just such a great opportunity, really, to recognize your leadership as a true champion for working people. … I know we’ll hear, as we go around the table here, how your focus singularly on putting the well being and interests of the American people first is that common thread that we’re seeing your policies being implemented across your administration.” Gabbard has spent the better part of the summer attempting to redirect public attention away from the administration’s bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and towards conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama and the 2016 election. Trump rewarded Gabbard’s efforts with praise of his own, congratulating her on “becoming a bigger and bigger star every day” within his administration. “Mr. President, I invite you to see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor — because you are the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt …and I was so honored to unveil that yesterday.” Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer was referencing a literal banner of Trump’s face that has been hung on the facade of the headquarters of her department, alongside a similar banner depicting former President Theodore Roosevelt. Both banners carry the slogan “American Workers First.” “There is only one thing I wish for: that the Nobel Committee finally gets its act together and realizes you are the single finest candidate since this Nobel award was ever talked about to receive that award. Beyond your success, is game changing out in the world today, and I hope one day everyone wakes up and realizes that.” Witkoff, not technically a Cabinet member but still invited to the party, later told the president that “working for this government – for you – is the greatest honor of my life,” and praised Trump for supposedly ending “more than seven” international conflicts in the last eight months, although what those conflicts were was left unspecified. “First of all, thank you for the opportunity to work for you. You made this country safe. You opened up the economy. You enforce the law. Now people can get up and provide for their families and go to work every day and be confident in that.” Noem repeatedly praised Trump for a supposed wholesale transformation of the American economy towards unbound prosperity and safety, never mind that the president recently fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for reporting stagnating economic and labor growth in their monthly report. “Thank you for saving college football, by the way. We’re very grateful.” Was college football in such a precarious position that it required saving? No. Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order requiring universities to preserve and expand scholarships for women and Olympic athletes at the collegiate level, as well as reform pay-for-play structure out of college sports. “As we’ve said very often, economic security is national security, and our country has never been so secure, thanks to you. You have brought us back from the edge. You have the overwhelming mandate from the American people. You are restoring confidence in government.” Bessent said that one of the primary ways Trump is restoring trust in the government is by trying to take control of the historically independent Federal Reserve. The president a day earlier attempted to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, a nakedly illegitimate action with no legal basis. Cook’s lawyer said Tuesday that she is not leaving her post and will sue over the move. “You were elected the president of working Americans and that’s why this Labor Day is so meaningful — that’s why this is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life, as someone with four jobs. Trump has been gutting the government since he took office in January and installing loyalists in key positions, which is why Rubio is not only the Secretary of State, but the head of the National Archives, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Trump’s National Security Adviser. Rubio on Tuesday went on to tout Trump’s leadership, describing him as the “Peacemaker in Chief.” A better example of getting the government you deserve can't be made. The rest of the world looks on and laughs abit with fear. I've read this story a couple times and the more I laugh the less I fear the certain outcome of all of this.

Trump has now decided to use Royal decrees to spread dissent and American muscle in other countries for political purpose. This of course goes beyond the ugly American into dangerous dictator and possible enemy state territory. Denmark summons U.S. envoy over report people linked to Trump trying to foment dissent in Greenland Meanwhile the international boycott of tourist travel and buying US products spreads.

Nailed it.....As usual.

So he is recruiting Brownshirts from Brownnosers then!

Why are those national guard members who have other jobs not phoning in sick? To waste the efforts of guard members by "securing the border", policing LA, policing Washington DC all for politics. Is an order that warrants refusal.

That was after he praised Kim and lectured the South Korean leader about how imposing martial law should be open to any president. Trump of course feels that any young woman or teen: "Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon said Donald Trump walked into a dress rehearsal for the pageant in 2001 while the contestants were "half-naked" and the women were told to "fawn all over him," according to an interview. Her comments appear to match up with what Trump told Howard Stern in an interview in 2005 — that he was "allowed to go in" to the dressing area backstage because he was "the owner of the pageant." Trump has been embroiled in controversy recently for comments he made in 2005 in which he can be heard on tape bragging about groping women. Trump has since apologized for the remarks. Dixon, who was 18 at the time, said Trump came "strolling right in" during a dress rehearsal for the Miss USA pageant in 200l, she told CBS2/KCAL. She said it was the contestants' introduction to Trump and that the women were naked or half-naked, in a "very physically vulnerable position." Trump would have been 55 at the time of that pageant.

Odd, Mississippi has sent national guard troops to Washington in order to save lives. I guess a national emergency trumps the importance of another health emergency. Either that or politics is more important than the life of a child in America.

When the cash from oil and gas ends renewables will look good again. Just like Tiktok and crypto Trump flips when there is something in it for him.

Yes so many victims of the left. Thankfully retribution is coming as the King will slay the enemies of White Christians. Correct the perverted history of the greatest country in the universe.

Man bites dog compared to tariffs and the tax breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The inability of democrats to fight and refute the republican messaging that democrats are the corrupt ones. Combined with A.I., redistricting,etc. means that a sustained period of increased corruption is likely.

I take it the definition of dementia and its effects has slipped your mind?

John Bolton's personal residence was raided by the FBI today. Kash Patel's storm troopers are on the move. Case closed.

Thats how magicians operate. Wave a hand over here when something disappears over there. Others call it distraction. National security in on the back burner anyway. FBI agents with their training and college degrees are chasing jay-walkers in Washington D.C.

Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is by Thomas L. Friedman NYT editorial. An excellent piece that covers most of the bases. I laughed when he mentioned all the "thank-you"s directed at Trump. All of the appeasement and flattery to shield the ego of the man-child. Today the Kremlin signalled that NO direct meeting between Putin and Zelensky is either planned or anticipated. "During an interview with state-controlled TV channel Rossiya-24 on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow does not refuse talks with Ukraine — but, crucially, insisted any summit would have to be prepared “step by step, gradually, starting from the expert level and then going through all the necessary stages.” Russia’s calibrated language follows a familiar pattern: agree in principle, stall in practice. A similar dynamic played out in May, when Putin suggested a Russian meeting with Zelenskyy for peace talks, only to send a second-tier delegation instead." Meanwhile Trump's deadlines, sanctions, etc. have all gone TACO. His Alaska coming out party for the indicted war criminal and kidnapper of 20,000 Ukrainian children, a flop. Another example of the moral bankruptcy of the republican party.

The highest support that the National Socialist party ever received was about 37%(1932). Similar to Trump's support today. Both Hitler and Trump realized that support in the cities would not materialize and moved to the rural areas to hold power. Both use violence and intimidation to hold power. For both Hitler and Trump theatrics plays an important role. "Two years later, in the election year of 1932, by which time the National Socialists had grown to be a major, albeit minority, force in German national politics, the biggest event of the year in the East Prussia region around Thalburg was a speech by Hitler himself. The Nazi Party arranged for trains to bring people in from all over the region. It was going to be an open-air meeting with seating capacity for 100,000 people, scheduled to begin at 8 in the evening. The seats were all filled by early afternoon. When Hitler’s plane flew overhead just before 8, there was a roar of “Heil!” from the swastika flag– and handkerchief-waving crowd. The impression was of a surging movement. But at the time, dues-paying National Socialists in Thalburg numbered only 40 souls." Trump is following an old play book. From the book: Who Voted for Hitler? by Richard F. Hamilton, no pun intended.

Tic Toc still faces a federal sell‑or‑ban law that required ByteDance to divest U.S. operations or see the app banned, a measure enacted by Congress and signed into last year. Which doesn't mean much for Trump. But since there is something in it for himself. Great news: The WH has opened a Tic Toc account. So much for national security, the law and the will of congress. But at least Trump can expand the base in a compromised security medium.

Trump's next action is to cut funding for the Smithsonian until they purge their leftist WOKE crimes. Like having any exhibits about slavery. Any mention that any nations besides the US won WW1, WW2 are purged and that the US didn't win the Vietnam war. When the Smithsonian and other museums put up exhibits that Native Americans were not true Americans until they were enlightened by Jebus and white settlers. Then comes education textbooks in schools history textbooks, science, etc.

Do you think thats necessary given the current direction of the state?

Might as well Putin is handing these out in Russia now. In 1867 Alexander the Liberator.sold Alaska to the US. In 2025 Trump also know as Liberation Day Trump sold America to Russia with a side order of Ukraine thrown in.

So republicans can pack the newly redistricted areas with loyalists. Its time for dems to admit that they have been owned.

Ditto