That actress friend I mentioned who was a lefty but pushed center? Sometimes she'll just go off on an anti-Trump rant on her facebook page and I'll ask her what's up and she'll tell me how lots of other actors will start messaging her that they're not seeing her be actively anti-trump, and saying shit like, "I hope you're not supporting him now..." and she gets terrified of being ostracised (I don't hold it against people who aren't as strong as me when it comes to that shit.
This seems to be the case for anyone who lives in heavy left-leaning areas. An acquaintance of mine lives in such a place and makes the usual social media posts that virtue signal leftist talking points. Privately, however, their views are more center/right-leaning but can't be expressed publicly due to cancel culture and/or retaliatory violence.
Can anyone with a brain explain the tariffs war going on, doesn’t it push more countries to work with china?
It all depends. Chinese goods may be cheaper, but the safety and quality of them is often questionable at best. Any country who would turn to Chinese goods during a tariff war is making it clear quality matters less than quality - in other words, you get what you pay for.
If he succeeds he will achieve recognition only few other Presidents can match but if he fails he could be vilified for ages to come.
As a business man, Trump probably knows that taking big risks either pays off with huge benefits/dividends or fails in the most epic of proportions. Irregardless, he's not one to back down from a challenge. That said, I agree that he needs to have some sort of big success this term.
'Aid' can be anything. It could be money to feed starving Africans and putting them on courses to learn Javascript. It could also be used to fund the 'enlightenment' of the Poles on the wonders of trannies and convince the Baltics to accept blacks.
Most people don't mind humanitarian aid in the truest sense of the word or foreign aid that has some sort of tangible benefit. However, too much of our foreign aid is going towards questionable items such as the money for condoms in Gaza and money with no specific purpose that ends up being spent on non-essential items or pocketed by a corrupt bureaucrat. I don't think it's unreasonable to make sure that any foreign aid doled out by the US is actually being spent as intended and has as little wasteful spending in it as possible. That's not xenophobic; that's being a good steward with money.
They also don't know that the governments in Africa just keep the money for themselves. How do they not wonder why despite getting money for decades these countries still have a shit infrastructure and their people wear hand me downs from other countries.
I don't know if they still do the articles, but
Reader's Digest used to have periodic updates on the 10 worst dictators in the world. If I recall the older articles correctly, roughly half of the top 10 came from Africa and pretty much all of them pocketed aid intended to help the destitute citizens and instead used it to enrich themselves and/or their cronies. Sadly, this has been true for a good 20-30 years or more.
