-sellele mingit tõestust on, miks peaks mittekodanikud saama õiguse hääletada, tundub räme BS. Või mis valimiste kohta see peaks käima, mingite kohalike?
See uudis võib oranžile küll närvidele käia: 3 pollijat on nädala jooksul leidnud, et rahvas arvab, et biden oli parem kui trump (:
Harvard Caps/Harris, YouGov/Economist and, most glaringly, Rasmussen, a pollster that routinely finds the most favourable numbers for Republicans, all reported that voters think Biden’s presidency was more successful than Trump’s has been.
After a year of Trump, it seems, many Americans are saying: Biden was bad; this is worse.
There is alarm in Trumpland. It is not only the midterms that are in peril. Republicans are worried about potentially structural damage to the party’s brand. Trump’s approval is down across the board but he has lost most ground with key demographics. One example: a year ago, YouGov found that 52% of Americans aged 18-29 approved of Trump; 42% disapproved. Last week those numbers were: 25% approve; 67% disapprove.
If this level of discontent persists among those who gave him his victory 15 months ago, it will reshape the political landscape for 2028 and beyond. No party held in this level of esteem can win majorities. The Harris poll shows Trump’s rating below 50% on every major issue. He polls especially badly on foreign affairs and tariffs. Immigration was the one bright spot for him until recently but unease about the administration’s aggressive enforcement tactics has pushed Trump underwater even on that. Barely two in five voters think he is handling the economy — especially inflation — effectively. He came into office with a mandate: bring order to illegal immigration; get the economy back on a growth path with low inflation; restore America’s damaged standing in the world. If he had focused on that, he would be in good shape. Instead progress on these fronts has been marred by the extremism of some of his policies and rhetoric (weaponised justice for his political enemies, an unprecedented level of corruption, “annexing Greenland”). -The Times.
NY Fed jõudis ka samale tulemusele millele enne mitu biiig bjuuutiful tariife uurinut jõudsid: nende eest maksavad 90% ulatuses USA tarbijad ja firmad. Eks oranž luulutab edasi kuidas kõik teised maksavad.
16 kindralit ja USA NATO saadikut kirjutasid trumpi pundile kirjas miks NATO USAle hea ja kasulik on.
Nearly every living former US ambassador to Nato and ex supreme allied commander has warned President Trump against withdrawing from or diminishing the alliance.
In a stark statement 16 former senior figures warned that Nato was vital for US national security. They said that without the alliance, US costs would increase and so would the risk of conflict, American influence would shrink and the legitimacy of future US-led operations would be weakened, adding that Nato provides the legal and physical infrastructure that enables US forces to operate globally, including guaranteed access to strategic bases across Europe that serve as launch points for operations in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Nato provides the legal and physical infrastructure for the United States to operate globally,” they said.
They also pointed out that non-US Nato allies spend over $560 billion on defence and more than $1.6 trillion in bilateral trade flows across the Atlantic annually and that Nato’s maritime and security framework helps safeguard critical sea lanes. Nato’s “global nervous system” of intelligence provides the US with capabilities and interoperability that would be costly and difficult to replicate alone. "Nato is a vital force multiplier that allows the United States to project power, protect its economy, and share the immense burdens of global leadership in ways that would be impossible — or prohibitively expensive — to achieve on its own. If the US were to withdraw from Nato or diminish its utility by eroding trust among allies, the immediate result would not be a ‘peace dividend’. Instead, the US would face higher costs, greater risk, loss of influence, less legitimacy.”