It's funny how opinions are formed at a distance. I'm currently teaching a class of 12 pilots, 8 US and 4 Canadian.
They mostly approve of Trump and love the fact he's doing what he said he would.
It's about 70/30 in his favor.
Bluemoon is not representative of us feeling and clearly neither is the European media.
Yes. Not even a doubt in my mind.
Look at the Democrats tearing themselves apart. The people running for the party leadership entrenching themselves in race politics saying things like 'we don't need white people leading this party'. No self reflection as to why they lost and the disenfranchisment felt by the working class family with the Democrats, they are imploding like Labour. It's all because 'muh racists and sexists'.
Like 2016 it won't even be close.
Yes, pilots are well known for providing a hugely accurate reflection of the wider views of American society. If you'd been tasked with teaching a dozen inner city blacks from Detroit would you have held their views up as being in any way representative? I suspect not.It's funny how opinions are formed at a distance. I'm currently teaching a class of 12 pilots, 8 US and 4 Canadian.
They mostly approve of Trump and love the fact he's doing what he said he would.
It's about 70/30 in his favor.
Bluemoon is not representative of us feeling and clearly neither is the European media.
Seriously then, why did they vote for him?
No I didn't. My opinion of Trump before his election was that he was a blustering loudmouth and, as yet, IDid you enjoy the sight of our Prime Minister fawning over a man who publicly tries to justify torture.
What is particularly depressing is the long term effects he will have if/when he gets to appoint to Judges to the SCOTUS. In many ways they are the most powerful and influential people in the western world. Most certainly their power and influence tends to endure much longer than that of transient politicians.https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.vo.../trump-global-gag-rule-abortion?client=safari
This is a very interesting article. Made me very sad reading this and the likely implications.
There nothing you've said there I can take any issue with, AC.No I didn't. My opinion of Trump before his election was that he was a blustering loudmouth and, as yet, I
see no reason to retract that view, but he is, for better or worse, the President of the USA, so our PM, or any other
world leader has to deal with him. Mrs May, I think, has shown better judgement than the carpers and whingers have, by not
approaching the most powerful man in the world and wagging her finger at him, she is attempting to forge a mutually
beneficial arrangement for both countries, it's no good now going over there just to tell him what sort of **** he is,
it's not going to change him or his views.
I don't think that's anything to get too worried about unless he manages to replace 3 or 4 of them, can't see the sitting members taking well to a Trump nominee.What is particularly depressing is the long term effects he will have if/when he gets to appoint to Judges to the SCOTUS. In many ways they are the most powerful and influential people in the western world. Most certainly their power and influences tends to endure much longer than that of transient politicians.
Some of them are very old, so it's down to fate as much as anything.I don't think that's anything to get too worried about unless he manages to replace 3 or 4 of them, can't see the sitting members taking well to a Trump nominee.
The fact that we're turning to Trump and Erdogan at times like this tells me everything I need to know regarding how good a deal Theresa May genuinely thinks we can get out of Brexit. Her readiness to cosy up to them and her hesitation to condemn them ought to be a source of national embarrassment for years to come. The British love to bang on about their British values but I see nothing to be proud of right now.
What is particularly depressing is the long term effects he will have if/when he gets to appoint to Judges to the SCOTUS. In many ways they are the most powerful and influential people in the western world. Most certainly their power and influences tends to endure much longer than that of transient politicians.
Yeah, they've my best wishes for the next few years :)Some of them are very old, so it's down to fate as much as anything.
Of course she's got to do what she's got to do, the point is that Brexit has given her much less scope to have principles.The fact is that trade has to be done by the UK to survive financially. If a political will can be initially processed then the real trade can be done by those who get the orders and frankly speak in a similar way to Mr Trump with no regard for anything other than filling their order books with profitable jobs.
Political approval for deals with China, Saudi Arabia and many more help industry to be effective so until the UK is self sufficient I´m afraid disapproval of any other country´s style of government is likely to take a back seat.
I agree we are still squirming regarding the way the Bush Blair relationship took us to war and our banks are still getting massive fines for money laundering and libor rate fixing as a partial legacy of the USA / Iran trade ban era (ie mostly US money being processed anyway) but trade must happen and TM should be encouraged to catalyse trade wherever we can get it.
At least it's only 4!Yeah, they've my best wishes for the next few years :)
Grovel.No I didn't. My opinion of Trump before his election was that he was a blustering loudmouth and, as yet, I
see no reason to retract that view, but he is, for better or worse, the President of the USA, so our PM, or any other
world leader has to deal with him. Mrs May, I think, has shown better judgement than the carpers and whingers have, by not
approaching the most powerful man in the world and wagging her finger at him, she is attempting to forge a mutually
beneficial arrangement for both countries, it's no good now going over there just to tell him what sort of **** he is,
it's not going to change him or his views.