I don’t think anyone is condoning the kid being beat and then dying as a result. But anyone who is actively trying to link it on any level with Trump is purely delusional. It’s just crazy to think that Trump has or had anything to do with it, regardless of how you perceive his comments. Crazy thinking dude.
https://twitter.com/ivankatrump/status/1103657091112357888?s=21 OMG, the POTUS is a human, a real one, who wouldhave thunk it.
I bet I could come up with 6 examples for better than 50% of those in Congress. However if you look at his lifetime he has worked with a wide variety of people. So even if he thinks evil his actions appear contrary. There are plenty examples of people just like him including some I bet you have voted for ;-). Is Hillary's accent that appears when she speaks in front of southern blacks racist? She was the alternative. In the end I think the vast majority of those accused of racism are not, they are just imperfect people like most of us.
If you willingly walk into the gorilla cage (ie NoK), poke him with a stick (ie steal something), then get beat to death why is that so surprising to you? Everyone knows what happens in NoK. Everyone knows there is no such thing as the rule of law there. I feel bad for his parents much more than I do for him. It's not "right", I don't condone it, but I'm not the least bit surprised by it.
I cant get my arms around people who think you F up a huge global diplomacy and disarmament effort over one moron who was in a place he never should have been in the first place. BTW, same people who gave ZERO shits about multiple Americans being murdered in Benghazi.
NK doesn't give a shit if it's ok with you or his family. Welcome to real life. When you do dumb shit overseas don't expect your government to step in because you're a fucking moron with no common sense.
It certainly does not help that alot of manufacturing was pushed offshore by shitty short sighted regulations enacted by previous administrations. It is getting harder and harder to find products that are made in America so of course when people start buying more it will cause the trade deficit to increase in the short term. Hopefully long term the tariffs will make it easier for American companies to compete and there will be more manufacturing in the US.
Why, just last night- my last Uber ride back to my neighborhood with 2 working guys that had been to the Bucks Game-NBA, and then out to some bars, and Ubered home- with me driving. We're chatting, and one of them is a machinist who makes parts for 'insinkerator' garbage disposals- like under your kitchen sink. I said- they're made here in the USA- he said yea- they produce an average of 4500 of them a day! Go USA! Trump- kicking ass, taking names!
The economy is booming partly because of his business friendly tax overhaul, he definitely gets credit for this surge. No president had been this pro American business. None.
Devils advocating here. And I put away the 90 proof coconut rum and got a good whiskey buzz on so this may not make sense to sober people. So the government spends money. Say, they decide to build the infamous bridge to nowhere. So, does the president say "poof" and eleventy brazilian dollars disappears and a bridge takes its place? NO. First, the land needs to be bought. Shitty eminent domain, yeah, I know, but there's people moving out with money in hand to go buy another place. The sellers take the money & pay taxes on their gains (back to the government) Next, the architects/engineers/traffic planners draw up the plans. They get paid & go buy cars, food, and whiskey. The people that sell them those things do so for profit. Upon which they pay taxes. (back to the government) Then the steel mills & concrete mills and heavy equipment and dirt movers actually purchase the materials, perform the work, and pay their employees, who go buy cars/homes/whiskey and all pay taxes (back to the government) The people that provide all those people with their services all do so for profit. and the people who provide THOSE people with goods & services, and so on down the line. That money sloshes around and around the economy; with the government taking a cut from every slosh, until.. guess what? The government gets it all back. The leak in this system? Foreign trade deficits. When you buy that Honder or SUUK, instead of that Harley... or you buy that Korean TV instead of that... shit, is there an American TV manufactuere anymore? Anyway. When you buy foreign crap,. that's the main way the US /local/& state governments don't get all the money for that bridge back. TL/DR Buy American