Personally if this takes off, I'd love Mike to expand this globally and make it so you can actually choose the country of origin when you buy your products. Leave out China of course. However, I'd imagine going to MyStore and saying I want to buy something from Italy and I know it came from there. Saying I want to buy something from France and I know it came from there. It'd be a really cool concept.
Some will say that has more to do with his crappier advisors. I'm sure as president the guy was super busy and couldn't sit around doing research on all of these people's careers and their qualities. Therefore, he'd lean on his advisors to tell him about the best candidates. Beyond that, he probably also needed to play politics with the corrupt Republican party. Of course, the problem is that when he started to notice at all of these picks were going south, why didn't he get rid of those advisors? There's a lot to question about Trump's presidency looking back. He did a lot of good and showed us the potential of a good president along with exposing the deep rot in this country... but he also did a good amount of questionable things.
I appreciate being white. I appreciate my heritage. I appreciate my culture. I appreciate being born as an American. I don't have some sort of pride that makes me think I'm better than anyone else because of those things.
Each individual should be judged on their own merits not those of their group. That said, it's natural for people to enter any kind of social situation with someone who is of a different group with certain biases. I don't think that's wrong, those biases can quickly be confirmed or rejected. The question is more of how willing someone is willing to let go of those biases.
Is it abnormal for me as a white man to be afraid of going to a heavily black or Hispanic neighborhood? Nope. Is it abnormal for me to be weary of seeing a random person who dresses like a gangster or like a bum regardless of skin color? Nope. Could they by their actions change my feelings towards them? Sure. But that's all normal human behavior. I'd be abnormal if I didn't feel that way.
I mean I do agree that I'm surprised at the stances he's had on COVID and the vaccines in general. I feel that it's either a) These vaccines are actually legit and Trump wants people to know he had a role to play, b) Trump was fooled into thinking these things are legit and doesn't realize that he's digging himself into a huge hole, or c) Trump's compromised.
I do feel like post-election he hasn't been quite the same.
All of the public issues that come out are at least easy ammo to use on people who insist on you getting it. I read about people dying of blood clots. I'm worried about long-term issues with reproduction. I've read about people getting really awful side effects and some even end up hospitalized.
It's standard leftist talk when people don't care what happens to anyone but themselves and their immediate circle.
Woody Johnson is the great grandson of the founder of Johnson and Johnson. Also, Woody Johnson actually has zero involvement in the company. He's a trust-fund baby.
Republicans have been traditionally more pro war and Trump pretty much changed that. I know many leftists just tow the party line at this point, but I do think the average person including those who veer to the left are still fairly anti war despite what the blue checkmarks and media make it seem. Additionally, I don't see many Republican parents (who are usually the loud and proud troop supporters) wanting to have to send their kids to a war started by a Democrat.
I wish professional athletes and entertainers would just make like 200K per year and that's it. They're playing a children's game for entertainment, let them be on the lower reaches of the upper class rather than being elites. These people don't provide or produce anything that is useful to society beyond distractions.
Peg was funny because no matter how hard they tried to make her look unattractive, you realized that she was actually quite good looking. When I was younger and watched the show I never realized and only appreciated it as I got older. I'd think about how much of a dumb ass Al was for always chasing the young babes when his wife would jump on him at just a single word.
When instead of treating mental illness, you glorify it.
I don't think most of America would be on board with a war with Russia. It would be highly unpopular, not that they care.
Not just a distraction, but fighting Russia weakens China's main threat in the region.
The elections aren't 100% rigged and in many states good people can still get in (as long as they don't get bought out along the way).
I don't think she's like Ivanka. She was highly involved in Trump's 2020 campaign, hosted a once a week show to talk about the issues, and is married to Eric who's not a cuck.
It's definitely a superior meme format.
Is that any different from the US Founding Fathers who everyone acts like were the most perfect men who ever walked the face of the earth? History is written by the victors, but to an extent certain types of propaganda that foster national pride aren't necessarily terrible things. For many people the history of their nation is an important aspect of loving their nation. To hear that national heroes were very imperfect men would harm their ideal image of the nation.
We've mixed up what freedom is. Freedom is freedom from excessive or intrusive government power. On another level it's freedom from worldliness (I.e., inordinate attachments to material things). Either way, the idea of freedom meaning to do whatever you want when you want us part of why we are where we are. People need limits otherwise they end up turning their children into the opposite sex and telling everyone that they're racist just for existing.
Why not both?
Yep, mass shootings are back, ISIS and Muslim terrorism is back, war talk is back, rioting is still going.
I think there's a difference between rich and having so much wealth that you can actually control governments.
The best may be yet to come, doesn't mean there won't be a long stretch of carrying the cross before we get there.
I think that if there is any kind of master Trump plan at this point it would make sense to need to lose and show the world what he was working to stop by just letting things unfold. That said, until I see some real action from our side I'm just hanging on and hoping that we can ride out the horrible wave that's approaching.
If people hate Cruz this much even in spite of his flaws he must at least be a decent one in the sea of turds.
Isn't his oldest son from his first marriage that he never talks about kind of normal?
I think that the vast majority of modern women in general have mental health issues; at the very least anxiety. They've been thrown into the meat grinder and being told they need to be a successful career women, but also a successful mother (forget about being a good wife). Add in the millions of other pressures that women are not biologically wired to handle plus the general cattiness that occurs among women and you have generations of women who are losing it.