{"id":133739,"date":"2017-06-27T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/losing-friends-and-unfavorably-influencing-people-us-edition.html"},"modified":"2017-06-27T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:44:38","slug":"losing-friends-and-unfavorably-influencing-people-us-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/losing-friends-and-unfavorably-influencing-people-us-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Losing Friends and Unfavorably Influencing People (US Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, too many Americans will consider this a feature, not a bug, of the Trump Presidency. They don&#39;t care about <i>whut them damn furriners think of us. In fact, if if those furriners (especially those _Europeans)<\/i> think poorly of us, that proves that we, the Exceptional United States, are doing the right thing, because they&#39;re all a bunch of socialist atheist commies who are going to be eaten by Muslims anyway._<\/p>\n<p>They also don&#39;t worry about the US pulling back from multilateral leadership. <i>We can go it alone,<\/i> they cry! <i>We have the Deal-inator running things! We have the world&#39;s biggest military (by far),<\/i> they point out, <i>and it&#39;s getting still bigger, so nobody will dare mess with us!<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>As long as being unpopular with others is a badge of pride with enough people, I don&#39;t expect things to get much better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2017\/06\/26\/u-s-image-suffers-as-publics-around-world-question-trumps-leadership\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/IPkXFQeg0_iWHBKYujAFN0XtCJfj_uHuGSr2So64vzCt_UBYOqbjRPq4EMlgpYTyoWZZ_aavlT-WfdWQLF_UTpbH8fSLq_h8hD_3XgJDQZtFgrfhwZvPy6r6uDsj_zN1aRCnM3yC8qPj8yXop3WnTlrdHTGrf5mAH3-XbIRX6S0GXWQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2017\/06\/26\/u-s-image-suffers-as-publics-around-world-question-trumps-leadership\/'>U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump&rsquo;s Leadership<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPresident Trump and many of his key policies are broadly unpopular around the globe, and ratings for the U.S. have declined steeply in many nations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/KabLfyLKDre'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, too many Americans will consider this a feature, not a bug, of the Trump Presidency. They don&#39;t care about whut them damn furriners think of us. In fact, if if those furriners (especially those _Europeans) think poorly of us, that proves that we, the Exceptional United States, are doing the right thing, because they&#39;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/losing-friends-and-unfavorably-influencing-people-us-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Losing Friends and Unfavorably Influencing People (US Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23917,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/all-furriners-are-unwelcome-but-some-furriners-are-more-unwelcome-than-others.html","url_meta":{"origin":133739,"position":0},"title":"All Furriners are unwelcome, but some Furriners are more unwelcome than others","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Nov-11 8:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Alabama police apprehend a dangerous undocumented alien under their new undocumented alien laws ... who turns out to be a Mercedes-Benz executive whose company just opened up a factory in Alabama. 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