re: It's honestly remarkable how much influence the United States has over the world

Way too many countries suckle from the teat of American tax dollars

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They hate us cuz they aint us

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To your point, here's a Brit explaining T$'s win to other Europeans on X:

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

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Or embark on a crash course of rearmament, including nuclear weapons if feasible.

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we aiight in that area, baw

This is excellent and accurate.

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When a European country elects a new PM, it's barely a blip over here.

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We are Europes daddy. Of course they’ll keep up with our elections.

Japan is based as frick.

Last time Trump won I was at the office in Tokyo around 8pm. Me and four or so Japanese. Out of nowhere, one of them asks me about why Americans elected Trump. All of them stared at me. I thought about a politically neutral answer, and said, “Americans recognize people that do not tell the truth.” The got the positive sort of head nod from everyone, crisis averted.

A few weeks later, hop into a cab at Ben Gurion, driver immediately starts asking who ex wife and I voted for. I couldn’t tell if he was Arab or not, and I didn’t want to answer definitively, lest we end up taking a detour to the West Bank. He then started in about how happy he was that American Jews got Trump elected, I stopped holding my breath, and said, not so fast my friend. He was amazed that American Jews would overwhelmingly vote for Hillary.

I wish I was still traveling, I’d love to listen to the pearl clutching out of the EU and the UK.

I was in London a month ago and pointed this out to the wife that all British news shows that we watched in our downtime while traveling were 10% UK news and 90% US-related stories. Poor bastards just totally ignore their own country. And BBC news pumped up Hurricane Milton like it was going to wipe Florida off the face of the map.

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