Dante wrote: ↑Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:02 am
Relly wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 4:07 pm
Dante wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 3:12 pm
You're sure he knows nothing about a former Republican Presidential candidate?
Not sure if you remember, but the whole world didn't revolve around the US president 10 years ago.
Mate, US elections get huge coverage.
Let's not try and pretend the coverage of Trump is normal.
Actually interesting story, I had a friend of my families visit last week, 60 yo guy from Canada, that has been living in the US for about 20 years now. Very smart guy, retired, but was really high up in a major American oil company. He is not someone that is politically active per se, I spoke with him a year earlier and he didn't care for Trump's style, but was willing to give him a chance. So when he was here last week he said how bizarre it was coming home, he said all you hear about on the news, all anyone talks about is Trump. He said back in the US it's barely a topic of conversation, he said you turn on the news and there might be small blips of information but that's it. He said people are generally pleased with Trump, it's clear as day the economy is better, he said most people he knows are happy that their paychecks are bigger do to the tax cuts and he said they're all happy that they don't feel like the government is going to come after their guns anytime soon. I know that's weird to you guys, but you don't understand the importance of the right to bear arms is to Americans. He said it was really strange to come to Canada and everyone knows more about Trump than him, that everyone is angrier at Trump then anyone he knows back in the US and how he had a wife of one of his friends he was visiting basically attacking him for allowing Trump to be president, even though he is Canadian still and couldn't vote. He said the guy had to call his wife off him, said it was really awkward.
I think the liberal media in places like Canada and Europe are far worse then the US, and their is less of a counter to the leftwing version of news. I know in Canada our news agencies take what CNN says as gospel, in reality in the US most people know it's a joke, not real and heavily biased. I mean basically no one watches CNN in the US, like 0.02% of the population. The other problem is people in Canada or Europe try to compare Americans to themselves. They are not the same, the have a different outlook on life, different priorities and a differing view on governments role in life.
Take it for what you will, I found it absolutely fascinating talking to him about it, and for the record, he still doesn't like his style or tweets.