Ambassador to Estonia quits over trump.

[RedZin]

When there is a single person as a common thread with this much discord, you have to start looking at what that person is doing to create it.

That person being Donald Trump.

[rebeldor]

Originally Posted by Tokinouta

Estonia should welcome U.S. Dems then, the ones running from the tyranny of Trump. Maybe you'll fall under refugee status? Worth a check! I mean they have universal health care and hate Trump. Perfect.

I have never thought a four-year term would unhinge Americans. Maybe we need to trim it down to one year?

Estonia is far too capitalist for U.S. Democrats.

Hell, it's far too capitalist for Trump.

[ohhwanderlust]

Originally Posted by finalmove

Of course they do. When will you be leaving?

Maybe I'm already gone. But I'm still a citizen, and there's nothing you can do about it.

[ohhwanderlust]

Originally Posted by rebeldor

That may be, but its economy is still freer than the U.S.

How Estonia led the Baltic economic resurgence | Nomad Capitalist

On the free market frontier in Estonia | NY Times

How Estonia—Yes, Estonia—Became One of the Wealthiest Countries in Eastern Europe | fee.org

Good point. It's not a bad thing for countries to learn from one another.

[don1945]

Of course the Trumpees are going to chuckle about this one, but it is just one more straw. One by one, people are getting fed up with the tactics and stupidity of a man who can not even successfully run a real estate business, without screwing other people. How his cult was duped into thinking he could run America is beyond laughable.

Donald Trump got to wherever he is by stepping on others, and never being called out on it. Now, people are calling him out on it. About time !

[TJJT]

Originally Posted by rebeldor

The irony is that Estonia is the most capitalist nation in Europe, and far more free-market than the U.S. You'd think he'd want to be hooked up with a country like that.

Their entire recovery after the fall of the USSR was built on libertarian economic principles from Milton Friedman.

Wrong.... I'm an American but still hold a valid Esti living permit and lived and worked in Järva for years, and have family there that date back millenniums..

Socialist healthcare(used it for dental work that would of cost about a grand in the US).. Citizen employment offices(I used one).. Welare system.. EU open border and now mass refugee welfare and crime..

I was there before the refugee welfare and crime crisis and even then you'd randomly find Germans, Latvians, Russians and others who basically walked in to the country and do nothing but drink..

Also... Forced military service.. Most of the men just use the pension to stay drunk every day after..

The closest thing to capitalism are the people who go in to engineering and invest in to personal property, but that property is still government owned just like that land you think you own in the US with a warranty deed or whatever... In Estonia now they've taken peoples property in Tallinn and put refugees in it.. By force