One of the many, many problems with President Joffrey Baratheon is his monstrous inconsistency. Any narrative that's spun one day is undone the next. I could say that he's spitting in the eye of America's allies and serenading a despot. But a few months ago he was threatening fire and blood against the same despot. Tomorrow maybe he'll be publically fornicating with a cactus or juggling wombats, who knows ? Not me. In any case, the idea that this epitome of cuntishness (who will, if we survive, eventually have entire libraries of psychology textbooks dedicated to him) should meet with another mad idiot, one not afraid of dealing violently with dissenters, doesn't fill me with confidence. Like an astrological forecast being correct, even success wouldn't really help. The guy's a nutter. He has no grand master plan. He's not trying to confuse people by constantly shifting attention. He's just a dick being a dick, and if that strategy has (in a crude sense) worked for him, it's not because of any clever planning on his part.
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One takeaway from the G7 is that he may jettison any agreement made at a Summit. So why would any future Summit attendee trust him to keep his side of any bargain?
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that we have been perceived as untrustworthy in keeping agreements long before Trump came into office.
ReplyDeleteTake Libya for example. Our behavior there is a good part, I'm sure, of why North Korea is unwilling to just dump its nuclear deterrent. He's quite justifiably concerned that we'll invade anyway, regardless of any non-aggression agreement.
Trump is who he is, but we've been international dicks for a long, long time.
James Karaganis Heh. I spent some time in Bartlesville Oklahoma. It's right next to Osage County, which is entirely a reservation. The Osage were, as far as I know, the only tribe which had the good sense to involve lawyers in their discussions with Uncle Sam. Pierre Chouteau, who went west to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark, dealt with the Osage. The Osage sold out and bought land from the Cherokee, who had been evicted to Oklahoma. Turns out the Osage land had oil under it, heh heh.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I used to drink with the IT director of the Osage tribe in the bar/restaurant right next to my hotel. Fascinating guy. Uncle Sam, he observed, was utterly untrustworthy, but so were the other Native Peoples. They'd screw each other over in a heartbeat.
Everyone clustered around that table had their consciences surgically removed long ago. Trump's a jackass, but the others are not much of an improvement. Does anyone really believe these so-called Leaders operate in anything other than their own best interests? I don't.
Nope. Not in the slightest. They're just more polished than Trump, but they're still dicks.
ReplyDeleteAnd they're supposed to be, ideally, in the sense that they should be concerned about their own countries collective welfare. My concern with Trump is that he won't able to negotiate effectively to our benefit.
ReplyDeleteThey shouldn't & they won't. The US is now getting the silent treatment on all of the most important intelligence & trade information. Our former allies know that anything of any substance will be in Putin's hands five minutes after it hits the Dotard's desk.
ReplyDeleteJames Karaganis There came a point, during WW2, when the bombardment of Germany's cities had reduced most everything to rubble. The Allied bombers would arrive, the Americans by day, the British by night, the bombs would fall, the fires break out.
ReplyDeleteBut the survivors adapted, strangest phenomenon. They'd just come out of their bunkers, stagger off to whatever they had to do. They didn't have any more fear juice.
And that's where America is right now. Trump is the most dangerous moron we have ever elected to high office. Congress won't do shit about him. I'm fresh out of outrage. I am no longer concerned. I can't do anything about him except work to elect people to replace him.
Adrenal gland overload.
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