Posted on 02/02/2017 6:24:09 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Today’s news will be all about President Trump’s tense phone calls with the leaders of Australia and Mexico. The popular spin is that the president was rude and aggressive with both of them. Very unpresidential, say the critics. Maybe he is crazy! And orange! Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!
Another spin on the same observations is that both Australia and Mexico required their leaders to “stand up” to President Trump in a more aggressive way than you would expect with a normal president. I didn’t hear the details of the calls, but I have to think they were lecturing him, or talking down to him, or generally being dicks because that’s what their countries required of them in this situation. Trump just showed them what that strategy buys them.
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Dilbert’s creator has been pretty amazing during the election.
I really had no idea he was so astute.
People ultimately respect others that are honest and direct with them. Political correctness is phony posturing. You really can’t trust a politically correct phony.
Mexico is a third world country run by despots and a land where criminals rule the roost. Australia wants to dump a thousand criminals onto our welfare rolls.
Trump told Mexico to get their country in order and he told Australia that if they were stupid enough to take potential terrorists without extreme vetting, then they can keep them.
Here’s another theory being batted around over at The British Daily Telegraph: during the press conf. with Theresa May, May picked as the first questioner a Trump-hating BBC reporter - and she did it purposely to embarrass Trump and to “talk down to him.” Given that yesterday, she went before Parliament and blasted his policy of terrorism - I’m starting to believe this is accurate. We have no friends; only interests - if we’re lucky.
Obama traded Hispanic illegals for the Middle Eastern refugees that Aussies declined to take in.
He made this deal after the election also, another parting gift from Dear Leader.
I hope Trump tells the Aussie liberal PM to stuff it.
What do we need Australia for?
Trump is resetting these relationships. If I had to guess, I’d say the conversations were very direct.
The first step is establishing credibility, then trust. “Yes, I mean what I say, no BS. Let’s get real.”
It’s just the beginning of negotiating new relationships.
Of course, the MSM has no idea what is happening and will spin every step as evil/incompetent.
“Everything is an ongoing negotiation with Trump. Australia and Mexico just had to sleep on the idea that their relationship with the United States is worse today than yesterday. And it sends a signal to other leaders that lecturing President Trump with an eye toward grandstanding or embarrassing him isn’t the strongest strategy. He probably needed to make that point one way or another. That’s done. Now let’s see if the next foreign leader decides to lecture him or not. I’m thinking no.”
This is the key to understanding Trump.
“We have no friends; only interests - if we’re lucky.”
And friendship, even in our own private lives, revolves around self-interest, let alone in politics, whose essence IS self-interest.
Neville Chamberlain. Redux.
While I love the Aussies and respect them as allies, they really only have one thing to offer. That is stability in that region of the world. Their military and intel is top notch. Other than that they only produce crocodile boots, opals, and drinking songs AFAIK!
I was torn apart on Facebook for suggesting that May had a “plummy” voice. You can’t say anything to Brits; they’ll say anything they want about us but one criticism, they go nuts.
I don’t trust May. I think she’ll prove to be a weakling.
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