“I’m for Trump because of immigration and trade and foreign policy, but I REALLY don’t like his crudity”
Same here. I’m worried how this will play out in the South, where his combativeness, confidence and raw patriotism will serve him well. Vulgarity outside of a stag audience will not.
He should watch the new True Grit and Val Kilmer in Tombstone to get a feel for how we do it down here. Not to imitate but to get the feel. “Good day” and “Bless your heart” are ultimate dismissals when inflected just so.
And please, don’t fake our faith. There is enough of that going on already. It’s better to secular but honest than religious and theatrical.
I was with you till you recommended the True Grit remake. Sorry, the original was the gold standard; didn’t need remaking.
THEOLet me say that I believe it is much to late for Victorian prudery. A very large portion of our population will dismiss any statement that does not have the proper expletive to stress the point.
...You commented on Nazi methods, foul fighting, bombing refugees, and machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, baled-out pilots, by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods.Clive! If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods but Nazi methods! If you preach the Rules of the Game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they will laugh at you! They think you're weak, decadent! I thought so myself in 1919. Filthiness! That is their secret weapon!
CLIVE
I've heard all that in the last war. They played foul then. And who won it!THEO
I don't think you won it! We lost it! But you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago, you have to pay the school fees again! Some of you will learn quicker than others. Some will never learn it. You have been educated to be a gentleman and a sportsman - in peace and in war. But, Clive, my dear fellow, dear old Clive, this is not a gentleman's war. This is a life and death struggle, with your backs to your cliffs against the hordes of barbarism. This time you are fighting for your very existence against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain - Nazism. And if you lose there won't be a return match next year, perhaps not even for a hundred years!You mustn't mind me, an alien, saying all this. But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten - and is now immune?