Discussion: Pompeo: 'Swagger' Of State Department Is 'America's Essential Rightness'

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to act firmly and aggressively as they promote and carry out the Trump administration’s foreign policies.

The only foreign policy I can identify for sure is to get foreigners to give DT more money. Are there others?

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“Mike Pompeo on Wednesday extolled the ‘essential rightness’ of the United States.”

I think he misspelled “whiteness”.

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No swagger for Neo-con, authoritarian Right wing Evangelical Christian foreign policy and diplomacy; slow walk their agenda and give assurances that this administration is an un-American aberration that hopefully will be soon ash heaped.

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So, “humble swagger” is a thing? That’s not an oxymoron, that’s an F-ing moron.

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“We are fortunate that our President values and understands the power of diplomacy, and knows that we must use every tool in the diplomatic toolkit,” he said.

When the only tool left in the toolkit is a screwdriver (flathead at that) then it’s a sure sign to the rest of the world “Screw You!”

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Sure, pendejo, it’s like stuffing underwear with a rolled tube sock makes you a total stud.

cc: @canyoncountry : Yes, that’s exactly it. The US does not have a foreign policy other than “Bribe me.” Pompeo is a disgrace to his name, at least.

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It’s hard to swagger when you have a sissy for a President.

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“Me fail English? That’s unpossible.” Pompeo said,

Swagger.
verb

  1. walk or behave in a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive way.
    “he swaggered along the corridor”
    synonyms: strut, parade, stride
    noun
  2. a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive gait or manner.
    “they strolled around the camp with an exaggerated swagger”
    synonyms: strut;
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Whaaaa???

“Swagger is not arrogance; it is not boastfulness, it is not ego,” Pompeo said, according to the excerpts. “No, swagger is confidence; in one’s self, in one’s ideas.

swagger

VERB
Walk or behave in a very confident and* arrogant or self-important way.

Example: ‘he swaggered along the corridor’

NOUN
A very confident and* arrogant or self-important gait or manner.

Example: ‘they strolled around the camp with an exaggerated swagger’

*There’s a difference. It’s not very confident or arrogant. It’s confident and arrogant or showing off one’s self-importance.

To me, that’s the very definition of The Ugly American. Pompeo wants that stereotype to be the way we are seen around the world. No thank you.

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Spoken like a true Tea Party protofascist.

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Oh fuck off you right wing traitor…

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He’s just begging for someone to take us down a peg. Because, honestly, that’s the only way Shit Stain wins a second term.

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“Our task is to preserve our civilization of human dignity, individual liberty, democracy, national sovereignty, and the rule of law, and to challenge anyone seeking to take it down,” he said.

By day two of the Trumpp admin, this would already be sounding silly. This far in, we are left trying to decide if you are serving us this pile of steaming shit as an insult, or because you have lost the ability to identify a pile of steaming shit.

I don’t keep careful track, but Trumpp has praised the leaders, in a very personal way, of the Philippines, China, Russia, and North Korea. The whole world has witnessed this. Your little pep talk isn’t going to undo what Trumpp does on a daily basis on the world stage.

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W’s administration tried to kill the English language, but couldn’t quite do it. The Trump administration want’s to finish the job.

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“Our task is to preserve our civilization of human dignity, individual liberty, democracy, national sovereignty, and the rule of law, and to challenge anyone seeking to take it down,” he said. “We should be proud and confident in America and her values — we should carry that diplomatic swagger to the ends of the earth; humbly, nobly and with the skill and courage I know you all possess.”

WTF is he talking about? In his list of Murrican “values” – human dignity, individual liberty, democracy, national sovereignty, and the rule of law – there isn’t one, not a single effing one, that Trump isn’t actively working to destroy.

I thought briefly that “national sovereignty” might be an exception, until I realized that Trump is happy to be Putin’s vassal. So not even that one works.

Pompous ass Pompeo is coining a whole new language of diplomacy: Newspeak.

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WTF, the Koch puppet from KS Speaks of swagger as an asset. The only swagger he has comes with $$$. Without money he is an empty suit.

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First, there was Manifeset Destiny. From that, we arrived at American Exceptionalism. Now we have a new trumped up American state of grace: Essential Rightness.

Go America!

(singing)
Amerrrrriiiiicaaa, fuck yeah!
Coming to save the motherfuckin’ day
Amerrrrriiiiicaaa, fuck yeah!
Freedom is the only way, yeah

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"it is America’s essential rightness. And it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that our cause is just, special, and built upon America’s core principles.”

That is what is wrong with this country. Assholes like this who think 'Mericans are always right, better than anyone else, and all other peoples and ideas should be subservient.

Put another way, Sec Pompus just defined and advocated for the “Ugly American” (a pejorative term used to refer to perceptions of loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric behavior of American citizens mainly abroad, but also at home).

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