to act firmly and aggressively as they promote and carry out the Trump administrationâs foreign policies.
The only foreign policy I can identify for sure is to get foreigners to give DT more money. Are there others?
âMike Pompeo on Wednesday extolled the âessential rightnessâ of the United States.â
I think he misspelled âwhitenessâ.
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.
So, âhumble swaggerâ is a thing? Thatâs not an oxymoron, thatâs an F-ing moron.
âWe are fortunate that our President values and understands the power of diplomacy, and knows that we must use every tool in the diplomatic toolkit,â he said.
When the only tool left in the toolkit is a screwdriver (flathead at that) then itâs a sure sign to the rest of the world âScrew You!â
Sure, pendejo, itâs like stuffing underwear with a rolled tube sock makes you a total stud.
cc: @canyoncountry : Yes, thatâs exactly it. The US does not have a foreign policy other than âBribe me.â Pompeo is a disgrace to his name, at least.
Itâs hard to swagger when you have a sissy for a President.
âMe fail English? Thatâs unpossible.â Pompeo said,
Swagger.
verb
- walk or behave in a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive way.
âhe swaggered along the corridorâ
synonyms: strut, parade, stride
noun - a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive gait or manner.
âthey strolled around the camp with an exaggerated swaggerâ
synonyms: strut;
Whaaaa???
âSwagger is not arrogance; it is not boastfulness, it is not ego,â Pompeo said, according to the excerpts. âNo, swagger is confidence; in oneâs self, in oneâs ideas.
swagger
VERB
Walk or behave in a very confident and* arrogant or self-important way.
Example: âhe swaggered along the corridorâ
NOUN
A very confident and* arrogant or self-important gait or manner.
Example: âthey strolled around the camp with an exaggerated swaggerâ
*Thereâs a difference. Itâs not very confident or arrogant. Itâs confident and arrogant or showing off oneâs self-importance.
To me, thatâs the very definition of The Ugly American. Pompeo wants that stereotype to be the way we are seen around the world. No thank you.
Spoken like a true Tea Party protofascist.
Oh fuck off you right wing traitorâŚ
Heâs just begging for someone to take us down a peg. Because, honestly, thatâs the only way Shit Stain wins a second term.
âOur 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,â 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 donât 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 isnât going to undo what Trumpp does on a daily basis on the world stage.
Wâs administration tried to kill the English language, but couldnât quite do it. The Trump administration wantâs to finish the job.
âOur 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,â he said. âWe should be proud and confident in America and her values â 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.â
WTF is he talking about? In his list of Murrican âvaluesâ â human dignity, individual liberty, democracy, national sovereignty, and the rule of law â there isnât one, not a single effing one, that Trump isnât actively working to destroy.
I thought briefly that ânational sovereigntyâ might be an exception, until I realized that Trump is happy to be Putinâs vassal. So not even that one works.
Pompous ass Pompeo is coining a whole new language of diplomacy: Newspeak.
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.
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 motherfuckinâ day
Amerrrrriiiiicaaa, fuck yeah!
Freedom is the only way, yeah
"it is Americaâs essential rightness. And it is aggressiveness born of the righteous knowledge that our cause is just, special, and built upon Americaâs core principles.â
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 âUgly Americanâ (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).