āBoogie Manā Boogie diversionary tactics!
Oh, dear me no. Just no. Hasnāt the country been embarrassed enough? Perhaps some enterprising chap sawed through one of the chair legs, leaving it attatched by only the most delicate of slivers.
Sorry, which seat are these juice boxes for?
I can hear Hassan Rouhani and the rest of the Iranians already: āAnd we thought āSeinfeldā was a goddamned laugh riot!ā
Hopefully the other leaders will laugh him out of that Council as well.
Itās so cringe-worthy. Trump (and Bolton) are managing the difficult combo task of:
- Putting themselves in a 1:1 confrontation with Iran, a country quite split between moderates and hardliners and where the hard line factions genuinely engage in destabilizing acts in other countries
- Making Iran look like the totally reasonable party, in spite of #1.
Trying to āout-asshole the assholesā is a novel diplomatic strategy? I guess?
Iām watching Trumpās opening remarks as chair of the security council, and thereās no improvement from yesterday. Heās reading from a script, but I donāt know who approved these words. He delivered a strong attack on China and included a testament on how much he ālikesā Kim Jung Un - and then explained how only he could deal so successfully with both these countries. Former diplomats just called Trumpās words bizarre.
Itās sort of good in one way - every time he does this before the world, the other countries can see heās fucking nuts, not just some authoritarian wannabe. I think that contributes to them cutting us out of the loop faster, which is a good thing for the planet right now.
I just happened to catch the beginning of this and it was the same clown show as always. He turned to the Secretary General next to him and asked āDo you want to say something to start?ā and Nikki Haley from a chair behind Trump stepped forward to point out to Trump that he had opening remarks on a page in front of him, at which he looked surprised and started reading from them, slowly like a ten year old. His reading level really is painfully remedial to the point where Iām amazed they even let him do this. At one point he said ācondemningā when it obviously said āconcerningā on the page, so he did his patented BS two-step cover up and added ācondemning and concerningā at which point I turned it off.
When PPās love affair with Saudi Arabia ends, heāll look at things differently.
The council is populated by five permanent members ā the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France
And 4 of those permanent members just established a deal to get around the sanctions Trump stupidly imposed on Iran when he backed out of the only deal we had with Iran to slow/prevent nuclear arms development. Every single day Trump gets out maneuvered on the international (and national) stage.
When he starts talking, I wish everybody would just get up and walk out. When heās done. they come back.
No one should invite him to their country, either or greet him when Air Force One lands if heās already been invited. It would drive him absolutely crazier than he is now.
Case closed.
iām a little worried weāre going to wake up and see GORT in front of the white house
Not a big Keanu hater but would prefer Michael Rennie if heās still buddies with Patricia Neal.
she was great in that wasnāt she
Her auto- biography is worth the read if you havenāt read it already