(December 8, 2018 at 5:44 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(December 8, 2018 at 5:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don’t doubt Trump’s instincts regarding the methods he uses to keep his base loyal (the tweets, the barely veiled racist/ misogynistic comments, playing the victim, etc). While it troubles me that it works, there’s really no question that it DOES work.
But, in the process of pleasing his base, he’s also doing significant and long-lasting damage to the world community. To paraphrase Terry Pratchet, Trump is a natural statesman in precisely the same sense that a fish is a natural mountaineer.
Boru
Trump is a natural statesman in the same way a pile of watery excrement is a precision watch.
What if I take a stick and write ‘Rolex’ in it?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
