« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2017, 10:30:12 AM »
MineralMan (101,460 posts)
Trump Plans to Hold the World Hostage
Believe in Trump's doctrines or the United States will cut you off. That's the message he's now sending to our allies and adversaries alike. Countries that want aid and trade and assistance from the United States will have to fall in line with Trump or do without.
George, have you ever considered that (unlike you) we don't allow those that depend on us to lie to our faces, sneer at our backs, humiliate us in public, and betray us at every turn only to open our wallets and hand over our earnings when they demand it?
I think it's a brilliant idea and I hope he carries through with it.
Logged
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
C.S. Lewis
A community may possess all the necessary moral qualifications, in so high a degree, as to be capable of self-government under the most adverse circumstances; while, on the other hand, another may be so sunk in ignorance and vice, as to be incapable of forming a conception of liberty, or of living, even when most favored by circumstances, under any other than an absolute and despotic government.
John C Calhoun, "Disquisition on Government", 1840
