Pretty standard rhetoric honestly. "Let's just glass them" is a thing that people have said about many nations or regions over the years. Including Afghanistan on no shortage of occasions. Like always, he's just saying the quiet part loud. "It doesn’t concern me because many people agree with me"
He doesn't realize we're not actually at war with the nation.
I believe he's meeting with the head of Pakistan today who was demanding some kind of response to the amount of lives and money pakistan has lost in aiding the US in afganistan.
It is a novel rhetorical strategy for a President to suggest glassing a country designated as an ally by the State department.
I'm sort of glad he wasn't in a situation where he had to come up with an example country, because you know it would have been Canada or Ukraine or something.
Trump also claimed that Modi asked him to mediate between India and Pakistan with regards to Kashmir, followed quickly by a statement from India which was like no we have not changed our 70 year old policy you fucking nitwit.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
He doesn't realize we're not actually at war with the nation.
I believe he's meeting with the head of Pakistan today who was demanding some kind of response to the amount of lives and money pakistan has lost in aiding the US in afganistan.
He means he wants to be reimbursed for all the Pakistani mortar shells that explode inside ANDSF bases?
Trump also claimed that Modi asked him to mediate between India and Pakistan with regards to Kashmir, followed quickly by a statement from India which was like no we have not changed our 70 year old policy you fucking nitwit.
Having Trump call up the head of Pakistan and jabber inanities about Kashmir would be one hell of a prank.
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Trump also claimed that Modi asked him to mediate between India and Pakistan with regards to Kashmir, followed quickly by a statement from India which was like no we have not changed our 70 year old policy you fucking nitwit.
Having Trump call up the head of Pakistan and jabber inanities about Kashmir would be one hell of a prank.
Particularly because he'd probably be talking about how fabulous cashmere fabric is.
Trump also claimed that Modi asked him to mediate between India and Pakistan with regards to Kashmir, followed quickly by a statement from India which was like no we have not changed our 70 year old policy you fucking nitwit.
Having Trump call up the head of Pakistan and jabber inanities about Kashmir would be one hell of a prank.
He said this with Pakistan's prime minister right next to him.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
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The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
He is now "very disappointed" that our PM did not commit crimes on his behalf.
That’s the problem with the Swiss, they never stay neutral on anything.
About 2000km off the mark there
I only made this post cause I didn't learn where Switzerland was until I played eu4 and totally thought it was Sweden as well and thought the Swedes where Swiss oops
The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
Probably saw one of those charts that completely misrepresents how their laws work to imply refugees caused a rape epidemic
He is now "very disappointed" that our PM did not commit crimes on his behalf.
That’s the problem with the Swiss, they never stay neutral on anything.
About 2000km off the mark there
I only made this post cause I didn't learn where Switzerland was until I played eu4 and totally thought it was Sweden as well and thought the Swedes where Swiss oops
He is now "very disappointed" that our PM did not commit crimes on his behalf.
That’s the problem with the Swiss, they never stay neutral on anything.
About 2000km off the mark there
I only made this post cause I didn't learn where Switzerland was until I played eu4 and totally thought it was Sweden as well and thought the Swedes where Swiss oops
The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
That is incredibly low.
For comparison, California's homicide rate is roughly 4 times that (1600 homicides and a population of 40 million, ballparking).
I mean, it might not be low compared to other western nations, but in the US violent crime is our national pastime, soooo.
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The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
That is incredibly low.
For comparison, California's homicide rate is roughly 4 times that (1600 homicides and a population of 40 million, ballparking).
I mean, it might not be low compared to other western nations, but in the US violent crime is our national pastime, soooo.
It's comparable to the rest of Europe. Not even at the low end actually.
The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
That is incredibly low.
For comparison, California's homicide rate is roughly 4 times that (1600 homicides and a population of 40 million, ballparking).
I mean, it might not be low compared to other western nations, but in the US violent crime is our national pastime, soooo.
The US motto: "when we get bored, we're going to kill something."
The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
That is incredibly low.
For comparison, California's homicide rate is roughly 4 times that (1600 homicides and a population of 40 million, ballparking).
I mean, it might not be low compared to other western nations, but in the US violent crime is our national pastime, soooo.
New York had 278 homicides last year, and is about twice the size of Sweden. It's also literally a single city, and there are variances between urban/ suburban /rural areas for violent crime. It's also at the lowest homicide rate in generations. So at it's best a New Yorker is still nearly 3x as likely to get shot. Things are worse elsewhere
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The President is now bashing Sweden for their terrible crime problem and doing his usual "We're so nice but they aren't nice to us back" schtick.
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
That is incredibly low.
For comparison, California's homicide rate is roughly 4 times that (1600 homicides and a population of 40 million, ballparking).
I mean, it might not be low compared to other western nations, but in the US violent crime is our national pastime, soooo.
The US motto: "when we get bored, we're going to kill something."
Not exactly.
It's more the fact that when we get bored there are 400 million civilian firearms around.
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He is now "very disappointed" that our PM did not commit crimes on his behalf.
That’s the problem with the Swiss, they never stay neutral on anything.
About 2000km off the mark there
I only made this post cause I didn't learn where Switzerland was until I played eu4 and totally thought it was Sweden as well and thought the Swedes where Swiss oops
Crap.
Sorry everybody.
Don't be too hard on yourself.
Trump probably wouldn't know the difference.
I thought it was an intentional joke, actually, because Trump doesn't know shit about international affairs, and I thought Cow was being a buzzkill.
He is now "very disappointed" that our PM did not commit crimes on his behalf.
That’s the problem with the Swiss, they never stay neutral on anything.
About 2000km off the mark there
I only made this post cause I didn't learn where Switzerland was until I played eu4 and totally thought it was Sweden as well and thought the Swedes where Swiss oops
Crap.
Sorry everybody.
Don't be too hard on yourself.
Trump probably wouldn't know the difference.
I thought it was an intentional joke, actually, because Trump doesn't know shit about international affairs, and I thought Cow was being a buzzkill.
A little of both.
I started with an IKEA/Tariffs joke and then talked myself into a Swiss/Neutrality joke and forgot what we were actually talking about and now I feel like the reporter from Die Hard.
Nixon’s anger at the UN delegations from African nations for the loss was misplaced. His own State Department blamed factors other than African voting, including maneuvering by the British and French behind the scenes, for the loss. But Nixon would have none of it. The Africans were to blame.
Had the story stopped there, it would have been bad enough. Racist venting is still racist. But what happened next showed the dynamic power of racism when it finds enablers. Nixon used Reagan’s call as an excuse to adapt his language to make the same point to others. Right after hanging up with Reagan, Nixon sought out Secretary of State William Rogers.
Even though Reagan had called Nixon to press him to withdraw from the United Nations, in Nixon’s telling, Reagan’s complaints about Africans became the primary purpose of the call.
“As you can imagine,” Nixon confided in Rogers, “there’s strong feeling that we just shouldn’t, as [Reagan] said, he saw these, as he said, he saw these—” Nixon stammered, choosing his words carefully—“these, uh, these cannibals on television last night, and he says, ‘Christ, they weren’t even wearing shoes, and here the United States is going to submit its fate to that,’ and so forth and so on.”
“Reagan called me last night,” Nixon said, “and I didn’t talk to him until this morning, but he is, of course, outraged. And I found out what outraged him, and I find this is typical of a lot of people: They saw it on television and, he said, ‘These cannibals jumping up and down and all that.’ And apparently it was a pretty grotesque picture.” Like Nixon, Rogers had not seen the televised images. But Rogers agreed: “Apparently, it was a terrible scene.” Nixon added, “And they cheered.”
Then Nixon said, “He practically got sick at his stomach, and that’s why he called. And he said, ‘It was a terrible scene.’ And that sort of thing will have an emotional effect on people … as [Reagan] said, ‘This bunch of people who don’t even wear shoes yet, to be kicking the United States in the teeth’ … It was a terrible thing, they thought.”
Nixon never changed his mind about the supposed inherent inferiority of Africans. At the end of October 1971, he discussed the UN vote with his best friend, Bebe Rebozo. Bebe delighted Nixon by echoing Reagan: “That reaction on television was, it proves how they ought to be still hanging from the trees by their tails.” Nixon laughed.
The focus on how bad the USA looked and how dirty and gross those foreigners were rather than any real substance is extremely Trumpian.
NBC News: President Trump says he has "no problem" with North Korea's recent missile launches: "Short-range missiles, we never made an agreement on that."
YOU DIDNT MAKE AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM FOR ANYTHING!
Nixon’s anger at the UN delegations from African nations for the loss was misplaced. His own State Department blamed factors other than African voting, including maneuvering by the British and French behind the scenes, for the loss. But Nixon would have none of it. The Africans were to blame.
Had the story stopped there, it would have been bad enough. Racist venting is still racist. But what happened next showed the dynamic power of racism when it finds enablers. Nixon used Reagan’s call as an excuse to adapt his language to make the same point to others. Right after hanging up with Reagan, Nixon sought out Secretary of State William Rogers.
Even though Reagan had called Nixon to press him to withdraw from the United Nations, in Nixon’s telling, Reagan’s complaints about Africans became the primary purpose of the call.
“As you can imagine,” Nixon confided in Rogers, “there’s strong feeling that we just shouldn’t, as [Reagan] said, he saw these, as he said, he saw these—” Nixon stammered, choosing his words carefully—“these, uh, these cannibals on television last night, and he says, ‘Christ, they weren’t even wearing shoes, and here the United States is going to submit its fate to that,’ and so forth and so on.”
“Reagan called me last night,” Nixon said, “and I didn’t talk to him until this morning, but he is, of course, outraged. And I found out what outraged him, and I find this is typical of a lot of people: They saw it on television and, he said, ‘These cannibals jumping up and down and all that.’ And apparently it was a pretty grotesque picture.” Like Nixon, Rogers had not seen the televised images. But Rogers agreed: “Apparently, it was a terrible scene.” Nixon added, “And they cheered.”
Then Nixon said, “He practically got sick at his stomach, and that’s why he called. And he said, ‘It was a terrible scene.’ And that sort of thing will have an emotional effect on people … as [Reagan] said, ‘This bunch of people who don’t even wear shoes yet, to be kicking the United States in the teeth’ … It was a terrible thing, they thought.”
Nixon never changed his mind about the supposed inherent inferiority of Africans. At the end of October 1971, he discussed the UN vote with his best friend, Bebe Rebozo. Bebe delighted Nixon by echoing Reagan: “That reaction on television was, it proves how they ought to be still hanging from the trees by their tails.” Nixon laughed.
The focus on how bad the USA looked and how dirty and gross those foreigners were rather than any real substance is extremely Trumpian.
Truly Trump is the new Reagan.
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Lol our regional allies sure are feeling good about now eh?
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I'm sort of glad he wasn't in a situation where he had to come up with an example country, because you know it would have been Canada or Ukraine or something.
This is actually a bad analogy since true labyrinths are impossible to get lost in.
He means he wants to be reimbursed for all the Pakistani mortar shells that explode inside ANDSF bases?
When I was in Afghanistan the amount of mines, poisoned water and leftover bombs was amazing and yet surreal
We walked into it with a plan and need another to get out but what is the plan?
Having Trump call up the head of Pakistan and jabber inanities about Kashmir would be one hell of a prank.
Particularly because he'd probably be talking about how fabulous cashmere fabric is.
He said this with Pakistan's prime minister right next to him.
My guess? He thinks they are Iran.
- John Stuart Mill
They do share a border
I'm fairly certain he can only remember A$AP Rocky because there's a dollar sign in the name.
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Not to counter him with facts or anything, but Sweden averages about 100 murders a year nationwide, for example. There are a bunch of cities in the US with more than that. (Sweden has about 10 million citizens, so that's not the issue)
That’s the problem with the Swiss, they never stay neutral on anything.
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About 2000km off the mark there
I only made this post cause I didn't learn where Switzerland was until I played eu4 and totally thought it was Sweden as well and thought the Swedes where Swiss oops
Probably saw one of those charts that completely misrepresents how their laws work to imply refugees caused a rape epidemic
To be fair, it is pretty hard to tell what with all the dead Afghans.
Crap.
Sorry everybody.
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He feels that way about most people
Don't be too hard on yourself.
Trump probably wouldn't know the difference.
That is incredibly low.
For comparison, California's homicide rate is roughly 4 times that (1600 homicides and a population of 40 million, ballparking).
I mean, it might not be low compared to other western nations, but in the US violent crime is our national pastime, soooo.
It's comparable to the rest of Europe. Not even at the low end actually.
The US motto: "when we get bored, we're going to kill something."
New York had 278 homicides last year, and is about twice the size of Sweden. It's also literally a single city, and there are variances between urban/ suburban /rural areas for violent crime. It's also at the lowest homicide rate in generations. So at it's best a New Yorker is still nearly 3x as likely to get shot. Things are worse elsewhere
Not exactly.
It's more the fact that when we get bored there are 400 million civilian firearms around.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I thought it was an intentional joke, actually, because Trump doesn't know shit about international affairs, and I thought Cow was being a buzzkill.
A little of both.
I started with an IKEA/Tariffs joke and then talked myself into a Swiss/Neutrality joke and forgot what we were actually talking about and now I feel like the reporter from Die Hard.
Anyway... Foreign Policy continues on apace!
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/
The focus on how bad the USA looked and how dirty and gross those foreigners were rather than any real substance is extremely Trumpian.
YOU DIDNT MAKE AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM FOR ANYTHING!
Truly Trump is the new Reagan.
I'm sure they expected an uphill battle with Trump, but I don't think they expected "uphill" to mean a vertical cliff-face