Bullying, rudeness and ugliness, being nasty, trying to seem tough, threatening your enemies, showing disrespect when it is not necessary, none of this crap will help you win Tweety. It's BS! It's immoral! It is a losing proposition!
Fox will always back up Tweety with propaganda and stupid commentary, of course.
Despite this headline below from Fox, the truth and reality is that Macron took shots at then nationalism which led to WWI. Macron took shots at 2018 European countries sparking nationalism.
Fox doesn't realize it, or maybe they do, that NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TRUMP! The entire event was about WWI, not Trump! Macron and Merkel were talking bout what led to WWI! Macron was talking about France role in WWI. Merkel was talking about Germany's role in WWI.
"Trump, speaking at Armistice Day event outside Paris, honors fallen soldiers as Macron, Merkel take shots at him" [No! No! No! The Armistice Day ceremonies were NOT about Trump!]
By Gregg Re | Fox News 11 Nov 2018
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-speaking-at-armistice-day-event-xx
"Macron, the French president, had endorsed globalism and implied that Trump was unpatriotic in politically charged remarks just minutes earlier."
"Implied" mean Re is guessing. Why does Re guess this? Because he is trying to make it look like Trump did his job at the Armistice Day ceremonies, despite missing key events.
The reality is Re is wrong, this guess is not true. At best, this is a misinterpretation of Macron. The FACT is Macron did not target Trump, but likely was talking targeting members of the European Union who have nationalist tendencies. If Trump gets caught in the net, that is on Trump, not Macron.
Macron was stating nothing more than Charles de Gaulle's words:
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Attributed to de Gaulle by Romain Gary, Life, May 9, 1969
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle
Continuing from Re's writing . . . and wondering how the heck he thinks this is a shot at Trump, unless it just reveals Trump's inadequacies by catching up Trumps lack of values in a net that could easily be avoided by having some values.
I'm sorry Re, but doesn't Trump's lack of honesty, weak character, and void of principles make him an easy target for anyone talking about how to be a good citizen of the world?
"“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism," Macron said at the solemn event, as Trump looked on stone-faced. "Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism."
He added: “In saying ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others,’ you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: Its moral values."
So Re thinks Macron was talking about Trump. Why? Because this is what Trump is like, it is a description of trump.
Mr Re, Macron is talking about European counties!
""I know there are old demons which are coming back to the surface," Macron continued. "They are ready to wreak chaos and death. History sometimes threatens to take its sinister course once again.""
Mr Re, Merkel is talking about European counties!
"Macron was not alone in using the occassion to take shots at Trump. In a veiled dig at the president's America-first policies and skepticism toward multilateral cooperation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that "lack of communication and unwillingness to compromise" can have deadly consequences."
Mr Re is not aware of what is going on in Europe, obviously, or European countries embracing nationalism.
Mr. Re must think that if Macron and Merkel do not agree with Trump on his policies and that Trump's ideas are not going to be swallowed by France or Germany, then they must be taking "shots." That's not how the world works Mr. Re.
Putin liked Macron's idea of a European Army, for example, despite Trump dislike of the idea.
"Putin separately backed a plan by Macron to form a European army to "strengthen the multipolar nature of the world," according to RT."
My guess ; < ) . . . Mr. Re gets a lot wrong since he hasn't kept up with European politics, apparently.
Trump certainly cannot use his bluster to "rule" Europe. Trump cannot tell NATO (France, German, others in NATO and Europe) to pony up more for defense, while tweeting Macron is insulting to say Europe should build a European Army? Dumb?
The leaders who are strongest in this world are NOT nationalists, they are pragmatic globalists, mature and aware how to work with others, not deferring to international organizations, nor bullying in win-lose negotiations, merely working with other countries and international organizations for a better planet and to "raise all boats" not just raising our "boat."
This Tweety fist pumping demagogy will not work without improvement in all the areas Tweety has ignored, like:
1. health care, reducing costs and improving access for ALL Americans, protecting PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS,
2. infrastructure, IT IS AN EMERGENCY AND NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE to rebuild our national power grid and communications systems to withstand an attack from hackers, then rebuild highways, bridges, and maybe our National Parks,
3. honest, real, NOT FAKE respect for Veterans, with 100% access to ALL health care for FREE,
4. pharmacy prices, reduced and controlled,
5. trade agreements, quit quitting and fiddling with good trade agreements, get them right and then start working with them,
6. peace, arms controls including nuclear, make and keep the peace with other democratic countries, and JOIN international organizations to show Americans are part of the world, not isolated and arrogant,
7. "soft power," fully fund the State Department as "soft power" so we do not have to spend so much on bullets / hard power; e.g., send funds TO Honduras, help people live in their own country and stop marching to the United States - a State Department action; allow funds given to poor countries to be used for birth control reducing famine and immigration, crises we have to help with at much greater cost,
8. education, fund PUBLIC SCHOOLS not Charter Schools to aid better education for ALL American youth and young adults, land cut costs of college to make two years FREE,
9. national debt, do everything necessary to lower the deficits including increasing taxes on the rich, perhaps leaving corporate rates low, and do not cut reasonable entitlements like Social Security and Medicaid, and deserved, fair welfare in a welfare system designed by sociologists NOT politicians,
10. prison industry, get profit out of prisons, change our legal system to reduce mass incarceration, the list of actions includes laws, bail systems, prosecutors, enforcement, and a philosophy of rebuilding the person rather than pure punishment, and legalize innocent drugs like marijuana - alcohols is worse than marijuana by a long shot, unequivocally, and stop attacking Sanctuary Cities which have LESS CRIME than other cities,
11. National Security, quite f**king up what the experts have in place, and listen to your advisors, cease actions which undermine National Security like focusing on extremism outside the US when the bigger threat is INTERNAL / DOMESTIC EXTREMISM, undermining NATO, and pursue REAL improvements in National Security which Trump has actually UNDERMNED in MANY way.
The 2018 mid-terms have revealed that Tweety is his own worst enemy, and that the GOP trying to emulate Tweety by lies will ruin them.
"Midterm elections return Democrats to a debate over their 2020 presidential choice: Passion or pragmatism?"
By Matt Viser November 10 at 4:58 PM
Article sounds like a lot of crystal ball stuff, and not convincing of any useful advice that I can see.
"What 2018 Elections Could Tell Us About The 2020 Presidential Map"
November 9, 20185:00 AM ET by Jessica Taylor
A state by state analysis . . . too soon in my opinion, but fun to write I suppose.
"'Democrats won the House but Trump won the election' – and 2020 is next
Donald Trump"
'Democrats won the House but Trump won the election' – and 2020 is next
The president came out fighting and experts agree he isn’t yet down for the count. The Democrats’ next choice will be vital
David Smith in Washington @smithinamerica Sat 10 Nov 2018 01.00 EST
