Speaking to a security conference in Munich, Pence tells his audience he brings greetings from President Trump... and not a single person claps. #awkward pic.twitter.com/JkFpsKqfgk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019
But wait! There's more! Note the juxtaposition of the following, where only one person in the room withholds her applause for Angela Merkel.
OMG -- Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how "the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal." pic.twitter.com/biRxARZkcM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019
It would seem that actions, or the absence thereof, do indeed speak louder than words.
These people really think that they are reasonable and respectable humans! Luckily Europeans cannot be fooled by fools as easily as Amerikans.
ReplyDeleteAmericans' blinkered view of themselves is never more evident either in these videos or when one travels to Europe, J MacDuff. It must surprise them that they are not the centre of the universe nor 'the greatest country on earth."
DeleteNot many people have cruised the cornfields of Indiana. I have. We got lost, I admit. Nothing for miles, then boom, a torrential thunderstorm. You have to stop, visibility is so bad. The sun comes back out. Oppressive heat. Fog rising out of the ground. Wet foetid heat. Watch those cornstalks grow! With time and sun position, we eventually worked out which way to go to escape the featureless landscape and its future crop of Kelloggs cornflakes. It was 1983 after all and all we had was a map and nothing to reference it to.
ReplyDeleteThis is the birthplace of Mike Pence and the voices in his head, praising the lord and telling of Armageddon as the forces of Jesus sweep all the bad tribes before them before he descends from heaven to bless his victorious flock. The old Ambassador College Herbert W Armstrong vision, carried on by Garner Ted his son in radio broadcasts to the credulous, and startled, worldwide. The Wonderful World Tomorrow.
Europe isn't much like Indiana. Reality bites for a Christian country boy - people actually expect him to act like a grown-up, a new experience.
Rants about Iran which seem so natural in the USA now seem monumentally trite. Will Pence allow himself to see another point-of-view? Or will he be the American tourist complaining about food and accomodation, quite unable to comprehend that not everyone lives like Americans, and that, no, the differences do not translate as backwardness. Lack of spontaneous huzzahs for "freedom" and American priorities must puzzle a man of such limited horizons. "I thought these people were on our side?!"
I think that the report Trump commissioned on European cars will indeed say they are a national security threat - that's the rumour in the automotive press. Just like Canadian steel and aluminum threatens 'Murika. The US is ruled by dolts - if they didn't control worldwide currency transactions, the rest of this planet would have told America to bugger off decades ago.
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The U.S.'s heft in world affairs is no longer viable, justifiable, nor credible, BM. Americans just haven't read the memo yet.
DeleteWhat struck me as Pence tried to make the case for turning on Iran is that everyone in his audience was aware that every chief of America's vast intelligence committee had just testified before Congress that the Iran nuclear treaty was holding, directly contradicting the Trump message Pence was parroting. They know from their own intelligence that the American intelligence is correct and Trump is a lying windbag who sends his automaton Veep to spread those same lies. Who would possibly applaud that? Oh yeah, Netanyahu.
ReplyDeleteDeficient in anything approaching nuanced thinking, Mound, Trump operatives have no awareness beyond their own navels.
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