But none of that thanks is due to Obama, of course.
Didn’t Trump have a plan to get rid of ISIS in 30 days?
jsc1953
April 23, 2018, 1:33pm
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Or Iraq, or Syrian rebels…you know, the ones who actually had boots on the ground fighting ISIS.
Or your money back, folks.
Loser Donnie believes he is America.
L’État, C’est Trump!
[May 19, 2017] Louis XIV of France summed up his view of power with the phrase “L’État, c’est moi,” or “I am the State.” Donald Trump became president four months ago with roughly the same idea. In the Trump universe, he had been judge, jury and executioner. He saw no reason why that would change.
Trump had no knowledge of, or interest in, the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution. Circumscribed power was for losers, a category of humanity for which he reserves his greatest disdain. Just this week, after passing along classified information about the Islamic State to Russia, and so jeopardizing an ally’s intelligence asset, Trump tweeted that he had the “absolute right” to do so.
Absolutism is Trump’s thing. He’s installed his family in senior White House posts where influence and business intersect. His aides are terrified. His press secretary hides “among the bushes.” The family knows everything; nobody else knows anything. He demanded loyalty of the F.B.I. director he subsequently fired for lèse-majesté. All this is right out of Despotism 101.
And this was only four months in…
Yes, that’s exactly what he’s saying with that. He’s asking why the other countries of the world aren’t saying “Thank you, America.” He’s not asking America to thank him. I’m not entirely sure why there’s any confusion about it other than he actually got the punctuation right. (Or almost right. The question mark should be outside the quotation mark in both US and UK styles in this particular case, as you’ve said.)
“Thank you, sir! May I have another?”
pulykamell:
Yes, that’s exactly what he’s saying with that. He’s asking why the other countries of the world aren’t saying “Thank you, America.” He’s not asking America to thank him. I’m not entirely sure why there’s any confusion about it other than he actually got the punctuation right. (Or almost right. The question mark should be outside the quotation mark in both US and UK styles in this particular case, as you’ve said.)
I took it to mean that thump was asking America AND the rest of the world to thank him personally. But I see the sense of what you’re saying.
Seems to me there is an idiomatic usage that goes something like “uh, thanks? ” which means “yeah, ok, if it makes you happy, whatever.” So, putting the question mark inside the quote marks does add up to a massive semantic blunder.
jsc1953
April 23, 2018, 5:28pm
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Yeah, there are 2 ways to interpret the phrase. One is slightly less reprehensible than the other.
pulykamell:
Yes, that’s exactly what he’s saying with that. He’s asking why the other countries of the world aren’t saying “Thank you, America.” He’s not asking America to thank him. I’m not entirely sure why there’s any confusion about it other than he actually got the punctuation right. (Or almost right. The question mark should be outside the quotation mark in both US and UK styles in this particular case, as you’ve said.)
I was misinformed in elementary school. :o
eulalia
April 23, 2018, 5:42pm
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He said “our”, not “my” thanks, so the other way makes more sense.
Remember when country music stars got lambasted and boycotted for criticizing the President? Nowadays they have to walk back comments supporting the President .
After saying in an interview with The Guardian that she would have voted for Trump, Shania Twain faced immediate pushback. She later apologized on Twitter, saying:
I would like to apologise to anybody I have offended in a recent interview with the Guardian relating to the American President. The question caught me off guard. As a Canadian, I regret answering this unexpected question without giving my response more context.
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I am passionately against discrimination of any kind and hope it’s clear from the choices I have made, and the people I stand with, that I do not hold any common moral beliefs with the current President.
I don’t know how big a star Twain is anymore, and from my dim recollection of her in the 90s she struck me as more pop than country. But, still, a country singer having to distance herself from a Republican president due to fan backlash is pretty surprising.
Unless he’s using the royal “we/our.”
Johanna
April 23, 2018, 7:34pm
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Because Canadians on the whole, even the Tories, exhibit more common sense and decency than our Republicans.
SteveG1
April 23, 2018, 7:37pm
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Sherrerd:
I wouldn’t bet against your prediction.
But, November 6-wise, it will be interesting to see how explicitly campaign opponents to our current crop of Republicans might tie them to their boy Pruitt and his many corrupt escapades.
Meanwhile, it looks like they will be screaming about Evil Hillary (again). They don’t seem to have anything else.