Social Conservatives mock liberals for “not knowing what a woman is,” but their adoration for Donald Trump is irrefutable proof that they have absolutely no idea what a man is.
Their fear is palatable.
Of both woman, and men.
…?
Palpable?
It’s what you put your ping paddle on when you are done with a game.
Uh, yeah. I missed spelling class.
Delicious, delicious fear.
Nor do they have a clue what a homo sapiens is.
As I responded to a Trumpy FB friend who thinks Trump is making America respected again, there are two meanings of the word “respect”: Admiration of someone for their character and/or accomplishments, and obedience out of fear of violence. Trump supports think that being “respected” means being feared.
To MAGAs, being the biggest bully on the block is a good thing. I often reflect on how that fits the term “toxic masculinity” and what type of childhood they must have had if that is their impression of a proper “father figure”.
Trump has paused aid to Ukraine.
However, apparently there is still room for Ukraine to agree to let its mineral wealth be exploited in return for …the beginning of a process.
Which will take at least two weeks.
Re: pausing military aid, what this really means is the US will not be funding these orders from US weapons manufacturers. I wonder how they’ll respond to this.
It’s a fetishization of men who fight as being the truly masculine philosophers of our time. Being trained in white man martial arts platitudes gives one an intellectual understanding of strategy and human interaction that the rest of the world is too ignorant to comprehend.
It’s why the FBI is looking into having UFC come in and teach the soft cucks who are currently staffing that agency how to be real men.
What’s next? Calling in the WWE to teach agents how to deliver a flying elbow smash from off the top ropes?
I wish Zelensky would have looked at Vance, then where Vance was sitting, and murmured “nice couch”.
Fortunately, he has too much class for that. 
A (rather rough) translation of Lech Wałęsa‘s open letter to Donald Trump:
Dear Mr. President,
We look upon the relations [interactions] in your meeting with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with anger and distaste. We see your waiting for him to show respect and gratitude for material help given by USA in exchange for Ukraine fighting Russia as insulting. Gratitute is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who spilt their blood in the cause of fighting for a free world. For over eleven years, they fell on the front in the name of these values and for the freedom of their fatherland, which was attacked by Putinite Russia. We don’t understand how a leader of a nation which is the symbol of the free world is unable to see that.
Us being insulted brought back to us, that the atmosphere in the Oval Office at the time of this conversation reminded us of [the kind of discussions] that the SB [Soviet-era Polish secret police] held in interrogation rooms and Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, on the orders of the Communist political police also explained to us, that they held all the cards and we held none. They demanded for us to stop our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people are suffering due to us [the activities of the Solidarity opposition in the 70ies and 80ies]. They took away our freedom and citizens’ rights, since we didn’t agree to work with the authorities and we didn’t show them gratitude. We are shocked that [Trump] treated Mr. President Vladimir Zelensky similarly.
The history of 20th century shows that every time when the USA wanted to show distance from democratic values and its European allies, it ended with a threat to [the USA] itself. Woodrow Wilson understood that; he decided to enter the USA into WW I in 1917. FDR also understood that, deciding after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that the war in defense of the USA won’t be only in the Pacific, but also in Europe [in support of] allies who were attacked by the Third Reich nations.
We remember that without Pres. Ronald Reagan and American financial involvement, the collapse of the USSR empire [wouldn’t have happened]. Reagan had the understanding that in Soviet Russia and countries colonized by it, millions of enslaved people were suffering, among them thousands of political prisoners, which for their sacrifice in the defense of democratic values, paid with their freedom. His greatness comes from, among other things, that without wavering, he called the USSR the “Evil Empire” and he brought a forthright fight. We won, and a monument to Pres. Reagan stands in near the US Embassy in Warsaw today.
Mr. President, material help - military and financial - cannot be the equivalent of blood spilt in the name of freedom and independence of Ukraine, Europe, and the entire free world. Human life is priceless, and it cannot be measured financially. Gratitude is needed for those who sacrificed their blood and freedom. For us, the people of “Solidarity”, former Communist political prisoners of the regime serving Soviet Russia, this is clear.
We appeal to the USA to hold itself to the guarantees, that they gave along with Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which is written an obligation to defend the immovable borders of Ukraine, in exchange for [Ukraine] giving up its nuclear arms. Those guarantees are without conditions: they don’t contain a single word about treating such help as an exchange for commercial benefits.
This was the only full, uninterrupted translation I could find but here is one of the many stories about the letter:
https://www.reuters.com/world/polish-cold-war-hero-walesa-writes-trump-expressing-horror-zelenskiy-spat-2025-03-03/
Bravo, Lech!
Trump’s reply: “TL;DR.”
The way trump talked about Putin being hurt by “Russia Russia Russia”, you’d think he wanted Zelensky to apologize to Putin.
In a way, he does. In his universe (and that of his cult) there is a natural order and the lessers have a moral duty to know their place and yield and submit to their betters and if they don’t it’s a grave offense and disrespect that they must atone for. That’s why he feels it’s all the Ukrainians’ fault.