Quote (IceMage @ Jun 13 2018 08:37am)
So rhetoric and optics do matter in your opinion... unless Trump says something stupid, then it should be ignored outright. Got it.
Nobody is crying... I'm expressing bewilderment at the president's words because they don't make any strategic sense.
Do you think Chinese, Japanese, North Korean and South Korean officials use the same decipher code as you to determine whether Trump's statements are serious or not? Cause this statement surely doesn't jive with a maximum pressure campaign. There's good will gestures, and then there's this.
There are back channels where adults talk and make real decisions. I can guarantee that none of those nations were as up in arms as you are about Trump bragging on Twitter.
You can do whatever you want man, it's just a really dumb way to approach politics. Politicians & especially Trump will portray themselves in a positive light 10/10 times, and that's exactly what this tweet is about. At best it's signal that our relationship with NK is going to get better, at worst it's just empty bragging. Relax, take a breath, and realize life goes on.
Quote (thesnipa @ Jun 13 2018 08:30am)
1.) Icemage is saying the exact same things Ben Shapiro has been saying on the issue (see yesterday's show where he looks at everything from individual statements to flag placements), liberals amirite?
2.) "you got knocked the fuck out is a meme", watch Friday, you're welcome.
I don't watch Shapiro. I just took what he said at face value, which is that Trumps tweet of saying how NK is no longer a nuclear threat to be some meaningful and negative statement. It's not, it's braggadacious textbook Trump, that's all, no need to think about it in 14 dimensions and extract some latent effects on how the world is going to take this tweet.