So lies -- or not lies -- is not the issue with you? Nor a biased or partisan manner of reporting the news?.
Apparently what is supposed to matter is whether or not the viewer/listener LIKES the style, and when we are referring to the channels that do this kind of thing, they know for a fact that their audiences tune in hoping to have the President be vilified.
Hi albion,
I'll give some credit to this having become an us vs. them conflict that is sometimes split over picayune issues. However, a lot of that is because that's the way the president himself makes it to be. His words have encouraged this us vs. them atmosphere. I've said it many times before and it is certainly worth considering often that President Trump is his own worst enemy in 'why' our political landscape has become what it is.
Nobody likes to be insulted. Even if one takes the position, "well, they insulted him first", the President of the United States should act better than a kindergarten child. However, I don't agree that candidate and now President Trump was insulted first. He began this political journey of his by slamming his opponents with derogatory name calling.
I think it is also quite evident that it is the man's nature to give at least a double portion of whatever he perceives that he got. It would, so it seems to me, be absolutely impossible for the man to allow a perceived slight to pass. Just as he has done with China, he started this trade war with tariffs and if China even thinks to consider retaliatory tariffs against the U. S,, President Trump slams them at least twice as hard with retaliatory tariffs back. It is now and has long been, for anyone who has followed his life of constant court battles, his nature to hurt and punish others to the nth degree.
He's not a negotiator. He's a punisher. He punishes those he is against until they cry uncle. That may have served him well in private business, but international political relations aren't so easily handled in that manner even though he continues to tell us that all these things his put himself against are so 'easy' for him to accomplish. They're not easy, but he enjoys the game. He relishes everyone out here in the real world being at each other's throats. He's actually commented that he thinks that kind of dog eat dog relational model works best and he does his best to keep it going. Even this issue of border security could have been handled much better if he hadn't started all the name calling of those not in agreement with him, and had operated more as a negotiator, than a iron fisted dictator with terrible manners.
Maybe we should nickname him 'Crusher', because that's really the only way he knows to work with others. So, I understand your position. I have conversed with you enough times to know what side of the fence that you stand on and I'm sure you also know my position. You seem to be perfectly satisfied with 'how' the current leadership of our nation is operating. Unfortunately, I'm not. I'd prefer a national leader with a bit more maturity and respect in how he treats others.
Cut out the constant name calling through tweeting. Stop the insanity of promoting the base narcissistic nature. Hold yourself up as more circumspect and studied in the issues that you are involved in. Be a mature man! Stop whining and crying because you don't think you're being treated fairly. Let's get the national government back to governing with some semblance of order and respect for one another no matter what party affiliation one is. That's your job as president! To oversee the smooth and mature and respectful operation of the federal government. To guide the nation with some amount of respect for others, no matter their individual and personal beliefs.
Don't continue this circus atmosphere of lies and innuendos and constant braggadocio that you're doing so great when it's fairly obvious that you aren't. Despite your claims made in the beginning that it was all going to be so easy, not only have we all seen now that it isn't so easy and that you're the largest reason that it isn't so easy. Learn to be a negotiator and not a punisher in 'how' you get others to work with you and bend to your will.
As the old saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Despite his oft repeated claims for himself, I think it broadly evident that he is not some 'great negotiator'.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
