I don't know if you need a med schedule change, sleep, or both but you've been coming across as very, very strange in a thread full of very strange people. If you can't figure out how important respect is and how it relates to culture in foreign policy, you need to reflect on the prior post that already explained it, and explained it well. You've been ping ponging back and forth so much from TDS to Trump is cool that it's becoming schizo and impossible to take you seriously anymore. Which is too bad because you've had some good posts in the past.
Trump seems to be fighting to bring respect back to the US, both on our own soil and worldwide. While I don't for a single second trust any country to be an ally anymore (including Israel) it's nice to see our head of state getting some respect because in turn it's giving respect to our nation, something that's been lacking for a long, long time.
Alright boss, Ill concede you very emotion laden point, Trump making a comment about his flip flops would have been culturally insensitive (IDK why this is the first time we are pearl clutching on this) but was yelling about Zelensky dress any less "insensitive" persay?
Is it such a mindblowing concept that I evaluate each action of the admin and president individually and can disagree or agree with certain decisions in the moment irregardless of my past understandings?
"But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of
your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never
to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past
for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your
metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the
soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and
color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as
well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words,
and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every
thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then,
to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther,
and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took
flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Great American Writer, Philosopher, and Naturalist
Excerpt from "Self Reliance" page 8