Xequecal wrote:
Trump's foreign policy so far can be summed up as might makes right, which means Russia gets treated with respect and everyone else gets to lube up and start paying tribute. "Grab em' by the pussy" is another perfect example of hiw Trump is going to approach leadership. The US is the rich big shot so it gets to do whatever the **** it wants and everyone else gets to like it. Torture the terrorists? That **** is for pussies, just slaughter their entire families.
As opposed to the European foreign policy of "we intend to re-invent colonialism by creating international bodies we control to tell everyone else what to do, expect the US to foot the bill for the military power to enforce it, then ***** whenever the US does anything without getting our approval first".
Might does, in fact, make right in foreign policy. Nations are not created equal. If you expect a larger, more powerful nation to be your ally and protect you, you become a client of that nation. They don't become your client because you've invented a bunch of "international norms" so you can have it both ways. If you expect a large, powerful, and belligerent nation to leave you alone, don't piss that nation off - or else understand that the first large powerful ally you expect to protect you is even more in the driver's seat than they already were.
Either that, or create your own collection of smaller nations and try to come up with your own **** defense plan, but then your politicians won't be able to buy votes any more pretending that free healthcare is a right but free speech is only a right as long as its used "responsibly." Her's a clue - free speech is free in terms of money, too. Healthcare isn't.
As for the torture thing, it's telling that you're still harping on that months after Trump backed off it. It took General Mattis all of 2 minutes to explain to him that it wasn't a good idea, but we're still pretending to be outraged over a completely literal meaning of what he said, while ignoring the fact that his campaign strategy was to appeal to frustrated people who privately think torturing terrorists is actually a pretty good idea because they really have no knowledge or responsibility for any of it.
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He approaches domestic issues the same way. "I like people that weren't captured." In other words, all he cares about are results, if you fail you're beneath his notice and he doesnt care about any other pesky details. Trump's "racism" is more of the same, whites are the majority and more importantly, white males have all the money and power, so they're the ones he's actually going to care about. His health care plan is basically opening up the market to reduce artificial costs and then writing off the people that don't earn enough money to justify their own existences.
White males do not come even close to having "all the money and power". In fact, the parade of rich minority celebrities lecturing poor white people on behalf of Hillary Clinton probably alienated at least a few additional votes away from her, primarily because rich, powerful minorities telling poor, or even middle-class people how privileged they are and therefore racist if they don't vote the way said rich minorities want is possibly the most absurd excuse for a persuasive technique ever.
As for John McCain, that wasn't about anyone being a "loser" it was about "hey, not everything John McCain says on national security is gospel just because he was captured." Which is true. It was utterly tasteless and tactless, but the approach of "take Trump as hyperliterally as possible" pretty much utterly failed the media in their attempts to drag the Braying She-Ass across the finish line, so I don't know why you're still at it.
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