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The utterly simplistic language of it all. 🙄🙄🙄
This make me feels somewhat awkward.
My sense at this point is that grotesque flattery works on Trump, but only to a point. Trump doesn't really like anyone, the best you can do is a slightly-better-than-neutral relationship. (And at the other end he's willing to coexist with anyone who hasn't personally slighted him, like Kim Jong Un)
Anyone else remember when libs were fearmongering that Trump will leave NATO and leftists said "don't threaten me with a good time"?
I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Liberals are right-wing. Always have been, always will be.
Dutch liberals are not under the progressive umbrella,
so while the Dutch progressive party is advocating to stop the war,
Dutch liberals are in full support of it.
??? What does Dutch libs have to do with this? I meant Usians and others here advocating for voting for Harris. They are naturally pro-NATO so they were using argument people should vote for Harris because Trump said he will make USA leave NATO, while it's obvious NATO is one of prime tools of US imperialism and no way US will leave it and so Trump lied there, and the asskissing in the OP is clear proof.
Rutte is a Dutch lib.
US leftists are irrelevant unless they reform or topple their regime,
with the former being the more unrealistic option.
You made it sound like anything changed.
I remember it and it's still the same with the only two differences now being that for one the
voices of the democratic socialists are slowly going back to their roots,
becoming more and more anti-NATO.
And two, the fearmongering is now geared towards Russia.
Rutte's bootlicking and increasing EU's military budget while buying US equipment is not just what Trump wanted,
but the Euro libs as well.
I have no idea what did you even read in my post, but it's a complete non seqitur.
Brain-rot exists. I constantly have to remind my right-wing shit head coworkers that they have more in common with liberals than I do.
"Well whatabout™ this lib rep or that one???”
Great, go get them. Drag them into the street and eat them to absorb their power or hang them in your basement with a ball gag for all I care. They are you're homies, not mine.
Does Trump not realize that this message makes himself look bad?
I mean, he also paints himself orange and thinks it's hot...
No. The message here is "look at how I´m having my dick sucked"
Yep. But the point is Donald doesn't realize his dick is getting sucked by someone trying to get a favor out of him rather than just because he's such a swell guy.
He's a narcissist. All he sees is compliments, not the clear manipulation behind them.
Give Trump praise, he'll do exactly what you say. Which is why he thinks Putin is his best friend. Putin is just using Trump as a convenient idiot that'll do anything asked as long as Trump feels he'll be complimented by it.
All he has to say is something like:
"Oh Donny, at this time your big hands and strong will are our only hope. Won't you please bomb Iran to protect the world and become it's hero?"
And that's all it takes to start WW3. And Trump would post the message thinking it's a compliment.
Still... As a European it (well...) sucks that any of our leaders would need to go this low for favors. Even if indeed they would go for 5 percent, the message should be "thank you, and now fuck off". It is clear he sees Europe as an enemy and it is very likely this 5pcent is to drag our economies down while he saves his from the disaster he's creating (where do you think Europeans mostly get their weapons and military equipment from?).
So cocksucker rutte (and all the spineless clique except for Spain) gonna get assfucked too
Agreed. And if it wasn't clear, I think Trump is an idiot. He sees everyone but himself as an enemy, including a vast majority of the country he is President over. He's not saving the economy in our country - he's working exclusively for himself and dismantling it for his favor.
The defense money discussed in this meeting is very likely going to Trumps family or friends (like the literal 2 Billion his son recieved from Saudi Royalty) As our economy is very much on its way to another great depression, including the corruption and needless Tariffs that caused it last time.
Everyone that works with Trump gets ass fucked, because the only thing he wants is fealty and self enrichment. There is no benefit towards our country or citizens in his actions, just himself.
At the very least, the leaders of NATO understand this, and sucked his dick over this deal just to make sure the US didn't leave NATO as Trump has made very clear he gives no fucks about. Without the US's military backing, NATO is at immediate threat of hostilities, certainly by Russia who wouldn't hesitate to push past Ukraine and into Europe as Putin has made clear is his goal. The leaders of NATO are simply making a deal with the devil to avoid literal hell.
It sucks you have to deal with those consequences, but at least you have a government that isn't banning abortion to kill more of your people through sheer ignorance.
How does it make him look bad?
It's clear Mark Rutte is talking to Trump like he's talking to a child. He's buttering Trump up because it's clear superficial gestures are enough to please him.
It does reflect positively on the influence of America, but not on Trump himself.
it doesn't
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World leaders have figured out he's functionally a toddler. Starmer and Trudeau took the same approach.
Communication is most effective in the language of receiver. Rutte emulates Trump like ChatGPT.
I’ve have said this before but WW3 will start because of a meme or ChatGPT.
This can't be real
Real tweet, fake text... no way any NATO leader would say "Europe is going to pay BIG" it's just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.
But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what's real anymore.
This is Mark Rutte.
He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
He's a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
or a democratic socialist or left of that.
Hasn't Rutte always been known for being able to handle Trump well? I'm pretty sure the only way to do that is kiss his ass in a way he understands, so this doesn't seem too surprising.
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