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26th May 2017, 06:06 AM | #81 |
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26th May 2017, 07:29 AM | #84 |
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Obviously, your notion that Trump jovially shoved a leader who is an acquaintance at best is really endearing, like lads hanging out on the playground after school.
But I'm curious why the prime minister's title is in scare quotes. Is he not really a PM? Or is Montenegro so unimportant that being PM doesn't count? |
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Thing is, there is such a thing as acts that may be interpreted as bullying but are meant as friendly physicality. However, actual bullies have tried to blur the line because they know bullying hasn't been very well regarded, so they don't want to appear to be bullies. They just want to be bullies.
Trump's shove wasn't one of those "friendly physical" acts. |
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I don't take it as a bullying move. It's more a "You don't matter, I do" move. He's just so neurotic and so into All Things Me that the other guy doesn't exist and it's fine to push past him.
I see that behavior all over Asia. While we're renowned for our politeness and rituals, that's all for formal settings. In a traffic queue or at a 7/11, or in line to buy tickets to a movie, people will just cut in front of you, sometimes having to zig and zag to do so and even jostle you to get ahead. It's the self-centeredness all Asians are raised with..... YOU - the other person - just don't matter. That's Trump's position. No one matters but Trump. Montenegro guy might as well have been a potted philodendron that he needed to move to get to his rightful place. |
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Might a suggest a change in thread title, perhaps to "Trump is a Rump"? The current one is insulting to Equus africanus asinus.
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Trump trying to undermind NATO over Article 5. Perhaps, Putin is the person pulling Trump's strings.
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I think the OP is referring to wild ass.
Asses of the world unite, and protest against this outrage! This calls for my stock picture of wild ass Equus africanus somaliensis. Asses don't shove people aside. "Not my President". |
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An ambiguity that would be solved by adoption of the UK English "arse."
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