Comments on: Merkel vs. Trump: in the eye of the beholder https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 13 Jun 2018 01:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: The Other Chuck https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389228 Wed, 13 Jun 2018 01:19:30 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389228 The man on the left gripping the table with both hands while looking down is Larry Kudlow. When he got back to D.C. he had a heart attack. Unintended consequences made real.

]]> By: Jorge McKie https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389178 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:36:51 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389178 You’re stubborn.
I’m steadfast.

I tried to explain Trump’s appeal to liberal (well, Leftists of various stripes) colleagues and friends and it was as if I were speaking gibberish in a foreign language. They will probably never “get it.”

Oddly, the very liberal wife of a colleague, who had held very high positions in several major corporations got my point immediately. She said (as I remember, not a direct quote), “Yes, he reminds me of several *sshole big corp execs I’ve had to deal with. But they, and he, mean what they say, and when you have a deal, you have a deal. They appeal to a great many who hate but don’t understand some process that they feel is hurting them. They cut through the bullshit and get things done. People like that.”
She had to deal with Chainsaw Al Dunlap and said he was a junior, and less successful, Trump and almost certainly a sociopath. She saw no psychopathy in Trump.

]]> By: AndyN https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389162 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:18:33 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389162 I know the advocates of the old world order will make a lot of noise about body language and who’s supporting whom, but they’re just whistling past the graveyard. There’s not a person in the world who doesn’t recognize that when you’re the one who can stay in your seat and make your opponents come to you to plead their case, regardless of how aggressively they do it, you’re the one with the whip hand.

]]> By: Randomizer https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389149 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 13:49:51 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389149 This photo perfectly illustrates Scott Adam’s “Two movies, one screen” phenomenon. I can only see Abe and Trump calling BS on the business-as-usual posture of Merkel and the Davos crowd. I’m sure other people see Trump as a petulant child in a “you can’t make me” stand off with the Merkel parent.

]]> By: Irinmike https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389146 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:54:05 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389146 “One man with courage is a majority” T. Jefferson

]]> By: Andrew Lale https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389139 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:05:11 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389139 Another arrogant German lecturing another patient American- that’s what I see. The former full of un-self-aware righteous indignation, and the latter resigned to having to put up with it out of politeness.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389116 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 02:09:00 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389116 Gerard vanderleun Says:
June 11th, 2018 at 8:13 pm
And in the next second you get this picture:

https://twitter.com/SaintRPh/status/1005856861193756678/photo/1
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As a commenter there said:
” The point is: Photo editors enjoy a great deal of control in building an editorial narrative.”

or perhaps better

“The free breakfast was adequate; but for the last time, I am simply not interested in timeshare opportunities in Plauen.”

]]> By: Gerard vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389104 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:13:46 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389104 And in the next second you get this picture:

https://twitter.com/SaintRPh/status/1005856861193756678/photo/1

]]> By: Fractal Rabbit https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389099 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:52:32 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389099 And it is Twain. I went and looked in my comics to reread it and the Cap gives credit to Mark Twain too.

]]> By: Fractal Rabbit https://thenewneo.com/2018/06/11/merkel-vs-trump-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comment-2389097 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:46:09 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=78262#comment-2389097 Not just stubbornness. Poise.

I love the photo because it shows Trump’s poise. He’s almost surrounded in the photo. His allies are Bolton and Shinzo Abe (I’m not sure we could see the Italian delegation, who I am told were also allied with him).

They surround him. Trump is seated so they have the physical high ground. And yet, who looks calm and in control?

Trump.

That picture will go down in history and not for the reasons Merkel’s people want it to.

It reminds me of a quote:

“Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides something wrong is right. This country was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or consequences. When the mob and the press and the world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth and tell the whole world-“No. You move.”

-Captain America, The Amazing Spiderman #537*

*I’ve heard that this was taken from an original Mark Twain quote. Not sure if that’s true.

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