I'm not sure anyone has mentioned how Trump's been claiming that King Charles indicated privately that he'd have supported US action against Iran if he'd have had his way.
Do we give Trump any credence for that claim?
Is that the sort of thing the King would say, even in private, and even if he believed it?
Or is it more Trumpine bloviating? ...
Sorry if US shipmates find this upsetting and disrespectful to your head of state, but I work on the assumption that nothing he says is likely to be true. That to my eyes and ears seems so far to have worked in evaluating anything he has alleged about the negotiations between any of the various parties to the interrelated wars in the Middle East.
I'm not sure anyone has mentioned how Trump's been claiming that King Charles indicated privately that he'd have supported US action against Iran if he'd have had his way.
Do we give Trump any credence for that claim?
Is that the sort of thing the King would say, even in private, and even if he believed it?
Or is it more Trumpine bloviating? ...
Sorry if US shipmates find this upsetting and disrespectful to your head of state, but I work on the assumption that nothing he says is likely to be true.
I don't think there are too many American shipmates who think along the lines of "We shouldn't question the honesty of Donald J. Trump, because he IS the president, after all."
I'm not sure anyone has mentioned how Trump's been claiming that King Charles indicated privately that he'd have supported US action against Iran if he'd have had his way.
Do we give Trump any credence for that claim?
Is that the sort of thing the King would say, even in private, and even if he believed it?
Or is it more Trumpine bloviating? ...
Sorry if US shipmates find this upsetting and disrespectful to your head of state, but I work on the assumption that nothing he says is likely to be true.
I think many if not most Americans work on that same assumption.
Gamma Gammiel. Prior to 1917 one of the largest newspapers in the US was called Amerika, a German paper. It was out of Wisconsin, but it had distribution throughout the US because of the railroads. German was the lingua franca of many states. But WWI changed that. The enemy spoke German. It was an almost overnight generational shift. Young people did not want to speak the language of the enemy. Federal and State laws were passed discouraging the use of German. Schools could no longer teach using German. Even Lutheran churches were banned from German services. After the war the older generation was dying out and younger generations just kept speaking English. Amerika ceased publication altogether in 1921.
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You mean Mamdani is the pot, Charles is the kettle, and Mamdani is black because of the USA's own history of imperialism?
I don't think there are too many American shipmates who think along the lines of "We shouldn't question the honesty of Donald J. Trump, because he IS the president, after all."
Yes.
Which doesn't excuse ours or lets us off the hook.
When Trump lauds the incomparable legacy that Britain bequeathed the US it included the propensity to act imperially.
Good things as well, of course.
That's certainly my impression.
Of course, this was all reinforced 25 years later in WWII.
Here is a short article on the War against the language.