Henry Rollins: Trump Is Embarrassing Us in Front of the Whole World

[babylonsister]

http://www.laweekly.com/music/henry-rollins-donald-trumps-overseas-trip-was-an-international-embarrassment-8303481

Henry Rollins: Trump Is Embarrassing Us in Front of the Whole World
Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 4:15 a.m.
By Henry Rollins


I was hoping for some humorous anecdotes coming back from commie pal Trump’s PR nightmare trip abroad. You know, funny shit like him calling King Salman “Swami” or some other Rudyard Kipling–esque face plant. That is what you would expect from a man who has absolutely no idea of how the world works, tasked with holding his own in settings where he is the most unprepared person anyone there had ever seen as the leader of a first-world country.

Trump’s glaring lack of comprehension, now a global truth, was both a great embarrassment and a game-changing setback with potentially disastrous ramifications. But in his view, as he tweeted, it was another triumph: “Just returned from Europe. Trip was a great success for America. Hard work but big results!”

As Trump predicted last year, I have become tired of winning.

After the stench had subsided, on Sunday, May 28, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in front of a large crowd of supporters at a beer hall in Munich: “The times in which we could completely depend on others are, to a certain extent, over. I’ve experienced that in the last few days. We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands.”

It’s one thing to broadcast that as a mere citizen, but when you hold your country’s highest elected office, your words will be heard all over the world. This is something that Ms. Merkel knows very well and America’s fuckup-in-chief can’t seem to get his head around. Unsurprisingly, she chose her words carefully. There was an obvious reference to Brexit, and the “few days” part was perhaps elicited by Trump’s belly flop on NATO concerns. It was also a heads-up that, due to shifts in American policy, relations between Germany and America will have to change. This is a big deal.

Trump’s intellectually maimed base loved it. As always, I read the posts under articles to get an understanding of where my fellow citizens are at. While most expressed disgust at Trump’s small-ball handling of complex issues, there were people who said that it was time for the snowflakes to wake up because the age of the handout was over.

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Never in our lifetime has there been an American president who moves so recklessly and leaves so much needless wreckage in his wake. It will never occur to Trump and his idiots that what Merkel said can also be taken to mean that Germany and other European countries are not only striking out on their own but also leaving America behind in the bigoted, stone-age darkness we seem to prefer.

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[joeybee12]

1. Fuck up in Chief. I love it. Knr

[DesertRat]

2. k&r

[Hortensis]

3. WE are what is appalling and scaring the planet.

It's not Rump. Rump will be gone soon, 3-1/2 years or far less, and our institutions are currently holding and limiting his actions as they were meant to.

But what the American electorate has proven itself capable of won't just go away. Neither will the right-wing conspiracists who are using this administration to take power. What/who will we vote power to next? Even stronger right-wing extremism? We could vote to destroy our democracy and eventually the planet.

And NO one knows that better, of course, than the more honest citizens of post- Third Reich Germany. Their parents and grandparents did just that.

If our own extremists, right and left, came together with the rest of the conservatives, including religious right, to vote ourselves into a right-wing state (perhaps even a theocratic "republic" like Iran), it's extremely unlikely that a group of firmly helpful neighboring democracies would be able to step in to help us rebuild it. They'd aim missiles at what we had become instead.

Itm, there's more to worry about. The planet's economies, currencies, military security have since the last world war all depended on the stability, liberal international policies and economic and military power of the States of America--the bedrock we're bulldozing.

[Oden]

4. Act of war

I think we have to view this as an act of war. The right wing has been bullying us sense Reagan and we've been trying to reason with these people as if they respect us as people, they don't. In fact they hate us and they will drop the hammer on liberals as soon as one of their leaders says so. They only respond to fear as any bully does. How to do that is our task and duty. But it has to be done to save our democracy.

[Docreed2003]

6. Truth....

Uday Trump said essentially as much this week on Hannity...that we "aren't people". It's frightening that he hasn't been raked through the coals for that remark, because once you remove the "humanity" of an entire group of people, the path to wiping out those people has been paved.

[Saboburns]

5. What a great read.

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Henry Rollins nails it. I see things the way he does.

Another generation of Republican power in America and NATO will kick us out. The UN will move to Brussels, and some of those European missiles will point this way.

As a younger man I was always intrigued with the popular question, "Why did the Roman Empire Fall?"

Now I know, because I am living it. I'm convinced that all Empires fall for basically the same old reasons: Ignorance, Greed, Racism, Fear.

Same as it ever was.

I am a lifelong resident of SouthWestern West Virginia. Ground zero for the Rebel Flag. The world has already passed us (my locale) by. And is currently passing the majority of the rest of this country. Ignarance, racism, greed, no seperation between church and state, and above all, the view among the vast majority that the US ismfar and away the best at everything

[rock]

7. And beyond

There appears to be no limit!

[Gothmog]

8. Trump is a national embarrassment

[L. Coyote]

9. K & R #MoontheBufoon started a month late.

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