tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1425125391378979937..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Trump to Xi: Toughen Up!Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23921725806433722792017-06-24T05:49:03.660-07:002017-06-24T05:49:03.660-07:00IAC,
I wonder what Zuckerberg wore for his sojourn...IAC,<br />I wonder what Zuckerberg wore for his sojourn into the "Heart of Darkness". Did he look like an escapee from "Whole Earth Provision Co." did everything he had on have "North Face" written all over it? What was his look, certainly not metro sexual, perhaps for Iowa it was rural sexual saving lumber sexual for the Great Northwest when he is safely back among his own kind. I do compliment him on the attempt, but it smacks of one of Stanley's trips up the Nile. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50419787797896515322017-06-24T04:53:53.748-07:002017-06-24T04:53:53.748-07:00This is off-topic, but I'm sharing it to demon...This is off-topic, but I'm sharing it to demonstrate everything that is wrong with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his "followers" who comment on this post. <br /><br />It seems the billionaire savant is now around to understand middle America better. So he's going places like Iowa (with a photographer) and tries a Hemingwayesque approach to understand people:<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103821948456451<br /><br />There is something really creepy about this guy. The "follower"comments are gushing, vacuous, silly and sentimental. One of them is quite telling: "No security? Just saying if I was a billionaire... I'd have plenty." Yeah, in an Iowa town of 2,800. That guy (Joseph M Billiot) sounds like a Midwestern anthropology wizard. I wonder if he actually wrote it himself, or if some Facebook bot did. <br /><br />I look at Facebook one a month -- if that. When I do, I'm reminded that people have a lot of time on their hands. That includes Zuckerberg. After the stuff he said in his commencement speech at Harvard this year, I hope he's not thinking about politics...Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57402799234256493462017-06-23T11:22:54.016-07:002017-06-23T11:22:54.016-07:00Sam L.: It's not just Democrats. Don't for...Sam L.: It's not just Democrats. Don't forget the NeverTrump "conservative" intelligentsia who would rather live in their imaginary, theoretical universe of "principles" rather than win. Bill Kristol, Stephen Hayes, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, Rich Lowry, et al. Meanwhile, respectable, intelligent and reasonable Republicans are feckless cowards who allow government to grow and grow. Yawn. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25776415068247967552017-06-23T09:31:41.103-07:002017-06-23T09:31:41.103-07:00On content quality, one way to evaluate communicat...On content quality, one way to evaluate communication is to try to reverse roles.<br /><br />Xi Jinping: While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Trump and the U.S. to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know the U.S. tried!<br /><br />In this case it seems to work fairly. I wouldn't interpret this to mean Trump is embarrassing himself on the world stage and looking weak next to North Korea, like Stuart suggests. OTOH, when Trump told Comey he was doing a great job, we now that is apparently a sign he was about to get fired, so who knows.<br /><br />Overall, I'd say it is best to not read much into Trump's tweet, especially since it wasn't specific. <br /><br />On timing, we might assume it was about Warmbier, but we don't even know how long he was in a coma, could have been months, sometime after his January trial. And there are three other American citizens being held as well. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_nationals_detained_in_North_Korea<br /><br />I'm confident the Trump administration will never stop trying to get them freed as well, although I'm not sure China cares that much.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23382838242198549542017-06-23T09:05:53.488-07:002017-06-23T09:05:53.488-07:00Most of those observers are Democrats with by-line...Most of those observers are Democrats with by-lines, and they are paid to fin=d fault (after fault after fault) with Mr. Trump.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com