Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Trump and Prime Minister May joint press conference

I gave the video 2 seconds and heard "special relationship."

Then I gave it two more seconds and heard "deep rooted ties."

Well, if you say so, then it must be so.

My problem is they keep saying so over and over and over and over again.

Who are you trying to convince?

Talk to any random Londoner for five minutes and their sense of special relationship means they should be controlling the U.S.

They honestly believe they should have a right to vote in our elections since our elections are so important to the world. You'll find people presumptuous enough to imagine themselves smarter than any US president and better able to run America, that is the world, than any American. Every single British person imagines themselves top expert on all things American.

And it they happen to visit here a week then that makes them tippy-top expert of on all things American.

Our flag bothers them.

Ask any British traveler to the U.S. their impression of U.S. and they'll say first, "They sure do  like their flag. They put it everywhere."

Oh?


On a British Photoshop site a member uploaded a shopped photo of a child's sandcastle formed from a bucket. The Photoshopping amounted to a window added and an American flag.

It was cute.

If you search "sand castle" your results will be sand castles made from special castle-shaped buckets, the result adorned with British flags. Because castles are British.

But this was a house. 

Comments included one member who liked the castle but objected to the American flag. I found this surprising. The sand castle or sand cottage is cute but the flag makes it too harsh. For the British (female) our flag represents national military aggression while their flag represents warmth and comfort and everything nice. Our flag is too harsh for a child's sand castle.


This being about feelings, my feeling is the opposite. My American flag represents freedom and everything good and healthy and altruistic while British flag represents harsh colonialism and arrogance based on military sea dominance. Their flag is the one with pointy daggers flying around like a propeller slashing out at everything like the Japanese war flag. The sight of a British flag invokes disgust. There is nothing warm and tender about it. 

They did come over here specifically to kick our asses.

Twice.

They did, in fact, burn down our capitol. 

And their attitude over generations hasn't changed one single bit. Our accomplishments are denigrated. The moon landing a hoax. They remind us we are the only country that actually used an atomic bomb. 

I say, "And don't you forget it." 

They complain about our cultural hegemony especially fast foods even as they toss our foamy milkshakes on their politicians, call us fattest nation on earth while fattening themselves on our fast foods that they also denigrate, and reference all of our films and t.v., copy our fashion of Levis and tennis shoes and boyish baseball caps.

My attitude is these dopes still tolerate a royal class and a house of lords at this late juncture in political history, and their response it "Oh these Americans and their celebrity culture. We keep the royal family tradition for American tourism." Even as they denigrate American tourists. As what? Untraveled, unworldly, uni-lingual parochial people.

There is no end to their arrogance.

And there is nothing whatsoever that's special about our relationship. Whatever our relationship, it is based on antagonism. Our forbearers found them so intolerable they sold the farm and got the hell off the rotten clouded intolerable miserable little island and nothing relationship-wise has changed. 

One of these national leaders in this video is so dynamic he's changing all relationships harmful to his nation making him enemy to all vested in the status quo who seek to kill him, and the other national leader cannot even extricate themselves from an unsatisfying international agreement that chokes their own independence.

So why do we even bother listening? I'm in  no mood to be lectured. The trip is about celebrating that time the U.S.  sacrificed to pull their asses out of a crack. Again. Is this their idea of special relationship? One in which they criticize us unceasingly while attempting to control us as seen again in the so-called Steel dossier, British who just cannot tolerate Trump but can tolerate H. Clinton, and use our power for their protection so they can become soft socialists while criticizing our gun culture. 

Let's call it instead a relationship of convenience. One in which we barely tolerate each other.

7 comments:

MamaM said...

Bitches, every one of them? Maybe so.

So why do we even bother listening?

Because doing so allows us to take in another's reality and come alongside if they are open and willing to relate.

And if they aren't willing to relate in a mutual way, there's not much more that can be done, other than holding them in our heart.

Amartel said...

It's our worst relationship in the world, except for all the other ones.
Look at our closest neighbors. Those shitheels in Canada. Stabbing us in the back all the time. Led by Beto O'Dork, Version 1.1, McDreamy Dullwit Van Atmosphere II.
To say nothing of Mexico. Sawwwy, after all your financial aid we still can't help you police our own borders as we've been bought out and preempted by criminals.
The British establishment joined forces with our own establishment to try to roll Trump but they got rolled instead. Same with the British media. The British people have been infested and divested of their rights same as we have. Just like us. And they're now going through changes. Just like us.
I'm not writing them off.

ricpic said...

Sure we have issues with the Brits and they with us, but who's closer? In fact who's even half way as close culturally as the Mother Country? Look all the way around the world, there isn't a single other nation, including every other western nation, with an organic tradition of liberty. That was Her gift. Do we do it better? Maybe. But without Her shoulders to stand on.......

edutcher said...

The Blonde and I were down in St Lucia and often bumped into a group of Limeys.

They're one thought about Trump was, "We need him here". I have a feeling, take away the Moslems and the aristocrats (and the wannabe aristocrats), and it's a lot more widespread than you might think

Amartel said...

We are 2 countries separated by a common language. (TY George Bernard Shaw.) Don’t believe the media’s presentation, that they all hate us and look down on us. You know the media lies about everything so why do you believe this?

Tank said...

The old Brits and the old Americans had a lot in common. But, as demographics show, we have less and less in common with each other and with our old selves.

Amartel said...

Yeah, whatever, our demographics are changing, too.
If all you knew about America is what you read in the newspaper or saw in the movies, what would you think of us?