Also in case you were wondering the other guys is our sycophantic former PM, Mark Rutte (VVD, garage people party) who is now head of NATO. His recent nearly literally a love letter to the American Fascist was published recently. Most Dutch just shook their heads. Rutte casts himself as some kind of “Trump-whisperer,” but the things is, he probably actually believes the blow-job level shit he wrote.
As you can see, the replies to your comment are like the reactions in general, they split in two factions. The ones who are embarrassed to death and those who believe this was a necessary step in diplomacy, setting aside ego to prevent even worse outcomes.
While I can entertain the second group’s reasoning, I can only accept it as valid if it comes with a further plan to counter the position that led to the necessity of so much grovelling.
Otherwise - and pardon me for the following crude statement - this is like one rolling the red carpet for one’s own rape and murder.
Except this one person is doing this in behalf of many people.
So if there is no plan beyond the grovelling, this one person is rolling that carpet for us all to be left hanging dry to the atrocities that will come after. And so far, I can’t see a trace of a plan. And my only hope is for that to be part of one.
Otherwise, Rutte is just fondling the balls of a rapist, hoping for a more gentle rape when it’s time.
So, let us all hope for that secret plan that we can’t find any trace of to really exist somewhere.
Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It’s sad that it’s necessary and that it works, but I don’t blame Rutte for the election of Trump.
Yeah Rutte is doing us all a service and puts his ego on the backburner. Of course he does not believe the shit he wrote, but he won’t say otherwise because it will anger Trump.
He’s the good guy here, nothing to criticize about his current performance - I think he’s the right guy for the role currently and he’s doing the best anyone could in the fucked up Kindergarten that is world politics under Trump.
Teflon Mark (Rutte) is the perfect guy for this job. Nothing sticks to him anyway. Somehow every single fuckup his governments made were always blamed on someone else. And any mistakes he made, he “has no active recollection of”. So these suck-up letters aren’t going to be blamed on Rutte; he was just doing his job: managing Trump.
Also in case you were wondering the other guys is our sycophantic former PM, Mark Rutte (VVD, garage people party) who is now head of NATO. His recent nearly literally a love letter to the American Fascist was published recently. Most Dutch just shook their heads. Rutte casts himself as some kind of “Trump-whisperer,” but the things is, he probably actually believes the blow-job level shit he wrote.
As you can see, the replies to your comment are like the reactions in general, they split in two factions. The ones who are embarrassed to death and those who believe this was a necessary step in diplomacy, setting aside ego to prevent even worse outcomes.
While I can entertain the second group’s reasoning, I can only accept it as valid if it comes with a further plan to counter the position that led to the necessity of so much grovelling.
Otherwise - and pardon me for the following crude statement - this is like one rolling the red carpet for one’s own rape and murder.
Except this one person is doing this in behalf of many people.
So if there is no plan beyond the grovelling, this one person is rolling that carpet for us all to be left hanging dry to the atrocities that will come after. And so far, I can’t see a trace of a plan. And my only hope is for that to be part of one.
Otherwise, Rutte is just fondling the balls of a rapist, hoping for a more gentle rape when it’s time.
So, let us all hope for that secret plan that we can’t find any trace of to really exist somewhere.
Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It’s sad that it’s necessary and that it works, but I don’t blame Rutte for the election of Trump.
Yeah Rutte is doing us all a service and puts his ego on the backburner. Of course he does not believe the shit he wrote, but he won’t say otherwise because it will anger Trump.
He’s the good guy here, nothing to criticize about his current performance - I think he’s the right guy for the role currently and he’s doing the best anyone could in the fucked up Kindergarten that is world politics under Trump.
Teflon Mark (Rutte) is the perfect guy for this job. Nothing sticks to him anyway. Somehow every single fuckup his governments made were always blamed on someone else. And any mistakes he made, he “has no active recollection of”. So these suck-up letters aren’t going to be blamed on Rutte; he was just doing his job: managing Trump.