ProudKangaroo wrote on Mar 15
th, 2025 at 12:32pm:
Bobby. wrote on Mar 15
th, 2025 at 12:20pm:
Little Johny gets confronted by a bully,
Bully: "Give me your lunch money or you'll be beaten up"
Classmate: "You'd better give him your lunch money so you don't get beaten up"
Teacher: "This is your fault Johny, I'll only help you if you give me half your lunch money every day from now on."
Johny: "Here you go Miss"
Teacher: "Good, now give the bully the other half of your lunch money and we'll call it even"
Johny: "But what if the bully does the same thing tomorrow, like he's done many times before, even annexing my lunch box!"
Teacher: "He won't, we have an agreement that he'll let me keep taking half of your lunch money without getting in my way"
Johny: "That sounds like protection for you, not me!?"
Teacher: "You've not even said thank you and you're wearing the wrong uniform!!!!"
not quite.
trump sees the world , probably the way marlon brando saw the world in the excellent Godfather.
the world (according to donald and he certainly has an interesting take) is made up of familes, led by "dons" (mafia bosses if you will).
so we have don donald in the west, don vlad in the centre and don xi in the east.
the bosses respect each other and dont crap on each other.
they understand "power'
what the bosses wont tolerate is underlings in their own "sphere of influence" who are not grateful and who dont pay homage.
so trump is going to be more brutal with , say, trudeau or mexico or albo and more so if they "act up"
he is probably going to be quite courteous to vlad and xi and with good reasons, it maintains world order.
so little johnny who gets his lunch stolen needs a powerful ally.
he cant go , as zelensky did, with an aura of arrogance and entitlement to "the don"
no mafia boss is going to tolerate that !!.
he has to show loyalty to don donald and show him respect as the leader of the family.
its intersting that peter thielle, zuck, elon, larry page, sundar, cook, mark andreeson seem to understand what trump understands
that the world is probably going to be ruled by oligarchs ( ie , people like those just named) and that they will be able to operate much more smoothly if they have the protection of a "don" (mafia boss).
they will have to pay their dues of course.
what is the real purpose of tarriffs?
easy
they are a way of making people come "cap in hand " to the boss and ask for a favour.
we saw this in the Godfather movie.
people need to bring gifts and pay up.
it was always so.
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
certainly trump has shaken up the world, he is the paradigm shift, democracy will have a new flavour and the little whiney sooky complaining punk ass bitch who thought government existed to 'pleasure " him is in for one hell of a rude awakening
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