Showing posts with label ego. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ego. Show all posts

Friday, November 09, 2018

Loyalty


We all have our loyalties ... to the world, to our country, our state, our community, to our family, our ancestors, our mate, our friends, the poor, to our school, our political party, our social organizations, our religion, the environment, to our stomach, to our libido, our ego. Mostly we have mixed localities but, there is usually one or two localities that dominate ... and this can you be judged. And you cannot depend on what people say their loyalty priorities are ... you need to watch their actions.

Think about it. What dominated Bill Clinton's and JFK's lives? Their libidos. (JFK said he would get a headache if he didn't have sex every day.) FDR, his family and his country. Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter kept their religion and the poor foremost in their minds, To Ronald Reagan, our country was the "shining city on the hill" that was his  primary motivation. Truman and Eisenhower, their country. Obama, the environment or his ego. The Bushes, their family. Nixon, the world. Hillary, herself.

What about Trump? He says, and I believe him, he is a nationalist ... which means he puts his country first. And, if you think about things, it is those presidents who put their country at the top of their loyalty pyramids who we now consider great.

Perhaps?

Friday, November 10, 2017

Time Will Tell


Time will tell, but I am getting a sinking feeling that the Chinese have been playing Trump like a violin. They have identified his Achilles heel, his ego, and have flattered him into walking away with very little to show for his days in Beijing. Lots of pomp and circumstances seem to have clouded Trump's resolve.

A few months ago the Chinese yuan had inflated by as much as 6% ... yet today it is back at parity with the dollar ... not a good sign that Trump and Wilbur Ross are winning in their currency dance with the Chinese. Yes, lil' Kim has been somewhat quiet of late and has not pushed any of Trump's buttons during this visit ... a very good indication of how much sway Xi has over Kim. But as first stated, time will tell. Has there been any real progress with damping down North Korean belligerence ... and in our balance of trade war with China?

At the moment there seems little hard evidence of same on either front. Trump, while in China, was quite effusive in his compliments to Xi ... a little too effusive to my taste.

But. time will tell.