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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:39 AM Jan 2018

"That is a red line that cannot be crossed"..meaningless in the Vulgarian's reign

We've got to come up with a better harder stronger line. This old chestnut means nothing these days. And thanks to the Vulgarian it never will again....

Put it away like the GoldenRule....Do Unto Others....indeed.

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"That is a red line that cannot be crossed"..meaningless in the Vulgarian's reign (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Jan 2018 OP

Damn. I thought the same thing when I read it. PdxSean Jan 2018 #1

Bite your tongue on those harder, stronger lines. Hortensis Jan 2018 #2

PdxSean

(574 posts)

1. Damn. I thought the same thing when I read it.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:46 AM

Jan 2018

Kinda pissed me off.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

2. Bite your tongue on those harder, stronger lines.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:59 AM

Jan 2018

That "red line" was a journalists' question trying to ramp up drama during a Trump interview. Since then others have been jabbing him with it, running a real risk that they could push him, for instance, into firing Mueller or bombing NK.

There is a real danger in underestimating Trump's volatility. We know his usual reaction to being crossed is to become enraged and double down on whatever is drawing disapproval. One of "Chuck and Nancy's" big strategies has been to maneuver him into doubling down against his own party.

As for "never again," bad governments precipitate reform. What was the New Deal but backlash against 50 years of growing inequality and exploitation?

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