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Mike Pence warns North Korea "Don't test Trump!" (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
May 2018
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BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)1. That's right.
Don't test him because he doesn't read and Guiliani would have to get the test questions from Kim first. If tRump fails the test HE may end up like Gadddafi.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)4. Or Nunes
?w=620
liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)2. And trump is a vindictive fucker
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)3. Should have also said
Don't trust him either.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)5. Or he'll sic Mother on them
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)6. Can we please have a general knowledge test?
I propose having it in a neutral country with the Nobel panel doing the judging.
argyl
(3,064 posts)7. Sometimes I wonder who he's most enamored of; Mommy or Trump.
Every time he looks at Trump I expect the cuing up of Frankie Valli's "My Eyes Adored You."
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)9. I always got a more Dusty Springfield vibe...
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)10. "One day, when Sultan Mahmud (reigned 998-1010) was hungry,
he was brought a dish of eggplant. He liked it very much and said, Eggplant is an excellent food. A courtier began to praise the eggplant with great eloquence. When the sultan grew tired of the dish, he said, Eggplant is a very harmful thing, whereupon the courtier began to speak in hyperbole of the harmful qualities of the eggplant. Man alive, said the sultan, have you not just uttered the praises of the eggplant? Yes, said the courtier, but I am your courtier and not the eggplants courtier.
We all recognize in this Middle Eastern tale the smarmy practices of a toady. Here are some ways to tell a flatterer from a true friend.
(snip)
Be wary of those who flatter their target routinely. It could be a boss, or someone whose circle the person aspires to join. These toadies will echo the bosss words and hone their compliments, at times piling them on, at others praising the target more subtly. The stupider the target, the easier it is to lay it on. Problems ensue when the flatterer has so transformed the targets world through blandishments that the target begins to lose touch with reality, depending upon exaggerated accounts of his or her actions.
(snip)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sucking/201802/how-recognize-sycophant
onecent
(6,096 posts)8. Hell I wouldn't TRUST Mike Pence!!
either