I am actually furious at Rosemary Barton for not pushing back at the frankly astonishing rhetoric we are getting from Gordon Sondland. Going on Canadian TV and saying that “everything is up for negotiation” when it comes to what Canada is willing to discuss? And Barton just sits there saying “I have no opinion”?! And then saying telling us we should not take him serious because that’s Donnie’s personality after our own fucking Prime Minister has basically told us the threat of annexation is actually real?? And then talking about forcing us into a customs union or “common passport”?
Sondland was talking down on us, scolding us for taking his shitty president seriously, and Rosemary Burton was just letting him go unchallenged. What is this bullshit?
Frankly, I’m fine that he’s thinking this way. Things are too far gone and everybody has lost trust in the US at this point. Whether that was his intention from the beginning or if it’s the idea he got after realizing that the backlash to his antics were magnitudes greater than what he expected no longer matters.
It will be years, if not decades, of hard work and consistancy before any major country trusts the US again for anything more than high-fructose corn syrup.
Trump can try to “put them back together” however he wants, but he’ll be doing that without the rest of the world.