Discussion
bko: > Settles Columbia $400M funding freeze for $221M university payment> Settles for 15% EU tariff after threatening 30% in July 12 letterMany of these seem like pretty basic negotiations.> Posts himself as Jesus healing the sick, deletes it, claims it was a doctorWhat did he chicken out of? I guess posting a meme?I'm not a fan of a lot of the things going on at the federal level but I feel like many critics just lost the plot.
Swenrekcah: Do you usually start negotiations by publicly deriding your counterparty and state absurd demands?
anonu: Well the problem is the rabid left wing nuts all have TDS. So anything Trump does can only be viewed through one lens. To be fair this is sort of par for the course when you're in a position of power. You can never please everyone.Now on the opposite extreme, the MAGA sycophants, Trump can do nothing wrong, and every misstep is positioned as some sort of 4D chess move we are all too dumb to understand.If there weren't real lives at stake it would be funny.The real issue here is we have a divisive person in power who revels in the chaos and the fighting.
Arodex: Stop trying to "both sides" this.Especially when one side is "rabid" "nuts" and the other side is just "sycophants". You are not the neutral reasonable centrist you pretend to be.
hagbard_c: When Trump orders an attack he is a war-monger. When Trump does not order an attack he 'chickens out'. Maybe the author of this page should create another version for when he does the former, call it thewarmongertracker.com so that all sides are covered.
Arodex: The fact that my dog doesn't know what to do when it catches the car doesn't mean that my dog is not an idiotic car-chaser.
4corners4sides: This is a pretty unique aesthetic. Does the author have other works / a blog? Can v0 / Claude Design do this these days?
andrem: It's Claude Design. How do I know? A site I was working on has the same aesthetic... Which is disappointing but not unexpected.
Arodex: "An idiot's idea of an intelligent person"
bko: I dont know. I guess that's one strategy. Im also not a billionaire and leader of the free world. So I can only assume there is some merit in this particular negotiation style if it landed him where he is.
piva00: That's a bit of an appeal to authority, no? It might have given results but it wasn't without cost, is it net-positive overall?This style doesn't build bridges, it's purely adversarial, diplomacy requires building bridges for long-term sustainability of relations.
4corners4sides: Ah okay, thanks. We've come a long way since the purple gradients and glowy buttons but I suppose there is still a tell.
