Subject: Re: Brk annual meeting questions,
"We don't care.
Nobody cares.
No American lies awake at night worrying what other countries think about us.

The thing about being the big dog is that de facto is what actually matters in the real world."

Wow, there's a lot to unpack in there. For starters, there's a fine line between not caring what others think about you and being arrogant. One side is being comfortable in your own skin and the other is being dangerously obtuse to your surroundings. No one likes a bully and no matter how big the US has been economically no president has ever lacked humility on the international stage until Trump. In fact we have been quite lucky up until him because no matter how flawed our leaders may have been all of them were really good statesmen when push came to shove regardless of their political affiliation. And again, the key word is "humility" because that's all it takes to show you are interested in the world around you and that you are not all about a zero sum gain all for yourself.

Let's take your opening statement "We don't care. Nobody cares. No American lies awake at night worrying what other countries think about us.". First of all that is factually incorrect. What you are really saying is that you don't care but there is no meaningful metric that shows "Americans don't care". I care and reading other opinions on this board it's clear plenty of people care! I also feel confident we will all care if we have a recession due to Trump's bellicosity because foreign countries sell off our bonds and boycott our products.

I really respect everyone's own political beliefs. Politics is not "right" or "wrong". No side is more virtuous than the other. It's just what you believe is the best way to run a society and I would argue that the US has successfully vacillated between both sides which is what has made it such a great country. My problem with Trumpism is that there is NO vacillation whatsoever. For Trump it is all about him and for his supporters it is all about their side "winning" which leaves them blind to the insanity behind what he is really doing. Republicans standing behind a president that is trying to implement a massive tax on the American People?? What kind of a world are we living in? A world in which one side is not seeing clearly right now!