Episode 54 - Ups and Downs

Yeah, it was good to get the piece out.

I appreciate the dispatch for publishing it, especially because it runs kind of counter to a lot of their coverage or a lot of what their readers are interested in, in terms of saying that something Donald Trump did was not bad.

And if you know, if you've been on this podcast at all, listening to it, obviously, for a while now, hopefully.

And if so, thank you very much.

You'll know that we're interested in calling balls and strikes.

I don't think either of us have a problem saying that Donald Trump does things that are incredibly stupid, but also sometimes does things that, whether deliberately or not, are good for us, whether that's for America or for our interests abroad or whatnot.

The Greenland thing, I think, falls into that latter category of him doing something good, even if on the way to the end result, he had a lot of difficulties, to put it mildly.

And it's funny, if you go check out that article on the Dispatch website, you'll see it has a lot of comments.

I usually get a lot of comments on my articles, which I like.

You never read them, really, unless you're interested in self-flagellation, for the most part, at least.

But I don't mind doing that occasionally, and I was always very curious about what comments something like this does, I guess.

Mostly, again, because it's kind of an argument that is not exactly the one that you'd usually see in the Dispatch.

And

so, again, like I said, props to them for publishing it.

I think it's the correct argument.

Obviously, I wrote it.

So, of

course, but a lot of people were basically the main argument was, you know, the juice isn't worth the squeeze

in

that all this bluster and all these threats and the dumb shit that Trump has been saying about Greenland and Denmark and all for the past year and a half plus.

All of the damage that that did makes any sort of deal that we got just not worth it.

And I just fundamentally reject that for a few reasons.

You hear the term irreparably damaged our relationship with Denmark and Greenland.

And I would say that people who think that have a very different definition of irreparably damaged than I do.

Yeah, that's too far.