#flattery — Public Fediverse posts

@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief

#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats

@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief

#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats

@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief

#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats

@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief

#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats

@rameshgupta
Nato is already dead. It died in the moment when Europeans could no longer rely on US help in case of an attack. They can't, so they need to and are acting already as if Nato doesn't exist.
@copter_chief

#Trump #Putin #Germany #NATO #stupid #flattery #Stupidity #blackmail #greed #US #Republicans #Democrats

⬆️ @copter_chief

>> #Trump is giving #Putin a gift by removing 5,000 troops from #Germany. Putin wants #NATO dissolved. Trump thinks Putin is his friend. “He said nice things about me” is his determination of friends. He’s too #stupid to realize he’s being played by #flattery…

#Stupidity and flattery are only partial explanations. Add to them #blackmail and #greed.

#US is not run by one man alone, and BOTH elected #Republicans and elected #Democrats are culpable for this morass of a nation.

⬆️ @copter_chief

>> #Trump is giving #Putin a gift by removing 5,000 troops from #Germany. Putin wants #NATO dissolved. Trump thinks Putin is his friend. “He said nice things about me” is his determination of friends. He’s too #stupid to realize he’s being played by #flattery…

#Stupidity and flattery are only partial explanations. Add to them #blackmail and #greed.

#US is not run by one man alone, and BOTH elected #Republicans and elected #Democrats are culpable for this morass of a nation.

⬆️ @copter_chief

>> #Trump is giving #Putin a gift by removing 5,000 troops from #Germany. Putin wants #NATO dissolved. Trump thinks Putin is his friend. “He said nice things about me” is his determination of friends. He’s too #stupid to realize he’s being played by #flattery…

#Stupidity and flattery are only partial explanations. Add to them #blackmail and #greed.

#US is not run by one man alone, and BOTH elected #Republicans and elected #Democrats are culpable for this morass of a nation.

A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

A quotation from Joseph Addison

   If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
   It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

@TomDB Laten we hem zijn waardigheid terug geven!! #PeteHegseth #flattery

@TomDB Laten we hem zijn waardigheid terug geven!! #PeteHegseth #flattery

@TomDB Laten we hem zijn waardigheid terug geven!! #PeteHegseth #flattery

@TomDB Laten we hem zijn waardigheid terug geven!! #PeteHegseth #flattery

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
 
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
 
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
 
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
 
[Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy

The joint statement by some of the #US’ closest #allies signaled a possible turning point in the recent tensions over #sovereignty & #security nearly 24 hrs after Trump’s threat.

It was also the most forceful rebuke of #Trump from #Europe allies since he returned to the White House almost a year ago. In recent months, Europeans have mostly opted for #diplomacy & #flattery around him, even when seeking to end the war in #Ukraine.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

The joint statement by some of the #US’ closest #allies signaled a possible turning point in the recent tensions over #sovereignty & #security nearly 24 hrs after Trump’s threat.

It was also the most forceful rebuke of #Trump from #Europe allies since he returned to the White House almost a year ago. In recent months, Europeans have mostly opted for #diplomacy & #flattery around him, even when seeking to end the war in #Ukraine.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

The joint statement by some of the #US’ closest #allies signaled a possible turning point in the recent tensions over #sovereignty & #security nearly 24 hrs after Trump’s threat.

It was also the most forceful rebuke of #Trump from #Europe allies since he returned to the White House almost a year ago. In recent months, Europeans have mostly opted for #diplomacy & #flattery around him, even when seeking to end the war in #Ukraine.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

The joint statement by some of the #US’ closest #allies signaled a possible turning point in the recent tensions over #sovereignty & #security nearly 24 hrs after Trump’s threat.

It was also the most forceful rebuke of #Trump from #Europe allies since he returned to the White House almost a year ago. In recent months, Europeans have mostly opted for #diplomacy & #flattery around him, even when seeking to end the war in #Ukraine.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

The joint statement by some of the #US’ closest #allies signaled a possible turning point in the recent tensions over #sovereignty & #security nearly 24 hrs after Trump’s threat.

It was also the most forceful rebuke of #Trump from #Europe allies since he returned to the White House almost a year ago. In recent months, Europeans have mostly opted for #diplomacy & #flattery around him, even when seeking to end the war in #Ukraine.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

Won't be surprised if some journalists "voluntarily" give over their Pulitzers, what with all the pending news-media consolidations.

And litterateurs giving their Nobel, Booker awards. Those Truths are obv. superior.

Not to forget bravery awards.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/nobel-peace-prize-trump-machado

#flattery #corruption

Won't be surprised if some journalists "voluntarily" give over their Pulitzers, what with all the pending news-media consolidations.

And litterateurs giving their Nobel, Booker awards. Those Truths are obv. superior.

Not to forget bravery awards.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/nobel-peace-prize-trump-machado

#flattery #corruption

Won't be surprised if some journalists "voluntarily" give over their Pulitzers, what with all the pending news-media consolidations.

And litterateurs giving their Nobel, Booker awards. Those Truths are obv. superior.

Not to forget bravery awards.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/nobel-peace-prize-trump-machado

#flattery #corruption

Won't be surprised if some journalists "voluntarily" give over their Pulitzers, what with all the pending news-media consolidations.

And litterateurs giving their Nobel, Booker awards. Those Truths are obv. superior.

Not to forget bravery awards.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/nobel-peace-prize-trump-machado

#flattery #corruption

Won't be surprised if some journalists "voluntarily" give over their Pulitzers, what with all the pending news-media consolidations.

And litterateurs giving their Nobel, Booker awards. Those Truths are obv. superior.

Not to forget bravery awards.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/nobel-peace-prize-trump-machado

#flattery #corruption

#Trump has long been public about his greed for the prize, & #Machado dedicated it to him when she won it last year. However, the #NobelCommittee has stated that the #NobelPeacePrize is untransferable.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #envy #underserved #unfit #indecent

#Trump has long been public about his greed for the prize, & #Machado dedicated it to him when she won it last year. However, the #NobelCommittee has stated that the #NobelPeacePrize is untransferable.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #envy #underserved #unfit #indecent

#Trump has long been public about his greed for the prize, & #Machado dedicated it to him when she won it last year. However, the #NobelCommittee has stated that the #NobelPeacePrize is untransferable.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #envy #underserved #unfit #indecent

#Trump has long been public about his greed for the prize, & #Machado dedicated it to him when she won it last year. However, the #NobelCommittee has stated that the #NobelPeacePrize is untransferable.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #envy #underserved #unfit #indecent

#Trump has long been public about his greed for the prize, & #Machado dedicated it to him when she won it last year. However, the #NobelCommittee has stated that the #NobelPeacePrize is untransferable.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #envy #underserved #unfit #indecent

“I told him this,” #Machado continued. “200 years ago General (Marquis de) Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar since then kept the medal for the rest of his life.”

“200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the #NobelPeacePrize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”

#Trump #vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent

“I told him this,” #Machado continued. “200 years ago General (Marquis de) Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar since then kept the medal for the rest of his life.”

“200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the #NobelPeacePrize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”

#Trump #vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent

“I told him this,” #Machado continued. “200 years ago General (Marquis de) Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar since then kept the medal for the rest of his life.”

“200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the #NobelPeacePrize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”

#Trump #vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent

“I told him this,” #Machado continued. “200 years ago General (Marquis de) Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar since then kept the medal for the rest of his life.”

“200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the #NobelPeacePrize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”

#Trump #vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent

“I told him this,” #Machado continued. “200 years ago General (Marquis de) Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar since then kept the medal for the rest of his life.”

“200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the #NobelPeacePrize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”

#Trump #vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent

I do not say the following lightly ∶

This fucking bitch!!!!

#Machado says she presented #Trump with her #NobelPeacePrize medal

Venezuelan opposition leader #MaríaCorinaMachado said she “presented” Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal at their meeting Thursday.

“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-venezuela-machado-01-15-26?post-id=cmkfxvet200003b6pm6hiakj2

I do not say the following lightly ∶

This fucking bitch!!!!

#Machado says she presented #Trump with her #NobelPeacePrize medal

Venezuelan opposition leader #MaríaCorinaMachado said she “presented” Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal at their meeting Thursday.

“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-venezuela-machado-01-15-26?post-id=cmkfxvet200003b6pm6hiakj2

I do not say the following lightly ∶

This fucking bitch!!!!

#Machado says she presented #Trump with her #NobelPeacePrize medal

Venezuelan opposition leader #MaríaCorinaMachado said she “presented” Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal at their meeting Thursday.

“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-venezuela-machado-01-15-26?post-id=cmkfxvet200003b6pm6hiakj2

I do not say the following lightly ∶

This fucking bitch!!!!

#Machado says she presented #Trump with her #NobelPeacePrize medal

Venezuelan opposition leader #MaríaCorinaMachado said she “presented” Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal at their meeting Thursday.

“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-venezuela-machado-01-15-26?post-id=cmkfxvet200003b6pm6hiakj2

I do not say the following lightly ∶

This fucking bitch!!!!

#Machado says she presented #Trump with her #NobelPeacePrize medal

Venezuelan opposition leader #MaríaCorinaMachado said she “presented” Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal at their meeting Thursday.

“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said.

#vanity #flattery #narcissism #greed #underserved #unfit #indecent
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-venezuela-machado-01-15-26?post-id=cmkfxvet200003b6pm6hiakj2

"Targeting Miller’s menacing sychopancy gets at the heart of the two men’s connection. And if we can invent innovative ways to do it enough, we could even ruin Trump’s joy of having his own Hype Himmler."

#Trump #StephenMiller #racism #misogyny #xenophobia #flattery #narcissism
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"Targeting Miller’s menacing sychopancy gets at the heart of the two men’s connection. And if we can invent innovative ways to do it enough, we could even ruin Trump’s joy of having his own Hype Himmler."

#Trump #StephenMiller #racism #misogyny #xenophobia #flattery #narcissism
/3

"Targeting Miller’s menacing sychopancy gets at the heart of the two men’s connection. And if we can invent innovative ways to do it enough, we could even ruin Trump’s joy of having his own Hype Himmler."

#Trump #StephenMiller #racism #misogyny #xenophobia #flattery #narcissism
/3

"Targeting Miller’s menacing sychopancy gets at the heart of the two men’s connection. And if we can invent innovative ways to do it enough, we could even ruin Trump’s joy of having his own Hype Himmler."

#Trump #StephenMiller #racism #misogyny #xenophobia #flattery #narcissism
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