Pompeo to western leaders: "How dare you question American leadership??"

[Grasswire2]

[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pompeo-to-western-leaders-how-dare-you-question-americas-leadership?via=twitter_page|

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned western leaders at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that they had better stop doubting American leadership. Pompeo went so far as to read recent quotes from unnamed leaders, including a particularity derogatory one from 2017. “The fact that our friend and ally has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership, puts into sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course,” Pompeo said, according to prepared remarks published on the State Dept. website. Another one was from last year. “The multilateral order is experiencing its perhaps gravest crisis since the emergence—its emergence after the Second World War,” Pompeo read before scolding the group. “I’ve seen, we’ve all seen, democratic leaders questioning America’s commitment to the trans-Atlantic alliance and America’s leadership in the world,” he said. “I’m here this morning to tell you the facts. Those statements simply do not affect in any significant way or reflect reality. I am happy to report that the death of the trans-Atlantic alliance is grossly over-exaggerated.” He then added, “The West is winning. We are collectively winning. We’re doing it together.”

[Turbineguy]

1. "American Leadership"

Has become a contradiction in terms in the era of trump.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. "American leadership" has become a joke.

[jimfields33]

28. True but they need to all start refusing our money and equipment

That’s the best FU to trump there is.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. Pompous is just a course, crude little thug.

I remember a time when NO American president had to threaten anyone. This administration has done nothing but threaten our allies. I'm sick of this tough-guy thug talk.

[alittlelark]

4. ............

[brokephibroke]

5. Pompeo is a POS

The next SOS has a very tough job ahead of him/her...

[42bambi]

6. Little Mikey is like a Martin Bormann, the private secretary that controlled the flow of

information and access to and from Hitler.

[triron]

39. You said it best.

[CanonRay]

7. Yeah, that's gonna sit well

How pompous and arrogant can you get

[Leghorn21]

8. FU eighteen gazillion times, you sleazy slithering scumbucket motherfucker

[brush]

35. Now that's how you curse somebody out.

[lunasun]

9. With crazy nutter fundies like him in charge no wonder American leadership is questioned

[chillfactor]

10. He is such a piece of crap

the orange turd and Pompeo have destroyed our world leadership role.

[Xolodno]

11. These are nations for all intents and purposes...

...have been around the block a few times and see history in centuries as opposed to decades. They know a waning empire when they see one.

[Maeve]

12. "How dare you claim American leadership??"

Dang fool...

[hunter]

13. Is he going to fart in their general direction?

[C_U_L8R]

14. Leaders don't threaten their friends.

Real leaders say and do a million things the Trump admin is total incapable of.

[babylonsister]

15. How can he be so tone deaf?? Really?? Ugh. nt

[struggle4progress]

16. "Putin will be very unhappy to hear you're questioning his agents"

[Kid Berwyn]

17. I dunno...like meeting Lvrov in secret doesn't necessarily mean one's a GRU tool.

One could be an unwitting KGB Agent.

[moondust]

18. Did Pompy forget

that it's his daddy, Loony Lardass, who has repeatedly over the past several years questioned the value of and U.S. commitment to NATO? If you don't like the understandable reactions to his irresponsible behavior then tell him to shut up and stop it.

[spanone]

19. HEY MIKE....

go fuck yourself

[yaesu]

20. ameriKa is a fucking laughingstock flunky country thanks to the little orange wannabe hitler at the

helm. & the fascist toadies that support him

[triron]

40. Banana republic.

[aeromanKC]

21. FUCKKK You Pompeo!!

[Grokenstein]

22. Hashtag Winning!!

Western actual leaders could stuff this guy in a trash compactor and ship the dripping cube back to Trump in a Styrofoam cooler and I'd send them the best thank-you note ever read.

[dchill]

23. So. Much. Winning.*

*Winning=losing.

[smirkymonkey]

24. He is such a joke.

Go fuck yourself, Mike. Nobody respects or likes you.

[Norbert]

25. Another case of the world is wrong, trump is right

and another examply of the secretary of state being 'diplomatic'.

[benld74]

26. Awe looky! Little Mikey can read now,,,

Read this Mikey

Fuck

You

And

The

Arse

You

Work

For!

[democratisphere]

27. America has no leadership.

America has a malignant narcissistic dictatorship.

[vlyons]

29. Evangelical "Christian" Pompeo is a pompous asshole

More and more everyday I've come to see everything fundamentalist "Christian" as completely deranged and evil. Pompeo's remarks REEK of the entitlement that such people feel is their due. Their version of God loves only them and thus empowers them with power and prosperity to enforce their version of society as being the only righteous and correct version. I have nothing but contempt for their closed-mindedness.

So we see yet again, another example of shut up, sit down, and go along with the program.

[Vinca]

30. What passes for "American leadership" is a bloated, orange crybaby who demands money.

[Blues Heron]

31. This is a guy that murdered a general for kicks

I think he's going up on war crimes charges when all this is said and done.

[ramen]

32. By all means, bloviate some more,

you disingenuous twat. His and this insane clown posse of an administration are doing everything they can to strain and weaken that alliance. To turn around and call the other side the problem is the same tired gaslighting bullshit they always play. The cadre of blowhards only have that one card to use, and we need to call it out every single time they try to use it.

EDIT: The first line is rhetorically aimed at Pompeo, not OP. OP is neither bloviating nor twattish.

[Joinfortmill]

33. Pompeo is a well educated man. Therefore, I can only conclude

from his words and deeds that he is a traitor.

[Grasswire2]

37. First in his class at West Point...

....but unable to remember the cadet's oath.

[bluedye33139]

34. I listened, and he sounds like a drunk teenager when he talks

As he tried to deliver his weird punchline about the transatlantic alliance, he lilted and uplifted and overemphasized each vowel. He's a very stupid, stupid, stupid person. Having him represent the United States brings shame upon all of us.

By the way, I have had my coffee this morning.

[Vogon_Glory]

36. When our so-called leadership is questionable

How dare other country question US leadership? When our leadership is questionable.

US foreign policy is in the hands of an impulsive, emotionally-unstable narcissistic man-baby who never learned how the real world works. His sidekicks are beginning to confront the fact that foreign leaders aren’t the rubes in the Republican vase and that the foreigners don’t have to play along.

[Mc Mike]

38. Bircher swine sez what?