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Originally Posted by abc_123
The bottom line is that we have to do something. What Trump has done with this issue is to smoke everyone out to reveal their real positions. Makes it real public for the American electorate. I'm not sure that I would have layed down my "threat" before the vote, but then again, that's part of what smoked 'em out.
Me? I'd never mention this vote again. I'd simply decrease UN funding. Decrease funding for every country that voted against us. Increase funding for everyone who abstained, and demonstratively increase (with some public reason) those who voted with us. Overarching reason is to fund US infrastructure projects given the tax cuts.
Let everyone bitch. Ignore them.
BTW, I love that "one EU, one vote" idea.
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Concur. Add the rest of JJ BPK's proposal with the "chair position rolling between the (EU) sub-states monthly, to give all the players an equal shot" and watch the bickering and back-stabbing quickly destroy whatever is left of Europe. 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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