Where some hear "America First," others hear "isolationist" —a term Sen. Eric Schmitt says he considers a slur in today's political climate. "I don't want to withdraw from the world," he told our Dasha Burns. Subscribe to #TheConversation to hear the full interview, out Sunday: pod.link/1111319839
For the country with the most wealth & resources - through the exploitation of others & the environment- to view the world as a competition to be won while also saying you don't want others coming here makes us the most selfish assholes imaginable. The least we could do is "withdraw from the world."
I just hear it as “Trump First. Trump Second, Trump. Trump. All for me!”
Then why haven’t US corporations still in China?
If Eric Schmitt considers it a slur, then I’m doubling down on it.
"America First " was the slogan of the American Nazi Party and the KKK....😡
When I hear "America first", I don't think 'isolationist'. I think 'imperialist'. Especially when it's coupled with talk of invading allies and conducting illegal, unauthorized bombings.
I will agree that Trump is remarkable but not in the way the Senator means it. Trump is remarkable in how many lies he can tell, remarkable in the destruction he brings and the pain and suffering he causes. Everything Trump touches dies.
Slur or not, Please get on the phone or e-mail tell your reps in DC what you think about America First (America Alone). It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
At this point any and every Republican politician is a fascist hack. No more republicans. They've staked their claim, let them live with it. Either they die on the vine, or the American people do. I'm for the people.
Dasha's dishonest reporting on Trump while at MSNBC is one of the reasons he was reelected. So why is she at Politico?
yes...they do honesty is only a slur if you know you are wrong
Its adopting nazi slogan www.military.com/daily-news/o...
It’s all about Epstein Epstein Epstein
He who is first shall be last.
Eric Schmitt isn't an isolationist because he pines for a Fourth Reich
“What Trump has done” is pretty fucking remarkable alright.
If it walks like a duck... He's in deep Schmitt and he knows it...
Crap👽
“Remarkable?!”
He wants to revive the military industrial complex and put it on steroids. It is an isolationist position. But less us stepping aside; more no one wanting to work with us.
Isolationists must think the Good Samaritan was a chump.
not real big on jesus admonition to welcome the stranger
Or to love thy neighbor.
Document the facts: the fall in tourist revenue, then compound that with the October 1st foreign visitor charge, and tell me this corrupt #kakistocracy isn't going full isolationist. National disgrace. Allies alienated, contracts breached, and the biggest lie of all, that tariffs aren't a tax on us.
How stupid does he think his constituents are?
I'm sure most Missourians would want a senator that's not scared of the wannabe king! We haven't seen it from any republican senator! Don't b frightened, we hired you to step up
I don’t want to withdraw, I just want America to piss off every ally and friend we’ve ever had, cosy up to Russia, and destroy every soft power effort we’ve made in the last 70 years.
Yup. America First was used by the KKK in early 1900s and by the German Bund aligned GOP to keep FDR from helping England. MAGA is racist and anti American. fpif.org/the-ugly-ori...
Slapping tariffs on a country for prosecuting an insurrectionist says otherwise Eric.
And you don't hear a peep out of any republican senator! Schmidt is a one termer
The fact that he defends the felon & admit they use diplomacy (which THEY DON'T otherwise you would already have 90 deals in 90 days) is telling you they don't know how to strike a deal. They aren't deal makers, so they come to come with the alternative: "overwhelming force" NO TEAM WORK WHATSOEVER
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Also fancy using Jackson as your hero. He practiced genocide against the Native Americans and committed war crimes left right and centre. If that is the U.S's template I can guarantee you it will lead to total isolation.
God this guy is a fucking idiot. Yes being complete arseholes to every country out there is isolationist. You can hope they all roll over and do what you like but that isn't the real world.
What a bunch of BS. Gaslighting piece of s***!
I wish you could have said exactly what "remarkable" thing there is in "his" agenda? Maybe you just mean remarkable in the sense that you just did, but nothing more that that
It’s still not certain whether Trump DID or DIDN’T know the name came from a 30’s isolationist movement to flip off pre-WWII Europe and stay out of conflict— 🖕 A movement that coincidentally got the xenophobic support of the KKK, closet Nazism supporters and anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers…. 😒
Remarkable? He has violated multiple human rights and put us in economic chaos. I live in one of those poor rural areas you all like to use as propaganda. He doesn't understand those voters. They are uneducated on soft power. They see us "giving millions" while we are living in extreme poverty. 1/
Our government purposely misguided us for decades. They have made it hard to get by because the wealth is held at the top. Then we give scraps to other countries but form it in a way that makes Americans think we give them money while we struggle. i.e Ukraine is getting our old weapons, not money.2/
Then MSM, such as yourself, fails to explain it to a population of which about half can only read at a 6th-grade level. You help propagandize all of it. You failed at holding a light to the truth. You played a major role in the demise of true journalism and the United States. It's an embarrassment.
I hear white nationalism but you do you, I suppose.
Eric Schmitt humility a joke looking for a punchline.
This is indeed an isolationist administration, except when Trump feels his manhood has been revealed (or, rather, lack thereof). Then, he uses our military men and women as props to make himself feel better. It's shameful and dangerous, and this senator is an enabler of the worst president ever.
Politico is literally Nazi propaganda at this point. Unfollow and unsubscribe.
4 real. What happened to them.
The world wants nothing to do with America.
Politoco is owned by German right wing media propaganda organisation Springer SE by the way. Just in case you ask why they amplify the fascist party in the US.
Fuck you
Eric Schmidt is too old, too wealthy and too out-of-touch to be trusted about anything. His mark-ass oligarch opinions are self-serving "business-class sass." He is not worthy of anyone's attention.
They should choose their mottos better. America First was used by the KKK in early 1900s and by the German Bund aligned GOP to keep FDR from helping England. MAGA is racist and anti American. fpif.org/the-ugly-ori...
When many hear "America First," they hear a KKK motto.
With that Eric means “we want to spread our woman hating, anti abortion medieval theocracy around the world. Fundamentalists welcome!
and the KKK first used that phrase as a recruitment poster...
Ugh. He’s my state’s senator. Condescending doesn’t even begin to describe him. His staffers are dismissive and rude when calling his office. He’s definitely drank the MAGA KoolAid. He’s on some disinformation/misinformation email campaign right now that infuriates me with the lies and misdirection.
But you are withdrawing from the world, Sen.Schmitt!
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Yuck to both of them. He doesn't like labels. Irony died today.
Gotta protect Israel's and Russia's interests after all.
He is an isolationist 🤷
Be specific “remarkable for WH0”
He might not want to withdraw from the world but the world is withdrawing from the US
Care to bet if he’s one of the Pedophiles ?
Eric Schmitt is a Republican. He would sell his soul for a seat at the table with the racist rapist that tried to overthrow the government. Did you ask him why he supported a man credibly accused by more than 27 women ON TOP of the Epstein rapes?
Notice how he said Republican and we Missouri Democrats are better than that.
Eric Schmitt is a brown nosed moron and is not a serious person. Respond to anything he says accordingly.
And if that doesn’t work we’ll slap wholesale tariffs on them and force them to toe the line.
And become even more isolationist even though we’re not. Make 1984 fiction again.
It’s a rant from 🇳🇱, but I can’t help myself. This stink is everywhere. OMG, now they’re trying to bore people to death! I literally went into a trance of boredom listening to this turd’s droning voice. Also, I like my ICE CRUSHED. Lastly, our Queen rules:
I think a better word for these guys and their policy desires is XENOPHOBIC.
Destroying America's brand and reputation globally will leave America isolated. China will lead science innovation and technology Researchers being snapped up by Australia and Canada Tourism suffers under a $250 entry fee America losing it's soft power everywhere America on a human rights watchlist
Too late. They don’t want Trump.
Dr Seuss made some good political cartoons on America first when it first popped up.
If you think a Nazi's Nazi agenda is pretty remarkable, then you're a Nazi. Full stop.
And you believe him, Politico?
“Jacksonian view” should be the vey troubling part of what he said, and possibly the most obvious nod to Manifest Destiny and racism.
So Politico is trying to make the Republicans out as reasonable? LMFAO
Translation: I don’t want to withdraw from the world; I want to run the world.’
isolationism goes hand in hand with nationalism.... nationalism being the ugly, sick, perverted version of patriotism.....
Mussolini was the first to find out that a truly fascist nation requires economic autarky.
Honestly, I understand some people stuck w/ their head in the sand may hear isolationist when then they hear “America First” but that argument is so 2015/16. 10 years later we learned that when they say America First, it means white, fake-christian, nationalist only.
