This is that if you are going to pretend that you're concerned about, say, election interference you should act as if you are and not just go looking for it where it would affect you personally. Smith's case would be a lot weaker if he couldn't keep pointing out that Trump wasn't looking for actual electoral problems because he only looked for it where Republicans lost.
Besides, every time Smith calls tRump 'the defendant' I want to hump his leg even more.
Obviously you shouldn't take legal advice from someone pretending to be a dog on the internet, but I believe this reflects a legal principle whose name I can't remember, that you should at least behave in accordance with the position you are claiming. Until recently an example of this in UK law was in adverse possession, where if you squatted a property for long enough and the owner made no effort to get you out, after a certain length of time the property belonged to you. Whereas if you'd done that and in court the owner proved they'd been making endless efforts to get you out, you wouldn't be granted adverse possession.
Essentially in one case the owner is acting like he doesn't mind you having the property and in the other the owner is acting like he doesn't want you to have it. To translate this in Trump terms, he's saying the election wasn't secure but is acting as if he's just looking to win regardless of what he has to do.
This also reflects a magical principle often called 'acting in accord': you put your intent out there and it behoves you to act as if that's what is happening. If you act in a way different to the intent you have put out you're messing it up and it won't happen.
Luckily Donald tRump is obviously not a magician otherwise his hair and skin would look different. 😱
"Acting in accord" reminds me of when I started a new job and one of my coworkers asked me to do something really frivolous and I said, "You're not the boss of me, do it yourself." And she immediately apologized and did it herself. We became good friends after that and are still friends to this day! It's fun to watch and see who she can get away with bossing around who she can't. Dogs do a similar strategy when the first meet to establish hierarchy. I've always been a natural leader despite my job title. It really threatens the weak managers, but the strong managers love me. They'll ask for advice and I do a good job operating as a conduit up and down the hierarchy where communicating each other's needs are important. I take after my Great Grandfather who was the Union boss and Master Shipbuilder at the Seattle-Tacoma shipyards during WW2. Your HMS Emperor was our USS Pybus built here in Washington state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Emperor_(D98)
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly the way I tell leaders myself!
DeleteFascinating about the USS Pybus although I'm afraid I'm rather distracted by the way it had a complement of 646 men and can almost smell the testosterone!
If only countries could help each other instead of everything becoming a battle of fragile masculinity, corruption and weak leadership!