Anticipatory Obedience, India-Style

 

World leaders have learned how to win the narcissistic Malignant Fascist's favor: by flattery and by gifting him before any business is to be conducted. Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin has been practicing that for years. We know about the unctuous flattery of the MF, but we don't yet know what "gift" Putin has offered the MF in exchange for supporting Russia's goals. Now we see India's right-wing religious demagogue Prime Minister Narendra Modi coming to Washington bearing gifts to appease the MF's transactional appetite, as Reuters reports:

"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come bearing gifts when he meets Donald Trump on Thursday, hoping concessions on tariffs, fresh business deals and the prospect of cooperation on China will win the U.S. president's favor.

Trump, not yet one month into his presidency, has wielded the threat of tariffs against friend and foe alike to try to extract new trade deals, investment or law enforcement help.

India may not be an exception: Although Trump had a warm relationship with Modi in his first term, he has called India a 'very big abuser' on trade and his levies on steel and aluminum hit India particularly hard.

Ahead of his White House meeting on Thursday, Modi has readied promises including increased liquefied natural gas, combat vehicle and jet engine purchases, according to Indian government officials who declined to be named." (our emphasis)

Maybe the MF will ask to Modi to give him the Taj Mahal as a present. 

Dealing with the MF is a one-way dead end. You'll get what he wants to give you, and he'll take more than you offer him. Modi will find out after it's too late.

(photo: Awkward hugs: Modi and the MF meet in 2017. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

"A Kind of Surrender, Or Acceptance"

 

To no one's great surprise, the Malignant Fascist's insiders are spreading the word to business that they need to bend to the MF or face retribution. Some have already gotten the message and have approached the MF with monetary olive branches (e.g., Zuck, Bezos, etc.) in acts of anticipatory obedience. NBC News reports on this latest threat from the MF:

"...executives are bending policies — and bending a proverbial knee — by abandoning their social and environmental agendas in manners that could appeal to Trump. Leaders of multiple major media platforms appear to be reorienting their coverage to be less antagonistic. And Democrats, without much of an active resistance to underpin them, have taken a wait-and-see approach to a new president with whom they already have eight years of experience.

'We should treat him like a normal president,' a senior aide to a Democratic senator said. 'Because this is what normal presidents look like in America now.' (ed.-- waving the white flag already?).

The shift is due in no small part to how Trump won last fall. Whereas in 2016 many saw a fluke, Trump this time swept the swing states and won the popular vote. His victory came after episodes like the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his criminal indictments — headwinds many believed were insurmountable."

Seventy-seven million MAGAts and other low information voters cast their ignominious ballots for the MF, several million less than President Biden's 81 million in 2020, but that's down the memory hole.

One of the shameless suck ups is Meta's Mark "Zuck-Up" Zuckerberg, who seems to be in competition with Jeff "Darkness" Bezos and South African fascist oligarch Kekius Maximus / Maximus Anus. More from NBC News:

"Meta’s moves are among the most noteworthy. The company plans to elevate Republican Joel Kaplan to lead its global policy team, and on Monday it added Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, a Trump ally, to its board. Meta also announced it was ending a fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to the one Trump ally Elon Musk’s X uses. And Zuckerberg boasted that the company was relocating content moderators from liberal California to ruby red Texas.

'Remember, at the start of Trump’s first term, the mantra on the left is to not normalize,' a veteran tech industry lobbyist said. 'Do not normalize. That’s no longer the case.'

'So it’s not just a question for the tech companies, but a larger societal, cultural and political issue,' this person added. 'It’s a kind of surrender, or acceptance.'”  (our emphasis)

It's far easier if you lack a conscience or a moral core to surrender and shift direction out of fear or greed. Let's all hope that those supporters of the MF will be served the bulk of the shit sandwich he's about to fix for America.

(photo: New York Daily News)