It is indeed a noun but I’ve seen it used as an adjective as in lickspittle serf. I like lickspittle quality and quality lickspittle which also work for me in this context.
So the devastation of Iraq and Libya weren’t lessons enough, it seems. But hey, Manhattan penthouses are chock full of priceless artefacts of civilization so it’s not all bad, right? See the revolting Michael Steinmetz et al.The EU is keeping very bad company so long it risks becoming another mini-me to Dr. Evil.
Gore VIdal recounted a story of Roosevelt and Churchill in History of the National Security State—the book Assange held visibly as he was dragged out of the embassy to send a message—which sums up the relation between Europeans and Americans quite well:
- [Roosevelt] told Churchill at Yalta, he said, you know, “Now we’re winning, you know, the war in Europe.” Pacific war was still going on. “But now that we’re winning it, you know that you’re going to have to give up India.” “Oh, yes, of course, we always knew that. And one day we’ll really give it up.” And he said, “No, no, no, you’re going to give it up right away. And France is going to give up Indochina. Sumatra and Java are going to be let go free by the Dutch.” And he said, “I don’t care what this does to European powers. I’m ending colonialism, because without a clean sweep, United States is meaningless.”
- [...] Roosevelt was a great statesman, and he knew a lot about geography, and these other jokers didn’t know it. And so it came to pass that Churchill had to give up India, grumbling all the way. At this famous lunch, a lot of witnesses there, Churchill apparently turned to him. He thought this man was his friend, but emperors have no friends. And he said, “What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs like your little dog Fala, and beg?” The emperor said, “Yes.”
The British and the rest of Europeans have been America's little dogs ever since. It's hard to imagine what a centre of power Europe once was, but oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Europeans like being slaves.
They’re competing with the Australians to see who can jump the highest when the US makes the request.
Holmes, an American official snaps his fingers and their knees hit the floor.
Such lackeydom is truly a sight to behold.
Lickspittle works too. Is this the same EU that Vicki “the war witch” was referring to, when she demurely said to Pyatt “Fuck the EU” ?
Is there an appropriate noun for "the quality of being a lickspittle"?
It is indeed a noun but I’ve seen it used as an adjective as in lickspittle serf. I like lickspittle quality and quality lickspittle which also work for me in this context.
So the devastation of Iraq and Libya weren’t lessons enough, it seems. But hey, Manhattan penthouses are chock full of priceless artefacts of civilization so it’s not all bad, right? See the revolting Michael Steinmetz et al.The EU is keeping very bad company so long it risks becoming another mini-me to Dr. Evil.
Gore VIdal recounted a story of Roosevelt and Churchill in History of the National Security State—the book Assange held visibly as he was dragged out of the embassy to send a message—which sums up the relation between Europeans and Americans quite well:
- [Roosevelt] told Churchill at Yalta, he said, you know, “Now we’re winning, you know, the war in Europe.” Pacific war was still going on. “But now that we’re winning it, you know that you’re going to have to give up India.” “Oh, yes, of course, we always knew that. And one day we’ll really give it up.” And he said, “No, no, no, you’re going to give it up right away. And France is going to give up Indochina. Sumatra and Java are going to be let go free by the Dutch.” And he said, “I don’t care what this does to European powers. I’m ending colonialism, because without a clean sweep, United States is meaningless.”
- [...] Roosevelt was a great statesman, and he knew a lot about geography, and these other jokers didn’t know it. And so it came to pass that Churchill had to give up India, grumbling all the way. At this famous lunch, a lot of witnesses there, Churchill apparently turned to him. He thought this man was his friend, but emperors have no friends. And he said, “What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs like your little dog Fala, and beg?” The emperor said, “Yes.”
The British and the rest of Europeans have been America's little dogs ever since. It's hard to imagine what a centre of power Europe once was, but oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Well, once the war ended, Churchill wanted to renege on the promise of Indian independence.
And US support of France in Vietnam led to the United States' own fiasco in that part of the world.