Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 16/02/2025 12:04 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:34:29 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
 

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:07:18 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
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For once - once! - a politician makes a speech I actually enjoyed!

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It was clearly aimed at the home market; he was supposed to be there to
talk about security in Europe and never even mentioned Ukraine.  All
that this speech has done is to turn most European countries against the
kind of ignorant, thuggish, self-serving America he represents.
Fortunately there are still many Americans who are not like that.
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Trump doesn't seem to realise that you can make friends with a bear but
he will still eat you when he wants his next meal.

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Big changes to the old post-war order coming fast. Should be *very*
interesting. I've ordered extra beer and popcorn. :-)

 I should have posted the URL for the full speech. It's under 20
minutes long and I'm sure Bill will want to see the whole thing. ;-)

You don't have to bother. The Australian  equivalent of the BBC - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - has a twice a week TV show called "Planet America" which is currently mainly reporting the stupid things Trump and Vance say every week. They do get serious commentators to explain the more bizarre stuff, but they do high-light the more comic idiocies. Sitting through the un-edited originals would clearly be very tedious.
They had a lot of fun with J D Vance's "childless cat ladies" story, and Trump's claims about immigrants eating peoples pets (though they did go to the trouble of finding out that his claim was entirely baseless).
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Bill Sloman, Sydney