Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 15/02/2025 11:34 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:07:18 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

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.

 Big changes to the old post-war order coming fast.

America shooting itself in the foot was a regular feature of the post-war era. Vietnam and the invasion of Irak come to mind. Trump is even more ignorant and insular than the average US president, and he gets his advice from sycophants who echo his ignorant opinions with added extra flattery.
He does seem to be inept enough to wreck the American economy, which would be a big change, if American business was silly enough to let him do any real damage.
This seems unlikely. The main message from his first term was that he was ineffectual. His supporters are working to make him more effective, but if you are silly enough to admire Donald Trump the quality of the support you can provide is limited.

Should be *very* interesting. I've ordered extra beer and popcorn. :-)

But that assumes that the normal mechanisms that deliver your beer and popcorn won't get messed up by one of Trump's silly ideas.
As a businessman he was responsible for a lot of bankruptcies.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney