Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:04:39 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

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

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When I was working in the USSR, we'd go into a restaurant and ask for
a beer. They'd often snap "Nyet piva" which meant "we don't have beer
tonight." The mind boggles.
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Same for things on the menu. Most were actually not available on any
given night.
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And nobody wanted to drink the Russian beer anyhow. The Polish and
Czech stuff was OK, if you could get it.

Czech light beer is among the best in the world, but probably tastes
weird to an American. Russia does make some fantastic vodka, though.