Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 16/02/2025 11:11 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:07:21 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 2/15/2025 3:29 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:04:55 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:55:43 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.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.

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Nice work.

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Quite. Hopefully the Trump voters on this forum won't object to being
called "ignorant, thuggish and self-serving."

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I'm sure they will object to being called that, but they may as well
know that's what some of them look like from a lot of countries at the
moment.

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"If you save someone's life, they will hate you forever."
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A Chinese proverb, I think.
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Sounds like the American philosophy on healthcare

 I love my doctor. She wears miniskirts and calls me John. I call her
Sam.

And she isn't going to risk wrecking your relationship by saving your life. American health care isn't great - as reflected in the US expectation of life.
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
You sit at 48th in the international league table, just behind Albania and Panama.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney