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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:43:04 +1100
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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:
>>
>> [...]
>>> For once - once! - a politician makes a speech I actually enjoyed!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney