That is real? His words? Not a parody?
I am speechless.
And I am a professional interpreter, a good one, if I may say so myself, I have a lot of experience, I have seldom never been speechless in my career.
I transcribed it myself from the video in Aaron Rupar’s tweet.
Makes me wonder what I would have said if I had been in that assignment (that most probably, thank Godott, was not interpreted simultaneously). I am professional enough to not stop talking, but what would I have said under pressure? Some asshole would then put that on social media and the viewer comments would be devastating.
That is a small part of the price we pay for his boorishness, for the style he has given the social discourse: he projects fear, weariness.
Makes me aggrrrresssive, which is also bad.
“And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, I-I-I-I… this could be a-a-a-a lot more, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean, it’s not just, it might not be just such a simple… uh, you know?”
And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment…at this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock…
If you say so, Elon.
I’m reminded of PRC embassy attache Ching “Honey” Huan in the Doonesbury comic strips where the shady addict and quasi-mobster Uncle Duke is US ambassador to China, heroically translating Duke’s recklessly and idiotically gonzo speeches with great freedom so as not to provoke a massive international incident. (“I spoke for 75 minutes on ball bearings?!??” “Yes, sir, and you were spellbinding!”)
One might surmise being a diplomat requires diplomacy. The elder Kushner, just like his benefactor, is a complete stranger to that.
Wasn’t she also Chairman Mao’s translator and just channelled what she thought the Chairman meant to say in his waning days?
The criminal-in-chief got another court to roll over for him.
More on the pilot almost firing, aka Strawberries in the Sky. (The bolding is mine.)
A reminder: the USCG is, in fact, a military service and the crew can be punished by that service under the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for permitting unauthorized access.
He’s like a dog, a dog with a bone. (The bolding is mine.)
If that’s not a WAKE THE FUCK UP NOW, YOU MORONS! call for the SCOTUS, I don’t know what could be.
The felon has an interesting theory on why his poll numbers are so low. (The bolding is mine.)
Nothing new here. He doesn’t like the fact, so he calls it fake. But wait; there’s more.
It’s the pollsters’ fault for not adding in his “silent supporters” to the win column.
While playing with it, he shot his gun, ICE ection.
For a minute, there, though, Mike Lee wanted ICE agents to be just like cartel murderers.
I think Cruella de Vile’s favorite movie is Eating Raoul.
My favorite part of the article is this question.
I think all of us here already know why she’d say something so insane.
This report from The Korea Times is awesome.
That’s the setup, the setting of this narrative. Next we have the inciting incident.
Of course he appears to be admitting that his deals suck. Now we move onto the rising action.
He’s right. He is obnoxious.
Usually the narrative here goes to the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. But, ah, not every story follow the Plot Arc. At least not every story with a toddler as the main character. We are back to yet another inciting incident.
You may have noticed both inciting incidents deviated from the usual Plot Arc in that the main character is the cause, the perpetrator, of those incidents.
The climax, the point where the conflict is resolved, has not happened yet and likely won’t because, again, this is not the usual Plot Arc story.
The resolution definitely won’t happen because that’s the point in the story where the main character has changed, usually for the better.
It may depend on what cocktail of drugs they give him. However, he may well be beyond their ability to balance the dosage. Or maybe he’s beyond any chemical correction. It should be, "interesting. I’m going to try to watch it, but listening to him is a trial and a chore dunno if I can.
TACO is back to 10% worldwide tariffs for the next few breaths.
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The move is tactical, not comic … unless you are a merkin hegemonist.
Greenland arsenal comprises US made missile systems with US made arming and guidance systems. So when the US threatens something hostile, the locals find their own defenses have been turned and are actually aimed at them. Ergo near unconditional surrender without a shot being fired. Much cheaper than buying the place.
A medal? All of them. “Hand 'em over, boys, After all I did more to earn them than any of you did.”
That’s clever.
Far too clever to come from anyone in this admin.
The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, because the brain is rotten.
The felon must be using conversation dice to justify his warmongering.
Did I say conversation dice? That requires reading. He’d have to use story dice.
Christian leaders are observing Lent by denouncing the felon in the Oval Office.
For your convenience, the full text of the letter is here. Scroll to the bottom for the list of signatories.
What happened to “cofefve”?
The last I read about the Kushner story, unworthy US ambassador to France, friend of tanTrump, criminal, father of a piece of shit that did not fall far from the horse and so on and so forth, from yesterday’s the Economist (gift link - bolding mine):
On February 23rd the French foreign ministry summoned Charles Kushner, the American ambassador in Paris and a close friend of Donald Trump, for a meeting. The American embassy in Paris had posted a French translation of a comment the American state department had posted on X: “We will continue to monitor the situation and expect to see the perpetrators of violence brought to justice.” France, says Jean-Noёl Barrot, the foreign minister, has “no need to take lessons from foreign reactionaries regarding [how to handle] violence”. He warned against any foreign attempt to “exploit” the killing for political ends. Mr Kushner did not turn up for his summons, and in response Mr Barrot barred him from meeting members of the French government.
So typical: first stirr up trouble, but never show up to face the consequences. Just another coward.