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2019-10-02 Britain

h/t Instapundit
[Spectator.us] The great triumph of recent American politics is for the people of your fine country to have elected as president a man who is the precise embodiment of what supercilious Europeans think Americans are really like. Pig-ignorant, arrogant, jingoistic, contemptuous of foreigners, loud-mouthed, badly dressed and irredeemably bumptious. So consuming is the European antipathy toward Donald Trump ‐ he’s never read a book! He eats steak with ketchup! ‐ that it afflicts leading politicians across our continent, people who would be better advised to button it a while and show a little bit of diplomacy to the leader of the free world. But they can’t: the contempt always bleeds through.

This is one reason why I have a little bit of time for this gift you Americans have bestowed upon the world, Mr Trump. He enrages the liberal cretinati ‐ in other words, all the right people. And I sincerely hope you elect him once again.

There are other gifts you have given us which, frankly, I would much rather had been FedExed to the other side of the world as the consequence of some human error or computer glitch. Pre-eminent among these is Meghan Markle. Thank you very much for the thought ‐ but would you now please take her back? We’ve had enough and the maintenance charges impinge heavily upon such a small satrapy as the UK. We will of course chip in for the flights ‐ by private jet, naturally, although Elton John will personally pay for the carbon offset.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-02 15:11|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I'm afraid, no returns on upholstery.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-02 16:23|| 2019-10-02 16:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Only if you take Shillery.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-02 17:42|| 2019-10-02 17:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, Swil got taken when the dems paid for the Steele dossier, but I know that's not what you meant

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-02 17:53|| 2019-10-02 17:53|| Front Page Top

#4 No returns if item is used and soiled.

Posted by Roth LaDoad 2019-10-02 18:34|| 2019-10-02 18:34|| Front Page Top

#5 No way, mates. Hard cheese, old man

Posted by Lex 2019-10-02 18:42|| 2019-10-02 18:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Blame Canada. They met in Toronto where she lived and worked.

Posted by Grutch Cheting3238 2019-10-02 19:22|| 2019-10-02 19:22|| Front Page Top

#7 ...who is the precise embodiment of what supercilious Europeans think Americans are really like. Pig-ignorant, arrogant, jingoistic, contemptuous of foreigners, loud-mouthed, badly dressed and irredeemably bumptious.

It's been like that since at least early 1987, when Reagan was deploying the Pershing II's at that time. Yawn - I've heard it all before.

Posted by Raj 2019-10-02 19:47|| 2019-10-02 19:47|| Front Page Top

#8 At least since Lincoln's day.
Back to the days of Yankee Doodle, in fact.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-02 20:42|| 2019-10-02 20:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Since shortly after the first Europeans colonized the Americas, being for the most part confident, independent cusses who refused to know their place.

Jean-François Revel’s Anti-Americanism discusses where they came up with such idiocies.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-02 21:06|| 2019-10-02 21:06|| Front Page Top

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