EU Boss Juncker threatens to break up US

It takes ~10s to verify that the Sexpress headline is clickbait. Even the subheadline contradicts the headline.

It does sound like a joke. There is the legitimate point that Trump really hasn't any business saying that Brexit was a good idea, any more than Putin did in making it clear that he thought that Trump was a suitable person to be president of the USA.

It is the kind of thing that the Express would make a fuss about, and Cursitor Doom would take seriously - after all Cursitor Doom is silly enough to think that I might adore Jean-Claude Juncker.

I've heard of him, but he's president of the European Commission, which is a body with very little actual power. He comes from Luxembourg, which does suggest that he's a compromise candidate - somebody neither the French nor the Germans would object to ...

I don't happen to go around adoring politicians - Angela Merckle has my grudging respect, but that's about as enthusiastic as I get.

Crsitor Doom presumably adores Nigel Farage and Christopher Monkton, both of whom are sufficiently fatuously silly to be on his wavelength.

In the video, did the translator deliberately mis-translate?

I am so glad I KF'd that wanker.

How much money is the EU going to pay Ohio and Texas to break away from the country governed by the administration those states just elected?

Sounds like they either ran a snarky joke through the French-to-bullshit translator, or European newsreaders are just as ignorant about America as Americans are ignorant about Europe. Or both.

Oh well. Who give a shit what a bunch of eurotrash think about anything, anyway.

Don't worry about it! Most of the stuff in the Sexpress is gossip or gormless alt-news.

Den torsdag den 30. marts 2017 kl. 17.23.35 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

I couldn't really hear what he said, but I don't see how the message was particularly controversial, calling it a threat that is just hyperbole

You didn't hear what he said, but you're remarking on it nonetheless??

I used to read the Express, but now read Viz.

The quality of reporting is much better.

s particularly controversial, calling it a threat that is just hyperbole

I liked where the translation said that Austin, Texas, would go independent, not the entire state.

'He said: ?Brexit isn?t the end. A lot of people would li ke it that way, even people on another continent where the newly elected US President was happy that the Brexit was taking place and has asked other countries

to do the same.

?If he goes on like that I am going to promote the independence o f Ohio and Austin, Texas in the US.?'

I suspect it was all tongue firmly in cheek.

John

I could only hear part of what he said in german, I heard what the translator said in english

Yeah, the audience was convulsed with laughter.

Speaking of ignorance, that idiot Juncker doesn't realize that there is no Article 50 in the US Constitution.

Ha! How true. Sloman won't pay any heed to anything that hasn't been approved by the fake news Leftie outfit, Snopes.

More generally, he substitutes respect for authority over independent thinking.

There was a bumper sticker

QUESTION AUTHORITY

and a better one

IGNORE AUTHORITY

which makes sense, since most experts are usually wrong.

I rarely check what Snopes has to say. It hasn't got a reputation for peddl ing fake news - quite the reverse. Since the the fake news that it objects to frequently comes from the kind of far right sources that Cursitor Doom - as a gullible twit - favours, Cursitor Doom may well see it as leftist, in the sense that it isn't lunatic far-right.

John Larkin doesn't recognise independent thinking when he runs into it - w hich he frequently does, granting his enthusiasm for recognising the bogus authority of denialist web-wites.

"Question" is good - I do it all the time (not that John Larkin has the com prehension to notice).

"Ignore" is silly. Authorities don't get to be authorities if they haven't been right in some area in the past. They can be wrong, but assuming that t hey are wrong isn't a wise strategy. John Larkin isn't into wisdom.

Experts can be wrong, particularly when they move outside their narrow area of expertise - a fact that John Larkin illustrates with remarkable frequen cy - but they aren't usually wrong, otherwise they would never have acquire d a reputation as experts.

John Larkin's area of expertise does seem to be extracting money from peopl e who don't know much about electronics. His circuit "design" skills seem t o be up to giving his customers stuff that works, but the fact that he stil l gets excited about delivering stuff of the same kind that I got working b ack in 1989 doesn't argue for any great originality or creative power in hi s team.

It was amazingly ignorant. If he's said New York and California, he might have had something.

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Hey, some on the wet coast keep talking about forming Cascadia...

John

The US just elected Trump as president, despite the fact that 3 million mor e Americans voted for Clinton than for Trump. US elections don't always pro duce outcomes that sit well with the population as a whole. The Republicans have a long history of imposing excessively stringent voter-identication r ules that stop many more Democrats from voting than Republicans, and Trump' s lies were effective in persuading dumb Democrats to vote against their be st interests.

It has now become obvious that Trump hasn't got any intention of doing anyt hing significant to reduce unemployment in Ohio, and the electorate should have woken up to this. I can't see Jean-Claude Juncker as a second Jefferso n Davis, but then again I couldn't see Donald Trump as a second George Wash ington either.

That didn't stop the Confederate States from trying to break away in 1861, and it took four years for the Northern States to persuade them that it was n't a good idea.

Most European have heard of the American Civil War, and - unlike John Larki n - do understand what it implies.