Had a report from @Sheeptoucher that a member in good standing of the Balerno community afixed a Trump mask to the rat in the Bash the Rat game at the farmer's market - and someone complained...
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Posted 6 years ago #
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someone complained
A rat, presumably?
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They'd have cause - unlike Trump, rats are capable of empathy.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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I could swear I just saw the President of the USA stand beside a Russian dictator and say he believed his assurances that Russia didn't interfere in US elections, as opposed to the word of the US intelligence agencies and congressional committees.
Am I going mad? Did that really happen?
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@iwrats me too
@morningsider interesting times
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Anybody who isn't scared now isn't paying attention.
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This article is worth reading, but this bit has to be shared. Worth reading until the end.
Chris Christie was sitting on a sofa beside Trump when Pennsylvania was finally called. It was 1.35am, but that wasn’t the only reason the feeling in the room was odd. Mike Pence went to kiss his wife, Karen, and she turned away from him. “You got what you wanted, Mike,” she said. “Now leave me alone.” She wouldn’t so much as say hello to Trump. Trump himself just stared at the TV without saying anything, like a man with a pair of twos whose bluff has been called. His campaign hadn’t even bothered to prepare an acceptance speech. It was not hard to see why Trump hadn’t seen the point in preparing to take over the federal government: why study for a test you will never need to take? Why take the risk of discovering you might, at your very best, be a C student? This was the real part of becoming president of the US. And, Christie thought, it scared the crap out of the president-elect.
Not long after the people on TV announced that Trump had won Pennsylvania, Jared Kushner grabbed Christie anxiously and said: “We have to have a transition meeting tomorrow morning!” Even before that meeting, Christie had made sure that Trump knew the protocol for his discussions with foreign leaders. The transition team had prepared a document to let him know how these were meant to go. The first few calls were easy – the very first was always with the prime minister of Great Britain – but two dozen calls in you were talking to some kleptocrat and tiptoeing around sensitive security issues. Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like ... I love the Bangles! You know that song Walk Like an Egyptian?” recalled one of his advisers on the scene.
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You know that song Walk Like an Egyptian?
That may actually come across OK to an average Egyptian (maybe not so much an Egyptian leader)
When I was in Cairo, we constantly had hawkers and other randoms coming up to us and saying, "You walk like an Egyptian, you look like an Egyptian" as their chat-up* line.
*Chat-up, as in trying to get you into their "cousin's" jewellery / souvenir / Sheesha shop.
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