Reasons to be cheerful

[kernelbogey]

.......I wake up, open my eyes - and the disrespect starts....despairing disrespect....about 0915 hrs malcontented distain kicks in....by coffeetime - I'm ready for coffee....which primes me for disgust,utter contempt and snarling inability to escalate my adjectives....

I infer, Eighth, that you feel no sympathy for the man whose wealth declined over the course of last Monday, by $2,380,000,000?

[eighthobstruction]

I infer, Eighth, that you feel no sympathy for the man whose wealth declined over the course of last Monday, by $2,380,000,000?

Lutnik is like some Mel Brooks character in a Biblical Epic who lights a fire by rubbing his hands together with glee.....doesn't he (Lutnik) just love being in the limelight....

[Serial_Apologist]

What's his problem - there's nothing stopping USA production of whisky, no need to involve those nasty Europeans.
And what on earth has that Lutnick chap been at - hasn't done his brain cells any good whatever it is.

Perhaps having been at the "aluminum" is turning him into a loony man! The logic of his justification of Trump's "restore America's respect" can quite clearly be answered by saying, if that restoration is built on privileging your own business interests at the expense of fair trading your competitors, don't be surprised when they in their turn turn around and do precisely the same thing. Source for the goose, source for the gander.

[LMcD]

The Six Nations tournament is to remain 'free-to-air' for another 4 years, and my Elephants' Ears are in full bloom in my front garden and driveway.

[Sir Velo]

. ... why are the Europeans so disrespectful ?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh2DViJUBNQ .

Definitely a case of lèse-majesté

[french frank]

All Greenlandic parties have rebuffed Trump by uniting to declare their permanent independence from the US. Plus the new president of Nato member Canada madeit clear that Canada would not willingly become the 51st state.

What was the man thinking of by suggesting to the Nato secretary general that the West's security interests would be served by the US annexing all or part of other Nato members against their wishes?

[Pulcinella]

All Greenlandic parties have rebuffed Trump by uniting to declare their permanent independence from the US. Plus the new president of Nato member Canada madeit clear that Canada would not willingly become the 51st state.

What was the man thinking of by suggesting to the Nato secretary general that the West's security interests would be served by the US annexing all or part of other Nato members against their wishes?

You're implying that 'the man' has a brain with which to think, which I'm not sure is a given.
Maybe as evidenced by this (from the Independent):
Trump has threatened to annex Danish territory Greenland. Now the US is asking Denmark for help with egg shortages.

[kernelbogey]

You're implying that 'the man' has a brain with which to think, which I'm not sure is a given....

I was pleased to see a Guardian correspondent (I think it was Jonathan Freedland) state, as I think, that DSJ really does not understand tariffs - which he so roundly promotes; that he thinks them just a tax on the producer country, without any effect on end prices.

[cloughie]

Lutnik is like some Mel Brooks character in a Biblical Epic who lights a fire by rubbing his hands together with glee.....doesn't he (Lutnik) just love being in the limelight....

…and not many names rhyme with Sputnik!

[vinteuil]

I was pleased to see a Guardian correspondent (I think it was Jonathan Freedland) state, as I think, that DSJ really does not understand tariffs - which he so roundly promotes; that he thinks them just a tax on the producer country, without any effect on end prices.

... yes, an instructive article -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/donald-trump-crashing-us-economy-fake-news

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[LMcD]

You're implying that 'the man' has a brain with which to think, which I'm not sure is a given.

It's possible that he has a brain but has mislaid his user's manual.
One thing he has in common with nearly all other politicians is that he clearly believes that it's vital to be seen to be doing something - anything will do.

[Roger Webb]

... yes, an instructive article -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/donald-trump-crashing-us-economy-fake-news

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I seem to remember reading that a 10 year old Oscar Wilde inscribed on the flyleaf of his Bible 'Important if true'.

I always think of this whenever I hear of any pronouncements in The Guardian!

[vinteuil]

I seem to remember reading that a 10 year old Oscar Wilde inscribed on the flyleaf of his Bible 'Important if true'.

I always think of this whenever I hear of any pronouncements in The Guardian!

... I think it was Kinglake who said “I dislike churches, and had I my way, I would write in every church, chapel and cathedral only one line: ‘Important if True.’”

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[Roger Webb]

... I think it was Kinglake who said “I dislike churches, and had I my way, I would write in every church, chapel and cathedral only one line: ‘Important if True.’”

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Thanks Vinteuil....I tend to attribute any quote to Wilde whose origin I'm not quite sure of!.......I'll take Kinglake - good Somerset boy!

[kernelbogey]

Thanks Vinteuil....I tend to attribute any quote to Wilde whose origin I'm not quite sure of!.......I'll take Kinglake - good Somerset boy!

A Private Eye cartoon of yore showed Oscar Wilde with a policeman, holding a notebook, saying 'Anything you say Mr Wilde will be written down and printed in a book of quotations'.