Savage Henry Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 22 minutes ago, RiG said: I've said before it must be a nightmare to be his speechwriter. His propensity to veer off topic and waffle really gets him into trouble. This is another classic case. 0:00 - 0:07 he's looking at his speech mainly because he can't remember it but importantly sticking to the script. Then between 0:08 - 0:22 you can tell he goes off script and tries to improvise or show off or something and just ends up talking utter shite and manages to offend a lot of paralympians. Some guy. You'd like to think he was making a point about the lack of broadcast coverage, or even simply the time difference. I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt on that, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 You'd like to think he was making a point about the lack of broadcast coverage, or even simply the time difference. I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt on that, though. Probably meant it was tough turning over from Fox News to another channel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 He obviously meant that he’s President and doesn’t have time to watch the Paralympics - obviously that claim can be argued on its own merits but there’s more than plenty to criticise Donald Trump about than just making up utter shite like this. And if you fancy a game of whataboutery, Barack Obama’s of course once said his poor bowling was ‘like the Special Olympics’. I suspect that story will be viral amongst certain elements of Twitter today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 2 hours ago, RiG said: I've said before it must be a nightmare to be his speechwriter. His propensity to veer off topic and waffle really gets him into trouble. This is another classic case. 0:00 - 0:07 he's looking at his speech mainly because he can't remember it but importantly sticking to the script. Then between 0:08 - 0:22 you can tell he goes off script and tries to improvise or show off or something and just ends up talking utter shite and manages to offend a lot of paralympians. Some guy. Isn't that literally a Karl Pilkington bit? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 He should have done the Jimmy Carr joke. Quote "Say what you like about those servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we're going to have a fucking good Paralympic team in 2012." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Paco said: He obviously meant that he’s President and doesn’t have time to watch the Paralympics - obviously that claim can be argued on its own merits but there’s more than plenty to criticise Donald Trump about than just making up utter shite like this. And if you fancy a game of whataboutery, Barack Obama’s of course once said his poor bowling was ‘like the Special Olympics’. I suspect that story will be viral amongst certain elements of Twitter today. Trump has set the ‘standard’ by lying about everything big and small so I have no problems criticising him for everything big and small and if there is any doubt about his meaning of things I will always interpret them in a way that casts him in the worst possible light. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Moon Jae-In looks suspicioulsy like Nigel Farage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 No. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Have Obama or Reptillary commented yet since the scenes at the Korean border the other day? Would've thought they'd be all over the news hailing progress. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 8 minutes ago, banana said: Have Obama or Reptillary commented yet since the scenes at the Korean border the other day? Would've thought they'd be all over the news hailing progress. I think they both know that it's best not to fire off ill informed tweets when a divided country is trying to end a civil war. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 8 hours ago, Paco said: He obviously meant that he’s President and doesn’t have time to watch the Paralympics - obviously that claim can be argued on its own merits but there’s more than plenty to criticise Donald Trump about than just making up utter shite like this. 'Progressives' making up shite to add another to the list of identity groups that Trump secretly hates, shocker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 21 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I think they both know that it's best not to fire off ill informed tweets when a divided country is trying to end a civil war. Self-deception intensifies... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 21 minutes ago, banana said: Self-deception intensifies... Ince(l)ption. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieThomas Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Where is this "Trump solved Korea" narrative coming from? If fat halfwits firing out illiterate tweets are worthy of Nobel Prizes, then allow me to claim full fucking credit next time Hearts actually win a game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 1 hour ago, banana said: 'Progressives' making up shite to add another to the list of identity groups that Trump secretly hates, shocker Regressives being snowflakes shocker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 5 minutes ago, dorlomin said: Regressives being snowflakes shocker. 'Progressives' works better than Regressives imo, but snowflakery indeed to get hysterical at every single thing he says. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 50 minutes ago, JamieThomas said: Where is this "Trump solved Korea" narrative coming from? If fat halfwits firing out illiterate tweets are worthy of Nobel Prizes, then allow me to claim full fucking credit next time Hearts actually win a game. Wait until Kim tells Trump this is only happening if US troops get tae off the peninsula, he'll be back to fire & fury mode. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 8 minutes ago, Zetterlund said: Wait until Kim tells Trump this is only happening if US troops get tae off the peninsula, he'll be back to fire & fury mode. Not sure about that, he's very keen on bringing the boys back home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: Not sure about that, he's very keen on bringing the boys back home. So he says, while doing the opposite. The Americans have always been pretty adamant they wont be making any concessions. Even if North Korea slips down the list of priorities, they will want to keep their large presence in the region for the inevitable poking China with a stick over the South China Sea etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, Zetterlund said: So he says, while doing the opposite. The Americans have always been pretty adamant they wont be making any concessions. Even if North Korea slips down the list of priorities, they will want to keep their large presence in the region for the inevitable poking China with a stick over the South China Sea etc. Conventional US global politics has gone out the window. If Xi Jinping pretends that Trump wins a Korean deal then the South China Sea will be owned by China. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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