Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Finland President Stubb Says Listen to What Trump Has to Say" video.

  1.  @jtfike  He doesn't run any country. Finland is a parliamentary republic, which means the president enjoys residual powers only. The prime minister and his cabinet run the country.
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  2. Even if Stubb were a head case, he couldn't implement his crazy ideas. In Finland, the president has only residual powers.
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  3.  @MossMini  We make your 4G and 5G networks, for starters.
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  4. My great-grandmother hails from Gävle, Sweden, and I have Swedish roots from other ancestors as well, judging from a DNA test that I did: 50% Scandinavian and 50% Finnish. It's only because of my great-grandfather, who got terribly upset with Sweden for not properly helping Finland out during its existential wars with the Soviet Union, that we stopped speaking Swedish in the family. However, an aunt of mine switched back and my cousins are now native Swedish-speakers. I'd never dare to suggest they're not Finnish. They mix it up, though. It appears cursing is more effective in Finnish.
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  5.  @slartibar  The weather is not terrible. I moved back from the Netherlands and found Finland a tremendous improvement weather-wise. But I'm not a fan of eternal rain and wind.
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  6.  @steamengine4719  You must be trolling. Paavo Väyrynen is a complete and utter joke, who's so full of himself that he failed to understand that the bulk of his supporters are deceased or demented by now. That's why he failed to garner enough support for his candidacy. He's a walking tragicomedy.
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  7.  @manueldeabreu1980  Finland never partook in the Marshal Plan. Postwar, Finland did take out US loans, however, and somewhat naively from a European perspective, it thought said loans should be repaid.
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  8.  @hypolyxa7207  Time to kick out the royals and get elected presidents to replace them. Iceland, too, has seen the light.
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  9. He's no Trump fan. Stubb is the keep-calm-and-carry-on type, like Finns in general. Our blood runs cooler than with most humans, and we successfully compete with the Brits in upper lip stiffness.
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  10.  @difficultyhard6901  Classic liberalism is the term you're looking for, because Americans associate liberalism with social liberalism. European liberalism is centre right. Europe's liberals want to keep the social democrats at an arm's length at all times.
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