Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "DW News" channel.

  1. His "massive mandate" was 49% of the 63% of the electorate who voted. He represents less than 32% even of the registered voters!
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  2. A defeat for Vichy, a victory for the decent.
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  3.  @JNH1960  You don't seem to understand the conceps first, second, and third. The right came in third, behind the left and the centre alliances.
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  4. Kolesnikov is a very judicious and intelligent commentator. I like the way he maintains his views and position without buying the DW host's simplified version. What we're seeing here is a relatively common situation: a reasonably bright interviewer and an interviewee roughly a whole standard deviation brighter. 😂😇
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  5. There's some justice in the Khartoum gangs subjecting each other to the same vicious injustice they have inflicted on the rest of what used to be the whole of Sudan over the past sixty years.
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  6. His one success in life: years and years of playing a President on TV. His business "success"? Wasting his and his sister's inheritances from their competent father and their crooked grandfather. His television success? Drove his producers crazy: he didn't just need a teleprompter: he also used the telephone on that desk and the floor director holding up the instant magic-marker hints beside the camera. An incredible baby on the set. A very competent beggar, supported by a huge TV audience who like his hair-do.
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  7.  @johnpathadan  No. I don't know. Neither do you. The US made a healthy profit out of WWII, picking up the pieces of the British Empire, Saudi oil included, free of charge. What's your idea of a subsidy? The nuclear weapons are a European invention. The troops would be collecting UIC and welfare if they weren't sitting around drinking beer in Europe. All the European militaries are subsidizing American industry -- aircraft,, electronics, guns, whatever. "US subsidises Europe" doesn't add up.
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  8. If he thinks Germany is militarily unprepared, he's a fool. Their Border Police alone -- which are not part of the military -- can handle the Russians easily, thank you very much. Dumb clueless halfwit. Apologies to the good number 0.5.
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  9. @MisinformationMainstreamMe-g1g Quite right. She lost.
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  10. There is no "deal," nor any "changes" here. Some bureaucrat simply explained to her, in words of one syllable presumably, that after leaving the EU and fulfilling its remaining obligations the UK would be free to write its own cheese regulations, etc. Duh.
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  11.  @KaterinaBarilo  Yes, the Soviets invaded Poland after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. They made war on Finland in 1939, and Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1940. Previously they had invaded Latvia in May 1919.
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  12. @IlIllIIl lllIlllIlI Not true. Trump makes the US look weak and stupid, but the fact is Obama and Hillary had Putin on the ropes, oil prices slashed, Ukraine defended, banks sputtering. Only Trump and Wilbur Ross have made Putin's day. Once Trump is gone, America's fundamental strength (and decency) will again become clear.
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  13.  @lepetitroquet9410  No chance of an American monarchy: Trump couldn't put a crown on top of that hair.
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  14.  @dorishofmann3907  Doris, You're being silly. Look at a globe: Russia is due north from the USA.
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  15. @MisinformationMainstreamMe-g1g Duh.
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  16. That is a truly weird way of pronouncing "vehicles." Stop it! Please. Just stop it. Research {bear} and development vehicles are not two different animals. They are one animal that has had research and development.
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  17.  @mattyboy59  Matty, that's a lunatic view of what acounting is all about. Book value and depreciation calculations are only even faintly relevant to assets held for the purpose of "making" "money", i.e. economic acitivites. These might be useful if this plane were used in runing an airline and would have had to be replaced when it wore out. None of this is true of military applications.
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  18. No, Kathy. Grown ups remain grown ups, and we are fairly good, though far from perfect, at spotting ignorance, stupidity, and dishonesty in the media. Your post scores two out of the three.
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  19.  @jonathanhorner8709  Some variety of cheap rocket. And they're not even wire-guided anymore. NATO is tough, thank you very much. Germany doesn't want the Red Army back. Duh. But the Red Army probably has enough sense to not want to go to Germany again, either. It's not like Afghanistan, where the talmidim, talibanim, whateverim, had to wait four months for the camel to arrive with the American rocket they'd sent a letter to Santa for. The Germans already have them on hand. Don't forget the old bocage joke. "I was sitting under this tree and an American tank came along. So I hit it with a rocket. Then another one came along. So I hit it with another rocket. And then, well... The only problem was, I ran out of rockets before they ran out of tanks." I don't think the Germans have forgotten it, either.
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  20.  @jonathanhorner8709  Agreed on the idea of an EU army. An Army without a taxing power behind it gives new meaning to the olde phrase "Not worth a Continental." But they don't need one. As I said, the German border guards know a good deal about guarding borders. (And yo-hoo-Mister-Trump, they're not even counted in that German 2% of GDP that you whine and mewl about so much.)
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  21. @IlIllIIl lllIlllIlI My goodness, you play What-about like a Trumpster! Returning to the main point, Russia, what parallel do you see with Yugoslavia? Which Yugoslavia "scenario"? Your parallel is with Cuba, as your unconscious is trying to tell you with those close-by missiles. Putin is playing JFK in Ukraine, with somewhat more success in that he has captured Crimea by force of arms and is playing the Russian-rooted people of Ukraine as though the Americans had been able to use the gusanos of Cuba as puppets. There is nothing resembling any Russian invasion of Canada here: no other country has troops in Ukraine. The only big outside influence has been Paul Manafort, currently in jail for trying to screw American banks. Long story short: you're just blithering.
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  22. Quite the opposite, Miguel. The various lefts are all voices of hope, rationality, and empiricism. The Right, by contrast, is the voice of ignorance, dumb authoritarianism, and stupidity.
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  23.  @jansix4287  Nope. The only point correct here is that EVs were available rather more than 100 years ago. Everything else in your post, Jan, is incorrect, roughly 170-degrees to exactly incorrect. The important point is that however expensive batteries may be, burning carbon is worse: Burning carbon faster than the environment can reabsorb it is potentially fatal to human life on Earth. Now that is expensive.
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  24. Remember K&R C came with a back door built in.
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  25.  @MrJonezy541  Other Jones, You're the one who doesn't seem to be able to read. ChandranPrema's "As if Russia doesn't have 😂" clearly shows he is aware of gherkaman's post and its meaning.
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  26. "Crisises"?? Nope. The plural of crisis is just crises, pronounced cry-seas. Don't you guys have any editors?
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  27.  @robertw1800  "Thats not how military hardware works. Especially when it's upgraded throughout the decades." Yup. Matty Boy has managed to miss both the accounting and the physical meanings of the plane! A twofer!
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  28. "Difference" is a singular noun. It takes a singular verb -- "makes a difference" or "makes differences." It's still singular when it does plural things. If you give a singular noun a plural verb it very literally means you've lost track of your subject. You don't know what you're talking about.
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  29. Totally insane! Trump and Pompeo have just lost it!
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  30.  @bigal2876  Kids play it in the street: It's called hopscotch. Trump does the oral version.
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  31. President Biden was a sane, decent, and highly intelligent man in the White House. (Elected to the Senate at the age of 29 from a state so small that everybody knows everybody? That's a tough IQ test to pass.) We've seen Trump already. Zero for three.
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  32. Meowwww!
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  33. Now let's see a map for the (necessarily not short) path for Syria, and other Middle-Eastern countries to join the EU.
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  34. Cynicism is the wisdom of the dolt.
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  35. And your specific objection is...?
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  36. NATO is already extremely strong. E.g. both France and Britain are nuclear powers, and Germany is just totally unconquerable, a bastion of resistance. Trump's "5%" nonsense is one more demonstration of how the mediocrity who destroyed his father's fortune has dumb ideas about negotiation.
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  37.  duncansmith7562  Funny, Russia and the Putin regime are the two players on the edge of different collapses. Progress? You're dreaming. Whether Putin is put out to pasture tomorrow or not, the threat of Russia's dissolution as it loses the Moslem "republics" will continue for decades yet.
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  38. Let's see Trump's taxes and claimed assets. No government should help the fools at DB as long as they continue to protect their fellow-gangster Trump.
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  39. Luff-boro University? Lao-borough, shurely? (Loughborough) Canada's Loughborough Township and County are Laoboros, anyway. Germany trying to out-English the English, Sheesh!
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  40. This is an intra-Cabinet little war, Bolton vs. Mnuchin, the nationalist savage vs the free-tradin' greedhead. Canada, HuaWei, and technology are all incidental. It's the politics of Trump's ver-ree divided coalition. And the United States Treasury paper, the way they finance Trump's trillion dollar deficits -- his tax cuts for his rich buddies? So far he's been dependent on China. China doesn't have to dump the trillions it owns. It just has to sell a little bit every time the US comes to market, just enough to lower the prices, jack up the yields. Suddently the Chinese have as much control over US monetary policy as the Federal Reserve does. Way to go Donnie! Who knew it was so complicated?
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  41.  @CyborgZeta  Well, we're working on stopping the fentanyl coming in from the US... Can you persuade Mr. Trump that he should pay for the fence?
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  42.  @buddy1155  🤣👍
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  43. Do the parents get to pay back those houses and other goodies they got out of their kid's big scam?
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