I absolutely agree with you here. Trump was hard at work ruining the relationships between the US and Europe. There has never been a better time for us to strengthen our relationships in today's world, plagued by terrorism, climate change, pollution and Russia and China.
Bring back incandescent lights, tax cuts for the mega rich, more coal industry and power plants, backing out of the Paris agreement, the idiocy that is "Space Force", his stupidly expensive wall idea that still won't stop illegal immigration...
These are things you'd expect a parody of the real president to do in a movie, or in GTA, but not in real life... In the same country that sent man to the moon!
BTW: My girlfriend's father was ecstatic when Boris Johnson won and Brexit was a go. He's one of those Brits that believes Great Britain will once again rise from the ashes and be the greatest empire in the world and the rest of us should either serve England, or die.
He still can't get over the fact that not only did his daughter chose a European as her man, but an Eastern European... a Bulgarian (where everyone is either mafia, or a gypsy)!
Worst scum of the world, right? I think he can go and drown himself in the Thames!
You have my sincere sympathies about having a father-in-law to-be such as him.
Trumpists and Brexiteers have a lot in common. The mindset also has a lot in common with those of who bore different labels and caused a huge amount of death and destruction during the twentieth century.
Among the British left, people like your girlfriend's father are called 'Little Englanders'. That's shorthand for people are xenophobic, extremely nationalistic, completely deluded about the significance of the UK in today's world and cling to a fantasy that the Great Britain of the past was a noble, wholly benign force in the world and therefore respected (or at least feared) everywhere.
Such people tend to be not very bright, not very well educated and generally older. Rather like another demographic in another well-known country, in fact.
As I'm sure you know, the UK has now officially left the EU, but the big change in the rules will only hit on 1 January. Johnson and his clown posse are still farting about and trying to throw their weight around as the negotiations for the next set of rules comes down to the wire, but I have a feeling that they might be finally realising that they actually don't have that much weight to throw. It seems entirely possible that the EU might finally be about to shrug, say there can be no agreement on most things, and walk away from the table.
Maybe things won't be as dire as the worst-case no-deal scenarios that some have suggested. The absolute worst-case rarely happens (Trump didn't go to war against China, the coronavirus didn't have a lethality rate of 20% and so on), but I still suspect there's going to be quite a bit of shit hitting various fans in a few weeks. And, as is usually the case, Murphy's law means some of that flying shit will be coming from directions nobody has really thought about.
What's Biden going to do?
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I absolutely agree with you here. Trump was hard at work ruining the relationships between the US and Europe. There has never been a better time for us to strengthen our relationships in today's world, plagued by terrorism, climate change, pollution and Russia and China.
Bring back incandescent lights, tax cuts for the mega rich, more coal industry and power plants, backing out of the Paris agreement, the idiocy that is "Space Force", his stupidly expensive wall idea that still won't stop illegal immigration...
These are things you'd expect a parody of the real president to do in a movie, or in GTA, but not in real life... In the same country that sent man to the moon!
BTW: My girlfriend's father was ecstatic when Boris Johnson won and Brexit was a go. He's one of those Brits that believes Great Britain will once again rise from the ashes and be the greatest empire in the world and the rest of us should either serve England, or die.
He still can't get over the fact that not only did his daughter chose a European as her man, but an Eastern European... a Bulgarian (where everyone is either mafia, or a gypsy)!
Worst scum of the world, right? I think he can go and drown himself in the Thames!
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You have my sincere sympathies about having a father-in-law to-be such as him.
Trumpists and Brexiteers have a lot in common. The mindset also has a lot in common with those of who bore different labels and caused a huge amount of death and destruction during the twentieth century.
Among the British left, people like your girlfriend's father are called 'Little Englanders'. That's shorthand for people are xenophobic, extremely nationalistic, completely deluded about the significance of the UK in today's world and cling to a fantasy that the Great Britain of the past was a noble, wholly benign force in the world and therefore respected (or at least feared) everywhere.
Such people tend to be not very bright, not very well educated and generally older. Rather like another demographic in another well-known country, in fact.
As I'm sure you know, the UK has now officially left the EU, but the big change in the rules will only hit on 1 January. Johnson and his clown posse are still farting about and trying to throw their weight around as the negotiations for the next set of rules comes down to the wire, but I have a feeling that they might be finally realising that they actually don't have that much weight to throw. It seems entirely possible that the EU might finally be about to shrug, say there can be no agreement on most things, and walk away from the table.
Maybe things won't be as dire as the worst-case no-deal scenarios that some have suggested. The absolute worst-case rarely happens (Trump didn't go to war against China, the coronavirus didn't have a lethality rate of 20% and so on), but I still suspect there's going to be quite a bit of shit hitting various fans in a few weeks. And, as is usually the case, Murphy's law means some of that flying shit will be coming from directions nobody has really thought about.