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A Wonderful Farewell Speech
I have nothing to add, but I can’t stop smiling.
Published in Politics
Ursula von der Leyen is not one smidgen smarter than Juncker was.
Vive la [fill in the blank]!
I am more than pleased.
Yes, quite pleasant.
A twit and a scold. I half-expected her to begin to tell them that if they don’t eat their meat they can’t have any pudding.
Anarchism is too atomized, globalism is too collectivized. Nationalism, the natural formation of countries through a variety of kinship and ethnic ties, is the healthy middle path.
UK is 100% right we can cooperate laterally without being coordinated from a top down unelected ruling class. I couldn’t be more an anglephile today if I tried what a great day. I hope to see the United States and United Kingdom grow closer together and expand the angle-sphere into a more cohesive force for good in the world.
ha ha ha ha hah ahahahahhah
Wow. That says it all.
It’s hard to believe that our cultural/political/philosophical big brothers–the vigorous, confident, world bestriding, world beating British People, ever agreed to simper and bow before such a small, pinched coven of picayune clerks and scolding schoolmarms.
Nobody so much as asked them.
The Common Market worked, and worked well. And bigger is always better, to governments anyway. So they were led despite loud and frequent objections into the whole miserable enterprise. Lip service was paid to democratic norms, but our betters are never going to let our opinions get in their way. When the EU constitution was proposed, the French rejected it. The Dutch rejected it too. So they stopped asking.
Nothing annoys me so much as the observation that “they still have elections!” Yeah, and so did the Soviet Union. It was a little like the choice Ma Bell used to allow for in telephones: you can have any color you like, as long as you like black.
Hate. He said they loved Europe but hated the European Union. Spot on.
An incurable scold and harpie. If Hillary were a teetotaler she’d be Ursula.
Wow, that;s a quandary. Would stone-cold sober Hillary be better, or worse?
Yes.
Ursula perfects it.
Hey Brussels:
NYAH NYAH!
Over the top, but very accurate.
Didn’t some other countries reject it by referendum too? Bypassing the voters to get what their elites wanted?
Kinda reminds me of gay “marriage” and our courts . . .
Ireland did once, but got bullied into a do-over. I don’t know that any others actually had a referendum, but it was not doing especially well in opinion polls.
The French. The Belgians. It was pretty consistently hated, which is why the élite Pols went around.
Yes, that was most viciously mis-stated by the lady at the table (whoever she is).
And it was a great speech. Thanks Doug for posting it, I don’t often take time to watch videos that are posted but this one was well worth my time.
I’m just glad that teacher lady was there to remind the adults that the word “hate” is bad. If she hadn’t been there… I don’t want to imagine.
I don’t know if this is true or if it’s fake, but there is a quote of that sort of “villain” he referenced saying that they have to eliminate the exit option. He’s been in videos before. It’s the guy with the glasses that Farage insulted.
The best thing I’ve heard all year was James Carafano on the Seb Gorka show. The discussion around nationalism is more about how people organize their sovereignty or not. Who are you let in and how well they assimilate and fit into the economy. The utility of international political superstructures. People get carried away with this stuff, when they should just be looking at the cold hard facts.
If you want to learn something about how screwed up immigration is, listen to Breitbart News on satellite and Daniel Horowitz from conservative review. We need more bodies, but the incentives are all wrong everywhere.
The UN, the EU, the ECB etc. all of that stuff is horrible. NATO should have been dialed back along time ago. Literally Montenegro is in NATO. Swell. People want Ukraine in NATO. This is madness.
All of these corrupt countries. The buffer states around Russia. The only way we can help them is to keep our GDP up and control our immigration. There isn’t a damn thing we can do for them except maybe legalize hard drugs.
One other thing. Those guys will say the EU has to create a hegemon to deal with China and the United States. The problem is if you run it like crap, which they do. Reportedly the shaft Africa on trade.
The bottom line is the ruling class sucks.
Here Here! God bless The UK!
Absolutely wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!!! ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!
It’s a jobs program for the mediocre minds of the ruling class.
That was not Ursula van der Leyen, the recently installed, obscure, and unelected President of the EU Commission. It was Máiread McGuinness, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and member of the soon-to-be-deposed Fine Gael governing Party in Ireland. A more smug and patronising politician you could hardly find;someone who has spoken with unconcealed contempt for Brexiteers.
Farage is a hero. He is the ultimate bete noir for Europhiles everywhere. He was entitled to his little dig. McGuinness could have dealt with him with a mildly humorous put-down; instead her manifest bitterness gave Nigel & Co a final laugh at her and her Imperialist buddies’ expense. I had a good laugh myself.
Thank you, Charles. Didn’t know who she was and just assumed it was the President.
Leo Varadkar, leader of McGuinness’s Party and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) today referred to social conservatives as “backwoodsmen”! He may as well have said “deplorables”. I was toying with the idea of holding my nose and voting for his Party in our General Election next Saturday. No chance now.