The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Casey Pelous]

Trump demands Carney give him his standing ovation from Davos

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - Following his poorly-received and rambling address at the World Economic Forum, U.S. President Donald Trump angrily demanded that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney personally give him the standing ovation he earned for his speech yesterday.

www.thebeaverton.com

Good lord preserve me, until I saw thebeaverton.com I just figured it was real. Didn't so much as bat an eye.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Good lord preserve me, until I saw thebeaverton.com I just figured it was real. Didn't so much as bat an eye.

Same. It's sad when you can't tell satire from reality. I saw something in Threads earlier today that claimed 1) other countries also have files on Epstein, 2) Several world leaders went to this Davos thing specifically to threaten Trump with releasing said files if he doesn't stop acting batshit crazy.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

"If it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German right now". He said those actual words.

In Switzerland.

Where German is the language.

 

[Cristiano]

Carney's speech is brilliant:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

"If it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German right now". He said those actual words.

In Switzerland.

Where German is the language.

Right, but it's Swiss Standard German not High Standard German. There are major differences, just like between British and American English, even if there is no ocean between both countries.

Also Trump neglects that in Switzerland also French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romance are spoken, too.

 

[detrius]

Carney's speech is brilliant:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

"This aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable"

^^^ I think he inserted this to switch off Trump's brain.

 

[Noodles]

Right, but it's Swiss Standard German not High Standard German. There are major differences, just like between British and American English, even if there is no ocean between both countries.

Also Trump neglects that in Switzerland also French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romance are spoken, too.

Now I am just trying to think of German phrases with a british accent, but I don't know any German.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Here's an explanatory video with English subtitles showcasing the differences between High Standard German and Swiss German or Schwyzerdütsch. This Swiss accent is also very noticeable when Swiss are speaking English. Swiss German makes sometimes Germans feel like Irish/Scottish people feel to Londoners.


Also some old Swiss music, just for the sound of it.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Right, but it's Swiss Standard German not High Standard German.

Trump is completely unaware of that difference and it's irrelevant in the face of his ignorance, which is vast.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Cristiano]

Now I am just trying to think of German phrases with a british accent, but I don't know any German.

I had a French teacher in high school who was from Germany. She spoke French with a heavy German accent. Her name was Madame Stockpoole or something like that. We secretly called her Eva Braun. French spoken with a German accent has a vague sinister quality to it.

She was scary - she made us read all of Les Miserables in the original French. To this day, I still know the French national anthem (La Marseillaise) by heart because she drilled it into us with an iron fist.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I had a French teacher in high school who was from Germany. She spoke French with a heavy German accent. Her name was Madame Stockpoole or something like that. We secretly called her Eva Braun. French spoken with a German accent has a vague sinister quality to it.

She was scary - she made us read all of Les Miserables in the original French. To this day, I still know the French national anthem (La Marseillaise) by heart because she drilled it into us with an iron fist.

My Latin teacher had a rich Virginia accent. Not one of those upper-crust Virginia "dang near British" accents, either -- hers was a real hillbilly honk. To this day, I mentally hear all Latin phrases with a serious twang.

 

[Isabeau]

I had a German teacher in college. Couldn’t stand her and got a reimbursement for the class after one week. She was from Germany, but had a thick high-asshole accent.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

 

[Free]

Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

But the Titanic sank in a night. Maybe if they tried to sink Rome?

 

[detrius]

I had a German teacher in college. Couldn’t stand her and got a reimbursement for the class after one week. She was from Germany, but had a thick high-asshole accent.

I ONLY had German teachers throughout school. They spoke German in French and English classes. Some were assholes.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Mrs Quandry took Italian at Portland State. One of her classmates was learning so she could give a reading at a wedding in Italy. The instructor taught the class with a Sicilian accent. The wedding was in Milan. The student came back EXTREMELY upset.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Now I am just trying to think of German phrases with a british accent, but I don't know any German.

I call people dumme scheiße sometimes, though I'd imagine with a highly American accent.