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Ah, that felt good

This is a scene from the village fete of a very posh, very beautiful little settlement we visited this weekend. It’s the thing where you throw wet sponges at some poor bastard in the stocks, no doubt in aid of some charity or other. And, yes, he’s wearing a mask of Donald Trump.

People who inject politics where it doesn’t belong. Am I right?

It’s one of our favorite fetes. Rich people throw out the damnedest thing. Last time, we got an enormous (if not absolutely complete) Minton tea service for, like, £5. No great triumphs this year, but we got some good books and some jam from the Bible society and a sausage on a roll.

I debated saying something to Trump Mask Guy for harshing my mellow. I’d regret it forever if I didn’t, youknow? so as we were leaving, I walked up and whispered in his ear, “I voted for that man, and I have never regretted it.”

Couldn’t see his face 🙁

Comments


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: August 13, 2018, 9:46 pm

It’s the monkey see, monkey do TDS that gets me.

Can anyone imagine anything Obama could have done that would have earned such treatment?

I apologise for the disrespect shown to the elected head of state of our closest ally. Some of us still have manners and are disgusted by this sort of behaviour.


Comment from Steve Skubinna
Time: August 13, 2018, 11:44 pm

There was that rodeo clown who was pilloried in the media and fired for wearing an Obama mask.

For some reason there was no reaction when he had previously worn a Bush 43 mask. Or a Bill Clinton mask. Or a Bush 41 mask. Or Jimmy Carter mask. Or a Richard Nixon mask.

It’s almost as though lefties make up their bedrock principles as they go.


Comment from BJM
Time: August 14, 2018, 12:06 am

Well done you.


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: August 14, 2018, 12:37 am

I wonder what he would have done if you had also whispered:

I sure hope you don’t get seriously injured with what will soon be coming at you.

Saying it with a Cockney accent, of course…

And then remembering proper American English if they questioned you…
}:-]


Comment from EZnSF
Time: August 14, 2018, 12:49 am

You’re designated Hero of the Day!


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: August 14, 2018, 12:57 am

I love Trump. He’s delivering on his promises and more. Currently, he is destroyig the Turkish economy. They had it coming. 🙂


Comment from tomfrompv
Time: August 14, 2018, 6:24 am

I don’t understand why anyone in the UK cares about Trump. What impact does he have on the average Brit? For sure, you’d never see PM May, Merkel, Macron, etc portrayed at an American “fete.”

Not sure what a fete is, but assuming it’s like a fair with Brit equivalents of cotton candy, animal exhibits, etc

I did see Jimmy Carter once at the LA County fair in Pomona. IF I had a sponge, I would have tossed it at him.


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: August 14, 2018, 8:25 am

If anyone interfered in our elections, it is the UK with their phony dossier and spies. While the ruskies may have RT’d some memes, it was the brits that created a huge dishonest shit storm. Nevertheless, we persist….


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: August 14, 2018, 9:44 am

This hasn’t gone unnoticed here, Ric Fan. Politically clued-up observers are very aware of the alliances between ‘third way’ globalists: Cameron, Blair, Hilary, Obama, Mad Merkel etc and the games they play.

The degree of collusion between the Cameron government and the Obama administration saw jug ears lecturing Britain (a country he clearly despises) about why we should remain yoked to the Museum of Socialism. If we’re talking about interfering in one another’s elections, that was about as blatant as it gets. Was a little help from ‘former’ spies part of the inducement?

The Dodgy Dossier saga has got a long way to run yet and it’s not impossible that it will fatally damage the careers of several politicians here. I truly hope that it does.


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: August 14, 2018, 11:54 am

It is disheartening how high Corbyn’s approval rating remains. Anyway, congradulations on your umpteenth terrorist attack. Glad no one was killed or seriously hurt. Surprisingly, the media published a photo of the terrorist almost immediately.


Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: August 14, 2018, 12:43 pm

Just look at it this way – yet another example of an American protecting a European from harm….

Heh.

I really don’t count you Brits as Euros though, to be honest.
Here’s the part of the old Kipling poem (as opposed to young Kipling, when he was only partly kippled) that I think and hope may still apply to my distant kin (even if we were on the non-saxon side of it)

Norman and Saxon (by Rudyard Kipling)

“My son,” said the Norman Baron,
“I am dying, and you will be heir
To all the broad acres in England
that William gave me for share

When he conquered the Saxon at Hastings,
and a nice little handful it is.
But before you go over to rule it
I want you to understand this:–

“The Saxon is not like us Normans.
His manners are not so polite.
But he never means anything serious
till he talks about justice and right.

When he stands like an ox in the furrow –
with his sullen set eyes on your own,
And grumbles, ‘This isn’t fair dealing,’
my son, leave the Saxon alone.

“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers,
or torture your Picardy spears;
But don’t try that game on the Saxon;
you’ll have the whole brood round your ears.

From the richest old Thane in the county
to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets,
and, if you are wise, you will yield.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_normansaxon.htm

Time will tell if sanity will return to the nations that best understand approximately representative government (apart from the Swiss of course) . One world government is nothing but an elitist socialist fantasy and faux polite invitation to the lower regions of Hades.


Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: August 14, 2018, 2:49 pm

Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: August 14, 2018, 12:43 pm
Just look at it this way – yet another example of an American protecting a European from harm….

. . .

Norman and Saxon (by Rudyard Kipling)

. . .

“The Saxon is not like us Normans.
His manners are not so polite.
But he never means anything serious
till he talks about justice and right.

“When he stands like an ox in the furrow –
with his sullen set eyes on your own,
And grumbles, ‘This isn’t fair dealing,’
My son, leave the Saxon alone.

“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers,
Or torture your Picardy spears;
But don’t try that game on the Saxon;
You’ll have the whole brood round your ears.

“From the richest old Thane in the county
To the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets,
And, if you are wise, you will yield.”

*
*
Kipling really was the best, wasn’t he? He made poetry look so durned easy, when anybody who’s tried it knows it’s tough. I hadn’t read this one before, but it belongs with “When the Saxon Began to Hate” as a cautionary tale for our times.


Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: August 14, 2018, 3:18 pm

Swease, this is another example of the reason why I am largely giving up on Britain. Watching the Brit papers, it seems that the Conservatives are moving towards a “formal” BREXIT while maintaining EU control over the country in fact. There was an automotive assault on a mass of civilians next to Parliament in Londinobad yesterday, and I would bet that the arrested driver is Muslim, given the reticence of the authorities to mention a name. If he was Celtic or Saxon; you can bet that Scotland Yard would have published his favorite pub and tipple within minutes.

I realize that you took Brit citizenship, but I understand that between the US and Britain you can have dual citizenship. I hope that you have both passports so that you and Uncle Badger will have the option of at least using the US as a waypoint as life moves to interesting times over there.


Comment from Ric Fan
Time: August 14, 2018, 4:37 pm

Once the pop. reaches 5% muslim, they have effectively taken over the country. That is why it is crucial for Brexit and the UK to take back complete control of it’s borders and laws. Europe is lost.


Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: August 14, 2018, 5:39 pm

All is not lost folks – but it could be really really really all together very ugly if suddenly the various populations awaken.

Because when they reach that point they won’t allow it to take as long to emigrate as it did to immigrate.

And while it seems unimaginable to us all I’m sure – I suspect Louis XVI could give out some pointers on how fast the tide can turn when enough is finally recognized to be too much.

And Wolfus, if you haven’t read it, there’s another I particularly like “The Grave of the Hundred Head”.

Subotai will no doubt be familiar with the math for 100 men being equal to 50 files.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 14, 2018, 5:59 pm

Haven’t taken citizenship yet. I should, though. Whenever they’re pressured to crack down on immigrants, they go for Canucks and Ozzies and Americans and all the other ethnic groups the Brits don’t mind having around.

It’s a pain in the ass and it’s expensive, though.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 14, 2018, 6:13 pm

Actual conversation I had today. I was talking about a very, very wealthy place I visited in upstate New York.

Him: Not Trump territory, then.
Me: Erm, Trump’s a billionaire.
Him: Yes, but he’s a yokel.
Me: Erm, he’s a New Yorker.
Him: Well, his supporters are hicks then.

It’s this weird thing they do where they don’t like Trump, so ipso facto Trump has every single character attribute they don’t like.


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: August 14, 2018, 6:19 pm

Well, as we’ve strayed into Kipling country, I can’t resist this, The Stranger, which could not be more appropriate.

The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk–
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.

The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control–
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.

This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf–
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: August 14, 2018, 8:13 pm

I was reciting The Gods of the Copybook Headings in my car this morning. (As you do.)


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: August 14, 2018, 8:38 pm

I hope y’all do realize that, if May were to tell the EU to stuff it and ask President Trump to rapidly negotiate a bilateral with the UK, you would be FAR better off than whatever you end up with under the current “negotiations”. Of course, she might have to fess up to the actions of MI6 in the 2016 elections, along with the rest of the “Five Eyes” swill, but the world and the UK would be far better off.

Note that Rolls and GE are the primary manufacturers of aircraft engines in the West, and Airbus would be up shiite creek without no paddle if BOTH of them were reluctant to deal with the EU…


Comment from BJM
Time: August 14, 2018, 9:14 pm

Gerard is making noises about closing up shop too…but he’s on a roll this week.

I’ll just drop this one without comment.


Comment from BJM
Time: August 14, 2018, 9:18 pm

“Full screen and speakers up. Trust me.” The man says.

Do it.


Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: August 15, 2018, 3:46 pm

“Full screen and speakers up. Trust me.” The man says.

And THAT ladies is gentlemen…is a sample of why we keep comin here…. 🙂

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