Re: Why do people believe the Earth is flat?

I know a guy, who is 100% sure that: - the NASA is a bunch of NAZI (hence the name !!!) On that one, at least, he's not entirely wrong. Immediately after WWII "Operation Paperclip" brought numerous former Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians to America to work on the US space progr...

Re: Why do people believe the Earth is flat?

Why do some people believe such idiocy ? I heard that 6 Millions French are stupid enough to believe that. It's 10% of the population. I guess the main reason is that people feel different, better, special, when they believe in a conspiracy, whatever it is. I know a guy, who is 100% sure that: - the...

Re: EU elections

I am totally opposed to EU freedom of movement. My primary aim of voting Brexit. Why should Dutch, German, French and Czech Nationals be given a right to freely move to the UK, whilst our closest Allies (Americans) cannot. The same with Commonwealth nations. Why is it ok for Europeans to freely mov...

Re: EU elections

I read that Boris Johnson might want to organize a new referendum if he was PM.
If only UK could just leave and end this ridiculous situation !

Re: EU elections

I am surprised that Macron's party is so strong and that the Socialists and the Republicans weren't able to profit of his constant failing as President. The French people must really be quite sick of their establishment. Macron winning reelection would be terrible for France, but I guess the altern...

Re: EU elections

The Brexit Party on 29 seats are now the largest single party in the European Parliament. and the most useless. And more important - they will be history before the end of this year. At least it is becoming clear the UK wants a hard Brexit. More fun to come ;-) I wonder if a hard-brexiter will dare...

Re: EU elections

French vote for a Nazi-onalist party, Britons for a clown whose program is "out", Italians for Benito Mussalvini ... All good in Europe.

Re: Brexit part 4: Until the last Tory Standing

Apparently, there is a Brexit deal. No details are known yet. https://www.nu.nl/brexit/5570981/britse-regering-brexit-deal-rond.html And however good or bad the deal is, it will be shouted down by all the europhiles in this thread. ???? Strange. I'm fully Europhile, please tell me why I should shou...

Re: Where are the Trump fans?

Fair enough. I prefer the term republic. Democracy to me means Athens and that isnt what we have. I'll leave it at yhat. Republic means that the head of state can be anybody from the people and not only some member of a royal family. Democracy means that the power is given by the people and not by ...

Re: Brexit EU position Phase 2

You have all evidences here: https://www.google.com/search?q=brexit+nhs&sa=N&biw=1334&bih=604&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwiYuoyu4uHbAhUPLFAKHeMEAqg4ChCwBAg4 People voted for the brexit because of this campaign of lies. It's extremely easy to manipulate a crowd w...

Re: The continual assault on Trump by media and the left

The last thing I heard from genius Trump (but he already said it before): if people had guns during the concert in the Bataclan in Paris, they could have stopped the terrorists. I'm puzzled. Is it allowed in the US to enter a concert with a hand gun, a machine gun, or a grenade ????? Of course not. ...

Re: States, cities, companies and universities to uphold Paris accord in spite of Trump

I see pathetic attempts to defend Turmp's decision, but guys wake up ! Oil will continue to be cheap and available during a few decades at best, and then it will be OVER !!! The countries which will not have taken the renewable energy turn soon enough will be in deep problems. It's not only an ecolo...

Re: Trump expected to withdraw from the Paris agreement

[quote="EA CO AS" I see. So in your estimation, someone not wanting to be part of a deal that requires vastly disparate levels of participation that benefit others at their expense is somehow lying, stupid, or removed from reality? It doesn't sound like you're interested in a deal that all...

Re: Trump expected to withdraw from the Paris agreement

An historical mistake which will be remembered. The US will be left behind on renewable energy business by China and the EU.
Even oil companies have now understood that.

Re: Trump likely to be re-elected in 2020

Let's change the title. "Trump likely not going to the end of his term." Actually it has been predicted from day 1 that the clown won't finish his presidency. I'm personally not so sure because it looks very difficult to impeach a president, but this guy is so special and unpredictable tha...

Re: French presidential election, 1st round April 23 runoff May 7

It looks like we just avoided Voldemort ...

Re: French presidential election, 1st round April 23 runoff May 7

I've just seen the debate. Marine Lepen was really bad, even according to her supporters. She was smiling (and even laughing) all the time (with a scary smile) and didn't answer the questions. She looked very embarassed and was constantly looking for answers in her papers. More of that, she was very...

Re: French presidential election, 1st round April 23 runoff May 7

I'm so scared now. People are becoming insane in several countries, and vote for clowns, idiots and dangerous extremists, and they also vote for division and isolationism (which they regret very soon after). Latest examples are US, UK, Turkey. If the economical situation doesn't improve very soon, w...

Re: Hail the savior! Hail President Trump!

Good days are coming! Let's make America great again! This slogan ("make America great again") is so ridiculous that I'm puzzled so many people have made it their new motto; 1) "America", that is the United States of A., is still the number 1 economy, number 1 military. Of cours...

Re: Do you know about Alsace-Lorraine ?

I've been to Strassbourg and the surrounding areas, it feels more German than French, the people speak German, the buildings, food and culture appear to be more German than French, too me it appears like one of those parts of Europe like South Tyrol which are part of one country when they really lo...

Re: Didn't vote for Trump, but kind of excited by the change

I didn't vote at all, because I just can't as a Frenchman living in France :-) But if I could, I wouldn't have voted for Trump. And I was very scared and I barely could believe it when I heard he won. But since then, I've seen that he's doing like any other professional of politics, he's just landin...

Re: President-Elect Trump. Now What

I suspect that Trump supporters will be very disappointed. He already changed his mind about the Obamacare. He also said very surprisingly that had great respect for Obama, after having said that he was the worst president ever, number 1 before Jimmy Carter. Well, it's common that politicians don't ...

Re: So Whats Next For The Dems?

2707200X wrote:

I think Joe Biden said it right: "Democrats have stopped talking to white, working-class voters". as quoted in the Washington Post.

Re: TRUMP elected: what did Americans vote for ???

That's a serious question. I mean, they didn't vote for the candidate who said the most sensible things, not for the candidate who respected women or minorities ... You open by saying you have a serious question, and then immediately in the next sentence expose your own prejudices. First of all, yo...

Re: President-Elect Trump. Now What

BestWestern wrote:

'Congratulations' to the silent majority of American racists, bigots and birthers. This is a bad day for Non WASP males.

Re: TRUMP elected: what did Americans vote for ???

Americans voted for Trump simply because few people really like Clinton, which makes sense considering what a corrupt member of the elite she is, while many people like Trump and his big promises. Voting against somebody isn't as big of a motivator for people to go vote than voting for somebody. In...

Re: TRUMP elected: what did Americans vote for ???

If the US goes to shit internally, well, too bad, I didn't plan to go there and that won't change. Now I'm really wondering what will happen with commerce. Trump is against trade deals, I'm a typical French in being against them too, so no worries there. But if somehow many more protectionist measu...

Re: TRUMP elected: what did Americans vote for ???

I mean, they didn't vote for the candidate who said the most sensible things, not for the candidate who respected women or minorities ... I believe you couldn't be more wrong. Personally, in all three of those categories he won my vote over Clinton. She has proven herself incapable of doing all thr...

Re: President-Elect Trump. Now What

Now what ?
Awakening in reality.

A guy who cares only about his money, who insults women and foreigners, with zero experience in politics and diplomacy, with approximative knowledge in geopolitics has been elected.
It's unbelievable but it's a fact. And this guy will have the nuclear codes ...

TRUMP elected: what did Americans vote for ???

That's a serious question. I mean, they didn't vote for the candidate who said the most sensible things, not for the candidate who respected women or minorities ... I believe many people wanted to vote for a candidate close to the workers, which is "funny" considering he's a republican bil...

Re: EU referendum today

I think that we should refuse export licences for Airbus wings if the EU wants to get tough over trade. That would bring the whole Airbus project to a grinding halt. It would take years to set up a new wing manufacturing operation from scratch. Brilliant ! It was not enough to put your economy out ...

Re: EU referendum today

No such pledge was made at all. Farage (who, incidentally is not even a member of Parliament as everyone knows, so whatever he says has no weight) said that the £350m saved from paying into the EU coffers *COULD* be used instead to fund the NHS. He never said it WILL be used, but the frothing remai...

Re: EU referendum today

No she does not Well, you clearly have a different interpretation of the words "there's no need to rush" than I do. Her chief aide has just echoed her words. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... -aide-says Most EU leaders now recognize that British Prime Minister David Cameron can’...

Re: EU referendum today

I'm puzzled by Boris Johnson's reaction: "Boris Johnson has said there is “no need for haste” and “nothing will change over the short-term” as he said the country should not immediately trigger Article 50 to start exit negotiations with the EU." WTF ? He made a hatred campaign against the ...

Re: EU referendum today

2 things saddened me today a) A guy in the office shouting that we can now 'send them all back' and then turning to the German girls sitting next to him an saying 'Erm not you off course' b) Someone I know who has moved to Europe and only speaks English and has no intention of learning the local la...

Re: EU referendum today

I changed my mind.
I hope now that Scotland and North Ireland will quit The UK. They deserve to stay in the EU.

Brexit !!

What now ?

It's a very bad move in my opinion, but the people has decided, and very smart is the man who can prove that's a good or a bad move.
The future will (probably) answer ...