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selenakAs the Orange Menace in the US runs out of ways to lose the election (how many times was that by now, counting all the law suits, 50?) but damage his country that much further, his cousin-in-malice-and-bad-hair keeps piling up ways to make satirists weep because they'd never get away with this stuff if they'd invented it. Gunships against French fishermen? Trying divide and conquer with Merkel and Macron and feeling insulted the two respond exactly as they did every time in the last four years a Brit tried this, by pointing out the EU negotiates as a block and not via individual members? And then there's the tale of Johnson during his dinner with Ursula von der Leyen "joking" that hey, English and German people knew how difficult the French could be, heh, heh, heh. She wasn't amused. See, in fiction, villains as successful as Johnson are supposed to have come competency and at least some ability to read the room they're in.
Not unrelatedly, and with my mind still on the late John le Carré, have two scenes from the film version of The Spy Who Came in From The Cold: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, and Claire Bloom (in the second one):
And here's Philip Seymour Hoffmann in his last role in A Most Wanted Man. You can immediately see he's Richard Burton's grandson, so to speak:
Not unrelatedly, and with my mind still on the late John le Carré, have two scenes from the film version of The Spy Who Came in From The Cold: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, and Claire Bloom (in the second one):
And here's Philip Seymour Hoffmann in his last role in A Most Wanted Man. You can immediately see he's Richard Burton's grandson, so to speak:
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Date: 2020-12-15 02:09 pm (UTC)Love you icon.
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Date: 2020-12-21 08:16 am (UTC)I fear the combined hit of not being in the EU plus the effects of Covid is going to be devastating for our economy.
I Just hope whatever government we get next will have the sense to re-join the EU - always assuming the EU will want us after the way our government has messed them around.