I still don’t see how they have been defending us from Russia and China. They’ve made no unfriendly overtures, no shots have been fired, they don’t even bad mouth us as much as Trump.
I guess it’s pretty easy to defend us when we don’t require any defense.
Sadly, we’re the more dangerous threat.
Yay! Most people only know Chumbawamba for their one hit, but they were pretty fucking radical! There was a documentary about them not too long ago:
And @OWYAC!
Not only will this be shitty for public health, it’s bad for the ATL economy, too. I don’t know how many of the layoffs are from the headquarters here in town, but I’m guessing lots of them are.
I was wondering the same thing…
That’s the thing, it’s all made up; it’s all another lie that he’s telling, that we’ve been under threat from anybody.
Ah, I see now. 
That’s not what you think it is, just what he’s trying to sell.
Yes, bullshit, his stock in trade. It’s fucking exhausting.
Or, maybe they just really want to nail a Democrat.
Adams? Pfft. Democrat my ass. He’s a cop.
There was this relevant story from a year ago.
Most recently, the song was played ahead of a speech where Mr Peters talked about plans to remove gender and sexuality lessons from the school curriculum and said that NZ First and their supporters have a “real chance to take back our country”. At a rally last year ahead of the election, he also referenced the song and its famous lyrics: “I get knocked down. But I get up again. You’re never gonna keep me down.”
In a statement sent to BBC News, the band’s former lead guitarist Boff Whalley said: "Chumbawamba wrote the song Tubthumping as a song of hope and positivity, so it seems entirely odd that the ‘I get knocked down…’ refrain is being used by New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters as he barks his divisive, small-minded, bigoted policies during his recent speeches. Chumbawamba would like to make it clear that we did not give permission for Peters to use the song and would ask him to stop using it to try to shore up his misguided political views. Chumbawamba does not share any of Peters’ ideas on race relations and would like to remind him that the song was written for and about ordinary people and their resilience.
Yeah I read their Wikipedia page after coming across that song today. I had no idea. I just knew Tubthumping. Very cool band.
“Bon tonnerre!”
I learned that from the Hardy Boys.
Honestly, I think Goebbels had more integrity and was a more convincing public speaker.
Good thunder? That doesn’t seem very spicy.
Tabernac doesn’t sound spicy when translated either (tabernacle) but it’s one of the biggies, in Quebec anyway.
I don’t understand him. I used to hear him all the time on the radio being interviewed about policing and race relations. He came across as grounded and well informed. Then, as soon as he became Mayor, he went totally bonkers.
It was the Hardy Boys.
He lied and pretended to be someone he wasn’t in order to get elected, a la Kyrsten Sinema and John Fetterman.
Ha! That’s fair.
People sure do get funny about religion. Tabernac seems like a fun thing to say when really upset, though. Sharp consonant bookends.
I’m coming around on bon tonnerre now, too. I like saying it out loud, and mildly spiced swears are great for all sorts of occasions. My desire for spicier swears is probably just indicative of my attitude towards a lot of my fellow USAians lately. I want to truly offend them.
Wall Street Journal
https://archive.is/o/FghYm/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security
Yeah, it’s quite satisfying.
This is handy if you’re ever wandering around up here, particularly in winter.
https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/7-quebec-swear-words-to-get-you-through-the-winter
On the sixth hand, the Pentagon is full of military people with guns and no qualms about shooting someone accessing top secret systems without proper clearance.
