Jim Cloos

An obsession: communicating about the EU as it is. A passion: reading. A joy: meeting people. Going to concerts. Restaurants and cafes. Playing chess.

[Jim Cloos @CloosJim]

@its_mizuko_ 288

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@OlenaRohoza Could someone send this post to the American Ambassador Puzder here in Brussels? Maybe he could explain what goes on in his country rather than lecture Europeans on how to live?

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“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

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@USAmbEU Ever the same condescending tone when you address EU matters. It is tiresome.

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@TomJensen1966 He himself does not need to be careful because we still do not know what his field of competence is

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@SkySportsNews How about adopting the rugby ethics in football? It would do a lot of good to the sport. The coach should tell his player to avoid silly games when he has already a yellow card. Besides: Bayern was clearly the better side. It would have shown earlier if Neuer had been Neuer.

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@Zlatti_71 What great strategists! Very funny.

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@VolodyaTretyak Helping Magyar win a two thirds majority

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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA That depends on where Vance will travel next

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@HonTonyAbbott Can you provide figures about the strengthened economy please?

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@FM_Szijjarto Says the one who sends EU confidential texts to the Russian government

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@N_Hervieu You are the foreigner here!!!

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@UlfBjereld Rutte discredits himself and NATO. Thinking that his behaviour will save NATO is delusion. He hastens its demise.

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@carlbildt Rutte does no longer represent Europe. With his behaviour he is actually going to kill NATO

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@mattyglesias No outside forces pressuring the Hungarians. You act as though Hungary was already part oft of the US. They may be ine day unless Putin takes it before you. But for now it is still an EU country, and you are a foreign force meddling with the HU election. Look after your democracy

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@ak_mack Hungary is part of the EU ! And has received over years around three percent annually of its GDP from Brussels. We promise that if Hungary becomes the 51 state of the US we will never interfere in their elections! And will gladly let you pay for Orban’s football stadiums.

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@DrewPavlou Varoufakis, a Former Finance Minister yes, but for just a few months at a difficult time for Greece when his arrogance and incompetence caused damage to his country. That is why Tsipras removed him and negotiated a deal himself.

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@USAmbEU With all respect, your government is busy disintegrating the partnership. Never before have we seen such blatant and scandalous intervention in a democratic election of an EU member state. Even the Russians are more discrete than you. Not to speak of the daily attacks on the EU.

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@rintaniemi310 @sikorskiradek @The_Davos_Man Fake peace nourishes the man

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@sikorskiradek Looking at what goes on in the battlefield these days the mouse Quisling does not really seem to be of much worth to the “lion”.