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In reply to the discussion: OMG! This what we used to call a wicked burn in my day. [View all]senseandsensibility
(22,984 posts)56. So impressed with the ability
of the European leaders to speak English as well as their native language and probably a few other languages as well. When I taught second grade students, the majority of whom spoke another language at home, I heaped on the praise that they were bilingual. And it wasn't just an empty compliment. I really admired them. When they and their parents knew where I was coming from, they appreciated it and it made our partnership mutually rewarding and beneficial. Sorry, but I still get emotional thinking about the hardships some of my students and their parents had to endure.
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I'll wager and say the German press will report it. The US current president is breathtakingly stupid
Deuxcents
Jun 5
#4
Some remarks our supine media seem to have left out, like Trump asking Merz whether he spoke English.
Ocelot II
Jun 5
#31
This seems to be an ability of many 'trans-national' families, who have relatives literally all over Europe, South
SWBTATTReg
Jun 6
#78
What it means, imo: what Merz said would be appreciated by Americans, though it flew right over the felon's head.
ancianita
Jun 5
#18
Not all. Which is one reason you found it. We should support journalists, as Rachel says. Just not the corporate press.
ancianita
Jun 5
#30
" I just wish...(the press)...would challenge him like the adversaries they are supposed to be"
Wednesdays
Jun 9
#81
That was a love tap from a pair of steel gloves. What an unAmerican President.
marble falls
Jun 5
#34
Chancellor Merz is correct: the survivors of WWII considered themselves liberated by the Allies
FakeNoose
Jun 5
#40
These NATO leaders, including the new Canadian leader, run circles around him
senseandsensibility
Jun 5
#47