Meanwhile, Trump Scores a Win with the European Union on Tariffs

[zaangalewa]

I used to sling that yang pretty good when I lived in Frankfurt and Munich. But you lost me at Umpflugen and I don't feel like looking it up, nor figuring out how to add an umlaut.

Sorry.

Frankfurt is not Germany and Munich is not Bavaria. And your lifetime is nothing compared with the last 50,000 years of human cultures in this area of the world. And what has an absurd idiot like you really to do with anything else than the own slaveholder mentality which he will self-fulfill? Did you ever wash anyone's feet e.g. the feet of a leper? The world is worse enough. It not needs criminal nations like yours and stupid people like you to make the world to a much more bad place. The USA would be a pure hell if they had the same population density like Germany and 8 billion people would live there.



English translation:

 

[zaangalewa]

... But you lost me at Umpflugen ...

"umpflügen" = plugh up

That's what a farmer is doing before sowing.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Frankfurt is not Germany and Munich is not Bavaria. And your lifetime is nothing compared with the last 50,000 years of human cultures in this area of the world. And what has an absurd idiot like you really to do with anything else than the own slaveholder mentality which he will self-fulfill? Did you ever wash anyone's feet e.g. the feet of a leper? The world is worse enough. It not needs criminal nations like yours and stupid people like you to make the world to a much more bad place. The USA would be a pure hell if they had the same population density like Germany and 8 billion people would live there.



English translation:

Really? I don't remember Germany being that crowded. More crowded than Texas, but not as much as New York.

"umpflügen" = plugh up

That's what a farmer is doing before sowing.

Okay, thanks. It's "plow" but I get your point.

I'm wondering if maybe it should be translated as "plow under," which is a common expression for wiping something out to start anew.

 

[zaangalewa]

Really? I don't remember Germany being that crowded. More crowded than Texas, but not as much as New York.

And what says this superflous sentence? New York is by the way a German = dutch foundation: "Nieuv Amsterdam." I guess it was in the 16th century when the 7 provinces of the Netherlands left the Holy Empire. Today it are 12 provinces.



After world war 2 the opera in Munich was totally destroyed so they made open-air performances there. I heard the US-Americans had been upset about such a lazyness to hear operas in the middle of a destroyed city. Idiots.

 

[zaangalewa]

By the way:

The old tariffs had been ~1.5% for goods from the EU to the USA and ~1.4% for goods from the USA to the EU. And the so called "trade balance deficit" for goods and services was about $48 billion (3% of the complete officially business). So the EU made about 48 billions more money.

Europe and EU are by the way not the same thing. In total is Europe a more important economic area as is the USA. And what Trump did do now was to destroy trust. What he not seems to know: Trust is in the centre of every stable economy. Or in your words: "trust is money". I am sure that you will receive a hefty bill for your criminal audacity – which, for some inexplicable reason, you are also proud of. If not here in this world, then in the next at the latest.

 

[zaangalewa]

... Okay, thanks. It's "plow" ...

By the way: Idiot! ...

I guess slowly you should really try to start to think about why nearly everything sounds stupid in the ears of foreigners what US-Americans say. You all together sound as if you all play the game "Who's the greatest idiot will become president!" But no democracy will survive without owl, without wisdom. And do me the favor now not to speak about the political party with the name "the Democrats" of the USA. This is a totally other theme. Under our flat words we are all also ancient Greeks. The four million ancient Greeks had and have more influence in our world than all hundreds of millions US-Americans together.

 

[Seymour Flops]

By the way: Idiot! ...

I guess slowly you should really try to start to think about why nearly everything sounds stupid in the ears of foreigners what US-Americans say. You all together sound as if you all play the game "Who's the greatest idiot will become president!" But no democracy will survive without owl, without wisdom. And do me the favor now not to speak about the political party with the name "the Democrats" of the USA. This is a totally other theme. Under our flat words we are all also ancient Greeks. The four million ancient Greeks had and have more influence in our world than all hundreds of millions US-Americans together.

You remind me of a poem I learnt in German language classes:

Wir sind die Idioten Klub . . .

Another was:

Weinachtsman du gutter gast,
was hast du mitgebrached?

Hast du was, den sitz man nieder,
hast du nichts, den geh man wieder.

My favorite:

Und der Sklave sprach Ich heisse
Mohomet, ich komm aus Yemen,
Und mein stamm sind jene Asra,
welche sterben wenn sie lieben.

Apologies for mispellings, I wrote it from memory.

 

[zaangalewa]

You remind me of a poem I learnt in German language classes:

Wir sind die Idioten Klub . . .

Bad German ... but let me search ... Got it. A mocking song about the Hitler Youth - also sung by members of the Hitler Youth - what was very dangerous. If you remember what you are not able to remember: Everyone had been forced to be a member of the Hitler Youth - except he was not allowed to be a member of the Hitler Youth or the BDM - what was much more dangerous. Somehow this song even applies to the whole of the USA today - after all, in the vast majority of cases you are forced to be a citizen and have no choice. But self-criticism is not such a great strength of nationalist Americans.

Here the text:

-----
Wir sind vom Idiotenclub
und laden herzlich ein
bei uns ist jeder gern gesehn
nur blöde muss er sein
bei uns herrscht die Parole
sei blöde bis zum Tod
und wer den größten Vogel hat
ist Oberidiot
-----
We are from the idiot club
and cordially invite you to
everyone is welcome
only he has to be stupid
with us the slogan
be stupid to death
and whoever has the biggest bird
is chief idiot
-----

"and whoever has the biggest bird" = "who is most mad"

 

[zaangalewa]

Another was:

Weinachtsman

"Weihnachtsmann" (Christmas man) is an American invention as far as I know. You used Saint Nicolas for this concept. This is a celebration at 6th of december in Germany.-

du gutter gast,
was hast du mitgebrached?

Hast du was, den sitz man nieder,
hast du nichts, den geh man wieder.

Got it.

The real text is

Ruprecht, Ruprecht, guter Gast
Hast du mir was mitgebracht?
Hast du was, dann setz dich nieder,
Hast du nichts, dann geh nur wieder

Ruprecht, Ruprecht, dear guest [in color of "good spirit" = "guter Geist"]
Have you brought me something?
If you have, then sit down,
If you have nothing, then go away.

The text is from the 19th century. Knecht Ruprecht is the ¿pagan? bodyguard of Nikolaus (Santa Clause). He is a very rough man who also punishes evil children. So if Santa Clause not gave him the order to give you some good things from his large sack - apples and gingerbread for example - then you had to calculate he will punish you with his "rod" (a kind of lightweight broom made from twigs) or - worst case scenario - he didn't take anything out of the bag, he put you in there. But this never had happened - always the children got good things because we always have only brave and friendly children - everyone in the own way. (Santa always makes a poem for every child about the good and not so good deeds in the last year)

My favorite:

Und der Sklave sprach Ich heisse
Mohomet, ich komm aus Yemen,
Und mein stamm sind jene Asra,
welche sterben wenn sie lieben.

Apologies for mispellings, I wrote it from memory.

That's a poem from Heinrich Heine - a very famous German poet. He had to flee because of his political engagement for the freedom of everyone and had to live a long time of his life in France in exile.

The complete poem is:

Täglich ging die Wunderschöne
Sultanstochter auf und nieder
Um die Abendzeit am Springbrunn,
wo die weißen Wasser plätschern.

Täglich stand der junge Sklave
Um die Abendzeit am Springbrunn,
wo die weißen Wasser plätschern;
täglich ward er bleich und bleicher.

Eines Abends trat die Fürstin
Auf ihn zu mit raschen Worten:
"Deinen Namen will ich wissen,
deine Heimat, deine Sippschaft!"

und der Sklave sprach: "Ich heiße
Mohamed, ich bin aus Yemen,
und mein Stamm sind jene Asra,
Welche sterben, wenn sie lieben."

-----

Every day, the beautiful
sultan's daughter walked up and down
around the fountain in the evening,
where the white water splashed.

Every day, the young slave stood
around the fountain in the evening,
where the white water splashed;
every day he grew paler and paler.

One evening, the princess approached him
with quick words:
"I want to know your name,
your homeland, your clan!"

And the slave said: "My name is
Mohamed, I am from Yemen,
and my tribe are those Asra,
who die when they love."

-----

I would say: The slave was Heine on his own. And he died while loving his home country Germany what was as far to reach as the Yemen for Mohamed.

If you do not know: In Germany never existed slaves. All people always had rights. The US-American form of slavery was totally unknown in Germany. Even serfs were not slaves – even if they were not allowed to leave the land they farmed as peasants. But this was in the middle ages - in a time when the USA did not exist at all.

 

[Zincwarrior]

By the way:

The old tariffs had been ~1.5% for goods from the EU to the USA and ~1.4% for goods from the USA to the EU. And the so called "trade balance deficit" for goods and services was about $48 billion (3% of the complete officially business). So the EU made about 48 billions more money.

Europe and EU are by the way not the same thing. In total is Europe a more important economic area as is the USA. And what Trump did do now was to destroy trust. What he not seems to know: Trust is in the centre of every stable economy. Or in your words: "trust is money". I am sure that you will receive a hefty bill for your criminal audacity – which, for some inexplicable reason, you are also proud of. If not here in this world, then in the next at the latest.

Trump graced us with a massive Federal Sales Tax. MAGA,!

 

[zaangalewa]

Trump graced us with a massive Federal Sales Tax. MAGA,!

The poor little USA needs to steal because it is hungry. Hunger is a good excuse for stealing. To be the most powerful and most rich nation in the world is not any reason for blackmail, corruption and thievery. Donald Trump murders the American dream with this slaveholder mentality. By the way: This poor guy Donald Trump has not even an own character. He is only an absurd tattoo - and although he had enough money to be a first class tattoo he is even in this case only poorly engraved. What a loser. The worst is to take a look into a mirror and to see nothing.

I really need to work on feeling more compassion for poor people like Donald Trump – but on the other hand, assholes like him ruin the lives of millions of people, and we mustn't forget that in our compassion.

Trump and Putin are pushing the world to a limit where it does not belong.

 

[Captain Caveman]

My BMW days are over I drive a pick up. Sorry your life hast worked out