Bozo's 2nd term goals . . .

When asked the question "What are your top priority items for a second term?" this was Bozo's reply:

"Well, one of the things that will be really great, you know the word experience is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I’ve always said that. But the word experience is a very important word. It’s an — a very important meaning.

I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times. All of a sudden, I’m president of the United States. You know the story. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our First Lady and I say, ‘This is great. But I didn’t know very many people in Washington. It wasn’t my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now I know everybody, and I have great people in the administration.”

You make some mistakes. Like, you know, an idiot like Bolton. All he wanted to do was drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to kill people."

What?

That garbled and nonsensical word salad is Bozo's list of his second term priorities?

Same old...let's see what happens.

Oh boy....election advice from Ireland.

Your point being?

I think the point Moffie is making is that he is so ignorant, unworldly and naive that he thinks that even in this age of the internet and global information, you can only have an opinion about another country if you live in that country.

It sure looks like he's saying that. It would also explain his laughable ignorance about South African rugby.

Na I'll give him some credit and say it was an attempt at trolling and not a very good one at that.

Insular......hahaha! Peeper who left South Africa once to guzzle Carboardeax in some Italian dump and visited ‘mud island’ once. But was too fearful to emigrate like many of his generation. 

Versus Moz who has travelled the world constantly...  with homes in South Africa, the UK , Greece, the US.  Who has run the International Business of one of the world’s great consumer products companies, dealt with governments and consumers across the world.

 You can’t be serious!

In my experience, people who talk about themselves in the 3rd person are generally braggarts and losers.

No big surprise then that an insular, small-minded loser and serial liar like Moffie is doing it here.

LMAO!

In general and from my experience people from the US do tend to be rather insular with a very limited understanding of whats happening outside of the US. US news sources don't seem to provide that much international news. Americans also tend to be less well traveled than Europeans.

M offie thinks being a door-to-door vegemite salesman makes him well travelled.

LMAO! 

Okay Peeper and Anger, tell us how much time have you two spent  in the USA?

A couple of weeks total, Chicago x2, Boston, Miami x2, LA, San Diego and Las Vegas. Also been to Puerto Rico.

As for collaborating evidence, my father was also a private tour guide for several years and most of his clients were American. While generally he found them most of them friendly and polite with a good sense of humor , he did say they where often quite insular and conservative compared to Europeans, for example they would often have a very romanticized view of the troubles over here. Many held pro IRA/nationalist views with a negative view of Protestants/Unionists in the north (unaware that he was an actually protestant), but also they would be Pro-Israel in their outlook and couldn't understand when the nationalists in Northern Ireland where Pro-Palestinian. He also found them more demanding (along with Canadians) than other nationality. The number question he was asked by American's was "do you have many Muslims in your country", no other nationality ever asked that.

Also my local pub is the oldest in the world and has become something of a tourist hotspot on the way to Galway, its always thronged with American tourists (although not at the moment of for the foreseeable future). You also tend to hear Americans before you can see them as they are often quite loud. They also stand out as they are usually terribly dressed.

My statement about Americans being less well traveled is factually. They rank pretty low when it comes to travelling abroad. Passport ownership is relatively low compared to other developed countries.

1. China: $257.7 billion
2. United States: $135 billion
3. Germany: $89.1 billion
4. United Kingdom: $71.4 billion
5. France: $41.4 billion
6. Australia: $34.2 billion
7. Canada: $31.8 billion
8. Russian Federation: $31.1 billion
9. Republic of Korea: $30.6 billion
10. Italy: $27.7 billion

Oh dear . . . there goes the thread. Moffie too stupid to perform a simple copy and paste and too helpless (or selfish) to fix his mess.

Schplottttttttttt!

Wehe . . . the crimson-faced old fop trying to pretend his copy and paste didn't screw up the thread . . .

Funny, but also a little bit sad . . .

Oh it did but easily corrected.....you seemed to think it was difficult.

No, just because I thought something was beyond your capability doesn't mean it was difficult. 

I don't think you're capable of wiping your own arse but that doesn't mean I think that's a particularly difficult task . . . for a normal person.

Well, not for the first time, you were wrong....huh?

Thank you for proving my point Moz.

USA has 67-68 times the population of Ireland.

Looking at it as a percentage of population, the number of visters from Ireland to the UK would be over 50% of the Irish population, as opposed American vistors who would represent over 1% of the American population. Not totally fair as the UK is Irelands closest neighbour so would naturally attract more visitors but you get my point.

Likewise on tourism expenditure, you need to factor by per population. Germany is around 4.5 times smaller than the USA is.

Internal travel around the US is irrelevant, as that has no bearing on insular Americans are.

I would wager the average European has a greater understanding of world affairs than the average American due to their greater travel experience and how European news covers international news more than the American news does.

Actually I disagree with your point.....inter European travel involves less distance than travel within the USA. You can’t have it both ways, if you want the flabby, failing Europe’s Union ....travel inside that Union shouldn ’t  count. 

You may be right about the general public in Europe vs America, America is a world unto itself .....but in companies and the state department there is  a deep knowledge of foreign countries. If you want to know about the soybean crop in Brazil this year.....somebody in the State Department knows.

There is a massive intellectual reservoir in the US far exceeding anything else in the world.....listening to the BBC is no measure of International competence.

“ listening to the BBC is no measure of International competence.”

Especially the BBC. They have become serious joke. 

We are talking about is how insular Americans are compared to most other developed countries.

Its irrelevant if the distances involved when traveling in Europe are a lot less than traveling across the US as traveling between European states is still international travel, traveling across the US is internal domestic travel.

Individually European countries would be far more distinct from each other at a cultural level than individual US states would be.

The EU isn't a country. As for failing.

I'm sure many American companies that deal with foreign countries are very knowledgeable about foreign countries at least the people in the business who are dealing with foreign countries/companies, that doesn't mean everyone in a particular company is.

What I'm talking about is the average America, who is more insular and less aware of happenings around the world than the average person from other developed countries.

"There is a massive intellectual reservoir in the US far exceeding anything else in the world.....listening to the BBC is no measure of International competence."

Your again proving my point. A belief in American exceptionalism. No other nationality tends to proclaim its greatness like the US does, most other countries would find it distasteful to brag about themselves.

I've no doubt their many many clever and intelligent people in the US. It is the worlds richest (in terms of overall wealth) and most powerful country. America does have other advantages like a lot of natural resources, but it wouldn't have got to the top and stayed there for many decades without smart people. But if you look up average intelligence ratings, while America is by no means doing badly there is still a lot of countries that are rated higher than it.

As for the BBC, wasn't it rated back in 2018 America's most trusted news brand?

“ listening to the BBC is no measure of International competence.”

Especially the BBC. They have become serious joke.