Major world leader calls Trump a ‘Russian asset’ during speech
(www.yahoo.com)
from shish_mish@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 18:17
https://lemmy.world/post/35258401
from shish_mish@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 31 Aug 18:17
https://lemmy.world/post/35258401
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Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.
Great headline. It’s the only one that reaches instead of sanewashing.
Would it have killed them to say who, though?
Oh yeah, clicks.
Not a bad strategy, tbh.
It is an extremely obnoxious and shitty strategy
😱
The President of Portugal, one of the parties of the treaty of Tordesillas, ruling country of half the New World with the benediction of the pope, top sardine fisher, main exporter of Cristiano Ronaldos, and foremost port wine producer.
Dammit he is going to jeopardize our supply of Ronaldos
Good. That will drive the price up of all my Ronaldo’s, muhahaha {twists mustache then steeples fingers evilly}
Why are they producing wine at ports, I would think the salt would effect the vines. /s
It just means the wine is left-handed.
Relative to the bow
It’s the water from washing the decks of container ships…
Unlike much clickbait, this one is true.
And also he defined that term very specifically. He said only that Trump is acting in the best interests of Russia. When someone normally uses that language, they mean they are in the employ of a country, like a spy.
So, it’s meant to be inflammatory and spur action on the part of the US and Europe.
I saw another headline misquoted as “agent” instead of “asset”
This president is no joke, remember his epic handshake? youtu.be/sfrbogBg9dA
Before even clicking this I already knew Trump ain’t for the grip. Sure enough he proves 100% bitch made.
Furthermore, PPD/PSD is not the Socialist Party (that’s PS), it is the Popular Democratic Party/Social Democratic Party, but Montenegro’s wing (current PM of Portugal) is neoliberal, unlike Rio’s wing that still lived up to the name social democratic.
Not a single traditional party in Portugal has a name that matches the political ideology the practice:
Like in pretty much all other countries in the West the Overtoon Window has shifted rightwards, though even at the very beginning right after the Revolution in 1974 that overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship, the Socialist Party were never Socialists (it was the Communist Party that wanted a Revolution Of The Proletariat, not the Socialist Party) and similarly the Social Democrat Party was never Social Democrat (for example, they voted against the creation of a National Health Service in Portugal, the exact opposite of the Social Democrat ideals).
Would be funnier if it was Putin.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of Portugal
Portugal the country, or Portugal the Man?
Having been to a Portugal the Man concert, I’m certain them too.
Fun fact: Xi today couldn't be assed to greet Pooty personally at an airport and sent deputy finance minister instead.
Compare that to how Taco Don received Pooty.
What, they didn’t have chinese soldiers on hands and knees rolling out a red carpet?
They are making fun of Americans?
I’m making fun of americans you smoothbrain.
My bad lol I read that as you making fun of chinese soldiers
.ml users try not to be a fucking idiot challenge: IMPOSSIBLE!
Nah just me in this one moment, .ml is where its at. I read some real sinophobic shit earlier by other users and it was a long day when I read your comment thinking it was in bad faith, like I said my apologies.
.ml users try not to play the victim challenge: impossible
I literally said I was in wrong here, I’m not playing victim lol
They’re not from world though?
That guy is saying that Trump received Putin (a supposed enemy) with pomp and circumstance, demeaning himself as if Putin were his boss (maybe he really is), while Xi, despite being an ally of Putin, received him like any other leader without demeaning himself or his country. There is nothing sinophobic that the other user said, quite the opposite.
So Putin is a Chinese asset?
Look, it's not the 1600s. Idk if I'd call Portugal a major world power. I'd never heard the man's name before this. Anyways, yeah, that definitely happened.
He’s head of a western european state of 10M people. Portugal is mid-tier when it comes to most metrics In the EU, but they’re not no-one.
Yeah, that's what I mean. I feel the same about Spain. Brazil is significantly more relevant than Portugal. They're no Luxembourg, but they're not Australia either.
Except being a LatAm country, they’re dismissed by the west.
You'd think so, and to an extent, you're right. But I hear about it quite a bit, more positive than negative. Portugal? Nope. Nothing. I'm not sure I could name a person or fictional character from Portugal. Brazil, I know at least a few.
Captain Rodriguez from Shōgun immediately came to mind for me. I prefer John Rhys-Davies’s version over the newest on-screen rendition.
I looked that up, since I've never heard of it, apparently he was Portuguese in that version, but he was turned Spanish in the most recent version. Damn, stealing the Portuguese rep they need. I'd like to know more about modern Portugal. I'll probably do a little bit of research today.
No, still Portuguese. The show opens with a explainer saying the Spanish went west and Portuguese went east due to the church decreeing how the world would be split amongst the two countries.
Spaniards were half a world away.
You’ve never heard of Cristiano Ronaldo? I’m impressed, lucky you.
I don't keep track of Football, I didn't know he was from there. Unfortunately, he was one of the two living people on the list of Portuguese people I'd ever heard the name of, the other individual being Shawn Mendes, who was raised in Canada. I also knew two dead ones, Magellan and Vasco de Gama. Which are from when Portugal was more of a world power. I recognized the names of 6 famous Brazilians.
You may feel that Spain is in the same league as Portugal, but by most metrics, it’s objectively not. It’s one of the EU’s big 4, a top 20 economy, the world’s 8th largest arms exporter, etc. Not a superpower, but definitely a power.
If an American doesn’t say, “Who?” when you say their name, then they’re a world power.
I feel like most Americans might remember the name from history class, but that's about it.
Muricans have history classes?
Muricans have classes? In schools? I heard Trump ended it.
Murica still exists?
Yes, we do. Most aren't very good. But they do exist.
Due to budget cuts, it’s only story classes now.
Never heard of the guy
Portugal? You’ve never heard of the place?
Did I say place?
I’ve only heard of Jamón ibérico.
I must ask, why did you focus on Portugal part of this article?
Surely the most important part is that a world leader called another world leader a russian asset?
Probably because I heard about the news several days ago. I appreciate it though.
Clickbait title.
That’s why they used this term. If it were any place that you would unquestionably call a major world power, then they would have used the name on the title.
I would like to point out to everyone underestimating Portugal’s influence in world politics that, while I agree it hasn’t been a military or economic major power in centuries, it has great diplomatic outreach:
So while no longer a major country, it still has sway on how relations between some countries develop
Also the Anglo-Portuguese treaty of 1373. Still in effect today. This isn’t a nothing treaty, according to Wikipedia it was activated during the Falklands war. Though Great Britain may not be the power they once were, they still have sway with a lot of the world. I don’t really know where I’m going with this other than to say Portugal has friends.
Countries have no friends/allies, they have interests.
Yes, but in our history we have had more interests in common with the British than different ones, especially as far as mainland Portugal is concerned.
True, oldest treaty in the world yadda-yadda, don’t hold your breath if you think Starmer would give two shits about Portugal if it advances his own fascist agenda.
The British citizens do have good relations with Portugal, just ask anyone in the Algarve.
To be honest I doubt Montenegro would care about the British either.
He was furious with Marcelo because he wanted to go unnoticed (he doesn’t really have a defined international policy) and soon started receiving calls from the White House.
I’ve lived in Britain for a decade.
They couldn’t care less about Portugal or the Portuguese and in general they see the Portuguese as just another bunch of Southern Europeans and their view of Southern Europeans is highly prejudiced in a negative way.
We’re a puny little shitty shit country from their point of view, an impression reinforced by Portuguese Politicians bending over backwards and licking the arses of the British elites.
Like Britain is the “poodle” to America so is Portugal to Britain only even worse.
There’s still a lot of dumb provincialism in Portugal when it comes to foreigners, especially amongst Portuguese Politicians and especially towards larger European nations such as Britain.
(Mind you, this outburst of Marcelo is pretty healthy in that sense and gives me hope that maybe that’s changing, and I don’t even like the guy).
The real specific qualities of Portugal have nothing to do with those delusions that past or present great powers are “friends” of Portugal.
You all remember the Cabal from The Blacklist. I guarantee you this shit is not made up. He called him a Russian asset not because it is how it appears, he called him that because it’s a fact. And all the world leaders know it.
I was expecting that leader to be Putin like, “yeah, he’s my bitch.”
Xi wouldn’t like that.
Trump is Putin’s, but
Putin is Xi’s.
Wait is truth in again? did I miss something?
Ok, but at some point Trump is just gonna say that exact thing, right?
They know a duck when they see one, and he ain’t no duck! He’s a fascist.
Ok, “major world leader” is clickbait, they could’ve just said Portuguese President.
While i wouldn’t describe Portugal as major, it isn’t irrelevant either: early member of the EU (was the ECC back then), treaties with a lot of countries (Brazil being one on account of being an ex-colony and sharing the language), founding member of NATO, emigrant communities all over the world (US included), a few high-ranking politicians are Portuguese (President of the European Council António Costa, secretary-general of the UN António Guterres, ex-president of the European Comission Durão Barroso who now works for Goldman Sachs…). There’s also that Cristiano Ronaldo guy.
The US also has a military base in a Portuguese island in the Atlantic.
Why this fascist fuck who likes taking selfies with his voters decided to criticize another fascist fuck is a mystery to me though…
Here we see a homo sapiens partaking in Whataboutism. He thinks bad stuff cancel each other out.
He also thinks unless you are a “VERY NICE AS A PERSON” master chef, you cannot critize food since what would you know, with your personality?
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is center-right, so more alligned with the democrats in the US, not with the Neonazi party that calls themselves conservative.
I wouldn’t vote him, but calling him a fascist is pretty far off reality.
Why do you mention so many people but not him? Wtf does Ronaldo have to do with anything?
That “center” is pulling some severe weight. PSD aligns with the EPP (along with CDS). If you call that center you must work for the mainstream media.
The guy whose godfather was Marcelo Catano? Really?
Not him who? The current Portuguese President? First sentence.
Ronaldo is a well-known Portuguese person, hence the mention.
Who your godfather is determines if you’re a fascist? lmao
Also not like it matters, but whose
Thx
Our last king was a republican. That guy is getting a little carried away.
Marcelo is a neoliberal, a bit more socially conservative. In America current political landscape he would still be closer to democrats like Newsom.
I think every world leader worth their salt knows trump kowtows to putin. Portugal got to say it out loud. I’m buying some of their wine this weekend.
Completely irrelevant, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic and Brazilian people, and I overheard this conversation in the grocery store between a mom and her elementary school age daughter, and the little girl said:
“Yeah, she has a crush on him, but he doesn’t speak Spanish, he speaks Pork-a-cheese.”
It makes me laugh every time I think about it, and every Spanish person that I tell it to cracks up.
!boneappletea
I live in southwest Ontario and in Strathroy there’s a large Portuguese community and our small town caker asses call them “pork and cheese”. They take it in stride lol
Who has a crush on him?
No shit, Sherlock.
They picked the ugliest, nastiest motherfucker to keep us distracted.
Agent Fuckfaced Krasnov.
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Joke is on you Nikki; I pissed on your burial site. Good luck pissing on my corpse, petulant bag o’ bones!!!
I’m pretty sure the joke is on the US electorate instead.