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The Polack MSgt

(13,425 posts)
1. Moscow Moses doesn't strike me as a mustard and kielbasa type
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 02:20 PM
Feb 2024

He seems more of a ketchup on his li'l smokie kinda guy.

I feel like we should always spell his name johnson, lower case - unless we can use a smaller font.

Hekate

(94,665 posts)
2. Well, yeah, but what I desperately need to know is if the Polish Foreign Minister really said this
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 03:50 PM
Feb 2024

I looked him up and Wiki says that’s really the guy’s name. So there’s that.

This is a very funny joke about johnson, or as I call him, Li’l Pervy. But knowing the Foreign Minister actually said that would take it to another whole level.

DFW

(56,539 posts)
8. As printed, it was definitely someone who had a Slavic language as his native language
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:44 PM
Feb 2024

As I have pointed out before, Slavic languages don't have articles (a, an, the, e.g.), and native speakers have trouble knowing when to use them when trying to speak western languages. A native speaker of English would have said, "I cannot believe the fate of the world rests in the hands of a man whose son gets a phone alert when he's.........."

Hekate

(94,665 posts)
9. Which makes them all the easier to imitate in jest. We just use this knowledge in troll-spotting...
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:49 PM
Feb 2024

…because trolls have no sense of humor and never make an intelligent jest.

BootinUp

(49,023 posts)
12. According to the mastodon user that posted it, it is a screenshot from CNN
Fri Mar 1, 2024, 08:18 AM
Mar 2024

Jake Tappers show. It would have been in the last day or two.

TexasTowelie

(116,798 posts)
11. It's a shame that TVP World went off the air in December after the election.
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 08:17 PM
Feb 2024

I'm certain that they would have covered this development along with the appropriate level of biting sarcasm.

Qutzupalotl

(15,151 posts)
13. No, that screen was Colbert's embellishments of his comments.
Fri Mar 1, 2024, 12:09 PM
Mar 2024

I think it was on Wednesday night's show.

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