Jerry Brown better president than Trump

[waauw]

European leaders said they have been frustrated by the Trump administration’s unprecedented slowness in filling senior political jobs at the State Department and Pentagon, which has given them few policy interlocutors in Washington.

Ambassadors complain that even when they can secure meetings with administration officials, the policy is often unclear.

...In Brussels, Brown got the welcome of a global leader, delivering an address in the vast European Parliament hemicycle from the same rostrum as German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she is in town. Brown commanded applause at a Vatican environment conference; joined the Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and Virginia at the Bonn climate gathering; and was feted by E.U. ministers for his efforts to combat rising greenhouse gases.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/frustrated-foreign-leaders-bypass-washington-in-search-of-blue-state-allies/2017/11/17/3ad10e80-cbab-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.81bcb72c65f7

[saxitoxin]

ITT we learn that the EU Parliament is so small-time that pretty much anyone can address it - even local politicians. I wonder who's next to address EuroParl? The Mayor of Orlando, Florida? The third assistant director on the Netflix show Stranger Things? Thorthoth?

In 228 years, the U.S. Congress has only had two foreigners who are not a head-of-state or chief-of-government address it (in 1824 by the Marquis de Lafayette and in 1934 by André Lefebvre de La Boulaye, the French ambassador, during the centennial of the death of the Marquis de Lafayette).

[Thorthoth]

So... Jerry is being groomed by foreigners to be the 2020 dem candidate?

[waauw]

So... Jerry is being groomed by foreigners to be the 2020 dem candidate?

Does it matter? At this point I'd be surprised if even the republicans wouldn't submit a new candidate against Trump. In 2020 it'll be Trump vs everyone else.

[mookiemcgee]

ITT we learn Saxi feels the man in charge of the 8th largest economy in world is just a "local leader" equal to the mayor of a city. I wonder which state Saxi is from? Sakha, or Tuva maybe... certainly somewhere in Russia. Oh wait whats that saxi??? California's economy is bigger than Russia's? Maybe Trump should try colluding with a state within his own union next time and save himself the global embarrassment.

[DoomYoshi]

Trump vs MOTHRA!!!

[Dukasaur]

[mrswdk]

Is that the same European Parliament whose own president is on record stating that it is a 'ridiculous' institution?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... parliament

[saxitoxin]

Is that the same European Parliament whose own president is on record stating that it is a 'ridiculous' institution?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... parliament

To be fair, that happens in the US Congress, too ... when an irrelevant delegate from a small state shows up to speak, this happens ....

[mrswdk]

Is that the same European Parliament whose own president is on record stating that it is a 'ridiculous' institution?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... parliament

To be fair, that happens in the US Congress, too ... when an irrelevant delegate from a small state shows up to speak, this happens ....

[Bernie Sanders]