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Friday, November 22, 2019

Lord Have Mercy

No matter how one translates that phrase:
... why cite all these ways to pray for mercy?

Today, on Fox and Friends, Donald Trump disclosed that he distrusted former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch because she never hung his portrait on the wall of our Embassy in Kiev.  In the same interview, Mr. Trump called Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi paralyzed, totally incompetent, absolutely lost, crazy as a bedbug, simply nuts, not talented, and highly overrated .

Colloquialisms are tough to transl;ate, so I can't claim I ever heard her say it.  But I'm sure my baba would have agreed that Donald Trump often acts as a pot calling a kettle black, or:

Horshchyk zustrity chaynyk


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