25 Wednesday Jan 2017
Posted | January 25, 2017 3:01:28 | Economics
Here’s a hilarious video courtesy of the Netherlands. They acknowledge America first, but simply ask “Can we make the Netherlands second?”
The video starts out in Dutch, but stick with it, it soon goes to all English.
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Mike “Mish” Shedlock
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The Netherlands announced today that they are setting up an international abortion fund, to counteract Donald Trump’s aid ban. Not my tax dollars, yay!
Now, I think we can make the Netherlands the first to pay for their own military defense. Im willing to make them second for that.
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Funny!
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At the onset it was funny, but I’m a Trump supporter since day one, and as it progressed and joking about the lies created by MSM and liberals, it was a turn-off because I found myself saying, that’s not true and it’s a shame people abroad believe the BS MSM spews in their direction. If the joking dealt with the reality Trump, I wouldn’t mind sharing. So in essence, it was like watching SNL… not funny. I’m certain liberals will find it funny and will be more than willing to continue spreading the misconception of who Trump is.
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Agree there.
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Lighten up…it is a joke.
So many Americans have such think skins they get offended even when the subject is satire.
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WOW. Hilariously Huge in the Funny. Like Fantastically BIG Huge Funny. Most Funny thing I will ever see today -ever all day. There was not one inaccurate huge thing on that video. Repubs and Dems need to grow up. ENjoy the the age of alternative facts. Remember nothing is ever not true. This is a huge concept for Mish readers but you r wrong about this man. If U like this humor go to this Huge: twitter.com/Trumpthinksmall Stay huge everyone and be fantastic and remember we are the best ever and we know this because we believe it. And yes Netherlands U are #2 after the Russians…
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I agree that it started off hilarious. Americans do have a sense of humor about our quirks, and now our leader’s quirks— but when it segued into the making fun of disabled people lie and NATO they lost me. They became a mouthpiece for media liberal lies and stopped being funny.
The original part-and the way they advertised their country-was super cute and very creative. Too bad they got hostile then.
I would love to see other countries do this, without the vitriol. We love humor here in America believe it or not.
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Jette Klijnsma, the (disabled) minister in the video told that she loves the video.
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some of that was hilarious. 🙂
thanks for posting.
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Don’t tell anyone but the Netherlands has a higher quality of life than the US. After all in the new era of Trumphoria, the facts don’t matter. All that matters is the Messiah has arrived and He is going to make America great when He waves His magic wand. All of us should worship Him.
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You sound a little bit sarcastic there.
Meanwhile in EU, of which The Netherlands is still part of
“… the figures show that not a single law passed in 2016 went to a second reading, compared to more than half which made that legislative stage back in 2004.
The change is significant because typically bills passed at the first reading by the parliament are automatically ratified by the Council without a debate, meaning elected national politicians do not get a say on them. ”
Which sounds to me like people aren’t even offered a choice on what they follow, or must later obey.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/758166/European-Union-Eurocrats-more-laws-secret-shock-investigation
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Don’t anyone tell the Netherlands how much of a free ride they get off the USA and a second free ride off Germany.
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Please explain with real facts
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“After all in the new era of Trumphoria, the facts don’t matter.”
The facts don’t matter to CNN. The MSM colluded with the Hillary campaign against Trump. Over 90% of MSM political donations go to the Democratic Party.
Who needs facts when we have MSM propaganda?
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Don’t tell anyone but the Netherlands is one of the most fucked up Western European countries and among those most far down the path of cultural and demographic suicide. Already today the majority of newborns in the Netherlands is to parents with a non-Western foreign background. In its 4 biggest cities, including the capital, Mohammed is today the most popular newborns’ boy name…
If they don’t take immediate drastic action, which they won’t, within a couple of generations the native Dutch will be a minority in their very own country.
All of the above is also true in several other Western European countries.
Pro tip from a Western European ex-expat who has lived and worked all over the world: keep an eye on Sweden, it will most probably be the first Western country to experience total societal collapse.
People are going to wake the fuck up in the worst possible way, and when that happens it will probably be too late.
For the moment, just expect the current clear and undeniable trend of increasing crime and violence (and cultural accommodation FROM OUR PART) to continue…
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What a bullshit….greetings from the Netherlands . Brainwashed bij Wilders?? The majority of newborn baby’s is dutch. Non-western foreigners in the Netherlands is 8 %. Get your facts right.
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Greetings from Italy.
Brainwashed by your liberal fake news media and propaganda..?
“Non-western foreigners in the Netherlands is 8 %.”
LMAO! According to Eurostat itself the last time reality vaguely approached your number was 7 (SEVEN) YEARS AGO, when 1.4 million people (8.5% of the population) living in the Netherlands were born outside of the EU (and keep in mind that that number did NOT include lots of illegals and people born in the Netherlands to non-Western immigrant parents and to Dutch nationals of foreign origin!).
Since then the Netherlands (like the rest of Western Europe) has experienced a massive influx of non-Western immigrants, both legal and illegal and even consistent emigration of native Dutch. Keep also in mind that birth rates of non-Western residents, non-Western new arrivals and non-Western naturalized Dutch are much higher than birth rates of native Dutch AND the non-Western population is overall much younger than the native population so a much bigger proportion of them are in their fertile age…
I don’t know where have you got that ridicolous massaged number and what it really refers to but be aware that as soon as non-Western immigrants are given citizenship they are not counted anymore as foreigners (which is the reason why I have had to cite that stat from Eurostat about non-Western foreigners born outside of the EU, it’s the only way to get an idea, our governments try to hide the number of non-natives in our countries in whatever way they can). As you said, wake up and get your facts right.
I also notice that you didn’t refute that in the 4 biggest Dutch cities the most popular name for male newborns is Mohammed…
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Ah Europe. And good old Netherlands…
They don’t have kids mostly due to the insanely high taxes to keep their welfare state going.
They barely fund their military.
They abort their own without a care or thought.
And let in millions of muslims without thought to vetting or assimilation.
How do you think that is going to end?
With a big old schlonging while they try to escape Sharia…
I bet that will make a funny video too.
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There’s truth in those words & living under someones elses umbrella can only go on for so long.
The Dutch, amongst others, will have to learn to manage their affairs differently going forwards and take more responsibility or hand it all over to someone else – the EU or some rule by foreign culture. Same for all the smaller EU countries. Soon they will forget how to serve their people first and run and defend themselves – then disappear.
Give it 50 years and it will be – “where was that mythical place called the Netherlands?” Read “Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg etc. etc.
So far Trump is showing signs of acting on his words so the electorate will get what they voted for. A little shocking when most politicians forget what they said as soon as they have the seat. It will remind everyone how democracy is supposed to work, you vote for what you want and then the elected does what they can to deliver on the words.
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Wilders to Rutte
“Prime Minister Rutte ran an election advertisement in today’s newspapers.
And I have a message to this prime minister.
Stop with the deceit of the Netherlands. Stop deceiving your own people.
There is absolutely no-one who still believes you.
It was you, who caused the loss of our freedom, our security, and our culture.
It was you, who governed with the Labor Party; you, who conducted dangerous open borders policy.
You, who even allowed terrorists to freely travel in and out of the Netherlands.
You, who have given Islam free rein.
Why don’t you talk about that?
Four years of Mark Rutte means four years of, every day, a little less Netherlands.
Why do you not talk about Islamization?
Why do you not talk about terror?
Why don’t we hear you about the billions that are spent every year on Africa, Brussels and all those fortune-seekers, rather than on our own people?
Why don’t you mention the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants whom you’ve allowed into our country?
That is the biggest threat to our country.
That is what you, as prime minister, should never have allowed to happen.
It is your fault and no-one else’s.
And if we continue the way you are doing now, then the Netherlands will soon cease to exist.
Then there will be only one standard in this country: Islam. And we will have lost our beautiful country.
But we will not allow that to happen, because this is the land of all those millions of Dutch whom you have let down.
The millions of people whom you have cheated and robbed of their own country.
But, together with them, we will reconquer the Netherlands from the elite, from Islam, and from you, Mr. Rutte.
It’s time that you leave.
And, on March 15th, the Netherlands will become ours again.”
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What is interesting too is that he focuses on Islam as representative of the wider EU agenda. That is to say he is deciding that it is better to tackle the bureaucracy from a religious-cultural standpoint directly than to deal with the many headed creature that is EU politics, an arena armed with a thousand excuses where every argument is placated without true answer.
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@2banana
Your post just let’s everybody see how little you know about the Netherlands .
We”ve got no children during high taxes? We let in millions of muslims, do you even know how many people there live in Holland? What’s the purpose of funding your military, we dont need voilence 😉 We like to spend money on more important stuff than making weapons , inssurances for instance.
We don’t have children, Man that’s hilarious continue!
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“2005 saw the lowest absolute population growth since 1900. …
According to Eurostat, in 2010 there were 1.8 million foreign-born residents in the Netherlands, corresponding to 11.1% of the total population. Of these, 1.4 million (8.5%) were born outside the EU and 0.428 million (2.6%) were born in another EU Member State.”
But Banana was generalising for EU also I think.
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On what planet is Netherlands funding the US military? You ungrateful brats have been getting a free ride for decades.
You gave your word, in a written treaty (NATO), that you would spend 3% of your GDP on military. You lied. You barely got above 2%….
Then Europe (not the UK) started whining and the NATO agreement was modified to **REQUIRE** all member states to spend at least 2% of their GDP on military. Once again, Netherlands signed the modified treaty, you gave your word — and once again you lied. You spend even less — always assuming the US and UK will pay for you.
You don’t pay your share of drug development costs either (you don’t contribute anything).
Your word, whether verbal or written treaty, isn’t worth the &()% coming out of your back end. Enough of Europe’s socialist cr-p
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The biggest lie of Trump is, is what the US pays to the NATO. It is a lot less then 65%. A lot of the 65% is not going to the nato but to other military projects. The US pays just a little more then the UK and Germany.
Greetings from some-one who lost 2 friends in Afghanistan (dutch military who were shot in a fight).
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It’s a laugh, but a nervous one, as they ALL know the truth in what Trump says. They pretend that they do not want to care for THEIR country first given their indoctrination of self immolation. We can all bow to the political correctness that infects the world and still KNOW the truth. We can indulge in all types of entertainment and distractions to forget…but we KNOW. When faced head-on with this truth we can only accept it or deflect with derision and hate….. and denial.
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Hilarious!
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To be funny a presentation generally has to have some truth to it.
I couldn’t detect much truth in the dutch video.
Trump never said America is great today or bragging about what a fantastic nation we have. He said his mission is to make America great again. And his first 6 days in office has shown that he’s on the right track.
Sarcasm is anger’s ugly cousin. It’s actually a coward’s anger because the person is unwilling to express his beliefs directly that might be refuted. So he goes about it in a roundabout way in attempt to disarm with sarcastic humor.
It’s curious why Mish would even devote a blog to this video. I thought he voted for and supported Trump.
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Very thin line between sarcasm and satire. I appreciate thoughtful satire, where the objective is to reframe a topic in a way that gives a completely different view that can be accepted with laughter, it is a joke on how narrow minded we might be.
Sarcasm is different, though I post occasionally using /s it is just a label to say you are playing ( as in satire also ) . Sarcasm proposes the absurd to a degree that it offends, without trying to make further light of the topic.
The clip seemed to be sarcastic towards Trump and a satire of Holland.
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Very clever and witty.
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The video is 20/20 funny. If you don’t like Trump, you probably can’t laugh about it, though.
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Ahhh, I miss the NL, worked in Leiden a couple of years- they have a great sense of humor. I am so glad I don’t have to explain the outcome of THIS election; the election of the shrub (little Bush) was a challenge.
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How cute, one of the many dying Western nations mocking the one nation which bucked the trend and fought back against becoming the umpteenth brown 3rd world country…
The Netherlands is one of the most fucked up Western European countries and among those most far down the path of cultural and demographic suicide. Already today the majority of newborns in the Netherlands is to parents with a non-Western foreign background. In its 4 biggest cities, including the capital, Mohammed is today the most popular newborns’ boy name…
If they don’t take immediate drastic action, which they won’t, within a couple of generations the native Dutch will be a minority in their very own country.
All of the above is also true in several other Western European countries.
Pro tip from a Western European ex-expat who has lived and worked all over the world: keep an eye on Sweden, it will most probably be the first Western country to experience total societal collapse.
People are going to wake the fuck up in the worst possible way, and when that happens it will probably be too late.
For the moment, just expect the current clear and undeniable trend of increasing crime and violence (and cultural accommodation FROM OUR PART) to continue…
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Poland!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZCDeB3Ofv4&t=1s 🙂
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Cute but a takeoff on the much better Netherlands video
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