President Trump

‘His [Shakespeare’s] plays probe the psychological mechanisms that lead a nation to abandon its ideals, and even its self-interest. Why would anyone, he asked himself, be drawn to a leader manifestly unsuited to govern, someone dangerously impulsive or viciously conniving or indifferent to the truth? Why, in some circumstances, does evidence of mendacity, crudeness or cruelty serve not as a fatal disadvantage but as an allure, attracting ardent followers? Why do otherwise proud and self-respecting people submit to the sheer effrontery of the tyrant, his sense that he can get away with saying or doing anything he likes, his spectacular indecency?’

- Stephen Greenblatt - Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

Think it may be time to watch some of the History plays again.
Nobody voted for any Shakespeare tyrant (except perhaps Julius Caesar).
 
Imagine being in charge of the Bank of England and having to sit there and listen to that and fight the urge to correct him.

in a press conf outside later on Carney was asked what he was thinking and he said it was a good job none of the press knew what he was thinking
 
This is "yes I have a girlfriend but you wouldn't know her she goes to another school" level of bull shit

 

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