{"id":30296,"date":"2020-04-25T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30296"},"modified":"2020-04-25T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:39:55","slug":"pardon-my-french-4-25-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30296","title":{"rendered":"Pardon my French 4-25-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my French listeners the title is a play on words in English. In the same way as Americans were happy to call the influenza virus of 1918 the &#8220;Spanish Flu&#8221; even though it likely got its start in my home state of Kansas. We Americans apparently like to blame swear words on the French. Pardon my French is said either before one says a rude word or immediately afterward. But in my case I am really asking forgiveness to the French for butchering their language.<\/p>\n<p>This is a trial attempt to keep up my long running and not quite futile effort to learn Francais despite my attempt to plan and run a race for Congress while quarantined. Today&#8217;s political news in brief:<\/p>\n<p>Today the Republican Party is reeling from a series of disastrous news conferences by the President of the United States Donald Trump the latest of which he uncharacteristically stayed silent. This was after urging Americans to drink bleach the previous day to kill the corona virus the day before. Recent polls showed that not only was the President sinking in the polls of states he needed to win election but that he might very well take down Senators who seemed impervious to defeat until very recently which could cost Republicans control of both houses of the United States Congress. <\/p>\n<p>The end for today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"4,25,2020\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/de0MNNrSMNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pour mes auditeurs fran\u00e7ais, le titre est un jeu de mots en anglais. De la m\u00eame mani\u00e8re que les Am\u00e9ricains \u00e9taient heureux d&#8217;appeler le virus de la grippe de 1918 la &#8220;grippe espagnole&#8221;, m\u00eame s&#8217;il a probablement fait ses d\u00e9buts dans mon \u00c9tat d&#8217;origine, le Kansas. Nous, Am\u00e9ricains, aimons apparemment bl\u00e2mer les Fran\u00e7ais de jurer. Pardon mon fran\u00e7ais est dit soit avant que l&#8217;on dise un mot grossier soit imm\u00e9diatement apr\u00e8s. Mais dans mon cas, je demande vraiment pardon aux Fran\u00e7ais d&#8217;avoir massacr\u00e9 leur langue.<\/p>\n<p>Il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;une tentative d&#8217;essai pour maintenir mes efforts de longue haleine et pas tout \u00e0 fait futiles pour apprendre le fran\u00e7ais malgr\u00e9 ma tentative de planifier et d&#8217;organiser une course pour le Congr\u00e8s en quarantaine. L&#8217;actualit\u00e9 politique d&#8217;aujourd&#8217;hui en bref:<\/p>\n<p>Aujourd&#8217;hui, le Parti r\u00e9publicain est \u00e9branl\u00e9 par une s\u00e9rie de conf\u00e9rences de presse d\u00e9sastreuses du pr\u00e9sident des \u00c9tats-Unis, Donald Trump, dont la derni\u00e8re est rest\u00e9e inhabituellement silencieuse. C&#8217;\u00e9tait apr\u00e8s avoir exhort\u00e9 les Am\u00e9ricains \u00e0 boire de l&#8217;eau de Javel la veille pour tuer le virus corona la veille. Des sondages r\u00e9cents ont montr\u00e9 que non seulement le pr\u00e9sident s&#8217;enfon\u00e7ait dans les sondages des \u00c9tats dont il avait besoin pour gagner les \u00e9lections, mais qu&#8217;il pourrait tr\u00e8s bien abattre des s\u00e9nateurs qui semblaient imperm\u00e9ables \u00e0 la d\u00e9faite jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 tr\u00e8s r\u00e9cemment, ce qui pourrait co\u00fbter aux r\u00e9publicains le contr\u00f4le des deux chambres du Congr\u00e8s am\u00e9ricain. .<\/p>\n<p>La fin pour aujourd&#8217;hui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my French listeners the title is a play on words in English. 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