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Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been ousted (www.politico.eu)

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[–] Bromeliadventures@lemmy.world 139 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What's really frustrating about Liz Truss is she is too stupid to understand how stupid she is. If she could wrap her head around that, she might just shut up and we'd never have to hear from her again.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

She's definitely not the only politician in that predicament.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Dunning Kruger...

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

let's see you become britain's second female prime minister.

EDIT : OK, I guess

The joke that she was already britain's nth female prime minister didn't go well
Theresa May was britain's second female prime minister, truss was the third
to be clear, she achieved nothing and to hell with her.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol, I still don't really get the joke, but sympathy upvote based on the edit because I hate when that happens to me <3

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the joke is "oh, you think you're so much better than her? Let's see you achieve the only achievement she has (becoming the third female british prime minister) when you can't become the third of anything AGAIN.

I guess it all got fumbled and was shit to begin with.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Probably US Defaultism didn't help. heh. I watch panelshows so I know a little more news than the average, but it still whooshed me.

I think it wasn't so much poorly done as just didn't land quite well AND once anything gets a downvote or two, it snowballs. heh.

Thank you for explaining. I may not be falling down laughing, but I am quite amused. <3

[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

My favourite joke was to refer to her as "Conservative party backbencher, Liz Truss" but after looking her up on Wikipedia, I see that she has since lost her seat, so even that doesn't work.