"Conversational" French - knowing how to ask where the bathroom is and how to call over the waiter who has been ignoring them ... in an accent so bad that people laugh behind their back.
Less
scarcastically, conversational (any language) is not sufficient to discuss business or ideas. MM is kidding himself. It would take him a year or two of immersion to start to be able to discuss his business, hobbies, and political ideas.
Star Member alcibiades_mystery (36,180 posts)
40. Those who survive will be those who flee
The right wing is extremely violent and well-armed, and they've completely infiltrated the military and police apparatus, in addition to having capable militias and inchoate death squads.
Normally I'd respond with
But this lunacy is beyond the capability of any meds. (S)He needs to be committed before (s)he goes off like that Bern-Stein supporter in Portland!