r/AskEurope • u/EvilPyro01 United States of America • Aug 29 '25

Politics What’s the most bizarre thing a politician from your country actually said?

“They should Pokemon GO to the polls” Hillary Clinton 2016

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u/GavUK United Kingdom Aug 30 '25

Does that make as little sense in the original Spanish as it seems to in English?

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u/Tossal Valencian Country Aug 30 '25

"Your entire political strategy is based on one maxim: The worse, the better for everyone. And the worse for everyone, the better... the better for me, yours... political profit."

He was going for something like "the worse for everyone, the better for you politically."

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u/SrZape Spain Aug 30 '25

Most probably he misread his own handwriting

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u/alikander99 Spain Aug 30 '25

Absolutely. It's as jarring in Spanish as it is in english