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Just a few great things about Amsterdam:

It’s entirely walkable – you don’t even need public transportation.
The architecture is awesome,  the glass in some buildings have been altered over years and years.   You look in amazement that it can change its shape over time.
An incredible food market (can’t recall the exact street).
Outstanding restaurants.
Some of the best chocolate.
People are so friendly and helpful.
The canals.
Great museums.  
Flower market.

Definitely a great destination if traveling to Europe.

Conservatives: Run for your lives!

Nice try edgar.

I sincerely doubt he puts any more logical thought into these kinds of arguments than a raving drunk puts into what he says before hurling a bottle at your face.

He has threatened to physically assault guests on his show before, and his staff have had to intervene before and escort guests out of the studio before he got backstage with them, because they honestly believed he’d do it and cause a fiasco.

He is not making arguments out of any kind of adult reason or logic, he’s simply boiling over with incoherent anger and spouting whatever comes to mind without thinking. To attribute any kind of deliberate savvy to these statements is to misunderstand the man completely.

The things he says are neither smart, nor stupid. They’re just disjointed, discrete outbursts of a severely unhinged temper.

(unless you approach those statistics the american way and disregard any unflattering data entirely)

My impression of American tourists is that they tend to be a bit more relaxed and tend to hang out in the Vondelpark, and maybe even visit a museum or something.

…Well, okay, in fact I think he was trying to say something that sounded clever and supported his argument, without actually caring if it made sense.  But the first idea is funnier.

(I guess that’s what I deserve for having a “freakin” mind.)

It would be a different country

France and the United Kingdom also have very strict laws, they are much closer to the Netherlands than Sweden, and they have almost twice as high a prevalence of marijuana usage. Picking Sweden (which is further away than either of them) as an example seems like cherry picking worthy of Fox News.

Just as a further example of how worthless such simplistic comparisons are: while the prevalence of drug use may be higher in the Netherlands than in Sweden, the number of drug related deaths per capita is two and a half times higher in Sweden!