Much like in the United States, the resistance is led by women:
Wonderful moment Donald Trump is owned by Polish president's wife. More here https://t.co/YGFEIUSgJC pic.twitter.com/sbIKqCQVsN
— The Poke (@ThePoke) July 6, 2017
They apparently later shook hands, but the visual is delightful.
germy
Baud
Awesome.
cokane
what is karl pilkington and why?
Trentrunner
Trump, in addition to everything else wrong with him, is such a fucking galoot moron.
For one thing, apparently Polish etiquette holds you don’t shake a woman’s hand unless she proffers it.
The next 4 years are just the GoT woman stalking behind us, intoning “SHAME” every three steps…
Gozer
@cokane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Idiot_Abroad
trollhattan
@Trentrunner:
Embellished for accuracy.
Baud
If I lived in Alaska, I’d be real worried about the Trump-Putin meeting tomorrow.
jl
I’d feel sorry for Donnie, but he had a choice after he was elected, and he made the wrong one. He said during the campaign that he could remake himself as anything that he needed or wanted to be. You see, he has a great mind, and super human will power..He would remake himself as ‘presidential’ you see. All that trash talk and toxic BS was just to get elected, so he said, so he promised. So, either he is a malicious goof or a malicious liar. Or both.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Might be a good idea to start learning Russian.
cokane
meh, looking at it now, doesnt look like it’s “resistance” just her ignoring him in a split second moment, esp since they say they shook hands later. needing trump to be “owned” on this shit is just dumb misdirection. Even if it was an intentional diss, how is this a win? In comparison to cutting healthcare, remaking SCOTUS and cutting international aid programs?
Lavocat
The polite person’s way to say “Fuck you, Donny Boy.”
JPL
@Baud: hmm I’d be worried if I lived in Seoul.
Baud
@cokane: I wish people would stop with the distraction crap. It’s more distracting that the original distraction.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
The only thing this video is missing is the Benny Hill theme music.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Stop distracting from the distraction distraction, Baud!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: Madame and the kid are going there next year, hope it’s still there.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Agreed, as is the we won’t have any elections and have a civil war, talk.
Hildebrand
@cokane: Because we can bloody well walk and chew gum at the same time. The video is a bit of balm, that’s all it needs to be – anything that makes our knave of a president even momentarily pissy is a good thing.
Baud
@JPL: Yep. Bouvet Island is looking pretty good right now.
trollhattan
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
That or the first few bars of the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@jl: “A little of Cluster A, a little of Cluster B.”
cokane
@Baud: mmhmm. lotta wishful thinking on display here
Gravenstone
@germy: aka ‘we’re obstructionists, not legislators dammit!’
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks, M4! Now I’m so distracted, I forgot who we were supposed to be resisting.
germy
@Gravenstone:
“We chase cars, dammit, we don’t drive them!”
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@JPL: future tabloid headlines:
Seouless
Korea’s Got No Seoul
Seoul On Ice
Seoul-Out
cokane
@Hildebrand: not really. it’s very akin to the “obama bowed” videos. it’s taking a momentary clip and crafting a bullshit narrative around it.
Origuy
Unfair comparison. Karl Pilkington is a compassionate, gentle soul.
debbie
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
No comment on that abomination of a dress?
Iowa Old Lady
@Trentrunner: I posted this link the other day. It’s a parody of the Cheers theme called “Jeers” and the line about “everybody knows your name” becomes “everybody has no shame.”
Yarrow
@Baud: I thought Sarah Palin was on the case. Oh…
Yarrow
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Seoul searching.
schrodingers_cat
I finally made my relationship with America permanent. I became a citizen this 4th, me and 126 other people from 47 countries. It was time.
bemused
Has msnbc been covering protesters at G20 all afternoon?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Welcome, Baud! voter! I didn’t realize you weren’t already naturalized.
germy
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations. The quality of this country just went up by a factor of 127.
Baud
@bemused: I saw a clip. I think it was MSNBC, but it could have been CNN.
Hildebrand
@cokane: Do I think she did it on purpose? Nope. Do I think it likely irked our Knave in Chief? Absolutely. Does this make it worthwhile to distribute to the far corners of the interwebs? Of course. Why? Because a wee bit of schadenfreude over even a momentary bit of dyspepsia is a brief ray of sunshine that does my heart good. It’s a little thing with which to mock the mockable.
That said, I hereby solemnly promise that even in the midst of this little bit of fun making, we haven’t all forgotten about the endless number of shitty things this administration is doing or wants to do. Happy?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Me too. Is it cokane?
lollipopguild
@schrodingers_cat: Congrats. Now you can demand your RIGHTS as a tax-paying Citizen!
eric
@schrodingers_cat: is this when we say we are sorry for fucking it up for you this past november?
Gin & Tonic
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations.
One of the nice things that happens at the local minor-league baseball park is that on or near the 4th (it was the 3rd this year) they have celebratory fireworks after the game, but before the game they swear in a bunch of new US citizens standing around the pitcher’s mound. People from all over tkaing the oath, then getting their certificate in front of a big crowd that applauds wholeheartedly. I really enjoy that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Hildebrand: You’ve had enough fun, time to don the sackcloth again.
lollipopguild
@Hildebrand: The look on trumps face was priceless.
Hildebrand
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: India doesn’t have dual citizenship, that’s why I was holding on to it, but I have lived here for 20+ years, practically all my adult life. This is home. So it was time, I made the decision this Jan.
Yarrow
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@debbie:it could be a lot worse; Kellyanne set the bar so low with her inaugural outfit.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: Congrats! That’s great news!
Karen
@Trentrunner: not just Polish etiquette but etiquette everywhere, woman offers hand. I guess no one reads Emily Post’s book of etiquette any more. Nor do they teach basic etiquette; though dolt45 is old enough he should have been taught those things.
Lapassionara
@schrodingers_cat: Wow! That is great for us, and for the US.
O. Felix Culpa
@schrodingers_cat:
Congratulations! I’ve been to several citizenship ceremonies and they melt my cynicism into tears every time.
jeffreyw
@schrodingers_cat:
Congrats? Kinda like winning free tickets to the Titanic’s maiden voyage. Enjoy the deck music!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Karen: The idiot would probably try to shake the Queen’s hand too.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Very cool getting it done on the 4th.
hedgehog mobile
@schrodingers_cat: Woot! Congratulations and welcome!??
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s a best case scenario.
JPL
@schrodingers_cat: Congrats and Vote Dem!
I wonder how many citizens are able to pass the test..
schrodingers_cat
@JPL: The test is really not that hard, I bet most if not all BJers can pass.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: And the person who interviewed me for the test was called, wait for it, Hillery!
ETA: It was pretty cool, the ceremony I attended was on the village green of Old Sturbridge Village.
ruemara
@schrodingers_cat: Congrats! Now you can really fight the good fight.
@Major Major Major Major: Say no to drugs. that are poorly spelled.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Well, she’s 91 and not hawt; so pussy grabbing wouldn’t be a problem.
schrodingers_cat
@jeffreyw: I don’t think that the United States is going down but thanks, I think.
debit
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations!
schrodingers_cat
@O. Felix Culpa: Yes it was very moving. It melted my cold jackal heart too.
Steve in the ATL
@Trentrunner:
American etiquette as well
Gin & Tonic
@Karen: With his age and hers, it would ahve been entirely appropriate (and a popular winner for sure) if he had kissed her hand.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: @Lapassionara: @ruemara: Thanks!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@debbie: Here’s a pretty dress I saw last night: Wimbledon star Aga Radwańska (photo)
schrodingers_cat
@JPL: Of course, goes without saying and thanks!
Steve in the ATL
@schrodingers_cat:
We are delighted to have you!
@Baud:
Well played.
schrodingers_cat
@hedgehog mobile: @debit: @?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: At least the person’s name wasn’t Baud.
raven
@schrodingers_cat: It’s a testament to you and this fucked up country that you feel that it was the right thing to do.
O. Felix Culpa
@schrodingers_cat:
Wow. You couldn’t get more “Americana” than that. And on the 4th, no less. Lovely. Damn those onions! (Sniffle)
trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He’ll go for the trifecta: grab her hand, grab the purse, kick a corgi.
Yarrow
@schrodingers_cat: That sounds lovely.
trollhattan
@schrodingers_cat: @Baud:
Heh, that was fast. Got any campaign swag for the newbie?
And also, too, congratulations, newbie! You’ll fit right in (uh, amongst coastal elites and such).
dexwood
@schrodingers_cat:
Nice. Thank you. We need all the help we can muster against Trump and his greedy band of traitors.
different-church-lady
@schrodingers_cat: At the present moment isn’t that like going over the Berlin Wall into East Germany?
Major Major Major Major
NYT tweets “Trump told aides he’s annoyed by the prospect of being scolded by world leaders for pulling out of the Paris accord.”
IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME WAY TO AVOID THAT
cokane
@Hildebrand: meh, if you’re willing to play the same games with the truth as wingers did, don’t pretend to be any better than them
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
90 is the new 30.
;)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: It was unavoidable, nothing he could do.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: WORLD LEADERS: “OMG, why didn’t we think of that ourselves?”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Sure, but Trump likes em 15.
Jeffro
@schrodingers_cat: big congrats to you! ??
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
Wish all our citizens could be more like you. Congrats to all of us and to you too.
???
debbie
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
That’s definitely a better dress on a better person.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Congratulations!
Major Major Major Major
@cokane: I’ll bet you’re fun at parties.
Kraux Pas
@cokane: Playing up a perceived slight of the President is nowhere close to the level of perfidy seen among Republicans. If we can’t take a moment to enjoy the small things, what are we even doing on this Earth?
O. Felix Culpa
@different-church-lady:
I visited East Germany several times in the 60’s and 70’s. We’re nothing close to that (yet).
Nevertheless I admire s. cat’s courage in officially becoming a yanqui despite the Poltroon-in-Chief. Vive la résistance! as the coastal elites say.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
This is really a very impressive decision; I remember your mood back then.
MisterForkbeard
@debbie: Agreed. It takes character to want to join this country after the Trump debacle. Character and hopefully determination.
Happy to have you, Mr. Cat. :)
Lizzy L
Since this is where everyone appears to be hanging out, even though it’s not an open thread I will post my Theo update:
Theo is home!! The vet called and suggested I pick him up early, because everything appeared good and the stay at the vet was making him anxious. The incision looks very clean. He’s groggy, of course, but his breathing is normal and he seems to be comfortable. Andrea the wonderful vet tech even took the tartar off his teeth for no charge. I am so relieved and thankful.
And hey, I can still lift a 60 lb dog into and out of a car. Bonus! May his recovery remain smooth. Thank you, everyone, for your support and good wishes. Keep ’em comin’.
Cain
@Lizzy L:
So glad to hear!
Lizzy L
@schrodingers_cat: Yay, and welcome!
Kraux Pas
@schrodingers_cat: Congrats and thanks for not giving up on us. The Trumptation to do so would have been strong for me if I were in your shoes.
cokane
@Major Major Major Major: @Kraux Pas: if the truth ruins your fun, o well.
wingers got plenty of mileage out of “obama bows” or other equally harmless and made up faux pas, doesnt change the fact that it signaled a growing indulgence for delusion
Major Major Major Major
@Lizzy L: Woohoo!
In barely related news, my grandpa is out of the ICU and in the normal hospital room, recovering well from his aortal aneurysm surgery. I’m going to call him tomorrow.
Kraux Pas
@cokane: It looked funny and, more importantly, it clearly bothered Trump. That’s the truth and it’s enough of the truth to go on.
stinger
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations! Welcome! Thanks! Vote!
dexwood
@Lizzy L:
Wag on, Theo, wag on.
cokane
@Kraux Pas: in other words, no actual truth
geg6
@Hildebrand:
This. I watched this clip fifty times today, at least. And I laughed every single time. Most laughs I’ve had since 11-9-16, with the sole exception of seeing Chris Rock in concert about a month ago. It felt good to not be angry and anxious for a while. It’s not only allowed, but should be encouraged, if only for the mental health effects.
Laura
@schrodingers_cat: thanks for making the leap of faith!
Yarrow
@Lizzy L: Glad to hear Theo is home and doing well. Big relief, I’m sure.
@Major Major Major Major: So glad to hear your grandpa is doing well. That’s a serious surgery. Wonderful news he’s recovering well. He’ll no doubt be glad to hear from you.
Kraux Pas
@cokane: No, what I wrote there is 100% the truth. You say she shook his hand later and what we saw there was, as someone pointed out, likely a cultural misunderstanding. Fine. His displeasure is still enough to laugh about, even if the basis for it was a misunderstanding rather than a deliberate slight. In fact, that makes it funnier.
The only other person bothered by it is you, so guess whom else I’m laughing at.
japa21
@schrodingers_cat: To pile on, congrats. I know how my DIL felt last month when went through the ceremony. As stated above, the quality of citizens in this country just got raised.
Old Broad in California
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations! This country is lucky to claim you as a citizen. And things will get better, I have to believe that.
Karen
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I wouldn’t be surprised, he has been “an ever shining example” of lack of manners common courtesies don’t exist in his world. But then what can one expect from a man who uses tape on tie
schrodingers_cat
@Old Broad in California: @japa21: @Laura: Thanks!
schrodingers_cat
@stinger: Thanks!@Kraux Pas: I had those thoughts as well. I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself, had I done that.@Lizzy L: Thanks!
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
Wonderful news! Welcome aboard and so happy you are still willing to take a leap of faith on us. Happy tidings.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: I had always assumed that you already were. Apparently, I was wrong. Congrats and don’t try to shirk jury duty.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: Yes, I was in a dark place, I was questioning all my life decisions.You remembered, I am touched.
PIGL
@Trentrunner: But don’t forget what happens to her in S06E10. If you can ignore the horror, it’s one the great moments in cinema.
“I killed your High Sparrow and all his little sparrows, all his septons, all his septas. All his filthy soldiers. Because it felt good to watch them burn. It felt good to imagine their shock and their pain. No thought has ever given me greater joy.” (Cersei Lannister)
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I felt like I belonged. I have been in this country for long enough. It seemed like a formality, like getting married after a long live in relationship but there are times when a relationship needs that formality, that commitment.
H.E.Wolf
@schrodingers_cat:
Congratulations, namaste, and welcome! We’re honored to have you in our ranks.
schrodingers_cat
@Jeffro: @MomSense: @dexwood: Thanks guys for your kind words.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Hooray! Congratulations! Welcome to the – hmmm, what? Family? Nation (although you were already here)? Great unwashed? Anyway, hooray!
Kathleen
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations! Welcome! So glad you are here.
schrodingers_cat
@geg6: @raven: Thanks!
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I take it as a good omen, that I got my invitation to the naturalization ceremony from Hillery.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
If you don’t mind saying – what’s the impetus for their visit? What do they plan to do/see? Our son was adopted from Korea and is bugging us to take him to the Winter Olympics (which I would love, but we are not made of $$$). Still trying to see if we can manage it. I visited Seoul when I was 3 but don’t remember it.
schrodingers_cat
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Thanks, west coast liberal.
-east coast liberal.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus:
I have been called one time in my whole life. I find that odd.
schrodingers_cat
@H.E.Wolf: Aww, that’s nice!
schrodingers_cat
@@Steve in the ATL: Yarrow: @trollhattan: Thanks!
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: I was called once. I got a letter with a number on it. On Sunday night, I called an automated number and a robot told me the range of numbers who had to show up Monday morning. My number was not in that range. In any case, I doubt I will ever actually serve on a jury.
schrodingers_cat
Thanks so much, I am touched by the response.
Hildebrand
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Skipped out for a spot of dinner – ate day old bread and drank stale water. Just trying to do my part for the glorious cause.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Don’t worry; we will be assholes again in a few minutes.
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: There are a lot of good snarky comments here, but everyone is sincere in their congratulations. I’ll add mine, too. Welcome to the fight as an insider!
Hildebrand
@cokane: Oh my god. It’s funny. He looked peeved that he was, if even just for the briefest of moments, snubbed. Is there any cosmic significance? No. Does it portend something significant about him or his presidency? No. Is there some political consequence to this? No. Would you please just relax and let us chortle at the orange knave?
MoxieM
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations. It would sound stupid to say, Welcome… but I’ll be in my element, so, “Welcome!” (neighbor)
schrodingers_cat
@MoxieM: Thanks and welcome to my neck of the woods!
Scott Allowat
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations and welcome to the funny farm as a voting member.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Yay, you! What lovely news! Big welcome to you and your fellow new citizens, and now we look forward to working with you to form a more perfect union.
Scott Alloway
Can’t even spell my last name right tonight. Picked a bad day to stop drinking.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: I am looking forward to that! Just in my row, there was a priest from Poland, a guy from Portugal, a woman from Ghana and an 18 year old from Somalia.
@Scott Allowat: @frosty: Thanks guys!
SWMBO
@Lizzy L: Yay! Theo! Good news.
@schrodingers_cat: Congratulations! Welcome! So glad you’re on our side.
@Major Major Major Major: Great news. I’m always up for happy news…
Wolvesvalley
@schrodingers_cat: Chiming in late as usual, but I just had to add my congratulations!
schrodingers_cat
@MisterForkbeard: Thanks MF for your kind words. I hope I can be worthy of them.
ETA: I don’t think one person, even if he has been elected President defines the nation.
SiubhanDuinne
@bemused:
My MSNBC is limited to car audio (SiriusXM), but this afternoon as I was driving home from an absolutely delightful mini-meetup with JPL in historic downtown Roswell, I was listening to MSNBC’s live coverage and on-the-scene reporting from Hamburg, including the reporter and his cameraman choking and weeping from the tear gas. Then I switched over to CNN and they were doing some completely unrelated, prepackaged report about something. Switched back to MSNBC — chaotic, as breaking reportage often is, but there were lots of ambient noises of emergency vehicles, and on-the-fly interviews with protesters who had been slammed to the ground. Back to CNN, who were reporting from the safety of their US studios and Hamburg hotel rooms/media centers what they were hearing about the protests and police reaction.
Came away with the distinct impression that MSNBC decisively won this journalistic round. It took CNN close to an hour to get reporters out to where the action was happening. A far cry from Baghdad January 1991, which is when CNN really earned their chops.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Great news.
Scott Alloway
@Gin & Tonic: Been called many times. Never picked. When I say dad was a cop, mom was a constable and I am a journalist, they seem to back off the questioning and excuse me.
SiubhanDuinne
My comment @146 or thereabouts is in moderation. I found and fixed the bad word, but am still in the penalty box. Grateful if someone could let me out! Thanks!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Oblig.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Parfait. LOL.
Yarrow
@Gin & Tonic: That does seem odd. I’ve been called many times. We get called for all sorts of courts–city, county, Federal, local traffic court (or something like that). They used to separate out civil and criminal as well–not sure if they still do that. Being called for one court doesn’t seem to take you off the list for another court, so you can be called a lot.
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, I offered my congratulations earlier, but they seem to have vanished. I ran away from the ‘puter to fix dinner (steak fahitas with champagne) and it was gone when I came back.
Anyway, welcome aboard, hope the rough ride doesn’t upset you. It’s been rough all the way, ever since the very beginning. But we’ll get it done! With your help, now!
schrodingers_cat
@J R in WV: I can identify with the rough ride, the story of my life. Thanks!
BTW how is your big orange kitteh
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
I had a second interview in Mass today. This time it was with all the program and finance directors. Maybe I’ll become a masshole after all.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve never been called. Not once.
Steeplejack
@schrodingers_cat:
Congratulations!
eemom
Melania’s taste in clothes is almost as execrable as her taste in — well, you know.
Beautifulplummage
Congrats to S_Cat, yay for good news for M4 & Lizzy, aaand Cokane can jump into the gulf.
Beautifulplummage
Called for jury duty waaay back at age 19. Best citizenship excersize ever. I was even voted foreman on 1 of the 3 cases I sat on. Great experience.
wuzzat
Melania looks so grateful that someone in the room is acknowledging her existence. Heaven knows Big D only remembers she’s there when he wants to brag about having a trophy wife.
debbie
@eemom:
Finally someone agrees with me!
SWMBO
@debbie: We agree with you even if we don’t comment. You have to question her judgment on a lot of things based on who she chose to marry.
SgrAstar
@schrodingers_cat: Super, Ms Cat! Welcome aboard. Please proceed directly to below decks, where you will find all of us bailing like mad to save the ship of state.
eemom
@debbie:
That godawful $51k flowered jacket she wore in Italy kind of sealed the deal. Looked like a bad acid trip.
debbie
@eemom:
Thank Whatever I didn’t see your post until now! I’m sure that memory would have destroyed the chance of sleeping sound.