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Hank Napkin's avatar

Macron, like so many before, experiences that indescribable combination of disgust / puzzlement / dismay / bemusement / anger / frustration / disbelief that every encounter with Don-Don brings.

Hooker P Tape's Epstein files's avatar

"At least they're down wind"

-- France

satch's avatar

"Now the French have “apologized,” and we’re sure they mean it and didn’t have their fingers crossed behind their backs."

Serge from "Beverly Hills Cop" replies:

"Of course we apologize, don't be stupid."

Lisa's avatar

I feel like C. Kush and Bibi were college sweethearts and made a pinky swear they'd have each other's back always and forever.

satch's avatar

'As we said, hissy ensued. There were melodramatic walkouts by the Trump Americans when the French were speaking, there was huffing, there was puffing, there was US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, who stopped texting on Signal long enough to whine about France besmirching the pristine human rights record of the Trump US, etc. Très histrionics, grand pant-shitting, and so forth."

As usual, the descriptor "flounced" springs to mind...

AthenaH2SO4's avatar

For a bunch of dudes obsessed with "masculinity", they sure do a LOT of queening out.

swmnguy's avatar

OT: West Texas Intermediate Crude, the US benchmark, is over $106 now!

Drink up, everybody!

Lisa's avatar

Time to head to Costco and stock up on their limited per person purchase of 5 cases of motor oil. All this prepping is making me cray.

swmnguy's avatar

I seriously do need to make an appointment for an oil change.

Shallow state's avatar

It's gonna make that drop in gas prices to below a dollar a gallon just after the election (but *only* if republicans win) just that much more miraculous.

swmnguy's avatar

I'll grant you that. There's regular miraculous of course. Then there's More Miraculous. Then there's New With 50% More Miraculous Than That.

Then there's Miraculous like, Trump promised it and it happened Miraculous.

That's the kind you want.

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Bond rate hit 5.25%. This is fine

SkeptiKC's avatar

It just keeps getting better every freakin' day...

satch's avatar

WHY DO THEY KEEP APOLOGIZING???

noname's avatar

At any rate, we should be looking at the capitulation within this country; it's not our business how France decides to conduct diplomacy.

AthenaH2SO4's avatar

To be fair, the French can absolutely weaponize an apology. The dipshits in the administration will have to accept it, but they'll have a powerful, nagging, and absolutely accurate impression that they were somehow just called an idiot.

Lisa's avatar

I've always been jealous of the French for that exact reason.

swmnguy's avatar

It's in the manner of backing away slowly.

noname's avatar

French style, so with a lot more sneering and mocking that others don't even recognize.

AthenaH2SO4's avatar

I mean, supposedly they apologized, but I don't actually see an apology? Not that they should, I'm just confused. Either way, I hope they rolled their eyes and made jerk-off motions when they were discussing how to get the Big American Baby to calm down.

Free beach's avatar

Hopefully it was one of the French waiter apologies, as in, I sorry you are so ignorant

Wookiee Monster's avatar

When someone’s deluded, on the World Wide Web, who you gonna call?

Hoax Busters!

Pauly2coffees's avatar

I ain’t afraid of no boast.

Cheers Y'all's avatar

That needs to be a web site.

SkeptiKC's avatar

...Joke Hustlers.

Richard S's avatar

It's been an hour, so I feel free to go OT.

If anyone really deserves a Contempt of Congress citation, it's Ka$h Patel for his juvenile behavior in today's hearing.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mvkxhkddw32y

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mvl4dktud62n

CzechJournalists's avatar

he didn't seem particularly intoxicated.

Free beach's avatar

Well we did learn he likes sex with animals.

Noma Larkey's avatar

OMG - When Sen Foghorn Leghorn Kennedy was questioning him on THAT topic!

Lisa's avatar

Remember when the cis white male John Kennedy read graphic excerpts from the book "All Boys Aren't Blue" to the Senate? It was on the LGBTQ+ banned book list. Seems to be a pattern with him, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I laughed so hard at the looks on the audience's faces. It was absolute gold. Then I went out and got the book from my very liberal small bookstore that I love.

swmnguy's avatar

Foghorn Leghorn. Vanderbilt > U. Virginia Law > Oxford University (Magdalen College).

His whole routine is an act.

zuludaddy (seamonkey!)'s avatar

wellllll,

at least yrrrrr

smoking lamp is lit

(on this otherwise kinda shitty day :/)

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

If France was sincere they would throw in a time share chalet or two somewhere in the French Alps.

Once he gets tangled up in that shit he may just PLOTZ!

Shocktreatment's avatar

I am sorry that the sitting president of the United States is a brainstruck buffoon so far gone to dementia that he requires third party hygiene assistance.

I am also sorry that folie à deux isn't just a plot device for some Netflix murderporn, but an ongoing concern for every single person who has to deal with the executive branch. And Natalie.

I'll bet that I'm not the only one sorry that the pine tree air fresheners Natalie has been shoving down the crackpot's pants aren't up to the job anymore.

Parisian professional waiters are known for sincere apologies, especially to tourists, especially to 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 tourists... That's the template

"What'd he say to me?"

"He said he was sorry."

"He doesn't look sorry to me..."

swmnguy's avatar
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"Au Contraire, mon frere. If there was ever a sorry-lookin' sonafabitch, that's him right there. The orange guy with a pantsful of shit."

R. Riddle's avatar

Third Party Hygiene Assistance is my new 65+ classic rock cover band.

SkeptiKC's avatar

I feel an overwhelming compulsion to apologize to the rest of the world for the psychopathic orange prick pissing all over everything. I've never been more ashamed and I lived through both the Nixon and the Reagan administration.

eliz_'s avatar

They mostly feel bad for us & embarrassed on behalf of the Americans that they KNOW are mortified by all of this.

Most of my coworkers are not US-based & when I apologize, they're like "we're all in this together, but you need to fix it next go-around, please."

SkeptiKC's avatar

Dubya was enormously capable in comparison to those two corrupt motherfuckers.

CzechJournalists's avatar

My Pet Goat is too long of a read for the current white house resident.

josephebacon's avatar

CASTEN: Trump said 'we're taking in billions and billions from Venezuela.' Who is the 'we'? That suggests flows to US persons

BESSENT: Again, this is one of the largest assets ever to go on the US balance sheets

CASTEN: You can't testify whether or not they're flowing to US persons?

BESSENT: No

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvl2s7dkst27

Log Cabin Liar knows all the money is going straight into Trump's pocket...

Shocktreatment's avatar

The royal 𝘞𝘦 or maybe just the Lout and his co-conspirators

Free beach's avatar

Pissant doesn’t know anything but cedes all treasury authority to little Marco.

Hops: grrr mad's avatar

Every single day, my ability to abide by the Rules for Radicals is sorely tested.

G-7 in Space's avatar

Pirates arguing over splitting the booty...

Pauly2coffees's avatar

Honor among thieves.

Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

At least pirates had concepts of a plan to create some guidelines in the future.

swmnguy's avatar

Isn't it all going to an account in Dubai, which Trump controls?

nodak.   where's the beef?'s avatar

gotta pay for that flying trash palace some how.

Tecolote's avatar

The convicted felon asking Macron to apologize for telling the truth is tellement absurde.

Free beach's avatar

Hope he goes quickly, if not, he’ll want to take us all out with him. Like any cult leader.

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

I been thinking that. Hes a sick hateful narcissist

Pauly2coffees's avatar

Comme c'est stupide.