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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: G20 Glimpses

Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: G20 Glimpses

by Anne Laurie|  December 1, 20182:40 am| 48 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, All Too Normal, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

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You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? pic.twitter.com/Am3xGD8CTA

— Mary E. McGlynn (@MaryEMcGlynn) November 30, 2018

"He looks erratic, and he looks distracted in Buenos Aires," @RNicholasBurns says about President Trump. "I think a lot of countries are onto him, and that's not good for the United States." #MTPDaily

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 30, 2018

Omens presaging the death of kings…

We felt it at the press hotel! Small rumble. https://t.co/hsXlMk9k15

— Monica Alba (@albamonica) November 30, 2018

The Japanese Prime Minister throws shade:

Prime Minster Abe of Japan congratulates Trump "on his historic victory in the midterm election in the United States."

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 30, 2018

pic.twitter.com/w4jwhpTNkx

— The System of Christmas Past (@tealtalk) November 30, 2018

What the entire fuck, why is Ivanka doing at the G20 Summit, oh that's right she's Trump Senior Adviser, time to investigate her emails, can't tell me she doesn't have classified information in her emails. pic.twitter.com/2aFTOI5KI6

— Mr. Weeks ??? (@MrDane1982) November 30, 2018

Way to send a message, Steve. pic.twitter.com/rbZqPrFVmw

— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 30, 2018

JUST IN: Trump will hold a "brief impromptu" meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit, despite his claim that he canceled the official meeting due to the ongoing Russia/Ukraine crisis.

There will be no press conference following or reporters allowed in the meeting.

— TO? ?O?E T?AViS (@TopRopeTravis) November 30, 2018

White House: Mueller “hoax” leading to tensions between US and Russia

Kremlin: Trump not meeting with Putin leading to tensions between US and Russia

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 30, 2018

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48Comments

  1. 1.

    Sister Golden Bear

    December 1, 2018 at 2:54 am

    Who knew the Secret Service has tranquilizer dart guns…

  2. 2.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 1, 2018 at 3:24 am

    @Sister Golden Bear: Kind of looks like it.

    Being that it’s an open thread…I went out to get popcorn from my car and saw my landlord walking from his truck. As I walked back in he stopped me, he was holding a piece of paper(I’m thinking, “Oh gawd, not another rent hike…). He says he wants to show the place tomorrow at 5, I said I won’t be home(I have a shoot to go to), he then asks if he can show it without me there. I have two dogs that are just a bit territorial, they don’t particularly like him and might bite strangers in THEIR HOUSE. I just said no.

    He’s never told us that he’s got the place on the market and when he’s showed it before he’s ID’ed perspective buyers as “Building Inspectors”(all building inspectors show up with their young children) and “finance or insurance people”(they at least didn’t show up with their children).

  3. 3.

    MomSense

    December 1, 2018 at 3:33 am

    Trump family spokesmodel Ivanka let the mask slip in that photo Mr. Weeks posted.

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Ugh. Are landlords in California required to inform their tenants when they are selling their property?

  4. 4.

    eemom

    December 1, 2018 at 3:47 am

    You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

    You may say to yourself, my GOD, what have I done?

    Doesn’t sound like something Dump would say.

  5. 5.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 1, 2018 at 3:51 am

    @MomSense:

    Ugh. Are landlords in California required to inform their tenants when they are selling their property?

    I don’t think there’s a legal requirement, but if you’re having people looking inside tenant’s units, it’s kind of obvious. I really don’t think he understands the whole idea of pets, sort of like the subject of this post. My nickname for him is Trump(yes, I think my landlord is showing early signs of dementia).

    ETA: When I told a friend about the “building inspectors” he Googled my address and sure enough, the place is on the market for $1.1 million.

  6. 6.

    Platonailedit

    December 1, 2018 at 4:01 am

    Gawd, what a morose fugly family.

  7. 7.

    sukabi

    December 1, 2018 at 4:09 am

    @Platonailedit: they seem a bit tense…. Wonder who’s giving them the most heartburn Putin, MbS or Mueller…???????

  8. 8.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 1, 2018 at 4:15 am

    @sukabi: The Mueller Tunnel…Trumps go in, but they don’t come out.

  9. 9.

    prostratedragon

    December 1, 2018 at 4:23 am

    @eemom: “Doesn’t sound like something Dump would say.”

    No, that would be us.

    “Buenos Aires hora cero,” A. Morelli on guitar

  10. 10.

    sukabi

    December 1, 2018 at 4:26 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: does that tunnel just stop in the mountain, is there a larger storage area or bunkers in there as well?

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    December 1, 2018 at 5:01 am

    Even Ivanka looking a bit disheveled and distracted in that picture.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    December 1, 2018 at 5:04 am

    @Mary G: Why is Ivanka at the G20? Is her father so fragile that she now has to accompany him everywhere?

  13. 13.

    JoyceH

    December 1, 2018 at 5:17 am

    I can’t help but think that Trump would have decided against running for president if he’d only realized how much of the presidenting takes place on the weekends.

  14. 14.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 5:27 am

    @JoyceH: What is a weekend?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfpBW-nUWk

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 5:33 am

    @JPL

    If she shows up with daddy doltest in any manner today, it puts the lie to her being a strictly observant orthodox Jew.

  16. 16.

    JoyceH

    December 1, 2018 at 5:45 am

    @raven:

    @JoyceH: What is a weekend?

    That’s when everyone who is anyone is playing GOLF, by gum! I know that a lot of Trump’s disgruntlement is because he hears the posse closing in on him, but I’m convinced that part of it is because all this stuff with summits and wild fires and similar tedious stuff has seriously interfered with his golfing regime.

  17. 17.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 5:49 am

    @JoyceH: Did you watch the video?

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 5:50 am

    @raven

    Also too, surely contemporaneous with the era depicted in that clip,

    …The phrase “something for the weekend” is a British euphemism for a condom (and sometimes for another sexual aid, like an aphrodisiac).

    The OED explains the origins of this colloquialism: “Traditionally, as part of a question that barbers were said to have put to their customers.”

    According to a 1987 citation in the Sunday Times of London, “Barbers would ask our fathers: ‘Anything for the weekend, sir?’ ” Source

  19. 19.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 5:57 am

    @NotMax: Well there you have it. Did you see that Roshi Bernie Glassman died?

  20. 20.

    different-church-lady

    December 1, 2018 at 5:57 am

    It’s more like she’s Trump’s senior minder.

  21. 21.

    satby

    December 1, 2018 at 6:00 am

    @NotMax: gives a whole new meaning to “working for the weekend”

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 6:00 am

    @raven

    Not a clue of who that may have been.

  23. 23.

    satby

    December 1, 2018 at 6:01 am

    @raven: loved that show

  24. 24.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 6:01 am

    @NotMax:

    Glassman, who died November 4 at age 79, was a Brooklyn-born Jew, a recognized Zen master, a Buddhist trailblazer, a restless mensch and a serial plunger.
    Glassman plunged into aeronautical engineering, into Zen, into leading a Buddhist community, into running a bakery, into growing that bakery into a constellation of social services, into holding spiritual retreats among the homeless and at Holocaust-haunted concentration camps, into writing a book of koans with a Hollywood star, into mourning when his second wife died and into learning to walk and talk again two years ago after a stroke.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/us/bernie-glassman-american-zen-master/index.html

  25. 25.

    satby

    December 1, 2018 at 6:03 am

    @NotMax: I didn’t either but he’s fascinating.

  26. 26.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 6:04 am

    @satby: They lost me when it became a soap.

  27. 27.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 6:08 am

    @satby: Here’s the bakery he started.

  28. 28.

    satby

    December 1, 2018 at 6:19 am

    @raven: Good stuff.
    But time to get going, market day!
    Have a good day everyone!

  29. 29.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 6:20 am

    @NotMax: I thought, as a New Yorker, you might have heard of him.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 6:35 am

    @satby

    Speaking of shows, as I recall you mentioned liking Detectorists, so a couple of on the gentle side dramedies from New Zealand found on Amazon Prime which you might or might not find a decent pastime. Both innocuous enough that one doesn’t have to be paying strict attention and can have them playing while puttering around doing real stuff. Not recommendations so much as just pointing them out, but not thumbs down either.

    Nothing Trivial – centers around a group of people who make up a team at the local pub quiz. Synopsis.

    Step Dave – Thing I most liked was the way the kids were written. Not in the precocious or overly cutesy way too many American shows tend to depict them, they came across as just real kids, particularly the young son. Synopsis. Also visually amusing because, depending on the camera angle, the guy who plays Dave sometimes looks like he stepped in from Brobdingnag – one of those people who (contradictory as it sounds) could be described as too tall for his height. A few almost too unlikable (the way they’re written, not the way they’re played) supporting characters, though.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 6:37 am

    @raven

    Entirely new to me. Thanks for making him known.

  32. 32.

    raven

    December 1, 2018 at 6:46 am

    @NotMax: Dish network is fighting with NBC and took them off their lineup so I went ahead and got the 5 day free youtube tv. The picture is the same as Dish but the interface is clunky. It’s supposed to rain all day and I needed an alternative for the SEC Championship game in case the satellite gets knocked off.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 6:49 am

    @raven

    Heh. Happy viewing.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 6:57 am

    @raven

    Just out of curiosity, the other day typed “fishing” into the Roku ‘search for channels’ area.

    I think the full list of available channels about that is still not finished loading.

    ;)

  35. 35.

    GxB

    December 1, 2018 at 7:09 am

    @JPL: Nappie changer.

  36. 36.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 1, 2018 at 7:42 am

    You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

    I know how I got here. This is the question I’m interested in:

    Where does that highway go to?

  37. 37.

    Raven

    December 1, 2018 at 7:45 am

    @NotMax: hell yes!

  38. 38.

    debbie

    December 1, 2018 at 8:22 am

    I hope Trump got an eyeful of this Putin-MBS BroFest.

  39. 39.

    Ken

    December 1, 2018 at 8:23 am

    @JPL: It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

    That said, looking after the aging parents does traditionally get dumped on a daughter. In my own family’s history there were three straight generations where the youngest daughter never married and lived with the parents until they died. That was back in the 1800s of course.

  40. 40.

    HeleninEire

    December 1, 2018 at 8:30 am

    @raven: LOL. I KNEW what that video would be. Kudos.

  41. 41.

    Ella in New Mexico

    December 1, 2018 at 9:25 am

    @debbie: OMG you beat me to it! also this Twitter take is gold

    So, are the dour, disapproving faces he and Ivanka are wearing just another con job to manipulate the media? Or could it be that Is it just now dawning on him exactly how “important” he and his family actually are to these two fuckers?

  42. 42.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 1, 2018 at 9:27 am

    @sukabi: The tunnel goes though a portion of the side of the mountain.

  43. 43.

    Miss Bianca

    December 1, 2018 at 10:27 am

    @JoyceH: it’s a bit too earlybto say definitively, but you may have won the Internets this morning.

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    December 1, 2018 at 10:32 am

    @NotMax: That was outed as a blatant lie the moment you saw her eating out.

    You ever hear the old joke about the Satmar rabbi arriving in heaven? The welcoming angel tells him there will be a banquet in his honor, what would he like to be served?

    The rabbi replied,“Who is supervising the kitchen?” (In other words, who is insuring the Kosher laws will be kept?)

    “Hashem (God) himself.”

    “Then I’ll have a fruit salad.” (The orthodox go-to in questionable situations).

    I know, I ruined it with the translations.

  45. 45.

    BroD

    December 1, 2018 at 11:28 am

    What the entire fuck, why is Ivanka doing at the G20 Summit?

    She’s obviously asking herself just that.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    December 1, 2018 at 11:36 am

    @Ohio Mom

    Very cute. Likey.

  47. 47.

    jc

    December 1, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    Trump: it’s always all about me. But the lying and cheating to get elected, and the lying and cheating to stay in power and steal more money — that was all about someone else.

  48. 48.

    Mike G

    December 2, 2018 at 2:28 am

    Prime Minster Abe of Japan congratulates Trump “on his historic victory in the midterm election in the United States.”

    By subtle Japanese cultural standards, that’s an ambulance to the burn ward right there.

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