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2021-11-10 Europe

Kamala Harris lands in Paris for four-day [charm] offensive aimed at President Macron as Biden tries to smooth over cracks after 'clumsy' handling of US-British submarine deal with Australia

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Kamala Harris touched down aboard Air Force Two with her lawyer husband Douglas Emhoff ahead of meeting

VP is under pressure to smooth over cracks with Emmanuel Macron after relations sunk to historic low

Macron furiously recalled French ambassador to the United States in September over the new Aukus pact

Australia snubbed submarines from France in favor of deal with US and UK, shredding a AU$90m contract

Harris will meet with Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris for discussion on Indo-Pacific on Wednesday

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 There's good news and bad news from Paris.
Marie Antoinette has an heiress.
The City of Light
Might tonight be less bright
But tomorrow, we'll always have Harris.

Posted by Pheth Sproing6492 2021-11-10 05:19|| 2021-11-10 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Clumsy handling? You mean how Dementia Joe spilled the beans to Macron in a blabbermouth stream of consciousness, even though it had not been properly announced yet? Ol' Child Sniffer just casually mentioned it in passing, as if Macron already knew.

These things happen when you're going senile, like Biden is.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-11-10 07:09|| 2021-11-10 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 La Vache Qui Rit

Posted by Thrirt Tholuque4361 2021-11-10 07:42|| 2021-11-10 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ I can't quite square 'cackled' with 'Rit', but good post nonetheless. Glousser? Maybe? Not? :)

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2021-11-10 08:19|| 2021-11-10 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Confession: My French class in high school was a long time ago, 57 years now. I clearly remember my French teacher weeping after she reviewed my French SAT achievement test results in 1966. I was somewhere in the 500's (after four desultory years of French). Math and English were respectable, 760 and 800 (1560 as scored today). After ten years in the Army, they were good enough to get me into Harvard Class of 1981 (it was different back then, academic opportunity abounded, fantastic approachable professors (a few assholes admittedly) non-intrusive staff). Now, my kids won't go there unless it is free plus a stipend. One got his post-doc there, via Marvin Minsky (yeah, I know, but things are very flexible post-doc wise). The girls refused to stoop to that level.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2021-11-10 08:40|| 2021-11-10 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm pretty sure 'Kamala Harris' and 'charm offensive' shouldn't be used in the same sentence.

Posted by Raj 2021-11-10 10:02|| 2021-11-10 10:02|| Front Page Top

#7 I think somebody insulted cows here.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-10 12:05|| 2021-11-10 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Nor Biden and Smoothing Cracks.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-10 14:19|| 2021-11-10 14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Where's Clemenceau when you need him?

Paraphrasing his joke about President Felix Faure, who died in office in 1899 while receiving a Clinton from his mistress -- here the subject & object are reversed for Madame Skanque La Pompeuse:
"Elle voulait être César, elle ne fait que Pompée”

* “Faure died suddenly from apoplexy in the Élysée Palace on 16 February 1899, while engaged in sexual activities in his office with 30-year-old Marguerite Steinheil. It has been widely reported that Felix Faure had his fatal seizure while Steinheil was fellating him, but the exact nature of their sexual intercourse is unknown and such reports may have stemmed from various jeux de mots made up afterward by his political opponents.

“One such pun was to nickname Mme Steinheil “la pompe funèbre” (wordplay in French: “pompes funèbres” means “death care business” and “pompe funèbre” could be translated, literally, as “funeral pump“).

George Clemenceau’s epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was “Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée” (another wordplay in French; could mean both “he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey”, or “he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown“: the verb “pomper” in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man).

Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper L’Aurore, wrote that “upon entering the void, he [Faure] must have felt at home.”

“In 1898 (and for the first few years of the following century) the French automobile industry was the largest in the world. President Faure was not impressed. Invited to address industry leaders at what, in restrospect [sic], is recorded as the first Paris Motor Show, Faure told his audience, “Your cars are very ugly and they smell very bad” (“Vos voitures sont bien laides et sentent bien mauvais!”)”

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-10 17:47|| 2021-11-10 17:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Golden Kneepad Trophy?

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2021-11-10 19:21|| 2021-11-10 19:21|| Front Page Top

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