Posted on 11/04/2024 6:20:51 PM PST by simpson96
On second thought, hold that Champagne.
(snip) election day has finally arrived in the United States. But don’t expect Europe to join in the election night fun.
In stark contrast to pre-pandemic ballots, U.S. election night 2024 promises to be a sober affair in Europe, with U.S. officials in most European power centers having ditched the usual festivities. Embassies from Brussels to London, Paris and Berlin have decided against holding their usual watch parties.
The reason? The Trump effect. Many officials are still smarting from the shock 2016 election, when Donald Trump unexpectedly beat Hillary Clinton for the presidency — a political earthquake that left many top members of America’s diplomatic corps exposed as they absorbed the stunning election results in the presence of hundreds of journalists, foreign diplomats and officials who had been invited to election night parties.
“I don’t think there was appetite to watch another Trump victory,” said a senior diplomat based in Europe, adding that the 2016 embassy events had been “calamitous.”
That cringe moment was captured by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, who recalled in her autobiography how she had invited all female ambassadors to the U.N. to her residence for an election night bash only to watch her dreams of America’s first woman president go up in smoke.
Similar scenes played out in embassies across Europe. In Brussels in November 2016, then-Ambassador Anthony Gardner hosted an election party in the regal U.S. Embassy on Boulevard du Régent in Brussels. Attendees entered through the foyer under a smiling portrait of then-Commander in Chief President Barack Obama.
Attendees enjoyed wine and amuse-bouches as they watched the results roll in on giant TV screens. But as it became apparent voters were breaking for Trump, the mood darkened; one woman wept quietly.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
Here’s hoping.
one woman wept quietly.
Maybe this time she’ll weep loudly.
Stupid....person.
Dont wanna get booted the day before! :)
“Attendees enjoyed wine and amuse-bouches…”
Fire every last one of them.
Every last one.
L
And this makes me feel warm & fuzzy too:
"But as it became apparent voters were breaking for Trump, the mood darkened; one woman wept quietly".
We will know within a few days if God is still with this great nation..
The party’s over
It’s time to call it a day
They’ve burst your pretty balloon
And taken the moon away
It’s time to wind up the masquerade
Just make your mind up the piper must be paid
The party’s over
The candles flicker and dim
You danced and dreamed through the night
It seemed to be right just being with him
Now you must wake up, all dreams must end
Take off your makeup, the party’s over
It’s all over, my friend.
Polutico basically said its going to be done early.
If Trump is “too close to call in VA”, its over.
Step one, get rid of all the pride flags in every embassy.
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....and step two, replace all the diplomats currently in those embassies.
That was true. Dammit.
Really nice article. In fact, it’s delicious.
Cancel the fireworks!
Yep, I flipped the bird at our Embassy in Warsaw when I saw the Pride Flag flying there.
Fixed it!
Best news I have heard all election cycle.
US ambassadors seem to know which way the wind is blowing.
RIGHT?! I’m sitting here screaming “And nobody recorded it on their phone?”
I want to see these ladies weeping over their
amuse-bouches. 😆
You didn’t know that? We’ve been violently jamming Pride Month up the nose of every nation on the planet the last 16 yrs.
‘Twould appear that the intelligence quotient of our embassy personnel is somewhat underwhelming. Oh, forgot, they are marshmallow majors, never having experienced a challenging subject. But they all got As in “Advanced Drink Mixing”.
Poor puddins.
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