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.
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I didn't know about that one. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over again.
They must be reading our early voting threads.
Lol.
Step one, get rid of all the pride flags in every embassy.
Western Europe knows where it can go as far as I’m concerned.
Sort of like when Hillary had the balloons ready to release and fireworks ready
to light up the sky on election night but cancelled both. The rest is History.
Remember when PIAPS cancelled the fireworks order?
Maybe she can give that phone number to kaMAla.
The Glass Ceiling rental place in DC is feeling very sad tonight
Oh dear. How sad.
She was also too much of a coward to actuall address her supporters and had Podesta, IIRC, go out to tell then to go home.
Tasty tears!
Hope everyone’s thirsty tomorrow gonna be plenty to go around.
Now why would they ditch their parties? The election hasn’t even occurred yet.
Trump is coming. And Hell’s coming with him!
This could explain it—they know the numbers:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4275693/posts
That doesn't sound like confidence in the democrat fraud machine and harris' election victory.
Please say that is not true? Pride flags in US Embassies???
Oh it’s true.
I just love a happy ending
And then burn 🔥 those evil flags!
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