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Jeepers...French Pres can't keep his hands off Tubby.... (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Apr 2018 OP
Fuck him , he never should have come in the first place, NOBODY should. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1
Dominance displays. Macron is beating Spanky at his own game. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #2
I think you're right on...... CatMor Apr 2018 #5
Yes PatSeg Apr 2018 #11
Oui. Precisely. Dirty Donny* is being Totally Dominated by the Frenchman Achilleaze Apr 2018 #12
That's what I see. Trump arm-wrestled Macron, pulling him in, and Macron is handling it okay nt Hekate Apr 2018 #13
Blowing smoke up his ass maxsolomon Apr 2018 #3
Macron needs tubby to stay in line with the Iran deal meadowlark5 Apr 2018 #4
Macron has figured tubby out and is playing him like a violin concerto. appleannie1943 Apr 2018 #6
I think youre right. That handshake at the end! nolabear Apr 2018 #8
If it's the same handshake I saw, it looked like Macron reached out and gripped Trump by the Arkansas Granny Apr 2018 #9
This so reminds me of Ambassador Joe Wilson's description of Saddam Hussein's dominance handshake Hekate Apr 2018 #16
More like a cello. GeorgeGist Apr 2018 #10
Just Fucking with him now, I'd bet....LOL hlthe2b Apr 2018 #7
I worked for a bully boss once.. HipChick Apr 2018 #14
yeah.. my bully boss was as ignorant and narcissistic as Trump but possibly even more crude hlthe2b Apr 2018 #15
And he keeps kissing Trump left-of-center2012 Apr 2018 #17
hes counting coup samnsara Apr 2018 #18
Good one. eom OldHippieChick Apr 2018 #19

PatSeg

(47,541 posts)
11. Yes
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 02:16 PM
Apr 2018

That's how I take it. I wonder how long he's been planning this. He certainly does look pleased with himself.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
12. Oui. Precisely. Dirty Donny* is being Totally Dominated by the Frenchman
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 02:19 PM
Apr 2018
* aka Tubby Subby & republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
4. Macron needs tubby to stay in line with the Iran deal
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 01:40 PM
Apr 2018

I'm sure Macron has a lot of self loathing having to touch and be complimentary to that orange algae. But he might feel he needs to for the greater good.

nolabear

(41,987 posts)
8. I think youre right. That handshake at the end!
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 01:47 PM
Apr 2018

It looked like the beginning of a throwdown. And the endless backslap. It had the feel of dominance disguised as friendliness.

Arkansas Granny

(31,522 posts)
9. If it's the same handshake I saw, it looked like Macron reached out and gripped Trump by the
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 02:04 PM
Apr 2018

upper arm so he couldn't be pulled forward like Trump has done to others in the past.

Hekate

(90,740 posts)
16. This so reminds me of Ambassador Joe Wilson's description of Saddam Hussein's dominance handshake
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 02:41 PM
Apr 2018

Naturally this was during the Iraq invasion and after Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was outed by Cheney. Wilson went on a lecture tour.

Ambassador Wilson, posted to Iraq, found out that Saddam had a habit of sticking his hand out for a greeting, but deliberately positioning it much lower than normal. The foreign official would put out his own hand, grasp air, and bow his head to locate the expected hand. Flash! Yet another photo of a foreign dignitary "bowing" to Saddam Hussein.

Like Macron, Wilson prepared. He locked eyes with the dictator and brought his own hand lower, Saddam lowered his arm more, and so it went. He never "bowed."

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
14. I worked for a bully boss once..
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 02:29 PM
Apr 2018

He'd leave me minute instructions on everything like the control freak he was...and I would do the opposite just to fuck with him..

hlthe2b

(102,316 posts)
15. yeah.. my bully boss was as ignorant and narcissistic as Trump but possibly even more crude
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 02:32 PM
Apr 2018

His idea of asserting his "alpha" on a lot of the staff was to blow out the worst and most obscene fart possible and basically dare them to say anything. He never did it to me, but almost always the female assistants. Uggh.

If there actually were a God, then why are these creeps not smited daily?

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