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Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: Buck Turgidson on March 25, 2014, 04:55:39 pm

Title: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 25, 2014, 04:55:39 pm
Entourage may be a French word, but Obama owns it. He is in Brussels today, and he brought:

- 800 people with him
- A helicopter, dismantled and flown here by a C 17, then reassembled for use
- his own President-mobile

Also, they reserved a floor for him at St Luke's hospital and fully stocked it with meds and his own medical staff just in case. Finally, they cordoned off a few square klicks of the city for cars for 5 hours, so he won't have to face any of our traffic (which I assure you constitutes a threat in itself).

Due to the above, most of my colleagues worked from home today, and I watched Terminator SCC all day in all its Glaury.

If American national pride needs a boost, let me give it to you here: When your boss visits the EU parliament, he practically shuts down a city of 2 million. By contrast, when the President of Slovenia visits, he takes the train, and earns his fare by carrying my bags.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 25, 2014, 07:00:46 pm
frankly, GS, the president of the US is far more important than the president of slovenia.

we already knew that.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Fake from State Jarm on March 25, 2014, 09:34:44 pm
interesting insight though. wonder if there's any variation between presidential administrations
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Fake from State Jarm on March 25, 2014, 09:36:24 pm
speaking of the EU

(http://i.imgur.com/V4FKL8S.png)
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 26, 2014, 02:55:26 am
frankly, GS, the president of the US is far more important than the president of slovenia.

we already knew that.

That depends what you mean by 'far'.

interesting insight though. wonder if there's any variation between presidential administrations

Yeah this really is a shitload of bling. As far as I know, Reagan traveled with less than a twentieth of this, but who knows? In the cloak and dagger days of the Cold War there was probably an army of CIA people in any crowd...
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Biff Webster on March 26, 2014, 03:19:44 am
I think we pay attention to it a lot more than we did in Reagan's day.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 26, 2014, 06:56:23 am
I think we pay attention to it a lot more than we did in Reagan's day.

Ok, now say that with a gif.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Biff Webster on March 26, 2014, 07:05:04 am
no
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 26, 2014, 07:11:37 am
Couldn't you at least do THAT with a gif? I hope you are not losing your touch.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 26, 2014, 05:27:54 pm
i mean that President Obama is more important than the country of slovenia or whatever podunk little thing you were talking about.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Fake from State Jarm on March 26, 2014, 06:31:47 pm
that is such a countryist thing to say. haven't you heard that all countries are equal. this is the 21st century, get with the times
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Arsenal 10 on March 26, 2014, 11:10:58 pm
that is such a countryist thing to say. haven't you heard that all countries are equal. this is the 21st century, get with the times
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 27, 2014, 01:08:15 am
no, i really haven't heard that, america is pretty much the most important country.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Biff Webster on March 27, 2014, 01:19:03 am
slovenia, more like sloweenia
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 27, 2014, 03:46:43 am
no, i really haven't heard that, america is pretty much the most impotent country.
Fixed on behalf of Crimea
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 27, 2014, 04:29:03 am
the fuck do we care about what russia does, they'll just collapse again.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 27, 2014, 07:41:04 am
the fuck do we care about what russia does, they'll just collapse again.

This is exactly the kind of countryist comment that rallies so much support for Putin.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/world/europe/crimea-dolphins-defect/index.html?hpt=hp_c4 (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/world/europe/crimea-dolphins-defect/index.html?hpt=hp_c4)
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Kenneth Kenstar on March 27, 2014, 02:50:20 pm
Seems like a lot of work to protect that guy.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Kenneth Kenstar on March 27, 2014, 02:52:54 pm
Imagine how often they check for bombs. They probably check the roads Obama will be traveling on before he's driving over them with some kind of bomb detecting truck or something.

Imagine how paranoid his security teams are.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 27, 2014, 03:33:57 pm
Imagine how often they check for bombs. They probably check the roads Obama will be traveling on before he's driving over them with some kind of bomb detecting truck or something.

Imagine how paranoid his security teams are.
they do, also one of their cars has a jammer system in it breaking all wireless stuff in case of IEDs
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Fake from State Jarm on March 27, 2014, 10:59:21 pm
interrupting people's wifi, that's like shooting the dog, going too far
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 28, 2014, 01:02:31 am
maybe you shouldn't live in the way of AMERICA
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 28, 2014, 03:22:31 am
Imagine how paranoid his security teams are.

They are probably the guys behind legalizing weed. Probably explains why there are 800 of them too.

maybe you shouldn't live in the way of AMERICA

I just peed a little.
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Croix on March 28, 2014, 02:54:21 pm
either go america's way, or get out of america's way, THERE AIN'T NO BRAKES ON THIS RAPETRAIN
Title: Re: Obama in Brussels
Post by: Buck Turgidson on March 28, 2014, 05:58:15 pm
Oh man I have to wait until tomorrow to give you another llama. Well done, sir.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQWQWNc_uvo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQWQWNc_uvo)