7 મે, 2026

"Wow. Okay."

Said the Pope, accepting the gift of a paperweight from Marco Rubio.

I felt awkward just watching it.

36 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Leland કહ્યું...

Rubio should have just gave a thumb drive of his interview with Stephanopoulos.

Michael Fitzgerald કહ્યું...

Lol! Fuck you, your holiness. Best administration evah!!!

R C Belaire કહ્યું...

Charlie Brown, Lucy ... is there a hidden message in there?

Eva Marie કહ્યું...

He should have asked Kash Patel for a bottle of bourbon. Now that’s a gift.

Eva Marie કહ્યું...

Cringe and the Pope are good friends.
Here’s the Pope pretending he’s Trump:
https://x.com/ingrahamangle/status/2052201632390091154?s=46

john mosby કહ્યું...

The pope gave him an olive-wood pen with the papal crest on it (making sure to remind Marco that the olive is the plant of peace, oy). I'd say they're gifts of equivalent triviality.

And hey, crystal = rock = Petros/Cephas, the rock on which the church is built.

And an American football reminds Prevert Prevost that he's supposed to be an American. CC, JSM

Known Unknown કહ્યું...

How about we just stop with pointless gifts?

Narr કહ્યું...

What would YOU give the man who has everything?

FullMoon કહ્યું...

"Narr said...
What would YOU give the man who has everything?"

Def not a handless buttplug.

J Scott કહ્યું...

EMT saying no. https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/511704699/EMT-Saying-No

Dagwood કહ્યું...

Maybe you should feel awkward channeling Don Lemon.

rehajm કહ્યું...

I think Jim Farley from Ford got him a car. Maybe it was paid for…

rehajm કહ્યું...

A Chicago deep dish pizza would have been nice. No more of that Italian crap 🧐

Original Mike કહ્યું...

Maybe he's a Bears fan (heaven forbid).

FullMoon કહ્યું...

Well, actually, it's not a football at all.
"In geometry, a prolate spheroid is a three-dimensional surface of revolution formed by rotating an ellipse around its long (major) axis. This means its polar axis (end-to-end) is longer than its equatorial diameter."

Def hidden meaning(s) in this description. Revolution? Axis?
end-to end? Prostate?

Something to do with Epstein?

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

Rubio has put on a Yamaka and wailed at the wailing wall. For the camera. Why doesn't he put on some prayer beads, Kneel, and kiss the Popes ring - for the camera?

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

What do you get a guy who has everything? What about some chewing gum?

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

At least he didn't give him a Chicago Bulls pennent.

RCOCEAN II કહ્યું...

I was gonna give you an expensive classy gift which shows I put some thought into it. And then I realized you have 'everything' so i just grabbed this paperweight off my desk.

Lazarus કહ્યું...

It's the thought that counts.
And in this case, there wasn't much thought.

Lloyd W. Robertson કહ્યું...

All those years when Charles was Prince Charles, he kept getting a white stetson hat when he went to Calgary. At no time did he really need one, and he got God knows how many.

tim maguire કહ્યું...

The US has always been bad at official gift giving.

Phaedrus કહ્યું...

Not sure where the cringe is in this. I watched some longer versions and the exchanges, both dialog and gifts, were cordial and good spirited. I think without the taint of Lemon’s comment, that video with no other context isn’t awkward at all and when viewed in the broader context, such as Leo discussing the art in the book he’s giving Marco, it’s just some non-trivial gifting of diplomatic keepsakes in line with protocol. Sure the hell beats giving the Queen and iPod with speeches on it!

boatbuilder કહ્યું...

Just a friendly reminder of the way Caleb Williams gave away the football to the Rams in OT...

Josephbleau કહ્યું...

“ Rubio has put on a Yamaka and wailed at the wailing wall. For the camera. Why doesn't he put on some prayer beads, Kneel, and kiss the Popes ring - for the camera?”

Obama already did both of those things so it would have been anticlimactic. He should have just given the pope a certificate stating that 1000 tons of rice was given to poor kids in Rome by the US Government.

Eva Marie કહ્યું...

Obama’s cringiest moment was when he made a special Presidential trip with Michelle to meet with the Olympic committee to persuade them to consider Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the committee knocked it out of the running in the first round of voting.

boatbuilder કહ્યું...

Rubio had to talk Trump out of giving the Pope a Trump NFT.

Josephbleau કહ્યું...

Ohh, yours is a foot ball and mine is an olive wood ink pen, see I was right about Trump.

Michael Fitzgerald કહ્યું...

Eva Marie said...
Obama’s cringiest moment was when he made a special Presidential trip with Michelle to meet with the Olympic committee to persuade them to consider Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the committee knocked it out of the running in the first round of voting.

Oh yeah! Thank you for reminding me of that satisfying moment of America witnessing an international humiliation of those two Democrat Party assholes. The best part was that the entire "presentation" was essentially Obama selling Chicago by telling those foreigners That's my hometown!!! Honestly surprised that that didn't move the needle with those IOC libtards.

john mosby કહ્યું...

I thought we refused to bribe the IOC, and that's why we didn't get the Olympics that year? CC, JSM

Rocco કહ્યું...

rehajm said...
A Chicago deep dish pizza would have been nice. No more of that Italian crap 🧐

Rocco’s cousin responded…
You are dead to me.

Rocco કહ્યું...

Rubio should have given him a crystal communion wafer instead.

Left Bank of the Charles કહ્યું...

Rubio’s gift is more personal, as Rubio played one year of college football at now-defunct Tarkio College, his wife Jeanette was a Miami Dolphins cheerleader, and his son Anthony is a red shirt junior on the Florida Gators football team.

A similar football paperweight without the State Department seal is available from Amazon.com for $25.95. Amazon.com also has a nice selection of olive wood pens.

Left Bank of the Charles કહ્યું...

Here’s the Amazon.com link for the football paperweight.

rehajm કહ્યું...

Rocco’s cousin can relax - it was sarcasm and rehajm thinks Italy is the best place to eat in the world..including the pies…

PM કહ્યું...

Yes, but how many crystal SOCCER balls has the Pope?

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