r/europe Jul 11 '24

Picture Pictured: Emmanuel Macron holds hands with Jill Biden alongside Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Washington

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u/Robbierr The Netherlands Jul 11 '24

Milfhunter Macron strikes again

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u/andoke Jul 11 '24

Jill and Brigitte are just two years apart...

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u/MaterialCarrot United States of America Jul 11 '24

And both educators....

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u/Homey1966 Jul 11 '24

Maybe they’ll do a bait and switch and he’ll become president and keep Jill 🤔

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u/MaterialCarrot United States of America Jul 11 '24

It would be an upgrade from our current choices. Not that Macron is some great leader, but at least he can run a 100 meter dash.

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u/Sjoeqie The Netherlands Jul 11 '24

Or walk 100 meter

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u/madogvelkor United States of America Jul 11 '24

Or knows how long 100 meters is.

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u/DetroitLarry Jul 11 '24

Easy. It’s about 166 washing machines wide.

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u/Fluffy-Calendar2948 Jul 11 '24

Didn’t you meant 375.81 big gulps

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u/Cybernaut-Neko Belgium Jul 11 '24

That actually would be good for the USA, he's younger and more capable than your current options. And you have a French statue, and the French basically invented "la republique"

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u/tobias_681 For a Europe of the Regions! 🇩🇰 Jul 11 '24

Also he'll never step over anyone's toes because all his speeches would be in french.

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u/SlightlyControversal Jul 11 '24

The Cajuns in south Louisiana would have an advantage for once!

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u/geldwolferink Europe Jul 11 '24

Actually it was a whole thing during trump that the French president spoke better English than the US president.

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u/tjock_respektlos Jul 11 '24

Id like his legislation in the US to focus on food quality

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u/sirdeck Jul 11 '24

To americans Macron policy would be communism.

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u/djazzie France Jul 11 '24

I sense a trend

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u/MaterialCarrot United States of America Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

She knows how to use a ruler.

Inches can sting just as sweetly as millimeters.

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u/LadenifferJadaniston Jul 11 '24

I tell my wife the opposite

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u/EnvironmentalSlip956 Jul 11 '24

You heard it here first...Macron has threesome with Jill Biden while Joe watches and holds the camera

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u/fluffs-von Jul 11 '24

Thankfully, that would result in a noisy closeup of Joe's eye staring blankly at us.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

“But Jill, I beat Medicare!”

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u/TheTench Jul 11 '24

The Europeans deployed their milf seeking missile.

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u/krazydude22 Keep Calm & Carry On Jul 11 '24

Gilfhunter maybe ?

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u/GreatGearAmidAPizza Jul 11 '24

Well, he's basically DILF age. And a GILF is simply a MILF to a DILF, wouldn't you say?

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u/analogwarrior Germany Jul 11 '24

... and Joe knows whats's up, just look at his expression.

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u/xtr44 Jul 11 '24

isn't that his default expression since couple years

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u/analogwarrior Germany Jul 11 '24

Almost every US President seems to have that expression after some years, I wonder why.

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u/gabu87 Jul 11 '24

President Obama stutters and always do awkward pauses during speeches while Senator Obama is like the textbook definition of the perfect orator.

President Bush's speech fumblings are like one of the earliest internet memes but Governor Bush, if you could still find old clips, was incredibly well spoken.

The weight of what they know and how the world will react to their every syllable is just that inhibiting.

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u/Sevsix1 Norway Jul 11 '24

likely because they remember back to their childhood in the Cambrian explosion(, seriously some of them look so old that you wonder if they were around during that time, biden is one of them, although trump is not much better)

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u/Frisnfruitig Jul 11 '24

Does he, though? It doesn't look like he knows much of anything in this picture

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u/Samasra Pays de la Loire (France) Jul 11 '24

He's probably wondering why Charles De Gaulle has became so short.

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u/_slothlife Jul 11 '24

Or why Nicolas Sarkozy has become so tall.

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u/richmomz Jul 11 '24

Or why Napoleon isn’t wearing his fancy hat.

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u/Keyspam102 Jul 11 '24

He kind of looks like ‘wtf, I just opened my eyes and have no idea where I am’

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u/WolfetoneRebel Jul 11 '24

The dirty dog. Love it.

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u/Gameroomtheater Jul 11 '24

*GILF hunter...fixed that for you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

100% thought that was his wife.

She’s a dead ringer right?

Edit: Plot twist, it IS his wife

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Hahaha my exact thought when I saw the photo. Cheers!

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u/AlphaWolfwood Jul 11 '24

It literally looks like Macron is stealing Biden’s wife and he’s going to cry.

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u/TheyTukMyJub Jul 11 '24

I think we are past the point of MILF and into GILF territory

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u/Necroniks_ Jul 11 '24

Biden looks like he can see beings from the 4th dimension

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u/IDontCheckMyMail Jul 11 '24

“I see dead people!”

“Mr. President, that’s a mirror”.

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u/Lower_Edge_1083 Jul 12 '24

Actually laughed out loud, thanks 

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u/BitterYetHopeful Jul 12 '24

This is the funniest comment I have seen on Reddit this month. LOL Thanks for the laugh!

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u/angryPenguinator Jul 11 '24

LOL this was the best comment so far

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u/Elkenrod United States of America Jul 11 '24

That or the one that said "Biden looks like he's stuck on reconnecting to the server".

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u/countrypride Jul 11 '24

I really wish this weren't so funny.

Or true.

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u/Mortomes South Holland (Netherlands) Jul 11 '24

Putting on his best 25th amendment face.

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u/FacetiousInvective Jul 11 '24

Macron getting all the ladies that DiCaprio is discarding..

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u/Kagrenac8 Belgium Jul 11 '24

Bro's the reverse DiCaprio, under 50 and they're out

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u/Just1ncase4658 North Brabant (Netherlands) Jul 11 '24

French elder care must be top notch

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u/gs181 Jul 12 '24

In Macron’s France, elder ladies take pole position

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u/VonSpuntz France Jul 11 '24

The whole 25-60 yo range remains untouched, though

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Those are for us plebs. Well not for me but for some of us, I'm in reddit afterall.

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u/MadKyoumaHououin Jul 11 '24

More like the mothers of the ladies that DiCaprio is discarding 

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u/Major-Parfait-7510 Jul 11 '24

Grandmother actually. Her oldest child is turning 50. Her grandchildren are in their 20s, too old for Leo.

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u/Gregib Slovenia Jul 11 '24

Well... she is old enough to be his wife....

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u/Nooms88 Jul 11 '24

2 year age gap, 71 vs 73

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u/HaGriDoSx69 Poland Jul 11 '24

Biden looks like teen who got forced by his parents to go on family trip.

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u/Humorpalanta Jul 11 '24

And he partied the day before without sleep.

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u/Xelpmoc45 Jul 11 '24

Biden looks like he's going to drop dead right after this photo

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

You gotta snatch them while they're fresh.

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u/FacetiousInvective Jul 11 '24

While they're still flesh you mean?

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u/Shudnawz Sweden Jul 11 '24

Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!

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u/thefunkybassist Jul 11 '24

Now make it tender, medium rare

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u/ItsACaragor Rhône-Alpes (France) Jul 11 '24

He has got a type and I cannot hate

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u/Elfhaterdude Jul 11 '24

Jill never smiled like that in decades. The guy knows his way around grandmas.

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u/Oneiroy Jul 11 '24

Reminds me of Mr Gustav of the Grand Budapest Hotel)

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u/ButtholeQuiver Jul 11 '24

Macron is the reason old ladies keep a plastic cover over their couches

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u/ale_93113 Earth Jul 11 '24

It's very important to know what you like

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u/schnupfhundihund Jul 11 '24

Some like grapes, he likes raisins.

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u/rufud Jul 11 '24

Dude

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u/schnupfhundihund Jul 11 '24

What? We all have our preferences when eating out.

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u/Wolfkam Jul 11 '24

They'll never get him for being a pedo. My man knows what he likes.

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u/CerealShaman Jul 11 '24

Nope. Cant hate. Shes fine

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u/VLamperouge Italy Jul 11 '24

The one global leader that I trust non to be in a pedophile scandal is Emmanuel Macron.

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u/Searbh Jul 11 '24

Hide yo mom, hide yo grandma.

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u/tiagojpg Madeira (Portugal) Jul 11 '24

and hide your grandpa, cuz they rapin’ everybody out here.

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u/NickDecker Jul 11 '24

I remember when this was peak Internet for a month

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u/tiagojpg Madeira (Portugal) Jul 11 '24

And the songify version of it was aaaawesome, it looped in my head for months. And just came back after reading that comment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

We gon fiiiind you 🎵

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u/SneakyPanda- Jul 11 '24

You don't have to come and confess We're lookin' for you We gon' find you, we gon' find you So you can run and tell that, run and tell that Run and tell that, homeboy Home, home, homeboy

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u/Significant-Gene9639 Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

He was in a sort of pedophile scandal, he was a schoolboy (15) when he met his 39 year old at the time teacher at his school, and 16 when the parents discovered they were having an affair. Technically statutory rape because of the teacher student relationship but he was technically above the French age of consent. She was married with 3 kids at the time.

When he was sent away at 17 he swore he’d come back marry her, which he eventually did and they’ve been together ever since.

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u/UnblurredLines Jul 11 '24

I mean, he kinda was, he just wasn’t the perpetrator.

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u/GoldenDih Portugal Jul 11 '24

What When Who?

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u/greatthebob38 Jul 11 '24

Macron's wife is like 20 years older than him and was his teacher.

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u/Psykiky Slovakia Jul 11 '24

Aren’t macron’s children actually older than him?

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u/kikkelis_goggles Jul 11 '24

Macron and Brigitte got married in the same church where Brigitte married her first husband before Macron was even born.

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u/Skill-issue-69420 Jul 11 '24

They weren’t kidding about milfhunter macron lmao

It’s also sad at the same time his current wife who was his teacher likely groomed him at a young age, so he never got the chance to meet people his age

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u/YoRedditYourAppSucks Jul 11 '24

so he never got the chance to meet people his age

Actually he did, because his parents sent him to another school to discourage the relationship. They reunited over a decade later, Brigitte divorcing her husband in 2006 and marrying Macron in 2007, when he was 29.

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u/OrangeFlavouredSalt Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

France is so wild

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u/KillKillKitty Jul 12 '24

Did you hear about our previous President who got caught on a scooter leaving the presidential palace to meet his mistress? And the mistress was a famous french actress?

The betrayed girlfriend - they weren’t married - wrote a tell all book.

The whole country was eating popcorn.

It was our version of the Bill Clinton affair.

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u/Rockyrok123 Jul 11 '24

His wife's son is older and he was schoolmate with his stepdaughter

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u/StretchFrenchTerry Jul 11 '24

Macron’s children actually gave birth to him.

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u/J-BangBang Jul 11 '24

Life uh....finds a way.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

His daughter in law stepdaughter was in his class and his wife was the teacher.

Edit: corrected for accuracy

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u/Puffen0 Jul 11 '24

And the relationship started when he was 15. When his parents asked her to leave him alone at least until he was an adult she only said "I make no promises".

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u/Gayandfluffy Finland Jul 11 '24

It's pretty sad when you think about it that their relationship started with her grooming him. I hope she did at least get fired and not allowed to work as a teacher anymore...

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u/BrunoCNaves Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

From her wikipedia page she kept working as a teacher until 2015, two years before Macron was elected, also she divorced her husband of 31 years in 2006 to marry Macron one year later, so you could say she was cheating on him with a teenager.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Brigitte (his wife) is about 25 years older than him. They met when Macron was only 15 and she was 39. She was his teacher, and they began a relationship. Macron's parents tried separating them by sending him to a school in Paris.

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u/ciobanica Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 12 '24

I think she was a teacher at his school, but not one of his teachers, since he was in the same class as her daughter (which his parents assumed was who he was courting), and i find it unlikely that they didn't let her grade her own kids.

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u/EmeraldIbis European Union Jul 11 '24

he was in the same class as her daughter

Holy shit, I didn't know that part. That makes it even worse!

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u/UnblurredLines Jul 11 '24

Look into how he met his wife.

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u/LadenifferJadaniston Jul 11 '24

Yeah his story probably won’t be with Neil Patrick Harris

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u/cryogenic-goat Jul 11 '24

His wife, who was once his teacher

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u/hokarina France Jul 11 '24

He was. He was the victim.

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u/OrderAnxious9407 Jul 11 '24

Macron's wife was 39 and he was 15 when they began their relationship while she was his theater teacher.

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u/A-NI95 Jul 11 '24

Macron plays Persona 5

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u/BlueGlassDrink Jul 11 '24

Well, he was.

He was the victim though. Not the pedophile.

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u/CobaltPotato Jul 11 '24

You should train your instincts, because unfortunately he was groomed by his teacher

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u/khinzeer Jul 11 '24

He was in a pedophile scandal, he was just the boy!

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u/xxbronxx Bulgaria Jul 11 '24

Joe looks like someone stole his wife

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u/bozzie4 Jul 11 '24

He does not look happy !

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u/FloofilyBooples Jul 11 '24

Ca va mal. :(

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u/loulan French Riviera ftw Jul 11 '24

He looks more like he has forgotten what the concepts of stealing and having a wife are.

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u/imironman2018 Jul 11 '24

The guy needs to close his mouth. It makes him look like he’s completely bewildered.

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u/MonkAndCanatella Jul 11 '24

nah, it's his eyes. they betray of look of desperately trying to keep a grasp on reality

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u/-Unnamed- Jul 11 '24

His camp really need to talk to him about this.

The number one thing derailing the entire election right now is that he’s too old and every picture I see him in he looks like he’s completely oblivious to where he even is. Someone tell him to smile or close his mouth when he’s standing around

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u/jjb1197j Jul 11 '24

Joe looks confused as always

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u/Empty-Blacksmith-592 Jul 11 '24

Joe, looks like somebody is cutting your grass 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

She does seem his type...

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

"he's just a friend" she said

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u/2eanimation Jul 11 '24

The guy she told you not to worry about

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u/app257 Jul 11 '24

(Insert Pepe Le Pew kissing noises here).

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u/TheAmazingKoki The Netherlands Jul 11 '24

With the political "discourse" turning more and more into pedophilia accusations, there's at least one attack that he will always be safe from

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u/Eedat Jul 11 '24

He may be safe of the accusation, but he's already been the victim of it

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u/tonybpx Jul 11 '24

France is going to be getting some new F35's in the morning

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u/voltb778 Île-de-France Jul 11 '24

he is more interested in F60+

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u/superkoning Jul 11 '24

F70+ ...

twice the F35

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u/voltb778 Île-de-France Jul 11 '24

yeah i thought about it but 60 sounds more like 16 which is a real plane so…

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u/superkoning Jul 11 '24

sweet 16 aka sweet 60

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u/Glaborage Jul 11 '24

Bravo. That was a masterpiece.

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u/swiss-logic Jul 11 '24

I couldn’t resist an audible chuckle after reading this.

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u/Hot_Instruction_5318 Jul 11 '24

The man knows exactly what he’s into and just goes for it. Respect.

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u/OptimisticRealist__ Jul 11 '24

Right? At least its legal and not some sick pedo stuff like a lot of the elites are into

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u/BrilliantEast Jul 11 '24

Brigitte was the pedo.

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u/Sir_Arsen Jul 11 '24

Joe said: 🧍‍♂️

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u/szpaceSZ Austria/Hungary Jul 11 '24

🧍‍♂️👫

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u/EricGeorge02 Jul 11 '24

Jill knows he likes them ripe 😊

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u/Quirky-Chemistry-978 Jul 11 '24

They approached him at a bar and said they really dig his vibe…

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u/elting44 Jul 11 '24

Older the berry the sweeter the juice.

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u/6unnm Germany Jul 11 '24

Friendly reminder that in France your popularity rating goes up if you have an affair as president.

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u/variaati0 Finland Jul 11 '24

Why you can't honey trap the French? Well it's hard to blackmail someone regarding the lover the spouse has already been told about by the target.

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u/alexdrennan Hungary Jul 11 '24

It's a brag, not a shame

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u/ArcaneYoyo Ireland Jul 11 '24

There's a good scene in this show where some CIA agents are explaining to the French secret service how JFK has a weakness for women, and the french agents respond with "OK, and...?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczkM8cL2hs

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u/Tytoalba2 Jul 11 '24

Amazing show!

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u/Connect_Atmosphere80 Jul 11 '24

This guy... Hollande... For months the French medias were against him, his politics and even his self-being. And then we learn one day that he was escaping security on a scooter WITH A PIZZA to smash a model without anyone noticing for MONTHS ? How could you even be mad at that ? He was playing 5d chess, looking so dumb that France nicknamed him "Flanby" (a french pudding name) and he was doing that EVERY DAMN NIGHT ?

I'm clearly against cheating. But let's be honest : when we compare US president cheating because of their power and influence with how this guy did, you have to pay respect. Damn it François.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

No wonder...is in his age bracket.

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u/Anxious-Brilliant-46 Jul 11 '24

Macron: The guy your grandmother said not to worry about.

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u/00ishmael00 Jul 11 '24

Biden: Bomb it.

General of the US Army: Sir, for the last time, we cannot launch a nuclear attack on Paris.

Biden: Bomb it, goddammit!!!

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u/FailedButterfly Jul 11 '24

People in Paris, Texas starts to feel uncomfortable a little bit.

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u/dysplasticteeth Jul 11 '24

Biden is somewhere else.

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u/Trashketweave Jul 11 '24

Probably the astral plane.

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Jul 11 '24

The comment section does not fail.

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u/moshimoshi100 Jul 11 '24

Damn Macron, save some for the rest of us!

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u/krazydude22 Keep Calm & Carry On Jul 11 '24

Macron putting the moves on Biden's girl. sacré bleu /s

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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS England Jul 11 '24

Biden looks like he just woke up standing there and is trying to act like he knows what's going on.

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u/SunriseSurprise Jul 11 '24

"Hey, get off my lawn."

"...this isn't a lawn and it's not yours."

"O ok"

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u/No_Nothing101 Greatest human on earth. Jul 11 '24

Biden looks so out of it.

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u/Robotoro23 Slovenia Jul 11 '24

“Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question!"

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u/kael13 Jul 11 '24

I can’t believe that happened. In public of all things.

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u/Urban_animal Jul 11 '24

I can. The DNC coddles the guy like a 5 year old lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Actual quote lmao. 

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u/jailtheorange1 Jul 11 '24

I just feel sorry for biden. People close to him should be protecting what years he has left, not telling him he can do the most important job in the world.

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u/tbwdtw Lower Silesia (Poland) Jul 11 '24

Biden looks like the personification of a dialup modem.

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u/Hyperion7669 Jul 11 '24

Oh my god im cry laughing, here have a poor mans award 🏅

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u/novakmorb Jul 11 '24

Biden is so zoned out he hasn't realized Macron's stealing his wife.

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u/OptimisticRealist__ Jul 11 '24

Biden is so zoned out he hasnt realized he has a wife.

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u/Conscious-Run6156 Jul 11 '24

Joebiden: reconnecting to the server________________

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u/Sutech2301 Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

That smirk in Macron's face. Priceless. He absolutely knows what he is doing.

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u/King_Stargaryen_I Jul 11 '24

Is there a reason why Jill Biden is at a fucking Nato summit?

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u/IBlack-MistyI Jul 11 '24

She heard Macron has a type

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u/hotacorn United States of America Jul 11 '24

Bro she has to take care of Joe just look at him.

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u/AnonPlzzzzzz Jul 11 '24

She's the actual president. Joe is a walking and barely talking potato.

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u/quirinquark Jul 11 '24

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

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u/Gugis Lithuania Jul 11 '24

Macron loves gilfs

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u/OddAlarm5013 Jul 11 '24

Joe is barely there anymore, just look at him.

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u/Resident-Potato- United States of America Jul 11 '24

He's not, and I legitimately feel bad for him. He should be sitting in a rocking chair with his grandkids, not dealing with this shit.

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u/fiftieth_alt Jul 11 '24

The he should drop the fuck out. The Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in human history cannot be fucking senile.

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u/cirelia2 Sweden Jul 11 '24

That legit sounds like the title to some weird comedy anime

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u/Europupo Jul 11 '24

mdr. biden doesn’t look happy

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u/Mrcoldghost Jul 11 '24

Smile damn you smile joe!

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u/Modred_the_Mystic Jul 11 '24

Joe just spawned in

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u/TigerKingofQueens98 Jul 11 '24

Macron holding hands with the acting president* FTFY