Yeah. Uninformed consent is not consent. Consent given under duress is not consent. Consent given by someone else isn’t your consent. To be freely given and thus valid consent, it also has to be revokable.

And this dunderhead gave his favorite, the “thumbs up” in Saudi Arabia, where it means “Stick a thumb up your...”.

The Trudeau handshake may also provide some entertainment.

Or, he could have gone with a modern classic....

Thank you, I’ve often wondered if eventually I can get away with just saying “eh” and not shaking. I really prefer not to touch any man hands that aren’t necesaary. I once watched my boss and my coworker leave a bathroom without washing. I was waiting outside the door to give someone directions to a meeting. I later…

Did anyone see the video of the two of them walking together and Macron was clearly relating something intensely to Trump, and Trump wouldn’t even look at him, it was so obvious what Macron was saying was way over his head - I was so second hand embarrassed

*also shout-out to french political tumblr, aka my new favorite corner of the internet!

Remember when Donald was going to make us respected by the whole world? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

C’est un homme who doesn’t have le temps for your merde, Donald.

Why is it that usually the men get to chat while the wimminses do the child care?

No one in the history of politics has ever had so many mean handshakes directed at them. Sad.

I can see it now, Merkel will go up to Trump and extend her hand to grab him by the balls, ‘cause when you are famous, you can do that’

I think respectfully disagree hits the nail on the head. I don’t necessarily think quietly refusing to pose or walking out of a speech is disrespectful.

I keep hoping Donald Trump invites me to the White House just so I can very vocally and publicly turn him down.

Why is this huge section of a bio-lab, with the potential for creating some kind of Captain Trips-level plague (but worse), staffed by only two people? And considering how much responsibility that puts on those two people’s shoulders, why do they seem to regard it like an low-stakes, wage slave job? I can see the…

Or he could have just lied to her.

I’ll throw in the fact that it all came down to a scientist who ignored safety protcol all because he was too hungover to care.

It’s all very social-contract-theory. Hobbs and Rousseau, et al.  But uninformed consent is not consent. It also reminds me of Childhood’s End or the Picard/Q dichotomies regarding ‘does the enlightened society need aid from alien superpowers?’