US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
The Danish government has set up a “night watch” in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers like the Night’s Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trump’s pronouncements and movements while Copenhagen sleeps.
The night watch starts at 5pm local time each day and at 7am a report is produced and distributed around the Danish government and relevant departments about what was said and took place, the Politiken newspaper reported.
The position is understood to have been introduced in the aftermath of the diplomatic row between Copenhagen and Washington over Greenland this spring, when the US president threatened to take control of the Arctic island.
Why did people immediately connect Night Watch with GoT’s Night’s Watch, when there’s both a perfectly good book and TV miniseries by the name that seems much more apropos?
Now I imagine Sam Vimes fighting ICEstapo.
If only.
Because GoT is more recent and probably more popular?
And Greenland is much more like The Wall than Ankh-Morpork
Jon Snow: The douche bags are coming!
Orange walkers?
We should do that in Canada too.
I think you’re mostly awake when Trump tweets
As they should be.
I remember during his first term, when he was tweeting outrageous random shit in the middle of the night, and every morning I woke up with a feeling of existential dread over whatever shit he would’ve come up with overnight.
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until Trump’s death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post.
I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realm of Greenland. I pledge my life and honor to Trumps’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
…It is dangerous to go alone! Take this…
Meanwhile the US sets up its own Night Watch. But the one from Babylon 5
…there was this idea, i don’t know when it started, but the thought was that maybe a group of people worrying about several things was distracting…anyway, we made leaders so we wouldn’t have to think about certain things and now those leaders won’t act without knowing our majority opinion on those things “right now” instead of why we elected them in the first place…
