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What's going on in that picture?
by hatsunearu 8y ago
What's going on in that picture?
- CamperBob2 8y agoI don't know if you're up to speed with US politics, but at the time the photo was taken, they were the Congressional minority leaders. They had just told the President that they wouldn't support funding for his border wall project: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/11/trump_meets_pelosi_and_schumer_the_wall_is_getting_built_one_way_or_another.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/11/trump_mee... The President insisted on debating the issue with them with the press in attendance, which is somewhat unusual, and they embarrassed him rather badly as a result. They are strutting away more or less triumphantly. Whether that was a good or bad thing isn't a good thing to get into here, but that's basically the gist of it. The joke is that the wooden plaque above the front door to the White House resembles the 'Great Seal' bug that userbinator mentioned. This was an advanced listening device that the Soviets presented as a gift to the US ambassador at the end of WWII. It was advanced in the sense that it was entirely passive, requiring no power or vacuum tubes, and was very hard to detect with the technology of the day. It could be said to be among the first applications of modern RFID technology.
- hatsunearu 8y agoAh, the plaque. Thanks.