"Just say thank you." Good god. I would have loved to see Zelenskyy lay Vance out for that, Buzz Aldrin style. But because he's a superior human being to everyone else in that room, he did not.
And the complete lack of emotion in his voice tells you he's long since stopped worrying about the consequences of his words/actions. He knows his base won't care.
Holy hell yeah you did. How would you go about doing that in a single expression? A bunch of back references to figure out the country? What if that's not included? Oy.
Yes. Reminds of me of The Handmaid's Tale: Offred's commander's wife was a TV personality and a vocal proponent of more traditional roles for women, but at the time of the story it's obvious she's been hoisted on her own petard.
I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.
The deep cut! Praise god!