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.

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[–] 62 points 11 months ago (8 children)

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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Pratchett_novel)

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Jon Snow: The douche bags are coming!

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Meanwhile the US sets up its own Night Watch. But the one from Babylon 5

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    We should do that in Canada too.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    ...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...

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Ah damn. I wanna join the Nightwatch. Does Copenhagen want volunteers?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Aren't the danish the ones with submarines that we can't track? I may be wrong about the country, but I remember a northern European country having diesel submarines that were ghosts to us. Not as long of range, but we legit simply couldn't track them.

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