Sean Cotter Lem

🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 | atlanticist at heart | opinions are my own

[Sean Cotter Lem @scotlem7]

and they say democracy is dead

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

you simply do not understand how comically diverse America is. what a beautifully stupid country we have

[Ahmed Baba @AhmedBaba_]

Aside from how disastrous this would be for CNN’s domestic political coverage, CNN has some of the best international journalists on the planet. The incompetence and ideological tilt Bari Weiss has demonstrated at CBS would be corrosive to global journalism.

[Lady Nimby @LadyNimby]

Every *single* euro I’ve ever known who has visited the US has described something as mundane as walking into a gas station as “like being in a film/tv show”

When I was there, everyone wanted to see photos of my high school and hear stories about it. Because it was “like being on tv”

Drive down a wide-open desert highway. “It’s like a film”

Drink a cup of drip coffee out of a porcelain mug. “Just like on tv”

Red solo cups in the store. “Just like high school films”

Packed high school football game on a Friday night. “Just like tv”

Subdivisions with big houses, double garages, large yards “just like in films”

Go to a shooting range. “I THOUGHT THIS WAS MADE UP FOR TV”

Even the “America is retarded” crowd get like this when they finally experience it

I will fault Hollywood for a lot but selling America as an insanely cool and desirable place to be is not one of them. At least not through the 00’s. All of these people in some way or another emulated what they saw on tv and in film in their own lives as teenagers and at university, whether they realized it or not. The way they dressed (particularly early 00s SoCal fashion), the food they ate, the kind of parties they threw.

Once the ice was broken and we became friends, I never met a single person that didn’t confide that the banality of my life growing up was incredibly cool, even “the dream,” just by virtue of being in the US. We’ve maybe lost some of that cred recently. But it’s still there. It’s still the dominant feeling whether they’ll admit it or not.

[Arthur Boreman (yes, that Arthur Boreman) @ArthurBoreman]

Brits in England: “This is the worst world cup ever!”

Germans driving a Mustang through Georgia with the top down to a game: “🎶AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I’M FREE!!!🎶”

[Governor Hochul Press Office @NYGovPress]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Alex Adelman @alexadelman]

If your first words weren’t “stand clear of the closing doors please” you’re not a New Yorker.

[croptopsandcourtrooms @croptopsllc]

I think this World Cup tourist phenomenon is beautiful. It's so easy to get hung up on the bad things about this place. But what makes the US special are the things we take for granted; the scenery, the cheesy roadside attractions, greasy food, classic Americana, the PEOPLE.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

getting depressed thinking about the timeline where Kamala won, the whole world is excited to be here for the World Cup, and Trump is in prison instead of shutting down midtown so he can fall asleep at the Knicks game

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

This is what authentic American leadership and pride in our way of life looks like.

It’s friendly and welcoming to the world, eager to showcase and share what we’ve built with people from every corner of it.

“On behalf of everyone across the Big Apple, welcome home my friends.”

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

I've been saying that the non-Trump US can use this World Cup to show a better, welcoming, pro-world face of the country. This guy does exactly that

[respectful huff @alexqarbuckle]

My mayor Muslim
My bagel Jewish
My cream cheese chive
Knicks in five

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

“On behalf of everyone across the Big Apple: Welcome home, my friends.”

Nah bro I’m not crying you are.

[Sean Cotter Lem @scotlem7]

@f1wika Texel

[Sean Cotter Lem @scotlem7]

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

[TABBY @verypalehipster]

If it happens at a Knicks game it will be the greatest moment in basketball and American history

[Sean Cotter Lem @scotlem7]

I mean beyond that, there are plenty of other things wrong with this list lol

[Sean Cotter Lem @scotlem7]

because they reject the trinity and other core tenets of the Nicene Creed, foundational to the Christian faith

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Can anyone tell me why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was left out of the list of Christian churches?

[ina @allseeingina]

Dive bar staff across NYC are this nations greatest heroes tonight

[David @dqveed]

They’re slowly taking away the second amendment see

[tré easton @treeaston]

You can’t teach this.