While Europeans Sleep, Americans Flood Twitter With Things They Can’t Understand – Twitchy

April 19, 2024

Europeans love to remind Americans that they are ‘more cultured’ than we are. Americans, in return, love to remind Europe that we don’t give a single damn what they think about us. As long as we are footing most of the bill for NATO, we like to tell them what Col. Nathan R. Jessup said to Daniel Caffey in ‘A Few Good Men’:

‘I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather that you just said ‘thank you’ and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don’t give a DAMN what you think you’re entitled to.’

Right on, Colonel.

Yet earlier this week, a social media trend started popping up on Twitter, citing things Europeans know that America just can’t understand. We’re not sure why, no one can really ever explain these things, but you can bet America was not likely to take it lying down. Last night, America struck back … HARD.

We think this is the tweet that might have started it all:

We don’t know who this account is. It says it’s located in Virginia but it has Australian and Ukrainian flags. Whatever, it’s confusing. So is the ‘joke’ it tried to make. Umm, it’s a hot pot. Big deal. What’s so hard to understand about that?

No matter what the point of that tweet was, it was GAME ON from there, as America took over the trend on Twitter with hilarious memes and gifs. (And the ‘Europeans are sleeping…’ part of us made us proud. As proud as we are about George Washington crossing the Delaware in the middle of the night — on Christmas — to defeat the British.)

Here are some of our favorites: