So, yesterday, I came across this brief video of Trump.  And yes, I know there were a lot to choose from.  Indeed, yes, I know that every day there are a lot to choose from.  Like, for instance, I came close to using him slam the granddaughter of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg by suggesting that she might have been lying about the dying message she said her grandmother wanted to be quoted for.  Never mind that renowned NPR court reporter Nina Totenberg had earlier followed up on the quote to learn that others in room at the time (including Justice Ginsberg's doctor) confirmed what was said -- something Ms. Totenberg did at the time as a good reporter checking on a story, not because of Trump's idiot comment suggesting that maybe Adam Schiff or some other Democrats said it.  But as offensive as that was about a granddaughter who'd just lost a grandmother, it was just Trump being cold, heartless Trump and got plenty of attention on its own.

Or the video clip of Trump saying about the coronavirus that "It affects virtually nobody," that it really only affects the elderly (who aren't "nobody," and he himself fits into the "elderly" group, and we not only know it's not true, but we know from Bob Woodward's recording that Trump himself says he knows it's not true.).  And of course, we all know that the coronavirus has now killed over 204,000 Americans -- so far. But this is just too insane to waste too much time on.  Not that it's just dismissed for being normal Trump, but dismissed for being too infantile to spend adult time on it playing his game. 

Instead, this one caught my attention because at first it seemed like one of those tweet where the person posting it, in this case Aaron Rupar, paraphrased an idiot comment by Trump to translate into English in order to bring out its full stupidity in a way that was even more clear.  But then when I watch the clip, it turned out that, no, the quote was actually what Trump said, word for word.

(You can a bonus.  The tweet with the clip was linked to a clip of Trump defending his earlier comment ridiculing the granddaughter.  That's the one on top.  The main clip in question, about the poisoning of Russian dissident leader Alexey Nalvany is below.

What I would have loved is a follow-up question --

"Sir, could you let us know generally when that "another time" would be?  Because Mr. Navalny was poisoned a month ago which should be plenty of time for you to have figured out an answer."

For me, this quote stood out because it encapsulated the Trump time in office.  His refusal to criticize Vladmir Putin or Russia about anything, including the poisoning of a political opponent, which is about as fascist a thing as one could imagine, even if you were taking a test of fascism and it was open book so that could copy down anything that you thought was pure fascist.  And then, Trump just pushed it off with a mumbled "We'll talk about it later" and of course never will, though hopefully he'll be asked about it again.  And again.  And again and again.  The only surprising thing in the quote is that he didn't use his standard "in two weeks."

​I have a lot more to say about that, but instead of being "outraged," (tm), I think I'm just going to embed a joyful video of a zookeeper in China trying her best to deal with a group of pandas.  

I get a big kick out of this video on its own -- but the comment posted with it puts the whole thing in a particularly fun perspective.

We haven't had a video from the wonderful folks at The Dodo for a while, so let's rectify that.  There's nothing especially dramatically notable about this one, but it's just so sweet and fits the definition perfectly.

My one quibble.  Regardless of what the description says, I think this is about a dog doing everything it can to show a cat how much it likes it and just wants to play, until the cat finally gets it.
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The video is amusing, but it's the text in the tweet setting it up that, to me, is what makes this a hoot.
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Today, we offer a "Shelter-at-home" edition, especially for those who have temporarily had to moved their office to their their home.
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This is, of course, not even the closest to the "greatest of all tweets," but it sure is a lot of fun.

As someone commenting on it wrote, "At first I thought the dog was being mean, but then I realized he just wanted to make sure they got a good family portrait."​

Actually, this will be three videos.  I thought about posting them one at a time, but they all fit together so nicely I thought it best to just make it trilogy set.

They come with thanks to the inveterate Chris Dunn for bringing this to my attention.  To be more accurate, he brought the third of these to my attention, and when I looked to find out more about the guy, it turned out that he's done a series of others.

These are play-by-play videos by Andrew Cotter about his two dogs, Mable and Olive.  It turns out that he is an actual BBC sportscaster, and (as he notes on one of his tweets) he was bored during this coronavirus shutdown without any sports to broadcast.

​As far as I can tell, this is the first one --

He follows it with a rematch. 
 
Fun fact, an article about the videos (and this in particular) made note that the voiceover and final line was all done after-the-fact and edited onto the video later, in case people didn’t like what he says at the end….

And finally, this was the video that Chris sent me --

Without too much difficulty, you’ll know where this is going -- but it still has somewhat of a funny twist on how, in the end, it gets there.