No wonder Jon Snow is ready to bend the knee.
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" Chapo's many foes seized on the phrase "bend the knee.
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She has demanded he bend the knee to her, and while there are political reasons aplenty for his fealty, it seems like she wanted him to bend the knee out of affection to her.
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The first famous "Bend the knee" was the prank call meme.
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But after an awkward introduction, Jon refuses to bend the knee.
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"Did you bend the knee to save the North?" she asked.
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From here on out, all other shows will have to bend the knee.
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If a progressive champion like Warren will bend the knee, which Democrats won't?
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Face it, folks, it's time to bend the knee to King Jon Targaryen.
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But get this through your fucking head: You must bend the knee to us.
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Whomst among us wouldn't bend the knee in the face of the Unburnt herself?
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Episode 5 Dany tells Randyll and Dickon Tarly to bend the knee or die.
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Characters we thought would never bend the knee did (we're looking at you, Jon Snow).
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From Dorne to the Iron Islands to the North, visitors arrived to bend the knee.
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No, they simply weren't prepared to bend the knee to Dany, who they had never met.
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Here's the twist: she's not going to kill them — as long as they bend the knee.
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He falls out with Sansa and his fellow Northerners over his decision to bend the knee. 3.
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After all of this, Jon Snow decides he's going to bend the knee to Dany after all.
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She has reason to question his loyalty, too, since he has still refused to bend the knee.
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"Bend the knee" — a basic movement that most people do everyday — suddenly carried a great degree of weight.
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Tyrion tried to explain that if Arya and Sansa didn't bend the knee, Dany would kill them too.
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Even though their claim to the throne might be weak, it's still hard not to bend the knee.
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In the aftermath, Dany executes Randyll Tarly and his son Dickon (lol) when they refuse to bend the knee.
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After a particularly emotional episode on Sunday, Jon finally told the khaleesi he was ready to bend the knee.
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That alone was enough to make us all bend the knee to Brophie Turnt-er, queen of the dank.
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Above a screen grab of the final score of each game, the Yankees posted a message: Bend the knee.
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And Dany has ensured that the people of Westeros — even the rest of the Lannister army — will bend the knee.
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"Bend the knee" — Dany is really starting to develop an unhealthy fixation with that phrase — and they can serve her.
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Speaking of Tormund, he pretty much tells Jon to bend the knee to Daenerys, lest he repeat Mance Rayder's mistakes.
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First off, Jon will not bend the knee, despite what Torrhen Stark promised to Aeogon Targaryen hundreds of years before.
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And yet one single, solitary Jewish man refusing to bend the knee to him sent him into a murderous rage.
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The Tarlys were executed by Daenerys in episode 5 for refusing to bend the knee after that loot train massacre.
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At Dragonstone, he refused to bend the knee to Daenerys Targaryen after defying the wishes of the Lords of the North.
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In the end, Mance's refusal to bend the knee gets him killed — does Jon want to go down a similar path?
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She expects him to remember tradition and loyalty and bend the knee, and is so adamant that he perform this symbolic gesture.
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Stannis then asks for Jon's help in convincing Mance to bend the knee and help him retake the North, but he refuses.
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But Rodgers has yet to bend the knee and pop the question ... and Za'Darius tells us his QB needs to change that.
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After Jon Snow agreed to bend the knee in episode 6, there was a question of what he would now be called.
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Jon was reminded earlier in the episode about how refusing to bend the knee didn't turn out so well for Mance Rayder.
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Sunday's meeting saw Daenerys request that Snow bend the knee to show his alliance to her as the rightful queen of Westeros.
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Only one character could prevail, after all, which meant others must fall or bend the knee, and certain fans must be disappointed.
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"This is a president that attacks everybody — to distract — attacks everybody who won't bend the knee to Donald J. Trump," Jeffries said.
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"This is a president that attacks everybody, to distract, attacks everybody who won't bend the knee to Donald J. Trump," Jeffries said.
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Once we got past all that bend-the-knee business, they seemed perfectly poised to lead the north to victory under Daenerys' rule.
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Right now Daenerys' political platform consists of "dragons" and "bend the knee," which is persuasive to be sure, but not exactly wheel-breaking.
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"The fact that Jon's willing to now bend the knee to her as the next queen is a huge political step," Taylor added.
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An example of this is: The Northern army has fewer than 10,000 men and therefore, Jon needs to bend the knee to Daenerys.
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And though Daenerys is busy elsewhere getting people to bend the knee, she would really benefit from a reading trip to the citadel.
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But Dany's speech to the survivors of the loot-train attack makes her sound like another tyrant: Bend the knee and join me.
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The shades also have fun names inspired by the seven kingdoms (and beyond the wall) including Free Folk, Red Keep, and Bend The Knee.
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Will she find herself in a love triangle, or will she keep her focus on making everyone in the Seven Kingdoms bend the knee?
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He wrongly assumed that, given the huge fees promised to bankers and advisers, other actors in the world of finance would bend the knee.
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Emphasize your dominance as rightful heir to the Iron Throne (or maybe just the host with the most) with the Bend the Knee mat.
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He thinks he's being undermined by Sansa in the North, he refuses to swear allegiance to Cersei, and he won't bend the knee to Daenerys.
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Hoping to avoid further bad PR, it will probably pick these next cities based on local government's willingness to bend the knee to the company.
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This works to Negan's favor, as he prefers his enemies bend the knee and serve the Saviors rather than fight bitterly to the very end.
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On the one hand, Dany hastened her transformation into her father the Mad King, burning the Tarlys (RIP Dickon) when they wouldn't bend the knee.
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Doctors placed metal plates in his neck and left knee, but he is still unable to bend the knee or kneel and has trouble walking.
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And after everything that's happened, the North doesn't appear to be ready to bend the knee to anyone but a true-born Stark (sorry Aegon/Jon).
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"I'm not here to murder — bend the knee and join me, or refuse, and die," she tells the few Lannister soldiers who survived her flamethrower routine.
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If they were willing to bend the knee for a man like Trump, who personifies everything they claimed to despise, then they're frauds — all of them.
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" The bend-the-knee mood was best summed up by the T-shirt of a man with a goatee and neck tattoo: "BITCH I'M THE PRESIDENT!
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He planted the letter Sansa sent Robb from King's Landing, the one Cersei forced her to write to urge Robb to bend the knee before Joffrey.
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Seeing how the high lords react to their bid to rule the entire continent would be fascinating, especially since most houses don't bend the knee so easily.
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In the meantime, fans can stock up on the company's Bend the Knee Golden Ale, which is light, summery, and perfect for your GoT premiere viewing party.
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He promised to bend the knee to Dany, and I don't think learning the truth about his bloodline would be enough for him to break that promise.
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Forcing recalcitrant men to "bend the knee," Daenerys torched a father and son — a decision that may haunt her in the new season, which starts next Sunday.
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Melisandre also mentions that Jon Snow is connected to this, so an intrigued Dany has Tyrion invite him to Dragonstone, where she wrongfully assumes he'll bend the knee.
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They were captured during Daenerys's assault on the Lannister army after it pillaged High Garden, and refused to bend the knee — so Daenerys had her dragon incinerate them.
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He is forcing Blairites and Brownites to bend the knee with a judicious mixture of promises of promotion and threats of a beating by his praetorian guard, Momentum.
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For its part, Georgia doesn't seem to be in any hurry to bend the knee to the organization ... with no imminent plans to ditch the mascot anytime soon.
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After witnessing the devastation of rival armies, Torrhen Stark and his Northern host decided that discretion was the better part of valor and chose to bend the knee.
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When Jon Snow finally came face to face with Daenerys Targaryen in this week's episode of Game Of Thrones, the King of the North refused to bend the knee.
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We must bend the knee to our carnal instincts, whether that's in a Porta Potty, a dirt field, a Ferris wheel, or DJ Khaled's oral sex-free party cabana.
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Kim has "meetings" and Kourtney doesn't want to miss putting her kids to bed (the other family members are much less high maintenance) and neither will bend the knee.
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"It's the right time for believers -- Christian people -- to unite for at least a day, bend the knee and pray for peace and unity without politics," Bendas told CNN.
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They delivered a stark (no pun intended) reminder of that during Daenerys' speech to Jon after he refused to bend the knee in Sunday night's episode of the HBO series.
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This burn goes out to all those up-and-coming 20-something CEOs out there with their new LLC, who must bend the knee or consider themselves in open rebellion.
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After the tense family scene, Jon again has to answer for his decision to bend the knee to the Mother of Dragon after he was crowned King in the North.
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The phrase, first immortalized in season seven e episode three when Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) wanted Jon Snow (Kit Harington) to "bend the knee," refers to the act of pledging fealty.
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And we did see a glimmer of this "burn it all" attitude last season, when she responded to the Tarlys refusal to bend the knee by having Drogon roast them alive.
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Princess Meria refused to bend the knee to Aegon's sister Rhaenys, preferring instead to whittle at the Targaryen army using guerilla tactics and generally making the queen's life a living hell.
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For those willing to bend the knee to their feline, the Iron Throne cat bed is available for purchase on Etsy for $272.00 — a small price to rule the seven kingdoms.
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As one of the president's former rivals during the Republican primary last year, Christie was one of the first to bend the knee in search of a position in Trump's administration.
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The direwolf is a near-mythic beast up north, and the houses still standing after the war against the White Walkers will surely bend the knee to Ghost when given the chance.
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My brother, as an adult, traded that God for a tougher, stricter one who exercises judgment against all who refuse to bend the knee, a kind of Emperor-God, enthroned in glory.
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You bend the knee to us and then let's fucking work together to defeat these things, not with fucking means testing or market-based solutions but with a powerful social democratic message.
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If (and it's a big if) Jon can bury his pride and bend the knee to Dany, we see a Targaryen wedding — and possible joint custody of the Iron Throne — in his future.
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Reddit user xIdkTbhx pointed out that Jon said the exact same thing back in season 5 to Mance Rayder (Ciarán Hinds) when he refused to bend the knee for Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane).
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This is why the Associated Press now refuses to use the term "undocumented" or "illegal immigrant," and the New York Times will bend the knee to use plural pronouns for a single person.
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After episodes upon episodes of Jon announcing some version of "Dany is my queen," it appears he is more likely to assassinate Daenerys than ever bend the knee again heading into the series finale.
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Daenerys has an objective — to induce the Lords of Westeros to bend the knee and acknowledge her supremacy — and her attack on King's Landing in "The Bells" was well-calibrated to achieve that objective.
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Arya will have learned that the entire cycle of violence and vengeance is destructive and will ride north to Winterfell, where she'll advise Sansa to simply bend the knee and acknowledge Daenerys as queen.
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Instead, Jon goes ahead and gives her the commitment she's been longing for: He calls Dany his queen, saying he'll bend the knee and his bannermen will just have to get on board with it.
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Dragon fire is more acceptable when Daenerys is defending herself from, say, the Sons of the Harpy rather than burning the Tarlys alive because they won't bend the knee, no matter how idiotic they are.
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"Bend the knee" then becomes not just a jokey phrase, but a political strategy—and a dubious one, because you can't really build a coalition of egalitarian politics by browbeating a key segment of that coalition.
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I can't say how far liberalism will go in forcing religious traditionalists and their institutions to bend the knee to the sexual revolution: For every instance of successful sexual-revolution Jacobinism, there's one that's fizzled out.
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The result turbo-charged the most dangerous idea to which a democracy can fall victim: the fallacy that "the will of the people" forms a single, unitary intelligence, issuing instructions to which all must bend the knee.
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Partisanship is now such that no Republican dared breathe a word of objection as Gorsuch was made to bend the knee, perhaps out of pure pique—or as a Trumpian loyalty test for any upcoming constitutional crisis.
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She goes on to confront her sister with the letter she pilfered from under Littlefinger's mattress, which the elder Stark was forced to write under duress, disowning Ned and demanding their brother Robb to bend the knee.
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In 2015 and 2016, Trump very visibly and repeatedly refused to bend the knee to key interests within the Republican coalition, whether he was insulting John McCain or flouting longstanding party views on foreign policy and trade.
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Davos was clearly exasperated that Jon didn't tell him about the King in the North's decision to bend the knee to Dany in advance; what's his take on their alliance at this point, good idea or bad idea?
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As the workers each bend the knee to Negan, audibly thanking him for showing up to rescue them, Father Gabriel gets a firsthand look at the loyalty Negan's mix of charisma and cruelty has instilled in his people.
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Since Turner and Jonas are so good at Halloween themselves, this handy guide will also help you channel some of their best couple costumes like Jonas' stubbly Sansa Stark, which was hard not to bend the knee to.
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This only becomes more apparent as he watches Dany burn the few survivors who won't bend the knee to her, or later, when Gendry is forced to bash two guards in the head when they try to apprehend Tyrion.
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Daenerys and Jon swap equally incoherent arguments about whether Jon Snow should "bend the knee," become Warden of the North instead of King in the North (can someone explain the difference, other than I guess, taxes?), and help Dany fight Cersei.
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It took Game of Thrones' Jon Snow almost an entire season to bend the knee to Daenerys Targaryen, but he was much more agreeable when dealing with Sesame Street's furry red monster, Elmo — or rather, the actor that plays him was.
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When Jon takes Daenerys into the cave of dragon glass — where many people thought the aunt and nephew were going to get it on — they once again approach the topic of whether or not Jon is going to bend the knee.
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There's also a neat callback when Daenerys renews her demand that he bend the knee to save his people, asking, "Isn't their survival more important than your pride?" which happens to be the same question Jon once asked Mance Rayder.
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For a good seven seasons and change, this series has hammered in the idea of Dany's aptitude for fairness; a queen interested in equality, with the one requirement being loyalty—bend the knee, and we won't have problems, she'd say.
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Look at the hubris of somebody who thinks that her main opponent and rival should simply bend the knee and lend their organization to her disposal when so much of his campaign was centered on her failures as a candidate.
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He deeply alienated many commanders with his close political ties to Pakistan, his violent pursuit of commanders who would not bend the knee to him, and, especially, his lavish life and grip on both a personal drug fortune and the Taliban's overall finances.
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And her stubborn nature clashes with Jon Snow's (it's all in the family!) as she lets her anger that he not in Dragonstone to bend the knee get the best of her, when she should just accept him as a powerful ally.
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" Benioff adds, "He's a very strong-willed person, he didn't come down there to bend the knee, he didn't come down there to join her in her fight against Cersei — none of that matters at this point; all that matters is fighting the dead.
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Wildly demanding that Jon Snow bend the knee before she listens to what he has to say about the threat from the North was nutty enough — but insisting on riding her dragons into battle is, as Varys, Missandei and Tyrion all believe, pretty damn insane.
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It was Bannon who drove Moore's campaign to victory, with a dead-on take of Republican Party's soul, namely that it is a congregation of unruly dissenters that won't bend the knee to anyone, but one that will stick it to the man whenever it can.
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Ebros confesses to the others that he has not had the heart to inform Sam that his father Randyll and brother Dickon were executed by Daenerys when they failed to bend the knee after the Loot Train Battle, even though it affects Sam both personally and politically.
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Now that's happening in real life as well, as Game of Thrones acolytes come to bend the knee at the actual location of Dragonstone — the steps leading to San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a church and one-time monastery, near the village of Bakio in the Basque region of Spain.
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In the conquest, Aegon the Conquerer (who Jon Snow is named after) and his two sister-wives took over the seven kingdoms and unified them under House Targaryen by convincing their leaders to bend the knee — something their Thrones-era descendants seem to have a knack for as well.
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Aegon the Conqueror took Westeros with three dragons and a relatively small number of troops by offering the great lords of the realm a simple deal: Either bend the knee (as the scions of Houses Stark, Tully, and Lannister did) and keep your lands and titles or else be burned to death.
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And then, just when you think the dust has settled, along come the Andals... Let's face it, Game of Thrones is irreplaceable, but if HBO can figure out a way to let us stick around the Seven Kingdoms a little longer, we'll happily bend the knee and settle in for a few more years of blood and fire.
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For all the complexity of its motivations, the campaign for Britain to leave the E.U. also traded on a regressive and fantastical vision of the country's past: that of an indomitable island nation that had conquered the world, that had faced down fascism and that would never bend the knee to the petty bureaucratic tyranny of Brussels.
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For this fine art form for to even get its foot in the chlorinated pools of the world, it has to bend the knee to the forces of sport, compromising its fundamentally artistic origins and taking on the burdensome weight of judging; its sole international exposure is invariably marred by some ex-synchronized swimmer and a half-informed announcer talking over the music that scores the performance.
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But with fire and blood — and a surprising amount of political savvy — Aegon made each rival monarch (with the exception of Meria Martell in Dorne) bend the knee with the help of his dragon-riding sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys (seriously, Targaryen history makes Cersei and Jaime's twincest look quaint.) At the end of his unprecedented takeover, Aegon even melted the swords of all the enemies he defeated with dragonfire to create The World's Most Uncomfortable Chair, AKA that Iron Throne they're all still fighting over today.
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