The World is Laughing at Us

[Avalux]

They're laughing at our sham of a democracy. I keep thinking about the talk of "fair and free elections in Iraq" and we can't even do it here.

[htuttle]

1. Oh, they're not laughing

Not laughing a bit.

[Robbie67]

10. no they're not

not laughing at all

[tom_paine]

14. Not laughing. It's 1938 and the center of the Free World, Europe

trembles.

[eurolefty]

29. Europe is not scared, but apathetic

Understanding Americans is sometimes "hard work", like one BBC reporter said.
:evilfrown:

[htuttle]

33. I'm sure it will all become more clear...

...when Bush cuts off the flow of oil to Europe.

[eurolefty]

43. Oil is being exported from here to U.S.

You don't have enough refineries. Bush will not hurt oil industry.

[jrthin]

2. As well they should.

Our democracy is a joke, a sham.

[mopaul]

3. don't know if laughing is the right word

although i'm sure they are, but they are probably also trembling.

[ilovenicepeople]

21. Speaking as a Canadian these are not tears of joy

running down my cheeks.:cry:

[Cha]

37. Thank you! I'd like to think there is a

lot of simpatico out there for all of us who voted for Kerry and want bush to just go fuck off!

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. God bless you, Canada!

God bless every country who understands that we need SERIOUS help here, we are in trouble.

[Fenris]

4. I'm laughing too, but mine is far more depressed and ironic.

I'm laughing at the big, wide middle of this country. Yes, Virginia, they really are that stupid.

[DenverDem]

5. They will be here any minute

to kick our rotten asses.

[Cat Atomic]

6. I think that was a nervous titter, bro. Not really a *laugh*.

[billyskank]

7. Laughing?

I'm not fucking laughing.

[LiberteToujours]

8. This Canadian ain't laughing

[Swede]

26. I don't think too many of us are.

I am truly disappointed.

[AG78]

9. I am too

it's the only thing keeping me from going out into the street, naked, looking up, and yelling, "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN"!

[malmapus]

15. Thank you =)

You gave me a much needed laugh with the "Khan" ref.

First smile that came on my face in 14 hours now.

[htuttle]

18. You know, I think I'm going to go do that right now

Couldn't hurt...

[Sabriel]

20. Let's have a KHAAAAAAAN thread for that purpose

And let's not forget Khan's line, "Revenge is a dish best served cold."

[TheDebbieDee]

30. Thanks, AG78....I needed that laugh, too!

[myrna minx]

42. I haven't laughed since yesterday afternoon.

Thank you.

[Jack The Tab]

11. I think the world is as distressed as we are...

We have to worry about our civil rights and economy going...they have to worry about slaughter and carnage coming to their front door.

[slackmaster]

12. I think they're puzzled but not laughing

They are concerned about the future just as we all should be right now.

They laughed when our Congress impeached President Clinton over petty sex matters. GWB isn't funny.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. The world is in tears right now.

They were depending on us and we failed. Our congress assholes who WE pay, would pay NO attention to our warnings about the electronic voting machines. WE TOLD THEM THIS WOULD HAPPEN!! G-D DAMMIT! WE TOLD THEM!

The world is not laughing. The world is now in total FEAR of this regime and what they will do next.

[catmandu57]

16. That's the way I see it

I'd be more than a little concerned over what has happened here, I don't believe there is any laughter being done now.

[0007]

17. My energy level is sapped, I have very little desire to try and

think this debacle out.

I can't believe there are this many stupid people living in the United States of America. They certainly deserve junior and his crime cabal.

[pdmike]

22. Couldn't agree more . . .

250,000 jobs lost in Ohio and which state is it that is going to put Blinky over the top? Ohio. Those fucking idiots in that state deserve EVERYTHING they are going to get. And every other, narrow minded bigot that voted for Bush and The Crook.

[HughBeaumont]

38. BLAME Suthu'n Ah-High-AH!

Loaded with retard fundie inbreds from Kaintuck, Waist Virginnie and InDIE-aner that think they'll be rich someday. Blame them, not us Northern evolved people who recognize an asswipe when they see one.

[Avalux]

46. The Civil War never really ended

the divide is still there. Maybe it would be best to split things up after all and take the west coast with us.

[pdmike]

19. And now we have a REAL problem internationally . . .

because, NOW, the world knows we are not withdrawing but, instead, ADVANCING as "Guardian Of The World." Now, the terrorists know, they will have to step things up because we aren't getting out of the Middle East voluntarily. God help us.

[mr blur]

23. These people are just too dangerous to be funny any more

So we're not laughing, we're amazed and, frankly, scared.

[LisaLynne]

24. They aren't laughing.

This country is unfortunately, at the moment, still too dangerous to be laughed at. We are going to destabalize the world. I just wish there was some way to really let the rest of the world know that people like us (Duer types) are here! We're being marginalized and shut up and pushed aside, but we are here. We believe in freedom and democracy and we know what real freedom and democracy are. We do! We know we're part of the global community. We know we can't go around telling the rest of the world what to do.

[Arkana]

25. It hurts, it really does.

The angry tears are pouring down my face as I type this...it's a travesty.

[d_b]

31. Yea.

It's a sad day in the free world.

[Doctor_J]

27. i don't think they're laughing

[Martti]

28. Laughing? Guess again..

We are depressed and a little scared here...

Martti

[DeepModem Mom]

32. The world is terrifed of us -- of our power, in Bush's hands

[hunter]

49. I think we are about to discover how much "power" we really have...

It won't be so much power as most Americans believe. They are living a fantasy.

Remember when we thought the USSR was a powerful nation? Yes, they had the bomb, but they rotted away from within. The collapse of the Soviet Union was swift; their empire simply crumbled.

We do not have the stregnth to maintain the empire Bush and his supporters have envisioned. I suspect very soon now a nation hostile to us will test us, and we will fail. We will be found wanting for the stregnth and resources to force our way. We will have to compromise, we will have to cut our losses, and perhaps we will have to seek shelter.

The United States is not the strong young man that defeated the Nazis and the Japanese Empire -- we are an old man afflicted with a terrible cancer, dependent upon external resources and dangerous economic medicines for our continued survival.

I am not optimistic about four more years of the Bush Administration. A lot of Bush supporters will be getting their just deserts, but most of them, and most of us, are simply going to be random victims of the calamity.

[mmonk]

51. We will implode

as the debt is ratched up and foreign investment leaves.

[DeepModem Mom]

53. Could be a very prescient post, hunter --

My assessment of the world's mood comes from living most of the time abroad recently, with Iraq uppermost in peoples' minds -- but overreaching, and hubris, has doomed many an empire.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

52. What power?? Who did we pick on... some tribes living in the rocks

in Afghanistan and a starved out, sanction beaten nation in the ME, that couldn't put up a fight if it had to.

If we thought we were bad, we would have gone after N.Korea, perhaps Pakistan, or even Saudi Arabia. No... we picked on the kid with the broken arm.

You are going to see just how powerful we are in due time... when half of the country loathes this moron in office, and won't support anything he says or does except by the paying of taxes... and watch the European Union.... I'm thinking they have had just about enough of our shit.

Don't think so? Wait... it will take some time, but it will happen.

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1429.cfm
Athens Kathimerini (conservative), July 3: Intense reactions have greeted Washington’s unprecedented decision to cut military aid to 35 countries because of their refusal to sign an agreement that would bar the extradition of American citizens to the newly established International Criminal Court. The Bush government clarified that it simply wishes to protect the people who serve in the American army....Washington’s decision, though,...is likely to affect its relations with allied countries.

[greyfox]

34. Yes, indeed they are

I have had 3 of my foriegn cyber pals write me today with condolensces and regrets that our nation is so CHICKEN S***... I hated to se that, but understand FULLY what they mean. AND... they are worried Bush will falsely attack them in the next year or so. I could not say he wouldn't. He is a Nazi type and a killer, so...

[MallRat]

35. They're not laughing. They're frightened. And they're organizing.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to witness the birth of a new economic and political superpower.

The European Community is about to take the U.S. to the cleaners.

Four more years of isolation and unilateralist policy is going to leave us at a terminal disadvantage.

-MR

[texasdem99]

36. Kerry

Kerry would have given us so much more sway with the rest of the world.

[drdigi420]

39. laughing because religion still plays a role in ppls lives post 2000

we had hoped that religion would have burned out by now and be only held onto by a few remaining nutballs

nope, the nutballs still have a majority

[Avalux]

40. OK - "laughing" perhaps wasn't the best word choice

I'm still trying to find the right one - whatever it is, it's not a good thing. Maybe it's best to say the rest of the world has been completely let down. This country is supposed to be the example, the beacon of hope for other countries striving to acheive democracy by following in our footsteps. It is too sad to think about.

Maybe the ones who are laughing are the terrorists, those who have vowed to destroy us.

[Gloria]

41. As per the BBC World Service early this AM....Blair's Britain, already

rethinking the "special relationship" with the US, is expected to cool this even more.

Norway said it hoped Bush would work better with Europe (FAT CHANCE)

Poland said Bush's election was "good news" since Bush recognized Poland's new role in the world (such as pulling its troops out of Iraq)

[mr blur]

48. Actually, it's not Blair's Britain, it's ours

And that clown's days are numbered. No amount of back-pedalling now will wipe out the fact that the poodle helped Bush in an unlawful war. The last time Britain and the US had a "special relationship" was between the Evil Hag Thatcher and that bastard Reagan and between the two of them they brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. When the Chimp (or whoever's pulling his strings) decides who to wage war on next then I think he's on his own. Your country has just given him a mandate to do whatever he wants in the name of "Freedom", greed and the good old American Way of Life. I don't suppose that will worry him too much, though - you are, after all, the people God chose to rule the world and the rest of us are just fucking worthless foreigners. I know this is true - I saw it on TV the other night in a BBC report on a bunch of Bush supporters having a lovely little church service in which some right wing lunatic people-hater foamed at the mouth and screamed from the pulpit that the Apocalypse is just around the corner and, when it arrives, gays, left wingers and anyone who wasn't just like him would be doomed.

[cmf]

45. Not laughing at all

I would imagine that they feel shock and amazement at how incredibly stupid and gullible the American people are. They probably feel fear, too, because we've given a madman a clear mandate. And finally, I think they feel hate. For a while, they just hated our leader, now that he's been officially endorsed by the majority of Americans, they're going to hate us.

It's a very sad time to be an American.

[jakpalmer]

47. Believe me, I'm not laughing

at all...

[slack]

50. that's not true

I think you fight great. Greetz from Germany ;)

[Juan]

54. We'll stay by your side

We know America is plenty of decent folks like you that deserve our support. You need to be strong in these hard times and start to work now to take back the country as soon as possible.

Big hugs from Spain. :hug:

[Val]

55. Where Is William Rivers Pitt ???

I must read his words.

[Kellanved]

56. that's simply not true

I just got back from a high-profile discussion. Shaking our heads? yes. Wondering how to deal with it? yes. Wondering why it did happen? sure.

But laughing? hardly.