This is fucking humiliating.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

For any American, to see this pathetic empty joke of a man supposedly representing us to the world.

We were supposed to be an example of democracy.

I can't even think of anything else to say.

Shit.

[spanone]

1. Donnie Downer....they should all stand up and slit their wrists

[Mike 03]

2. It's bad... And being carried live all over the fricken planet.

Sky News broke into historic Brexit coverage to carry this epic disaster.

[Seedersandleechers]

3. Word for the day

Monotone


mon·o·tone

a continuing sound, especially of a person's voice, that is unchanging in pitch and without intonation.
"he sat and answered the questions in a monotone"
adjective
adjective: monotone
(of a voice or other sound) unchanging in pitch; without intonation or expressiveness.
"his monotone reading of the two-hour report"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Monotone that sounds like he is hypnotizing us. Nt

[lapfog_1]

4. Think of the Repuke Presidents since WWII

Ike
Nixon
Ford
Reagan
Bush I
Shrub
the remnants of the clown car - sideshow Don

The only ones that even vaguely sounded Presidential was Ike and Bush I, all the rest have been worse and worse jokes.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Saw a quote where Ike preached on caring for the less

fortunate among us. When's the last time you heard that?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. please don't say they've hit bottom ...

Repukes will take that as a challenge and nominate a MAGAt who thinks coprophagia and guns can solve anything.

[lapfog_1]

19. nope they are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now

but there IS still room in the sludge down there to find a Hannity or Rush

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. arrrrghhh! it's too early to start drinking

President Insanity Hannity or Limbotomized?

I'm moving to Mars, just in case.

[not_the_one]

5. Agreed. My disgust reaches a new low, daily.

It is going to take decades to recover from what he has wrought.

Our allies may NEVER trust us again. We have some SERIOUS grovelling to do.

Not to make light of the situation, but I will gladly don my knee pads, if it will help.

[triron]

6. FUCK the damn media for airing this. Why are they doing this shit?

[dawg day]

7. Sniff. Sniff.

drone drone

[Maven]

8. Not to discount anything you're saying, but we haven't been an example of democracy for a while

Thanks to Republican voter suppression, thanks to unverifiable voting machines, thanks to Republican gerrymandering, thanks to the minority-rule Senate, thanks to the Electoral College, thanks to dark money and institutionalized bribery, and on and on.

We're not even in the top 20 in the EIU's Democracy Index. We were downgraded from a "full democracy" to a "flawed democracy".

So, yeah. We aren't really a shining example to other democratic countries and we haven't been for a while. In the past, we had presidents who extolled the ideals of democracy and freedom to the world, even if the reality in our own country was far from ideal. Even if those same presidents were the beneficiaries of shady antidemocratic power grabs. Now, even that illusion is gone. With a lowlife like Trump at the helm, we can't even keep up appearances anymore.

The question is, will some good come out of this ugly, shameful episode? Will there be an 'American Spring'? Will we rid ourselves of Trump, and after he's gone, will we start to rebuild and reconfigure our institutions so that the promise of American democracy is fulfilled?

[CaptYossarian]

11. By "on and on", you mean arms for hostages and Cuban plumbers

not to mention the stuff we don't know yet.

[ehrnst]

9. A lot of people thought it was important that HRC not win...

to "send a message," whatever the fuck that was, even knowing that SCOTUS and any chance to continue to fight climate change were on the line.

That there are self-described "progressives" privileged and stupid enough to think that this was all worth it is what's fucking humiliating to me as an American.

[ismnotwasm]

15. Yeah, the "bring on the revolution" fucking idiots

I’m never going to stop being pissed off about that

[stopdiggin]

18. a few of those idiots show up here regularly (nt)

[BigDemVoter]

10. We will never be looked at with anything other than scorn from now on

thanks to that goddamned, pussy-grabbing piece of SHIT and the MORONS who voted for him.

[Karadeniz]

13. I think you pretty well summed up our feelings!❤

[Turbineguy]

17. Everybody around the world knows he's an idiot.

Only his supporters are left wandering in the dark.

[athena]

22. Actually, that's not true.

In France, for example, the overwhelming view seems to be that he's a typical American businessman. They see Americans as one uniform block, with Trump at its head. They don't seem to realize how divided the electorate is. Moreover, a lot of the craziness gets lost in translation. With the differences in culture on top of that, they think that Trump's weirdness is just the behavior of a typical American. I believe Macron, Merkel, and others who actually deal with him in person understand that he's unstable, but on French news Trump is regularly discussed as if he were a normal American leader who simply has America's best interests at heart.

Trump is doing a lot more damage to the image of the United States than people realize.

[Skittles]

21. when I think about how many Americans actually VOTED for that fascist fucktard

it is extremely distressing

[Celerity]

23. the vast majority I've talked to (including fellow students) here in Stockholm think we are fucking

INSANE to let this fucker stay in power (same for voting him in, but they understand how FUCKED up and powerful white nationalist sentiment/white fragility is in the US.)

Same for my mates in London, where I was raised most of my life (although BREXIT, so glass houses and all that for us Brits )