George Bernard Shaw nails it here. How proud should you be because you happened to have been born in the United States?
Intelligent, fair-minded people are proud of their accomplishments, not some accident that happened to them.
Arguably, American patriotism is even worse than other countries’. The U.S. has by far the planet’s mightiest military, and belief in American exceptionalism frequently is the driver of the world’s most deadly wars.
I just met an elderly woman from Vancouver, Canada, in town for a family wedding, who explained to me her country’s position on the tragedy that’s occurred here in the United States with Trump’s dismantling of American democracy. It happens to coincide with the meme here.
She believes that it will take generations before the rest of the world begins to trust and respect the U.S. again.
She mentioned in passing that if it weren’t for her obligation to attend the wedding that she wouldn’t even think of setting foot in the United States.
This device apparently uses the kinetic energy of the moving water in the stream to lift itself up against the force of gravity. Or maybe energy was used to pump it up. So far, so good.
But then it releases the water and extracts more energy than went into lifting the water! Wow. Would an average 10-year-old kid believe this?
And what happens after five years? Does it evaporate? Self-annihilate? Implode? Rapture itself into heaven?
Speaking strictly for myself, I don’t have a problem with the Constitution as our Founding Fathers wrote it.
The vast majority of Americans are fine with the systems each of our 50 states have put into place, per the U.S. Constitution. There is an infinitesimal amount of voter fraud.
It depends on what you mean by “happened.”
They were somewhere between 14 and 53 times more likely to die of the disease. I wouldn’t call drowning in one’s own puss and blood “nothing.”
Side Note: Being an anti-vaxxer is not a good look. I don’t know a single guy who would come within 50 yards of this crackpot.
Nobody really knows, but ask yourself this: once World War II was over, was Germany still considered a pariah nation “generations” later?
Earlier today, I was sitting near two women whose conversation went like this:
Woman #1: I’m so happy to hear that President Trump will be relocating the Palestinians from Gaza, enabling him to give that land to Israel and establish what he calls the “Riviera of the Middle East” along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.
Woman #2: Are the Palestinians unhappy in their home?
I’m thinking: Well, I haven’t interviewed any of them personally, but they have been living there since the Bronze Age, about 5000 years ago.
Re: the meme here, I wonder what the people living in the happiest nations on Earth would say.
From the 2026 World Happiness Ranking, here are the top 6:
Notice anything?
They are all social democracies. Their average citizens pay slightly higher taxes, but a) they receive free education and healthcare, and b) there is virtually no poverty.
Providing the conditions under which the poor can become affluent is, of course, a good thing. Quality education and free daycare is a good start.
But making rich people richer with tax breaks for billionaires has been a proven failure.
