How The Rest of the World Sees the United States
I found this just now, and I thought I’d publish it in an effort to describe how ridiculous the U.S. appears on the world stage.
It’s possible that the garden-variety Trump supporters from the so-called “fly-over states” don’t travel abroad as much as people from the blue states along the coasts, and so perhaps they don’t know (or care) how America is perceived, but, in the main, people simply feel sorry for us.
We appear ignorant, confused, hateful, at each other’s throats, hyper-violent, and, perhaps most of all credulous: we’ll believe anything–and that “anything” keeps getting more absurd by the day.
We elected a clown, got the circus that comes along with it, and, to the world’s utter astonishment, seem unwilling to do a goddamn thing to change that.
We’ve often discussed Americans’ peculiar rejection of science, whether it takes the form of climate change denial, fear of vaccinations and GMOs, dismissal of the COVID-19 response, or the welcoming of environmental deregulation. In many cases, this is the result of corporate disinformation campaigns, launched to confuse the citizenry, calling into question what they’re being told by the scientific community.
What Pope Francis points out here is almost definitely true; he’s spot-on as usual. Like so many other challenges our civilization faces, overcoming the pandemic will not be possible if we continue to ignore the needs of the least fortunate members of our population. 
Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.
I like this. Not only is this right from a humanitarian perspective, but who wants to see Trump removed for health reasons?
If I didn’t live on a small cul de sac where no one would see it, I’d be sporting this little beauty out on my front yard.
From this article: 
“Hey parents! Get this fun and free patriotic bundle from Mike Huckabee’s “Kids (sic) Guide to the Presidential Election” while supplies last!”
Here’s another person echoing the point I made the other day about Trump: he’s standing on an island that’s getting smaller with each passing day, as the seas are rising around him.
I have to love Kelly’s remarks. Really? We have to be more careful about who (sic) we elect?
