Janel ComeauJan 7, 2023
I love US politics because they have a detailed plan for "what if most of the government is vaporized by aliens and the Secretary of Agriculture has to rule the country from an underground bunker" and no plan at all for "what if the guy running for Speaker is kind of a chud"
Show threadKaren Strickholm

@VeryBadLlama That is so. True! To paraphrase Churchill, "In The end, The Americans always do The right thing." Before that, it's everything but! I keep imagining what the rest of the world is thinking of our turbulent politics tonight. To paraphrase someone else, "The inmates have taken over the asylum."

#Speaker

Jan 7, 2023 at 5:58amWeb
Show threadKathryn AshbyJan 7, 2023
@KarenStrickholm @VeryBadLlama Canada here. We haven’t really been thinking good things about you since you elected the orange monster. This clown show is simply another example of that. I’m not speaking for the nation, but pretty much everyone I know feels this way and I know a LOT of people. My Aussie and UK friends too. So…
Show threadMATrumanJan 7, 2023
@Kat @KarenStrickholm @VeryBadLlama Here in the UK, after the past six months or so, we’re not commenting on how badly anyone else runs their legislature…
Show threadAmanda LillywhiteJan 7, 2023
@MATruman @Kat @KarenStrickholm @VeryBadLlama also in the UK and came here to say that! It's great that for once the craziness is not in Westminster.
Show threadClaireJan 7, 2023
@Kat @KarenStrickholm @VeryBadLlama
From Europe I second that!
Show threadPeter Kisner ≈Jan 7, 2023

@Kat @KarenStrickholm @VeryBadLlama
I think by now everyone here in the U.S. who even vaguely cares about the opinion of people from other countries already knows this, and is duely ashamed and horrified at what our country has become.

And anyone who doesn't already know what other countries think of us has decided they wouldn't care anyway what others think, and probably thinks we haven't gone far enough down the path of dysfunction.

Show threadGAC Jan 7, 2023
@VeryBadLlama @Kat @KarenStrickholm @PTR_K US citizen here and yeah we are an embarrassment. Believe me, I’m from Colorado and would love to extradite Boebert back to Florida. Wish we had #jonathanpie here in the US.
Show threadPhil Thane ✅Jan 7, 2023
@KarenStrickholm @VeryBadLlama Over here on Brexit Island no-one is running anything. We have a prime minister and government ministers being paid a tonne of money to watch shit happen. #UK #government