Posted on 12/18/2016 7:33:03 AM PST by madprof98
In Australia, and around the world, we have been living this presidential transition with you. We watched the debates on our lunch breaks, we scrolled through news on our phones as the voting results were announced, in the warm light of a spring day.
Since the election I have cried many times, in the shower, in the car, as the conventions that define liberal Western democracy are stripped away by Donald J. Trump, with every distressful appointment, each impulsive outburst. I have embarrassment of grief for a government that is not mine and for a country that does not belong to me. It feels as if we’re mourning the death of an idea called America.
Visiting America itself gave us the sensation of having stepped into the television, into something bigger and better. For a time when I was a teenager my father worked in the coal industry in West Virginia. He would return with stories about new things we could not imagine, like cable television with 50 stations. Packed in his suitcase were running shoes for us, in styles that had not arrived here yet. That was more than 20 years ago.
For all the intractable problems in our region, there is a sense of forward movement. When we visit America now, it feels like the opposite, like decay. Roads, airports, an economy, perhaps even a society, falling to pieces. We are left in awe by the extreme poverty as well as the extreme wealth. And maybe it is because of your poetry about yourself that the turning current has been harder for Americans themselves to see.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For some reason the news has just become hilarious these past 6 weeks or so.
"Fosters. It's Australian for beer, mate..."<>P or
"Fosters. It's not just for breakfast anymore, mate..."
Maybe she should check out how much money the Australian government gave to the Clinton Foundation to plant trees in Mexico and Vietnam and study sustainable sugar cane in Indonesia
Cry us a big one in your Fosters, mate
Gee sorry we denied them the chance for a really BIG fleecing for 4 years of RodhamClinton
Dear Lisa,
Please take a moment to seriously ponder who has been in charge for the last eight years. If you think about it deeply for maybe ten seconds, you will quickly conclude Who has been driving our country into this state of decay.
Those of us who voted for Trump see this decay every day. We voted against it.
Love, exDemMom
Get a life. Most of us don't even know the name of your President or Prime Minister whatever.
Ms Pryor,
You are a perfect example of the failure of the left process. When Clinton and Obama got elected, did the conservative break down and cry? No, up went the sleeves and we worked to get back into the leadership of the houses and president to try to undo what damage has been done over the previous 25 years. We, as conservatives, don’t fold up when it comes to wishing our agenda to protect this nation from people that can’t mentally or physically handle a simple task of reality.
I’m sad you are in this position. Because you are a person incapable of handling your own life. If you’d have been around in 1775, we’d be playing little league soccer and having tea in the afternoons. And our economy would be in the toilet just like Canada. But they stay alive because of US help.
http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/dont-look-now-canadas-economy-is-getting-ugly/
I hope you can put on your big girl’s panties someday and grow up to what’s happening rather than what you are told to write. You’ve got to answer to the supreme beiong at some point.
red
This unfortunate liberal is a Baker Act candidate.
I just said that to my husband: “We were grimly, seriously angry and immediately did whatever we had to do to ensure we survived the next four years.”
THANK GOD Lisa does not LIVE in this country one LESS snowflake!!! WHO IN THE HELL are these people??? Folks EVERYONE can CLEARLY SEE what the HELL the university system has done to our nation!!! I knew it was bad, BUT I am STUNNED at just how indoctrinated our society has become through our education system!!! WE SERIOUSLY need END the education department NOW!!!!!
Before even reading the article, I could tell that the author was from NSW, probably Sidney. And I was right. If you spoke to someone in the Western Australia, or the Northern Territory, or any part of Queensland outside the cultural orbit of Sidney, you’d get a different opinion, one similar to what you would find in our own fly-over country. The same cultural divide exists down under as here, and the residents of Sidney think those living in the other parts of their county I mentioned are dangerous, fascist, bumpkins.
This b!tch is a MEDICAL DOCTOR. Would any of you seriously want her to treat you for anything?
Jill Stein ALSO a medical DR. and I would NOT let that BITCH anywhere near me!!!!
Lisa wanting to F up America like her kind did to Australia ?
Dear Australia,
Why are you letting us down? We picked who we wanted. You need to support us.
Since the election I have cried many times, in the shower, in the car...
without even checkng the byline, I knew only a woman could write such infantilized twaddle...
She is from Australia. A nation that has tight immigration controls, and does not recognize gay marriage.
I guess it must be a great place.
“Dear Ms. Pryor:
For your own safety and the safety of all those around you, please seek professional help.”
And furthermore, Ms. Pryor, please go to hell. Seriously, get lost, loser.
I love this!
She aciually has a point about why Australians think they are better off than Americans “Median America has had zero, zero.”
Yep! We have had Zero! For eight years. Now, I shower in recycled Progressive tears.
It never gets old!
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