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In reply to the discussion: THIS is why the world laughs at us (or thinks we're batshit crazy) [View all]DFW
(56,896 posts)I only speak 9 languages, so maybe there is more that people would have liked to tell me, but I hear CONSTANTLY that we are batshit crazy and they laugh at us a lot. They laugh at themselves, too, something our Republicans would apparently like to punish Americans who do it with the death penalty. There is no bigger critic of France than the French themselves, but go to parts of the American South, where I'm from, and say Republicans are batshit crazy, and the chief of police will put a bullet in your forehead personally (or, if you're lucky, just get you beaten up by his cousins in the nearby diner).
The only time when they DIDN'T take that attitude is when Clinton way leaving office. They kept telling me "can WE have him when you're done?"