Welp, there goes that summit. Per Lawrence

[nolabear]

they have no desire to meet if the US wants them to give up the nuclear program.

That Nobel is receding into the distance. We're back to Little Rocket Man in 3...2...1...

[GP6971]

1. Yup. And

I don't think anyone here is surprised.

[nolabear]

2. WHY are we smarter than the government?

All the back-slapping. All the humiliating posturing and groveling.

[GP6971]

7. Maybe because

we care more about the country than they do.

[BigmanPigman]

3. He wants the prize more than peace.

Obama got one, so why shouldn't he? Maybe the Palestinians will nominate him for one now.

[nolabear]

5. Can we start endlessly signaling to the rest of the world that we hate him too?

I'm not that old (63) but still one of my major goals in life is to outlive that bastard.

[BigmanPigman]

9. It seems that the rest of the world knows we do.

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At least that is what DUers who live in other countries have written and people I know who travel a lot have told me. When I was in France in 2005 during Bush I thought they would feel that way but I was surprised to find that they were very cool and have a broad perspective. Their attitude was "Governments and leaders come and go, things will swing in the other direction eventually". And this was despite the whole Freedom Fries BS that Bush proclaimed for the W House cafeteria (instead of French Fries).

I am in crappy health so the moron better see his demise pretty soon since I would love to be able to die with an ear to ear smile on my face and know that my country isn't doomed.

[pangaia]

13. Everyone I meet outside the US sympathicizes. I cant spell dat.

[BigmanPigman]

20. Thanks for confirming that.

It does make me feel better.

[pangaia]

23. Also, 90% of the people I have close contact with

outsude the USA are artistic, thinking creative,types.

I have several Russian friends, all well-educated.
One of them occasionally reminds me about how much a role America has played and continues to play in the problems of the world. That is a VERY simplified statement from me. But he does have very good perceptions about things. He is very aware of world events, is something of a historian.

I remember over a year ago.. maybe 18 months, he was very clear that the problem was not so much what the Russians did to the US election, but that the US was vulnerable, for many reasons, to what the Russians did - cyber weakness, social ignorance, right-wing stradegery since the late 1970s, racism, etc etc..

We don;t always agree on everything but he is always enlightening to discuss things with.

PS - He is also a sailor and a GREAT cook , Lives in St Petersburg.. one of my favorite cities in the world..

[BigmanPigman]

31. It seems to me that a lot of people from other countries

ate more knowledgeable about other countries' geography,,history, politics, languages, religion, etc. Maybe we are still isolationists due to our geography or perhaps we are too egocentric as our status has made us feel superior to the rest of the world since WW2. Do we not care? Why not be concerned and interested about the whole world and not just about our own issues? Our citizens seem so ignorant about other countries sometimes. With globalization I think our attitude needs to change. Many Americans, especially trump voters, don't want to open their eyes and look at our place in the world.

[pangaia]

32. I could not have said it better myself.

[nolabear]

28. It is like a horror movie. We want that relief that we'll survive.

As a country, as human beings with hope. Here’s to outliving the bastid.

[Rorey]

27. I want him to live long enough to pay the consequences

I don't want him to be honored at a state funeral.

[rpannier]

21. Based on his behavior

He probably spends more time trying to get it taken away/erased than trying to get one himself

[BigmanPigman]

22. He seems to be his own worst enemy sometimes.

[Solly Mack]

4. and the Allbull Prize goes to....

Shocker. Not.

[nolabear]

6. Maybe the IgNobel.

[Solly Mack]

8. I like that!

[Bradshaw3]

26. No, the Ig Nobels are for research that makes people laugh and then think

https://www.improbable.com/ig/

I've known researchers who have won one. They take pride in the honor.

[nolabear]

29. Oh sorry. Maybe a Darwin.

It’s the first “Here, hold my country” administration.

[LenaBaby61]

10. My friend is over at Brietbart ...

Trolling the racist clowns who are actually saying that Hillary and Pres. Obama had something to do with this There's NO talking to insane, racist, ignorant people like that. They're sole less FOOLS who will have earned every bad thing that Fatso's going to do to them via his policies.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. That didn't take long.

[nolabear]

14. OFFS

There’s a deep well of crazy in this country.

[BannonsLiver]

16. Indeed

Though often it seems more like a bottomless chasm than a well.

[ck4829]

25. It's pseudo-reasoning at it's most distilled

Normal thought process: "X is bad, X is caused by Y, therefore Y is bad."

Breitbart/Confederate flag waver/Pizzagater/MAGA thought process: "I already know liberals are bad, so I'm going to perceive all events that I don't like as them having a hand in it!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Who, besides Trump, didn't see that coming?

There goes Spanky's Nobel Peace Prize, which Obama has and he probably would give away the store to get. But not it looks like there won't even be a meeting, let alone a deal.

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Somewhere Mitt Romney is smiling.

Not only because something is blowing up in Trump's face, but because this is just what DT did to him over a cabinet position. It seems Trump doesn't have an international patent on humiliating his peers.

[BannonsLiver]

17. Willard isn't the only one smiling

I’m laughing my ass off over here.

[Demovictory9]

18. trump will give kim what he wants to make summit happen

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. The Art Of The Deal.

What a joke. An awful, awful joke, but a joke nonetheless. He couldn't get laid in a Bangkok brothel with a fistful of hundreds.

[ck4829]

24. Kick

[workinclasszero]

30. Maybe King Dump can get a participation trophy