[davidjay]

Bit of a Fesshole, but I rather like being in the USA.

I like traditional diners, I like guitar shops, I like the new wave of craft beers in long, narrow bars. In fact, I had been thinking leaning on the Kreuzette with a view to a brief-ish holiday in late-winter.

If that means rubbing shoulders with disease-ridden maniacs for ten days, Madeira might be a better option. Or Kabul.

Looks like we'll be boycotting it for another four years as well.

[Philip Marlow]

For the love of god man, you are the lamest of lame ducks. This ritual ransacking of what remains of your dignity is wholly unnecessary.

[Youngian]

Bit of a Fesshole, but I rather like being in the USA.

I like traditional diners, I like guitar shops, I like the new wave of craft beers in long, narrow bars. In fact, I had been thinking leaning on the Kreuzette with a view to a brief-ish holiday in late-winter.

If that means rubbing shoulders with disease-ridden maniacs for ten days, Madeira might be a better option. Or Kabul.

Looks like we'll be boycotting it for another four years as well.

I assume gutting the public sector won't lead to pay rises for cops but they may well become immune from prosecution for all but the most serious crimes. Shaking down tourists as a side hustle is popular with police in banana republics. Think I'll stay away.

[Abernathy]

Thing is, the USA having decided to elect a man adjudicated in a court of law to be a rapist, who is also a proven liar who incited insurrection against the result of a properly conducted democratic election and a powerful contender for the title of worst human being on the planet, arguably makes it look to an observing rest of the world as if most of the electorate of that country have taken leave of their senses.

In that respect, it perhaps enables us to understand more the way that the rest of the world viewed the UK’s 2016 decision” (I use inverted commas advisedly, since in effect the decision was entirely that of the governing Conservative Party) to abandon nearly 50 years of relative economic prosperity and security by surrendering its membership of the biggest free trading bloc in the world . In short, a kind of madness.