Sappy et al keep insisting it is, but I'm not seeing any signs of it. My first thought was that the rest of the world thought we were hilarious because we cater to our LCD and any time some random mental case bitches about some insignificant thing, we rush to "fix it". Then I remembered France. And Great Britain. And Australia. And the rest of them who make us look positively draconian. Those are the countries that I always laughed at, and the US going down that path might make me think we're a laughingstock, but that's the part the rest of the world likes.
The Chinese probably think we're a laughingstock because they don't play that #### there. Go ahead, kiddo, protest and jump up and down about your "rights" - they'll run you over with a tank.
I can see the Muslim extremists laughing their asses off at us. "OMG, we blow up their buildings, kill their citizens...and they STILL jump through hoops to meet our petty demands. What's it gonna take to make you pansies fight??"
The Mexicans almost certainly laugh at us. Until recently, the lowliest most uneducated Mexican thug could still outsmart our President. That always made me laugh, when it wasn't infuriating me.
If I were a person in a foreign country and my only impression of the US came from Hollywood and our pop culture, I'd be laughing at us because our celebrity worship in this country is just ridiculous. We're like a nation of teenage fangirls drooling over someone because they're pretty. We know more about the characters in Game of Thrones than we do our own family members.
But I know that the Lefties admire those traits, so that's not why they think we're a laughingstock. We lead in pretty much every category that matters, so I'm not sure why our inferiors would be laughing about that.
The Chinese probably think we're a laughingstock because they don't play that #### there. Go ahead, kiddo, protest and jump up and down about your "rights" - they'll run you over with a tank.
I can see the Muslim extremists laughing their asses off at us. "OMG, we blow up their buildings, kill their citizens...and they STILL jump through hoops to meet our petty demands. What's it gonna take to make you pansies fight??"
The Mexicans almost certainly laugh at us. Until recently, the lowliest most uneducated Mexican thug could still outsmart our President. That always made me laugh, when it wasn't infuriating me.
If I were a person in a foreign country and my only impression of the US came from Hollywood and our pop culture, I'd be laughing at us because our celebrity worship in this country is just ridiculous. We're like a nation of teenage fangirls drooling over someone because they're pretty. We know more about the characters in Game of Thrones than we do our own family members.
But I know that the Lefties admire those traits, so that's not why they think we're a laughingstock. We lead in pretty much every category that matters, so I'm not sure why our inferiors would be laughing about that.