Emotional reaction to the US electoral result

[KrazyHorse]

I think I have to go with Schadenfreude, the shameful joy in seeing misfortunes befalling your neighbour

[Gangerolf]

befuddled

[KrazyHorse]

Ah, the ever popular write-in candidate "befuddled"

[Ben Kenobi]

You left out-

ecstatic.

[Agathon]

You forgot:

[KrazyHorse]

I'm the only one to admit to schadenfreude yet it has 3 votes.

A rose by any other name....

[WotanAnubis]

Sort of surprised, in the "what the hell is wrong with you people?!" kind of way.

I'm not really sure how to narrow that sentiment down to a single emotion.

[KrazyHorse]

We have two votes for constipated.

Take an ex lax, catch the 4:00 to Toronto and call me in the morning.

[Theben]

You left out 'despairing', although that lasted maybe 2 hours tops, followed by the realization that I no longer give a rat's ass about my fellow countrymen, so that whatever happens to them is fine by me, which was then followed by the next realization that if I don't care about them I make for a lousy communist, but a great republican...

[PLATO]

Relieved. Despite all you guys wanting to sit down and have a pow-wow with murderous terrorist, I still think they are better off dead and the countries that spawned them better off democratic. W is the man for the job. The world would have been a worse place if JFK had his way and we sent in the FBI instead of the Marines.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Re: Emotional reaction to the US electoral result

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I think I have to go with Schadenfreude, the shameful joy in seeing misfortunes befalling your neighbour

I go with Schadenfreude too, for the simple reason that the Dems still need some lessons in national electibility and how to reach down to the two-digit IQ vote, and four more years of Bush won't bring the US to it's knees, but will help the Republicans achieve what they did the last time they were in power for any length of time - make themselves and their policies so widely repudiated that they didn't see daylight for more than half a century.

[Whaleboy]

Indifferent, edging on happy for my own megalomania.

[Japher]

MtG forgets about Reagan?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by PLATO
Relieved. Despite all you guys wanting to sit down and have a pow-wow with murderous terrorist, I still think they are better off dead and the countries that spawned them better off democratic. W is the man for the job. The world would have been a worse place if JFK had his way and we sent in the FBI instead of the Marines.

Who wanted to sit down and have a pow-wow? All I've been interested in is concentrating on the right rag... er, um, targets, instead of half-assedly spreading ourselves too thin.

And we really don't want those people democratic unless we can guarantee that they'll elect our boys. Democracy is a nice buzzword until you get a strategically important democratic country that is hostile to US interests and policies. If that happens, then, well, you have to give them a little more democracy until they get it right.

[Ben Kenobi]

I go with Schadenfreude too, for the simple reason that the Dems still need some lessons in national electibility and how to reach down to the two-digit IQ vote, and four more years of Bush won't bring the US to it's knees, but will help the Republicans achieve what they did the last time they were in power for any length of time - make themselves and their policies so widely repudiated that they didn't see daylight for more than half a century.

You mean good ol' Hoover?

20 years is not quite 50, MtG.