My Canadian counterpart has a word for you:
If you’re an American citizen reading this, and roughly seven out of ten you are, this is a week for unmitigated fucking panic. And you really should be scared. You are, to put it politely, utterly screwed. You’re fucked in ways that neither God or man ever intended.
However, you shouldn’t feel all that lonely. In destroying the world’s greatest economy, you’re going to take the rest of us down with you. If nothing else, you’ll have a lot of company on the way down the sinkhole. If nothing else, you have that to feel good about. Your adventures in creative banking have managed to do what communism and fascism couldn’t, actually end the world.
One of the great things like I like to hear during times like these is that “nobody could have forseen it being this bad.”
In a word, horseshit.
And if that is not enough, Tony Blair has a message for all you assholes whose names start with Rep….and end with (R):
If we were in Britain right now!
H/T Andrew Sullivan.