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Wicked Blue

(8,871 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:03 PM Jan 30

What fresh hell today?

Because there's always fresh hell, day-old hell, months-old hell, recycled hell, and every other sort of hell.

When was the last time you took a relaxed breath?

I think mine was way back in 2024, long before the election.

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What fresh hell today? (Original Post) Wicked Blue Jan 30 OP
Getting routine isn't it. Disaffected Jan 30 #1
Well, they arrested Don Lemon. It is early though. Still plenty of time. niyad Jan 30 #2
End of Obama presidency. Every day since then shit show NewHendoLib Jan 30 #3
November 6, 2000 saw my last relaxed breath. Efilroft Sul Jan 30 #4
We've bdamomma Jan 30 #5
My last relaxed breath ES popsdenver Jan 30 #13
For me it was 2009 D_Master81 Jan 30 #18
W is the one who instituted electronic voting machines. returnee Jan 31 #19
On the bright side, Trump's polling continues to plummet Jack Valentino Jan 30 #6
10 years SuzyandPuffpuff Jan 30 #7
Friday News Dump: They're releasing more Epstein files leftstreet Jan 30 #8
AS.. homegirl Jan 30 #10
I can't believe the apathy out there WB popsdenver Jan 30 #9
Please... homegirl Jan 30 #11
I think many of us have PTSD Wicked Blue Jan 30 #12
Exactly WB popsdenver Jan 30 #14
The first news I heard when coming out of anesthesia was Don Lemon's... Pacifist Patriot Jan 30 #15
Be healed soon, and may the meds bring you relief. Efilroft Sul Jan 30 #16
I hope your physical pain goes away quickly, Pacifist Patriot Wicked Blue Jan 30 #17
Heal well! electric_blue68 Jan 31 #20

Efilroft Sul

(4,413 posts)
4. November 6, 2000 saw my last relaxed breath.
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:12 PM
Jan 30

Day before Monkey Bush got elected. The last 25 years have been… well, let's just say we were sold a false bill of goods growing up.

popsdenver

(2,316 posts)
13. My last relaxed breath ES
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 03:06 PM
Jan 30

was the run-up to the 1980 election, when HWBush masterminded the deal with a foreign enemy of the U.S. to throw the election to Reagan.
AND committing Treason to do it.............HW was running the government from 1980 to 1992. Just as Cheney/Rumsfeld were running the government from 2000 to 2008.........

D_Master81

(2,588 posts)
18. For me it was 2009
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 06:39 PM
Jan 30

I thought the country had come around to realizing the GOP was a shit show after Bush. Obama won in a landslide and we overwhelmingly controlled both chambers of Congress and over half the Governors. It looked like we were going to enter another golden age. 2 straight GOP presidency’s had ended in recession certainly the country was done with this shit. And then the RW billionaire machine kicked into hyperdrive and the propaganda flowed into the streets like an open sewer. 2 years later the American people gave the keys back because we had the audacity to give people health care.

returnee

(928 posts)
19. W is the one who instituted electronic voting machines.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 12:08 PM
Jan 31

…after the 2000 debacle. So hackable.
There is a through-line from Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, Cheney, to this current catastrophe. And one Roger Stone is still with us.

Jack Valentino

(5,045 posts)
6. On the bright side, Trump's polling continues to plummet
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:45 PM
Jan 30

reaching new lows....


but I regret the suffering which is causing these new lows....

SuzyandPuffpuff

(543 posts)
7. 10 years
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:45 PM
Jan 30

I demand my last ten years back . We didn't ask for this reality TV bullshit. They need to get GONE!

leftstreet

(40,727 posts)
8. Friday News Dump: They're releasing more Epstein files
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:49 PM
Jan 30

Journalists will be poring over them and find that someone, somewhere may have had contact with someone who knew Trump

Which means the corporate MSM won't be reporting on ICE and/or the current citizen uprising against said agency

homegirl

(1,966 posts)
10. AS..
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:48 PM
Jan 30

Trump is redacted from the files the remains will continue to dribble out to the public. Probably take about five years, and DJT will be:
a. In prison
b. hiding abroad
c. dead
d. where he belongs serving 20 to life in Leavenworth!

popsdenver

(2,316 posts)
9. I can't believe the apathy out there WB
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:40 PM
Jan 30

Republicans and Democrats alike, just going on with their personal lives, and completely oblivious about all that is going on.....just going with the flow...............

It's like they all are in Denial, or just playing 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind"..........

Of course, that is nothing new. It has been going on for the last 45+ years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

homegirl

(1,966 posts)
11. Please...
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:50 PM
Jan 30

give some credit tot the SEVEN MILLION + Americans who recently demonstrated on our streets. And do';t forget the people of Minnesota!

Wicked Blue

(8,871 posts)
12. I think many of us have PTSD
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 03:02 PM
Jan 30

from blow after blow.

And that's exactly what they intended.

Part of me wants to curl up in a fetal position and hibernate in a deep cave.

popsdenver

(2,316 posts)
14. Exactly WB
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 03:08 PM
Jan 30

They have planned and orchestrated that all along........Wear down the people, and make them indifferent to even trying to resist.

Pacifist Patriot

(25,212 posts)
15. The first news I heard when coming out of anesthesia was Don Lemon's...
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 04:00 PM
Jan 30

arrest. The second was that Catherine O'Hara had died. The post-op pain is hurting less than this world is delivering. And I'm in a fucking metric ton of physical pain right now. Those 3 hours in the OR were my best of 2026.

Wicked Blue

(8,871 posts)
17. I hope your physical pain goes away quickly, Pacifist Patriot
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 05:40 PM
Jan 30

Are you able to do a little deep breathing?



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