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XanaDUer2

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23. Agreed

Reply to Initech (Reply #22)

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 02:34 PM

Sep 2020

I feel the future is on the line with this election...fork in the road...we choose one.

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Ever know in your guts it was going to get this bad? [View all] XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 OP

yep. SlogginThroughIt Sep 2020 #1

I figured on a different sort of bad, like nuking NK or Iran. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #2

Yes, Iran.... One of Trump's loose ends. Baked Potato Sep 2020 #6

Yes NRaleighLiberal Sep 2020 #3

... Solly Mack Sep 2020 #4

A hundred years from now, possibly sooner, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #5

I wasn't a kid who followed the news closely XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #8

Yep. Clearly your parents had made you aware PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #19

Not only did my parents not owe money to the hospital XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #20

I'm waiting to lose my insurance MiniMe Sep 2020 #7

Yes. I had the same feeling back then too. LiberalLoner Sep 2020 #9

It has been worse..Herbert Hoover, Pearl Harbor, Civil War, Polio Epidemic, Viet Nam War, Stuart G Sep 2020 #10

and poor women dying of back alley abortions. Just like old times. (edited) Cerridwen Sep 2020 #14

Yes, from the moment the election was stolen. GoCubsGo Sep 2020 #11

Sure. BannonsLiver Sep 2020 #12

Reagan was a snake in the grass. Baked Potato Sep 2020 #13

Those primetime soap operas, like Dynasty XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #17

Yep. Definitely. roamer65 Sep 2020 #15

I thought we'd be in another war by now. Instead, he harms innocent children at the border. lindysalsagal Sep 2020 #16

Yes. moondust Sep 2020 #18

I grew up as a child of the Greatest Generation, with the benefits and burdens that go with it. Chainfire Sep 2020 #21

Well said. Baked Potato Sep 2020 #27

The cons are after absolute power. Initech Sep 2020 #22

Agreed XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #23

My third presidential vote was for Carter's second term. musette_sf Sep 2020 #24

I knew it was going to be bad under Bush II. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #25

I didn't Leith Sep 2020 #26

Hug XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #31

Right now Leith Sep 2020 #33

I remember taking a non-fiction writing course in NYC during the Bush II years and smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #28

As the effects of climate change increase, things are going to get worse. Kaleva Sep 2020 #29

Since I imagined everything including devastating wars and an outright police state... Silent3 Sep 2020 #30

It is shocking XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #32

I feared it would be bad, yes The Genealogist Sep 2020 #34

Sinclair Lewis never said that Roland99 Sep 2020 #35

Thank you XanaDUer2 Sep 2020 #36

Yep Sugarcoated Sep 2020 #37