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Leith

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26. I didn't

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 02:49 PM

Sep 2020

Not like this.

Of course we all knew that rethugs would be assholes about everything, but I never imagined that armed thugs would threaten state governments. I never thought that refugees would be thrown in cages and/or "disappeared." I never could have foreseen that an absolute lunatic would be prancing around the White House snorting drugs like a bloodhound on a scent. And I certainly could never believe that so many people would be stupid and hateful enough to cheer the monster and its cohorts on while he murdered hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens by hostile neglect. That secret "police" would snatch innocent people off the streets simply for being there.

No. I never imagined all this.

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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