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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
3. You are either being kind or don't want to be too vulgar when properly describing it.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 08:34 PM
Aug 2020

From front to so far, it has been awful. There has been one common factor, Trump.

brush

(53,782 posts)
5. This has been the year with the most upheaval since...
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 08:46 PM
Aug 2020

2001/9-11 and before that 1989 when the Soviet Union/iron curtain fell. And this ugly year still has five months to go, and with trump in the WH who knows what will happen.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
11. I know how to, but I'm just not in the habit of doing it.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:51 AM
Aug 2020

It doesn't bother when when others do, but I guess I'm a product of my 1950s upbringing.

hunter

(38,313 posts)
7. I thought the 'seventies were crazy...
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 09:21 PM
Aug 2020

... and my life was especially crazy.

I have nieces and nephews who are the same age I was in the 'seventies but none of this crazy is theirs.

PufPuf23

(8,785 posts)
10. More like waking up and thinking what a frigging nightmare of a dream.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 12:34 AM
Aug 2020

Then sipping coffee realizing that the nightmare was every day for over a thousand days and getting worse each day.

Initech

(100,079 posts)
13. I keep feeling like I'm living in the alternate reality from Back To The Future Part II.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:54 AM
Aug 2020

Like somewhere something took a turn and we're not living in the world that we're supposed to be living in. I want to say that I wish it could be corrected, but unfortunately a time traveling DeLorean doesn't exist.

Initech

(100,079 posts)
12. To quote the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons: "Worst. Year. Ever."
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:52 AM
Aug 2020

"Rest assured that I was on the internet within hours expressing my disgust throughout the world."

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