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Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:00 PM Mar 2020

Back in 2008, I could not imagine that we would do worse than Bush II nor go through something as...

bad as the financial crisis, Katrina, 9/11, and Iraq.

I was wrong on every count. The lesson for us all is that, yes, we can indeed do worse than Trump, and yes, we can go through something worse than covid-19.

Do not limit your imagination as to how bad shit can get when a Republican is president.

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Back in 2008, I could not imagine that we would do worse than Bush II nor go through something as... (Original Post) Yavin4 Mar 2020 OP
That old saying, "Cheer up, things could be worse"? We cheered up, and things got worse. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
"It Could Be Worse" Yavin4 Mar 2020 #2
What is hard to imagine is a worse response than Trump to a deadly crisis. Stuart G Mar 2020 #3
Young Frankenstein - Mel Brooks. Yavin4 Mar 2020 #4
Thank You....If anyone here has not seen the Mel Brooks film, "The Producers" that is my funniest. Stuart G Mar 2020 #5

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
3. What is hard to imagine is a worse response than Trump to a deadly crisis.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:05 PM
Mar 2020

...At first he made fun of it by saying it would be gone quickly 4 or 5 deaths & gone. He then tried to make it seem less important than obvious. He just can't shut up. I don't know what he said today..

...P.S. Great movie clip, thank you for posting that scene...??what movie?

Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
5. Thank You....If anyone here has not seen the Mel Brooks film, "The Producers" that is my funniest.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 05:14 PM
Mar 2020

....Now another one...."Blazing Saddles" is very close to it. One scene in Blazing Saddles, take's the cake, ...or "smells up the theater so to speak:. No, I will not describe it....You got to see it to believe it...

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