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MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
4. Sadly, I actually imagined all this and more. It would all be par-for-the-course.
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 02:06 PM
Apr 2020

What MF45 was made of, namely ONLY those self-serving psycho fibers, was all too well known, at least to NYers.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
5. If you put pen to paper and wrote nothing but literal
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 02:11 PM
Apr 2020

fact about Trump's 3+ yearss pResident and submitted it to a publisher it would be simmarily rejected as being 'an urealistic dystopian fantasy[

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
6. I thought that the norms and rules and laws built up over 2 centuries
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 02:14 PM
Apr 2020

plus a free press would curb the very worst. I was so wrong.

Permanut

(5,602 posts)
7. Same here, Chris..
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 02:29 PM
Apr 2020

Who could have predicted the actions of a malignant narcissistic sociopath?

Caught me by surprise, for sure.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
10. Certainly the Lamestream Corporate Media Honchos Couldn't
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 03:49 PM
Apr 2020

I have not forgiven the commercial networks for giving Donald Trump so much free air time or for doing so little digging into his background or not reporting the truth about him.

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
11. Minus the pandemic twist, he's torn apart, everything I knew he would.
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 04:00 PM
Apr 2020

You know he's working overtime on stealing or suspending the election, he's hinting he will adjourn congress, there is a secret military force available in DC at the present moment and oh yeah, he's thumbed his nose at state rights and just declared himself king. Other than using his presidential emergency texting system to activate his R wing army of God, what's left to do?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
12. I was starting to think we'd almost made it mostly unscathed.
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 04:54 PM
Apr 2020

No huge war. No huge recession. Debt growth and theft, but nothing fatal..

Then 2020 showed up.

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Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
19. From the moment I realized that he might end up winning, on the night of the election
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 01:43 AM
Apr 2020

I felt a sense of absolute dread. I felt so panicky that a fistful of Klonopin and as much wine as I could get down my throat had absolutely no effect.

I didn't know when or how, but I definitely felt that we were in for something catastrophic. This situation fits the bill, and I think that things are going to get much worse.

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