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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFour years ago we knew we were in for a shit show. I couldn't have predicted how bad it would be
and how low the rethugs were willing to go to hang onto power. If I'd tryed to predict what's going on now I'd have never come close. It really switched into overdrive when the rethugs ignored the impeachment. Donny knew he could do anything he wanted and they'd protect him. That shit about shooting someone on fifth avenue was passed by a long time ago.
yonder
(9,631 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)And it certainly appears as though I was functionally correct.
CrispyQ
(36,225 posts)"I knew it would be bad, but I never imagined how bad."
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)for this country. The GOP does not give a damn about the country or the people. All they want is power, money and control. At this stage, I do not have one republican friend. Anyone supporting this ass is not to be trusted, not at all.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)the fuck I want, and the GOP will back me.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... of it.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)naive enough to think the US was far past that, but it is still alive and well in the US. In fact, millions and millions seem quite happy with it.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)knew we would be in a fight for the continuance of democracy in this country, and the R party would turn into a complete, full on, unabashed three ring shit show.
DSandra
(999 posts)I knew that this country was heading to full fascism, and Obama was the only person standing in the way of it for 8 years. I knew the Republicans would eventually get in a fascist, it seems that Trump stepped up and decided to be the dictator and here we are.
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)So, not quite as bad as I feared
doc03
(35,148 posts)came true.
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)Ponietz
(2,904 posts)It was agonizing to witness so many continue to operate under an old paradigm, lying low, playing wait-and-see; worse, that the vaunted FBI utterly failed to protect us.
malaise
(267,800 posts)Rec
cynical_idealist
(357 posts)but so much worse.
All boundaries broken.