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Where does the trump presidency rank on your scale of terrible things to happen in your lifetime?
I've been fortunate and I know it. Oh, I've suffered losses, but had a relatively low drama life.
This feels like one of the worst things that has happened in my lifetime. Certainly one of the worst in the life of this country.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,575 posts)Watergate, 9/11 and the resulting Iraq debacle; but this is stacking up to be a crisis of equal magnitude.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)End Of Fucking Story.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Trump is a loathsome scumbag but if 40% of this country had a fucking brain in their head, he never would have won the GOP nomination, let alone the presidency. 63 million morons heard this asshole talk and, instead of flushing him down the toilet of history where he rightfully belongs, well...you know the rest.
That makes it worse than something like 9/11. That was a terrorist attack that the American populace had no control over. The people who are responsible for the absolute travesty we're living through now are our very neighbors.
cilla4progress
(24,712 posts)Coming here. I am a student of politics and have read history.
Well, here we are. With bigger long range weapons.
I hope my daughter will not bring a child into this world. I'm afraid Obama was the final gift of our shared humanity...we, Americans.
Frogg
(365 posts)I never had a child and right now I am so thankful. I can leave this world without that fear. As I said before, I weep for our nation.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)You are fortunate to be a Blue Stater. Those of us in Red states are continually looking at the those around us, asking in our minds, "Are you a crazy tea-bagger fundy, or are you a thinking, rational person?" Sometimes it feels like your're a sheep among wolves.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I live in Florida so, if you want to get technical, I'm really "once-sort-of-purple-becoming-more-infuriatingly-RedStater". I also live in a rather Republican part of the state full of lots of old people and rednecks, I regret to tell you.
Unfortunately, there's no meaning behind "BlueStater". It's just a generic name I came up with when I first joined the site nearly 12 years ago because I was more focused on sharing my thoughts with like-minded people than coming up with an impressive handle. But I've been using it for over a decade now so I'm sticking with it regardless of whether it's an honest title of my status in life.
susanna
(5,231 posts)Frogg
(365 posts)I have never experienced anything like this in my lifetime. 9/11 was horrific but it was a huge hit out of the blue which was a known factor. We knew the extent of the horror. It was contained in that series of acts.
This nightmare has an unknown factor to it. It is frightening, unfolding, building. We do not know how far this will go. The fear is hard to manage as we are unsure of the outcome. I am particularly disturbed when I hear repugs saying how much they are enjoying the fear and outrage the Dems are experiencing. The level of cruelty is so profoundly harsh. I have to believe there will be a check on this madness before it goes so far that there is no return. I weep for our nation.
cilla4progress
(24,712 posts)We will be as Germany 40 years hence: shamed, guilty, a pariah. A generation will have to explain to its children why and what it did during these times
Doreen
(11,686 posts)MFM008
(19,803 posts)my dads passing
911
best friends death
pets having to be put down
major depressive episodes
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)for that many people to show that much collective stupidity as they did on
election day 2016. I still can't get over it. Now we're stuck with this asshole.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)A shell-shocked nation allows for lots of nefarious activity. This is a bit different for me than the other 4. We could make sense of the other events when they happened. This one is just a rat's nest of craziness that we can't make sense of, so far.
I remember Nov 1980, the night Raygun was elected, my husband & I were so shockingly depressed & looked at each other, & said "Our country will never be the same, this is the beginning of the end." Little did we know how true that was.
Then, when W stole the election in 2000 after the hanging-chad fiasco, we again, fell into a depression after the SCOTUS handed it to W. Then the introduction of the electronic voting machines insure red dominance.
Now this. The republicans are foisting increasingly more horrible candidates upon the nation. How can it get any worse?
But the people have reached their saturation point on this now, IMHO. The worm is turning. (fingers crossed)
Thank goodness we had the 8 yr reprieve of Obama.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)riding a moped. I suffered very bad multiple injuries and made my learning disability worse, caused me to have grand mal seizures, and just made my life hard. Trump is right up there with the worst thing that happened to me. I can not say he is first and I can not say he is second worst thing in my life. Is that bad enough for you?
cilla4progress
(24,712 posts)so sorry for your suffering!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I know what you mean. Thanks. I try to poke as much as possible on Trump.
butdiduvote
(284 posts)...I've ever experienced, and I've lost a parent. Don't get me wrong, that was terrible too, but I'm having a bigger physical and emotional response to this. Maybe because this was so unexpected. Maybe because I didn't suffer from intense depression and anxiety when my mom died, so I was better able to cope. Maybe because I let myself get too emotionally invested in the thought of having a woman president. I don't know, but this all is making me physically sick, and there's no real sign of it ending anytime soon.
meadowlander
(4,387 posts)I quit my job literally the week before it happened because I had a job offer with another company who rescinded the offer the second the meltdown started. I was then unemployed for four years - as in literally couldn't get a job at McDonalds despite having two masters degrees unemployed.
I've been working full time for the last four and a half years but it's still going to take me another five or six years to dig myself out of the financial hole caused by the GFC (assuming Trump and the rest of the GOP cabal doesn't crash everything all over again).
manicraven
(901 posts)Maybe I'm being naive, but I think if something big enough would come to light that is tied to the mad king (where there's just no squirming out of it, and considering his dealings, it's likely to happen), he'd be forced out. Or, the Democrats take control of the Senate in 2018 and really have a chance to start blocking the fascist and the GOP agenda. I'm hopeful for one or the other, but possibly even a combination of the two and maybe the mad king gets impeached/forced to resign AND the Dems gain the majority in the Senate (and even better, the House, too). That might save the republic.
Surely, though, our nation has survived some pretty awful tests, including really awful presidents, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, Vietnam War, the assassination of presidents and public figures, 911, Bush/Cheney (including the Great Recession and Iraq War), several natural disasters...
So, although I'm extremely concerned, I still think there's hope, especially considering that the majority of Americans disagree with the GOP's agenda and the mad king's fascism.
world wide wally
(21,734 posts)This is by far the biggest (existential) threat to our country I have ever seen.
Everything else was minor in comparison.
9/11 was a tragedy, but it was a one time event that was over as quickly as it happened. However, it set the wheels in motion for what we see today.
This is like being coerced into signing a suicide pact and immediately regretting it and bashing our heads on how to get out of this nightmare.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Trump is an idiot, Bannon is the puppetmaster and he's the true NAZI.