This is a thousand times worse than 2000.

[dutch508]

Drunken Irishman (28,370 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028355574

This is a thousand times worse than 2000.

And 2000 was utterly depressing in its own right. I've had a pit in my stomach since election night. I don't even know what to do anymore. I've never felt so lost and worried about the future of my country.

As much as 2000 left me reeling, 2016 is that and more. Maybe it's because, in 2000, we didn't know how bad it would get ... and now we do ... and as bad as Bush was, as bad as his administration was, Trump's seems to be worse in every facet - and he's buddies with our global adversary.

This not only repulses me, the uptick in racism and bigotry as well as the literal coup by a foreign government, but it scares me.

I'm terrified.

You really should just off yourself now... before we come to get you and put you in the camps.

really.

should.

Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (47,361 posts)
1. Trump and his minions seem to be *trying* to be as bad as possible.

Even Bush didn't go out of his way to **** things up intentionally.

you mean like Obama care?

Star Member BeyondGeography (28,189 posts)
2. No and yes

Gore really won that election, so that result was harder for me to take. But while I had major fears about Bush, they pale in comparison to what this asshole is capable of.

offf... and yes... hillary won the popular vote by like sixty million... 

Star Member lunamagica (5,034 posts)
13. Hillary won this election too

Star Member LisaM (18,370 posts)
6. The 2000 selection caused this.

The Bush SCOTUS picks led directly to the Voting Rights Act being demolished. Voter suppression has gone on apace ever since.

BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snooper2 (28,439 posts)
38. No, go back farther- If Gary Hart had won in 88' we never have GHWB-

GWB never becomes Governor of Texas, just a loser son of a losing presidential candidate-

****, 9/11 might not even have happened if you take it far enough-

wait... isn't that still...   BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Star Member CousinIT (153 posts)
11. They intend to destroy everything: gov't, financial markets, the environment, our lives

Because THEY will not be affected by any of it.

kill. yourself. now.

mexit (4 posts)
22. My new screenname, mexit

is a play on Brexit.

My wife and I are thinking of moving to Mexico

 

Star Member JNelson6563 (26,922 posts)
35. I am terrified for many in the world.

If this lunatic gets in the WH much misery will ensue, no doubt. I have not been crying or had a pit in my stomach though. I do not look at newspapers or intake news though because it is all so sickening.

I withdraw. My current situation allows it and so I do it. Working 10 pm to 6 am doing baker duty then 7 am to 11 am for another company, making pasta--averaging 70+ hrs a week. I bank as much as I can. I will buy a house (something I have really wanted to do since my divorce 8 years ago) in a small town here in MI. It'll be my retirement home and it will occupy my time off (the one I currently consider needs much cosmetic work).

I really see no other way for myself. I will contribute to the efforts financially but other than that, no, too busy focusing on establishing *some* security in a volatile world. I cannot afford the sucking of my energy into a vortex of frustration by closely following the horrors about to befall us. I rode that roller-coaster during the Bush years and it was hard. In that time I had a different life in a different world and could spare the time and energy. Now I need to survive and finish my climb out of the "barely subsisting" existence and, I daresay, I think the timing is fortunate.

As always, good to see you DI. We will make it through somehow.   

Julie

 

Star Member logosoco (1,804 posts)
39. That is about the exact text conversation i had with my son on the morning of

11/09!

My kids are young adults now, and they keep an eye on politics, not to the extent i do, but they pay attention and try to learn. I feel so bad now for showing them this. I wish they could just be "ignorant" of things, like so many citizens are now. Maybe it would hurt less.
But, it is the world they have grown up to be in...

I never dreamed that in my life time I would see anyone worse than bu$h and his cronies! it is hard to watch, but I can't turn away!

I cry for the earth and more so with each of the orange one's cabinet picks.

Star Member Generator (7,085 posts)
44. No

It's ****ing million billion zillion times worse. And unchecked presidential powers brought to us by Bush AND Obama. I screamed about that shit for years on here and then I finally left. Democrats have not fought back in the past and now here we are. Massive strike is what they need to be saying instead I have them calling me for money. Like we can win elections with treason by FBI and GOP. Please. We have no leadership and I will blame Obama if he hands the keys to this monster.

 

[98ZJUSMC]

I'm terrified.

I'm sexually aroused.

[ADsOutburst]

Star Member Generator (7,085 posts)
44. No

It's ****ing million billion zillion times worse.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZEW0z9nVA[/youtube]

[Karin]

Response to Drunken Irishman (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 06:19 PM

CountAllVotes (14,540 posts)

52. yep, 3,000+ died
 
But not an entire globe.
 

An entire globe.  Dead.  Probably tomorrow. 

A DUer named Dumbcat questioned the "literal coup by a foreign government" from which there was a pissing contest.  Here's how ended:

Response to dumbcat (Reply #55)

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 08:27 PM

Drunken Irishman (28,370 posts)

56. There is certainly evidence to be made that Russia acted illegally.
 
I take your last point as proof you know, deep down, I'm right and just don't want to admit it. I'll also take that as your apology. Thank you.
 

Response to Drunken Irishman (Reply #56)

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 08:32 PM

Star Member dumbcat (1,135 posts)

57. " ... evidence to be made ..."
 
iNTERESTING TURN OF PHRASE.   

(Rolling eyes his)

 

[Ptarmigan]

Drunken Irishman (28,370 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028355574

This is a thousand times worse than 2000.

And 2000 was utterly depressing in its own right. I've had a pit in my stomach since election night. I don't even know what to do anymore. I've never felt so lost and worried about the future of my country.

As much as 2000 left me reeling, 2016 is that and more. Maybe it's because, in 2000, we didn't know how bad it would get ... and now we do ... and as bad as Bush was, as bad as his administration was, Trump's seems to be worse in every facet - and he's buddies with our global adversary.

This not only repulses me, the uptick in racism and bigotry as well as the literal coup by a foreign government, but it scares me.

I'm terrified.

You want another 2000 Election.

[Gamle-ged]

I don't even know what to do anymore.

Emigrate! Just get in line behind the Hollywood émigrés as they line up in the international airports and on the shipping docks going... aaaanywhere...

 

[Mr Mannn]

The recount failed.
The EC vote will nominate Trump
Congress will validate the vote
Trump will swear the oath on Jan 20th, 2017.
People are starting to laugh about the Russians.

How many victories can we win in one election?

[Ralph Wiggum]

Blaming Gary Hart in '88?  Jeez.  Seriously, seek psychiatric help.  For 5¢, Lucy can help.  Might even pull a football or two away.

[freedumb2003b]

. My current situation allows it and so I do it. Working 10 pm to 6 am doing baker duty then 7 am to 11 am for another company, making pasta--averaging 70+ hrs a week

Wait until $15/hr hits your town -- you won't have EITHER of those jobs.

[USA4ME]

Drunken Irishman

 - and he's buddies with our global adversary.

This primitive was on the island near the beginning as "Sean Reynolds", noted most promenantly as having in his sig line the flag of the USSR.

And now he talks of "global adversary"???

Yea Sean, I remember you, and you know I speak the truth about who you are.

.

[DUmpDiver]

It is absolutely hilarious watching the DUmmies trying to out drama-queen each other.

If they actually believe that crap they spew then they really should be committing mass suicide.

(But not with guns - that would be a waste of ammo.)

[98ZJUSMC]

Blaming Gary Hart in '88?  Jeez.  Seriously, seek psychiatric help.  For 5¢, Lucy can help.  Might even pull a football or two away.

No, no.... remember; every election since Millard Fillmore was sToLEn!!!!!11eLeBinTY!!1111

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

" Trump's seems to be worse in every facet - and he's buddies with our global adversary."
The funny thing is, Russia wasn't really our adversary (Post- Cold War, anyway) before a few years ago when Obama started pissing them off with his typical arrogance and nearly driving us into another war. For just one example of this, my older brother is in Russia, where he for the last several years has been a college professor in Moscow. He got that position because, in 2010, the school made a point of deliberately seeking out and hiring a bunch of American academics to be part of the school's faculty, as a token of goodwill between the US and Russia. Such an offer would never have been made in the last three years or so when Obama was determined to make Russia our enemy again. Now, in contrast, almost as soon as Trump was elected, Russia's leaders openly expressed their deep desire to do whatever they can to ensure peace with us.

[BadCat]

Star Member logosoco (1,804 posts)
39. That is about the exact text conversation i had with my son on the morning of

11/09!

European date format.  Go **** up your own country shit stain, leave ours alone.

[freedumb2003b]

snooper2 (28,439 posts)
38. No, go back farther- If Gary Hart had won in 88' we never have GHWB-

GWB never becomes Governor of Texas, just a loser son of a losing presidential candidate-

****, 9/11 might not even have happened if you take it far enough-

Once again DUmmies show their ignorance.  9/11 had been planned for YEARS and was a reaction to bj's policies, not Bush.  We were just fortunate that it was Bush at the helm and not a democrat, else we would all be speaking arabic right now.

[Happy Fun Ball]

No, no.... remember; every election since Millard Fillmore was sToLEn!!!!!11eLeBinTY!!1111

It goes back further than that. George Washington stole the election from the British.

[Ralph Wiggum]

It goes back further than that. George Washington stole the election from the British.

I need to keep my conspiracy theories straight.  Was it Washington or Lincoln that was complicit in creating a "MIHOP" on 9/11?

[Big Dog]

Once again DUmmies show their ignorance.  9/11 had been planned for YEARS and was a reaction to bj's policies, not Bush.  We were just fortunate that it was Bush at the helm and not a democrat, else we would all be speaking arabic right now.

I disagree with your conclusion, my friend. Some people would certainly be speaking Arabic and bowing to Mecca five times a day, and some of us would be wearing strings of ears around our necks.

I know which I'd be doing.

[Happy Fun Ball]

I need to keep my conspiracy theories straight.  Was it Washington or Lincoln that was complicit in creating a "MIHOP" on 9/11?

It was Lincoln. Lincoln was the 16th president. He is also on the $5 bill. Subract that from 16 and you get 11. Three weeks ago, I paid $9.12 for tacos, but I was short a penny, but the cashier let it go. Lincoln is also on a penny. Coincidence?

Washington, on the other hand, was who faked the moon landing back in 1785. The footage was only discovered as Atari was burying those unsold ET cartridges.

[SVPete]

snooper2 (28,439 posts)
38. No, go back farther- If Gary Hart had won in 88' we never have GHWB-

GWB never becomes Governor of Texas, just a loser son of a losing presidential candidate-

****, 9/11 might not even have happened if you take it far enough-

Blaming Gary Hart in '88?  Jeez.  Seriously, seek psychiatric help.  For 5¢, Lucy can help.  Might even pull a football or two away.

Given that the 1988 D candidate for President was Dukakis, I wonder if this DU-member might be a mole. I suspect Monkey Business.

[docstew]

This primitive was on the island near the beginning as "Sean Reynolds", noted most promenantly as having in his sig line the flag of the USSR.

And now he talks of "global adversary"???

Yea Sean, I remember you, and you know I speak the truth about who you are.

.

I have taken to commenting on all FB posts I see about the Russians hacking the election with "The 1980's called, they want their foreign policy back." I figure it just twists the knife to use their own god's words against them.

[Karin]

It was Lincoln. Lincoln was the 16th president. He is also on the $5 bill. Subract that from 16 and you get 11. Three weeks ago, I paid $9.12 for tacos, but I was short a penny, but the cashier let it go. Lincoln is also on a penny. Coincidence?

      H5!

[ADsOutburst]

It goes back further than that. George Washington stole the election from the British.

Of course, none of this would have happened if humans hadn't stolen the earth from nature. 

[jb2u11]

It was Lincoln. Lincoln was the 16th president. He is also on the $5 bill. Subract that from 16 and you get 11. Three weeks ago, I paid $9.12 for tacos, but I was short a penny, but the cashier let it go. Lincoln is also on a penny. Coincidence?

Washington, on the other hand, was who faked the moon landing back in 1785. The footage was only discovered as Atari was burying those unsold ET cartridges.

So weird, about that same time I to was buying tacos, the total came to 8.99. I gave the cashier a $9.00 bill (my only one) and told her to keep the change.  The change would have been a penny and if i'm not mistaken would have had Lincoln on it. The most amazing part however.....when I left the taco store I pulled out behind a pickup truck with a Hillary bumper sticker loaded with chicken wire and cinder blocks! No way that's all just a coincidence!

[jukin]

If your schadenboner lasts longer than eight years please see a doctor....immediately!!!!