In my almost 80 years of life, yesterday takes the cake, I think.

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MineralMan (148,218 posts)


In my almost 80 years of life, yesterday takes the cake, I think.
I've been around for just a few months short of 80 years. So, I have lots of events I can look to from the past when an evenT strikes me as a big deal. Clearly the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump is such an event. No question about it. But how big is it?

In my opinion, it exceeds the impact of the string of political assassinations in this country in the 1960s. And those, beginning with JFK in 1963, were life-changing.

Landing on the moon was a big deal, too, but its impact was more of a slow transition to a more technological world than an instant life-changer.

I was only a week old when the USA dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima. That was a huge thing, but I didn't recognize it as such at the time. That took years to hit me.

There was the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. I watched that unfold in CNN that day, from the moment the first video of the first plane popped onto the screen. Another huge deal, but not as impactful as that Hiroshima bomb. Still, it changed things here in the USA.

And now we have Trump's second inauguration. Its impact is still developing, of course, but its promise is more frightening to me than any of the other things I thought of as huge events. Will American democracy disappear into tyranny and chaos? I think it could. So, I'm going to put yesterday at the top of my list. I don't know whether I'll live to see the final result of it, but many people I know and care about are going to.

I'm worried. Very worried.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219928281

Minnesota dbag is back

[BannedFromDU]

     Wow. Kamala Harris not getting to be POTUS is a more significant event for that asshole than mankind landing on the Moon.

     I think most of us would have to try very hard and exert massive discipline to be half the asshole that guy is.

[tuolumnejim]

When we watched the moon landing every single one of us were on the edge of ours seats, it was a big deal.

[67 Rover]

I don't know whether I'll live to see the final result of it,

Erection activated!

[Old n Grumpy]

  Clearly the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump is such an event. No question about it. But how big is it?

For all you progressive Democrats, it’s a nuclear event. He has destroyed your party your ideology. The American people have had enough of it and you are done..

Trump is undoing the mess that Biden made in the last four years and he’s going to make America great prosperous, and secure again. Even for douche bags like you that just want to sit and wine.

[SVPete]

... So, I have lots of events I can look to from the past when an evenT strikes me as a big deal. Clearly the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump is such an event. No question about it. But how big is it?

In my opinion, it exceeds the impact of the string of political assassinations in this country in the 1960s. And those, beginning with JFK in 1963, were life-changing. ...

Rocky is saying Trump's second Inauguration is a bigger event than the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr.? How many people died at Trump's Inauguration?

 

Rocky compared Trump's second Inauguration to Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Some 200K people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. How many people died at Trump's Inauguration?

 

[fatboy]

The Minnesota asswipe is worried. Very worried. 

[jukin]

Proggys are concerned that America is back. To them the USA is the worst nation ever conceived and what I do not understand is why they just do not move to the nations of the other 7.7 billion people.