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DURHAM D

(33,053 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:43 PM 12 hrs ago

Boy - things are awful

Gasoline is highest cost ever

Air travel is not safe

Fire alert due to lack of rain

Crops are not looking good

Local food bank is low on donations

Cost of homeowners' insurance is skyrocketing

What else?

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Boy - things are awful (Original Post) DURHAM D 12 hrs ago OP

We're at war for no reason? senseandsensibility 12 hrs ago #1

Low level depression and general sense of doom. 617Blue 12 hrs ago #2

Yeah. Who knew putting a complete incompetent with no history of public service in the White House Aristus 12 hrs ago #3

Rapist is still breathing...nt City Lights 12 hrs ago #4

senseandsensibility

(24,884 posts)

1. We're at war for no reason?

Reply to DURHAM D (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:45 PM

12 hrs ago

Trump is president? I could go on, unfortunately.

617Blue

(2,449 posts)

2. Low level depression and general sense of doom.

Reply to DURHAM D (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:48 PM

12 hrs ago

Aristus

(72,121 posts)

3. Yeah. Who knew putting a complete incompetent with no history of public service in the White House

Reply to DURHAM D (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 02:52 PM

12 hrs ago

would backfire so badly?

One of the most popular campaign phrases of the last twenty years: "I'm not a politician..."

I don't vote for those disingenuous creeps. At least politicians have some idea how our Constitutional form of government works.

City Lights

(25,787 posts)

4. Rapist is still breathing...nt

Reply to DURHAM D (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2026, 03:01 PM

12 hrs ago

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