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imanamerican63

(13,800 posts) Sun Oct 15, 2017, 12:41 PM Oct 2017

I only wish that this past year was a terrible dream....

but NOPE! I woke up this morning, Trump is still in the White House & my Nebraska Cornhuskers where handed one of the worse loses in Lincoln in my lifetime! What the hell is this world coming to? Although, tomorrow is a new day? Trump is still a nightmare! I still love my Huskers!

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I only wish that this past year was a terrible dream.... (Original Post) imanamerican63 Oct 2017 OP

Some of us talked incessantly about the threat of the sick fuck in the WH Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1

+1 ffr Oct 2017 #2

Sorry. Buckeye forever. sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #3

No biggie! imanamerican63 Oct 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. Some of us talked incessantly about the threat of the sick fuck in the WH

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Oct 15, 2017, 12:53 PM

Oct 2017

or in my case I mostly talked to anyone who would listen, twitter or in person, etc., about how great Hillary actually was, that 99% of the negatives they heard about her were lies, etc.

ffr

(22,670 posts)

2. +1

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 15, 2017, 01:09 PM

Oct 2017

You and me, both.

In their haste, the media toted the meme that HRC was everything the opposite of what she was, for ratings and the horse race effect. They got their ratings bonanza and it's still paying off for them. Unfortunately for America, we're now in this leadership vacuum perpetual downward spiral.