Yes. How many personal and more bankruptcies does it take for people to understand who Trump really is? I’ve expected this, and unfortunately I expect even worse in the future.

You could see it coming the day he was elected. Wishful thinking was that it wouldn't come to this.

for 35 years. I thought it would be a war. But I knew it would be something that would rip the country to shreds.

I said at the time: Can’t have an insane traitorous fascist in the White House and not expect the sh*t to hit.

Eventually, I stuck my toes back into the market in 2018, but only into dividend paying equities or fixed income instruments. Kept a lot of cash. Overall, took about 10% hit to value from end of February to lowest point. Wish I'd kept more in cash. Hindsight is 20/20, right?

I've only booked the loss on one stock. Guess I'm going to hang in there with the rest. Added a bit to some. Taking the cash and using for down payment on a house since I've been renting.

If Biden doesn't win in November, I think I'm going to regret buying the house and not being totally liquid to get out of the country. On the other hand, I'm pushing 70 and not looking forward to life alone abroad.

Sigh. What a fu*king mess.

I thought the final straw for his base was going to be when he kissed Putin's ass in front of the world at Helsinki, then came home and changed what he said, proving that he was obviously Putin's bitch.

I don't think we've hit bottom yet.

However, with each insult, more people feel it a bit more.

The process will go on.

And I think it can get worse.

As I said on election night, "We are so fucked." I knew we were headed for a depression, and I knew he and his party were going to gut the Constitution and loot the treasury. I didn't predict the pandemic, but I have always said one was inevitable sooner or later. I didn't think it would be THIS soon,

... helped to start the "illegal" investigations into Trump/Russia connections and the Bob Mueller/FBI
"illegal" investigations too.

I heard this this AM on Fox News as I was channel surfing up from MSNBC to the weather channel.

BTW the Clinton Foundation stopped something like 10 to 14 million HIV positive people from getting
full blown AIDs. We couldn't use that skill set now could we?

and people are asking about Barr's role in this fascist madness

This is madness. New Zealand* now has zero people in the hospital because of C-19,
a total of 1 cases nationwide, and a total of 21 deaths. My county (Franklin, OH) alone
has 6,000 cases and it is closing in on 300 deaths.


* New Zealand did this through nationwide testing and tracing. They used the W.H.O.'s
test kits the same one that Trump refused to use here so he could sell his own kit.

not a billionaire controlled market

Public health matters

Never has been with this skidmark.

I just didn't think he'd target the American people.

Surprises it took this long.

Trump is certainly a slacker in everything he does or attempts to do.

Did I doubt that it would just took longer than Ithought..

This guy is evil and dangerously unhinged.

It was made this bad. These circumstances are not an accident.

God knows Trump has fucked up everything he has gone near. Let's hope the world does not heat up at all between now and January. Come August-September, if he is in big trouble in the polls, it scares me to wonder what kind of rabbit he will try to pull out of his hat.

But mass protests and the beating, gassing, and killing of protesters? Yep.

The "I can't believe this is happening", in reaction to the actions of the GOP or Donald, rarely occurs anymore.

I eventually talked myself down a bit after political resistance to Trump developed, and the hope that might keep him in check.

Then the Mueller investigation, then the mid-terms, then Impeachment, then the 2020 presidential race. All offered me the hope that somehow we'd find a way out of this mess.

But the past three months have shot me back to that horrible place where I was on the morning of November 9, 2016.

I really didn't.

This is the slow death of angry white men. They will not go quietly.

I expected him to launch nukes at some point and he still has time to pull that stunt.

... something.

I also knew Red Don hated non-white Hispanics

...sooner or later.