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niyad

(127,239 posts) Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:36 PM Aug 19

The Daily Bitch*: "When in the course of human events did it all go so

horribly wrong?"

*Both a noun, and a verb, depending on usage.

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The Daily Bitch*: "When in the course of human events did it all go so (Original Post) niyad Aug 19 OP

Some of us would say it never went right in the first place! mwmisses4289 Aug 19 #1

There is that! niyad Aug 19 #2

in my admittedly limited world-view... ret5hd Aug 19 #3

1980? The year this country elected St. Ronnie the Divine instead of re-electing Jimmy Carter. LoisB Aug 19 #4

January 20, 2017 surfered Aug 19 #5

OR after the Civil War when this country made heroes of people like Robert E. Lee instead of LoisB Aug 19 #6

🚨Trigger Warning🚨 Floyd R. Turbo Aug 19 #7

mwmisses4289

(2,216 posts)

1. Some of us would say it never went right in the first place!

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:40 PM

Aug 19

niyad

(127,239 posts)

2. There is that!

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:41 PM

Aug 19

ret5hd

(21,792 posts)

3. in my admittedly limited world-view...

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:46 PM

Aug 19

our FIRST good chance to make-things-go-right was to reelect Jimmy Carter. A good man, a good heart, trying to do right for the long term.

Our LAST (so far, hopefully) good chance was to elect Kamala Harris.

I truly hope that wasn’t truly our last chance.

LoisB

(11,628 posts)

4. 1980? The year this country elected St. Ronnie the Divine instead of re-electing Jimmy Carter.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 01:59 PM

Aug 19

Or, 1981? when Jack Welch became CEO of General Electric. If I remember correctly, it was Welch who began the destruction of U.S. manufacturing by firing Americans and sending those jobs to third world countries.