Could this dumpster fire of a year get any worse?

"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt)
06/02/2020 at 14:54 • Filed to: 2020 sucks, fuck this, 2020

Reading all the news is depressing.

At least I can find some escape in unnecessary car shopping and video games

DISCUSSION (43)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:00

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/congo-ebola-1.5594911

There’s a developing ebola outbreak in the Congo. Small numbers, but fun times.

NKato > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:01

Lemme list off all the things that could happen this year:

Yellowstone explodes.
Trump declares martial law somehow, and gains dictatorship power.
China declares war on America.
Russia declares war on America.
North Korea blows itself up.
Japan gets taken over by neo-fascists.
Canada hurts itself in its confusion.
Mexico becomes peaceful after the cartels all kill each other off.
A Civil War explodes in America.
A local war explodes between China and India.
Africa hurts itself in its confusion five times in one month.
The United Kingdom stares at the world in befuddlement and says “nope, not wading into that shit.”
The EU tries to decide if they should do something, but ends up fighting each other. Again.

And the list could go on and on and on...

someassemblyrequired > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:01

I preferred 1998:

Kinja'd!!!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:09

It’s been pretty terrible so far. I can’t even imagine how much worse things are going to get and if they will ever get any better.

Gone > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:10

Kinja'd!!!

user314 > NKato
06/02/2020 at 15:12

Don’t you mean Pakistan and India? Or did the PRC do something to piss off the Subcontinent that I’d forgotten about?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:14

Never underestimate how stupid Trump and his followers can be.

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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/02/2020 at 15:15

Do they have any bleach!?

Hooker > NKato
06/02/2020 at 15:15

To be fair, if the first one happens, we’re all dead within a couple years at best anyway.

kanadanmajava1 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:19

You could esc ape to a desert island that has a lot coconuts. This one could be a bi t too small to feed a single person t hough.

Kinja'd!!!

facw > NKato
06/02/2020 at 15:23

Trump declares martial law somehow, and gains dictatorship power.

I don’t think we’re that far from this. I don’t think he’ll be able to keep power if he’s voted down in an election (and I do think there will be an election, though the GOP seems super com mitted to disenfranchising voters), but it seems like we are at the point where he can do whatever he wants and the courts probably won’t check him. Even if they do, he can ignore them, and Senate won’t check him.

The EU tries to decide if they should do something, but ends up fighting each other. Again.

I think this has already happened (most recently with their response to the situation in Hong Kong) . And will probably happen again.

The rest seem not so likely. I would not be shocked to see another war between India and China at some point, but at the moment India is too weak to instigate it (and would prefer to attack Pakistan anyway), while China would no doubt prefer to take Taiwan before pressing their claims in India. Even though Mao’s timer on Taiwan has another 52 years left, I could see China invade Taiwan (I mean they couldn’t 50 years on Hong Kong, why would they wait 100 years on Taiwan?), but I can’t see the US going to war with China over Taiwan, especially with Trump running the show. Maybe they can do Taiwan this year and India in 2021? If you’ve already pissed off the world, they can’t really accumulate much additional meaningful opprobrium for additional war mongering.

fintail > NKato
06/02/2020 at 15:25

In this age of optimism, i f most of those actually happened, I’d just shrug my shoulders and say “I should have seen that coming”.

facw > user314
06/02/2020 at 15:30

They have massive border disputes and occasional skirmishes (including some at the end of May https://indianexpress.com/article/india/m-m-naravane-army-chief-line-of-actual-control-lac-chinese-transgressions-6424478/ ) :

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:37

Kinja'd!!!

I ’ll take ‘Questions you should never ask’ for a thousand, Alex...

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > NKato
06/02/2020 at 15:37

Kinja'd!!!

Textured Soy Protein > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
06/02/2020 at 15:39

I got this.

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NKato > facw
06/02/2020 at 15:40

I was really just trying to come up with some of the most ridiculous, unlikeliest things to throw into the mix on that list.

It reads more like a real-time global strategy game’s events list.

For Sweden > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:40

We could have the Teamsters and AFL-CIO make a statement that police unions are good

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Textured Soy Protein
06/02/2020 at 15:41

Ooo even better, pine fresh!

NKato > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:42

Oh, and the UK passed a law saying that you can’t fuck anyone outside your household. Apparently to try to limit COVID spread.

Welcome to Alabama 2.0, y’all!

Textured Soy Protein > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
06/02/2020 at 15:44

Apparently Pine-Sol no longer has pine oil in it but it has some kind of pine-y scent still. I grabbed this because there was something else I was buying online from Walmart and I decided to check for disinfectant. Most stores around me have been almost completely cleaned out of the stuff for the past couple months. I didn’t quite realize just how big of a bottle I was getting myself. Whoops.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:45

Oh man, I will be an empty nester this year too.
My mother is seriously ill.
For the first time in my life, I’m worried about my weight.
I started smoking again.

On the pleasant side, I’ve been working non-stop and may be in really great financial shape by the end of the year.... maybe.

Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:46

It always could sadly.

I told my buddy start of March that someone (likely USA or China) is going to start another war because of the impact of COVID. Now I thought it was going to be a year or two and country vs. country as is traditional. I didn’t imagine the ramp-up of Hong Kong annexation and what is transformed from years of digital skirmishes into full blown physical US civil war.

user314 > facw
06/02/2020 at 15:48

Huh, TIL.

I’d known about Kashmir and even the Siachen Glacier, but I can’t recall hearing about Aksai or Arunachal at all .

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > kanadanmajava1
06/02/2020 at 15:49

As long as I can bring along Wilson

user314 > Hooker
06/02/2020 at 15:50

To be fair, if the first one happens, we’re all dead within a couple years months at best anyway.

FTFY.

EL_ULY > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:58

Oh it has! Link below:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/carole-baskin-tiger-king-zoo-trnd/index.html

DipodomysDeserti > facw
06/02/2020 at 15:59

We already have National Guard soldiers shooting people BBQing, so he doesn’t really have to declare martial law.

For Sweden > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 15:59

Serious answer with a >50% probability: The People’s Republic of China sends tanks into Hong Kong,

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 16:01

You fool! You’ve doomed us all!

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > For Sweden
06/02/2020 at 16:11

So that he can enjoy it live because he missed it the last time. A little gift from his buddy Xi

“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it,” Trump said. “Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak.”

ttyymmnn > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 16:22

Kinja'd!!!

Brickman > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 16:23

Now there’s a tropical storm heading to where I live.

Darius Raqqah > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 16:33

I doubt it. The MCSI and the Hang Sent the way they are, t here’s money to be made. Why use tanks when you can just leverage capital?

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/chinese-investors-are-buying-hong-kong-stocks-like-never-before

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/chinas-new-security-law-impact-on-businesses-and-investors.html

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
06/02/2020 at 16:35

Yes... yes it can get worse. If it’s one thing you can count on when it comes to Donald Trump, is to find a way to make things even more worse... and be even more of a dotard than you ever thought possible.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > kanadanmajava1
06/02/2020 at 16:38

And with global warming, that island will be underwater in a few years.

Can you imagine a re-born Gilligan’s Island TV series where they end the series with the entire cast drowning because the island went fully underwater due to rising water levels?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Textured Soy Protein
06/02/2020 at 16:42

I had some refill bottles of whatever I get at Whole Foods, I haven’t had to resupply. Early on I also ordered a box of those huge 12" toilet paper rolls for buildings and I’m not even halfway through them.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/02/2020 at 16:45

Oh well, call me a Prophet then

kanadanmajava1 > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
06/02/2020 at 16:55

How about this then?

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