The state of the world makes me sick sometimes

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The latest casualty of COVID 19 that I have heard of is that the University of Iowa is discontinuing a few of their sports programs because of lost revenue. Even before hearing about this, I have been been feeling more bothered by, well, all things 2020 and what the coming years may be like because of this f***ing nonsense. We had 9/11 and 19 years later we have a pandemic. What kind of crap is gonna happen 19 years from now?

As many of you already know from another thread, I don’t fully understand why people still support the president despite him having a role in the pandemic. Recently, I have had enough of keeping quiet about political stuff, so I’ve been posting stuff on Facebook and retweeting a bunch of Joe Biden’s tweets on Twitter(example: “imagine where we would be right now if we had a president who listened to scientists”). Yesterday, my uncle who supports Trump responded to both of my Facebook posts that many people/news sources are trying to make Trump look bad. I’ve always loved me uncle. He’s always given me good advice and helped me feel better about myself over the years, so it sucks that we have a huge difference in political belief especially when it pertains to an issue in which I believe the president has made things so much worse and many other people would agree with me. I feel very perplexed between family and speaking out about things that bother me so much.

My Uncle had said that he had cut off travel to China in late January and that Biden had called him xenophobic for it. I’ve also heard that people called Trump racists when he finally did s**t down all borders in March. It seems as if the left wingers got their beliefs mixed up there.

CNN is biased toward the left and Fox News is even more biased towards the right, which I think is a major reason why politics are so divided. I just wish all the news we got was more accurate and politicians all over the globe are real leaders and have a damn heart.

The COVID vaccine can’t come soon enough. The pandemic and the continued affects of it often makes me feel existential dread.

I can’t wait for the vaccine, either.

I can commiserate. It's quite frustrating to have major news sources that are biased (towards the right or left), spreading misinformation. I wish that only straight facts were allowed on news networks.

I have a brother who is a Trump supporter too. I love him a lot but I can't discuss politics around him anymore.

Yes the state of the country is so terrible right now and I just don't understand the grip that Trump holds over half the country. I fear things are just going to get worse within the next year or so.

I'm sick of Trump trolls and their total lack of compassion.

I feel things have gotten bad in our country and I have a feeling it will get worse if he wins again. I hope a war won't break out and I hope I am wrong here.

It has gotten to the point that I have contemplated leaving the country someday. A lot of right wingers complain about all the things that have been done to try to control the virus yet they don’t even want to take the vaccine, very thing that would make this pandemic go away.

Not to be racist, but if I were to move to another country it would be one where I don’t have to learn a different language or adjust to a totally different culture, like the UK or Australia

That's not racist, I think it's perfectly OK to want to be in a country that speaks the same language you do and to want to be in a culture that feels more familiar to your own.

I’m just as annoyed with Democrats trying to wrangle my vote as I am with Republicans trying to wrangle my vote.

I do wish the news media weren’t so politically motivated.

Same here. I'm so sick of this damn propaganda war.

"Sometimes"?

I can't wait until you get the first batch, wait a couple of months, and *then* take my shot, if things pan out.

Dare I say: "FAKE NEWS!" outlets?

The major news outlets ignored the derecho in Iowa because if doesn’t fit a political agenda. That’s unforgivable.

Any news outlets that use inflammatory/highly emotionally language or that rush to publish, leading to inaccuracies. Of course there's also those that simply fail to report on things and only cover the elements that get high ratings, thereby missing a big piece of the info.

Everyone keeps forgetting that the news gathering organizations exist for one thing, and one thing only: to sell advertising. THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!

Further, the consolidation in ownership in all media outlets means that, by design, no one can get at the truth.

Finally, especially in broadcast media, ratings are king.. Broadcast media no longer has a mandate to inform; it’s all mindless entertainment, dictated by the so-called “news consultants”. Is it any wonder most stations have got the reputation of KGO-TV in San Francisco some 40 years ago, where the call letters stand for “kickers, guts, and orgasms.”

In short, every last citizen to this country is f!cked.