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People had no idea how good we had it. Guess we all have to learn the hard lessons again.
Those of us who survive it anyway
I'm serious folks, a lot of people died the first term and a lot will die again.
Calling it now:
Bird flu will make the jump this summer. It will be just like The Spanish flu and start at a pig farm in Kansas.
My bet is a poultry farm in Iowa.
T for trumpetta. Lmao god I hope not
!remindme 6 months
Well, then maybe we will be cured of the republican problem when boomers die and younger conservatives sacrifice their children to their emperor via antivaxxing.
Nature always finds a way.
How presumptuous of you to assume they'll learn anything.
They sure didn't learn anything from the 1940s.
If your referring to the fox trot you are correct. I take the electric slide the best I can
They'll just blame illegal immigrants for spreading disease, and the liberal Hollywood elite for letting them come here.
The only thing to learn from history is that people don't.
You sound like a domestic violence advocate