let's look back on 2000-2009
-a guy literally stole the presidency, then ignored warning signs of a terrorist attack which ended up claiming the lives of thousands of people in new york and washington and destroying national landmarks, then he used the resulting nationalist solidarity to lie to the world that a country which insulted his daddy was responsible and had super-doomsday weapons (both of these things were deliberate lies), everybody on the planet bought it because the country was run by a meanie, so we ended up going into war where thousands more americans died and literally hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed when the country collapsed into chaos, gave billions of dollars in contracts to contractors who robbed the treasury blind then supplied the army with busted cheapo equipment, then he approved it when we captured, imprisoned without charges, and literally tortured untold amounts people in secret cia prisons across the world (seriously, this actually happened, it really happened you guys and nobody was punished for it, holy shit), ordered the spying on americans.
this all actually happened, we honest-to-god were being lead by an illegal official who is literally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people around the world and turned america into a laughing stock and even more hated monster around the world, and then we re-elected him because he promised to take away rights from gay people and said that anyone who didn't agree with him was against freedom, holy shit you guys, this honestly took up 8 years of the last decade, that all really happened, ahahahaha if it weren't such a horrific human tragedy of an incomprehensible magnitude it would almost be funny how absurdly evil it all was.
these were the horrible things which defined the last decade. ahaha wow it sucked.