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Top 10 Reasons Why 2018 Was the Worst


so what do you think what’s this a
terrible year or what welcome to
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and worst of 2018 videos for a look back
at all the awesome and crazy things that
happened for this list we’re taking a
look at the events trends and tragedies
that made 2018 an especially difficult
year for us all to get through the
visionary behind Marvel Comics lived a
life almost as incredible as the
characters he created number 10
crumbling infrastructure on March 15th a
175 foot long section of the pedestrian
bridge in front of the Florida
International University collapsed onto
u.s. route 41 crushing eight vehicles
and killing six people as well as
injuring a further nine a study
concluded that the engineers had
overestimated the strength of the bridge
and underestimated the load volume
sadly five months later a large section
of Genoa’s morandi bridge suddenly
collapsed when the southern stays gave
out plunging dozens of vehicles to the
ground and river below and killing 43
people hey guys it’s 2018 you’d think
we’d have this whole infrastructure
thing down by now number 9 Brett
Cavanaugh’s devicive confirmation in
July 2018 President Donald Trump
nominated judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill
the vacant seat on the Supreme Court
this news prompted psychology professor
Christine Blasi Ford to come forward
with allegations that Cavanaugh had
sexually assaulted her when the two were
teens two more women eventually
volunteered similar stories about
Kavanagh forcing the Senate Judiciary
Committee to address the claims during
the confirmation process in a highly
publicized national event both Cavanaugh
and Blasi Ford were questioned at length
at the confirmation hearing sometimes I
had too many beers sometimes others did
I liked beer I still liked beer but in
the end Cavanaugh was confirmed by a
narrow margin further dividing and all
politically polarized nation number
eight trump tariffs accusing China of
unfair trade practices and the theft of
intellectual property the Trump
administration initiated a trade war
against the economic powerhouse in July
China retaliated with tariffs of their
own and the u.s. responded in kind while
also broadening the fight with tariffs
on the EU Mexico and Canada the results
have so far included losses in the US
and Chinese stock market and grim
forecasts for trade especially in
agricultural and manufacturing
industries number seven the Jamaal
khashoggi case the murder of saudi
journalists and dissidents on Malka
shook sheet in a Saudi Arabian consulate
shocked the world
kachunk she was a vocal critic of Saudi
Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a CIA
investigation has reportedly implicated
the prince in the killing countries
around the world condemned the action
although President Trump downplayed the
possibility of bin Salman involvement
citing the importance of oil and arms
deals with Saudi Arabia and praising the
prince as quote a strong person who
quote loves his country did they go to
China they go to Russia and they don’t
have great equipment like we do number
six the alt-right according to the
anti-defamation league in 2017 most of
the extremist violence in the US was
related to this group and that trend
continued in 2018 although the group
showing at Washington’s unite the right
to rally on August 12th attracted more
counter protesters than supporters the
alt-right has not disappeared on August
27th white nationalist and anti-semite
Robert Bowers killed 11 people at a
Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh the
alt-right also entered the political
arena in 2018 with several white
nationalists and neo-nazis running as
Republicans including Arthur Jones Paul
Nealon Russel Walker and Patrick little
number five the Humboldt Broncos bus
crash on April 6th a coach bus in
Saskatchewan Canada carrying players
from the junior hockey team the Humboldt
Broncos crashed into a semi that had run
a stop sign at 60 miles per hour
the collision killed 16 people in
another 13 leading to national mourning
and countless tributes we got a lot of a
lot of work ahead of us
to console and to work together to
support each other a GoFundMe campaign
launched with the intention of helping
the affected families raised over 15
million dollars making it the second
most successful campaign in GoFundMe
history the truck driver
Jessica dot singh sidhu was charged with
16 counts of dangerous driving causing
death and the trucking company owner
Sukhwinder Singh was charged with
violating safety regulations his
intention wasn’t to go out and hurt us
that day but you know mistake obviously
it’s gonna change his life and changed
all of our lives
number four dangerous male in October
Florida resident Cesar sy achtung your’e
mailed 16 pipe bombs to various critics
of President Donald Trump including
former President Barack Obama Hillary
Clinton Robert DeNiro and CNN luckily
none of them exploded and no one was
hurt Sayaka was charged with five
federal crimes and faces 48 years in
prison after his arrest
psyops far-right agenda came to light
with his social media feeds full of
white supremacists anti-gay proton
pleadings the president attributed quote
the anger we see today in our society to
the mainstream media and lamented that
coverage of the attempted bombings had
slowed Republican quote momentum in the
midterms number three no peace in
schools there were 36 reported school
shootings in 2018 up from 11 the
previous year those 36 shootings
combined for 43 deaths and 82 injuries
with the worst shootings taking place at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and
Santa Fe High School president Trump’s
proposed solution to this ongoing
violence was to arm school faculty and
as of May 14 states had introduced
legislation and this would only be
obviously for people that are very adept
at handling a gun in March Florida
Governor Rick Scott signed Senate bill
seventy twenty six which called for
tighter gun control but also allowed for
the arming of school faculty
that’s a sheriff that lost his life and
I want to say I’m so sorry for his
family he was a brave man to come into
the shots cuz it was a scary situation
for everyone it really was number two
border agents and migrants clash in
April the Trump administration zero
tolerance family separation policy saw
migrant children taken from their
parents until it was suspended in
response to public opposition but
immigration became the focus again in
the lead-up to the midterm elections
when President Trump sent troops to the
border to meet a migrant caravan
tensions came to a head on November 25th
when border agents fired tear gas after
migrants rushed barriers tear gas has
been used at the border since 2010 but
critics called it’s use on a desperate
group with small children overkill in
one of the more surreal moments of 2018
the president at first denied that
children had been gassed despite plenty
of photos before we unveil our number
one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions in
those trips to the emergency room now
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number one climate change is nearly
irreversible it’s been a bad year for
natural disasters a major earthquake and
tsunami hit Sulawesi Guatemala
experienced its deadliest volcanic
eruption since 1929 numerous hurricanes
and typhoons made landfall and
California was on fire some of these
might be attributable to climate change
which experts have declared is quote
nearly irreversible the 2018 emissions
Gap report calls our curbing efforts
insufficient and says we’re nowhere near
the goals outlined in the Paris
agreement the Trump administration’s
Climate Assessment came to similar
conclusions but the administration
dismissed the report I don’t do you
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