What a shitshow!

Here are some of the things I’ve seen characterized as a shitshow (or a shit show) during the last 115 days:

• A Q-and-A session involving the ride-hailing company Uber
• The British Labour Party
• The British rail system
• The Long Island Rail Road
• The New York restaurant Tavern on the Green
• The Fyre Festival
• College basketball
• Chicago Cubs baseball
• ESPN
• The Facebook page of Congressman Eric Paulsen, Republican of Minnesota
• Australian internet
• The U.S. healthcare system
• President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey
• Trump’s on-camera interview with NBC news anchor Lester Holt about the Comey firing
• American democracy 

Go back just a little further and we have late-night host John Oliver’s “Clowntown Fuck-the-World Shitshow 2016” (March 2016); fellow late-night host Samantha Bee’s “most deranged electoral shit show in a generation” (February 2016) and “Shit Show the Musical” (à propos the presidential inauguration); and Michael Moore’s “My friends, this … is … a shit show” (also à propos the inauguration, at :55 in the video). In the March 2016 issue of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that President Obama privately called the situation in Libya a shit show. (In public, he called it a “mess.”)

And that’s very far from a comprehensive list. It’s enough to make one agree with this sentiment from @hugetiny in Austin, Texas:

@tgrochowicz To be fair we’re in bit of a shitshow renaissance, the rules are changing daily

— Patrick V Barrett (@hugetiny) May 12, 2017