The past 600 days have left a sizable chunk of the electorate exhausted, anxiety-riddled, and sickened. John Oliver knows that this period of time can’t be adequately summed up with only the word election—which is why, over the past year, he’s come up with some more colorful descriptors for what we’ve all been through, compiled here in a supercut put together by YouTuber consumer:
- “Clowntown Fuck-the-World Shitshow” 2016
- “America’s Shit Salad Fuckstravaganza” 2016
- “The Fiery Two-Party Pileup on the Hellbound Fuckspressway”
- “America’s Fucktastic Cirque de Dismay” 2016
- “America’s 3-D Imax Shit-Fit Dumpster Fire” 2016
- “Lice on Rats on a Horse Corpse on Fire” 2016
- “A Horrifying Glimpse at Satan’s Pinterest Board” 2016
- “What Did I Do to Deserve This? I Always Tried to Be a Good Person Is This Because I Stole Candy Once in 4th Grade Please Stop Punishing Us” 2016
- “I Don’t Even Believe in Past Lives, but I Must Have Done Something Really Fucking Terrible in a Past Life to Deserve This I’m Sorry I’m Sorry I’m Sorry” 2016
- “Oh, I Get It: We All Died, and This Is Hell, and Satan Has Cursed Us to Live Out This Nightmare for All Eternity” 2016
- “I Honestly Don’t Even Know if I Can Make It Another Two-and-a-Half Weeks I’ve Been Drinking a Lot and Lashing Out and Frankly My Family Is Worried” 2016
- “The Shit-Filled Cornucopia That Just Keeps on Giving” 2016
Note that the compilation isn’t a complete list: It’s missing a few of Oliver’s other far-too-accurate nicknames for the election, such as “The Electoral Equivalent of Seeing Someone Puking, so You Start Puking, and Then Someone Else Is Puking, and Pretty Soon Everyone Is Puking” 2016. Still, even if you’re only counting the names included in the video, that’s five F-bombs, three images of fire/burning, two invocations of Satan, and a whole lot of existential torment. Ah, democracy.
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