2018: The worst year yet?

I think we all know and remember by now what a terrible year 2017 was. It is scarred onto our brains like those ubiquitous marks on pears that make you never want to buy them at the grocery store, as each and every one of us struggles through treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder which doctor's are campaigning to have renamed as "2017 disorder". Carrie Fisher died. A show I liked on TV got canceled. Netflix. And probably the worst thing about it is that it came directly after 2016, which was far and away the worst year of all time, for reasons that I cannot recount without being immediately hospitalized into a psychiatric health facility.

The question we've come together today to answer, as we count down the final years of 2018 (which interestingly enough is only the 2017th year since there wasn't a year zero or August for a while) is whether things have gotten any better. Let's a take a look back at the ten biggest events that afflicted us all this year and consider how things stack up.

1. Kavanaugh got supreme court
2. The rape crisis
3. The opioids
4. (*U.S. ONLY*) Democrats won Congress but Republicans won the other half (end *U.S. ONLY*)
5. The heat doesn't work in my new apartment
6. At Super Bowl they didn't kneel for the flag
7. Trump took a picture shaking hands with a fascist tyrant who murdered more people
1. (Trump tweets) (not a separate event)
8. Slatestar doesn't support marijuana anymore
9. Lives lost that the world probably cannot cope without:
1. Stan Lee
2. Charlie Krauthammer
3. John McCain
4. John Carpenter
5. Lyric McHenry McHenry, who appeared on EJ Johnson’s Rich Kids of Beverly Hills spinoff EJNYC, was found dead in the sidewalk in New York City on August 14. She was 26 years old. 
6. Simon Kerr
7. Joe Jackson
8. Aretha Franklin
9. Everyone in Marvel when Thanos snapped (spoiler)
10. Suicides
1. Anthony Bourdain
2. Avinci
1. Possibly not a suicide
11. Margot Kidder, Superman's Wife
12. David Spade
13. What the hell Mark E. Smith died and no one told me about this? That's what I get for not checking Prindlebook anymore
10. Bill Cosby was in the news again

The evidence is definitely in and we can safely declare that 2018 is definitely the worst year ever, and that's with a month and a half left for things to get worse. Post in the comments how your life changed because of some of these events.