By Claudya

Funny San Francisco Latina Blogger

The Flying Chancla Report: 2016 the Year That Sucked and the Tweets That Prove It

The Flying Chancla Report

Hola Chulas y Chulos! I don’t know about you, but my chancla and I are so over 2016. We were over it a long time ago because as far as we are concerned 2016 sucked big time. Now, I am not normally a negative person or at least I try my best not to project negativity, but one would have to be dumb, deaf, blind and clueless not to acknowledge the cacastorm that 2016 has been. 

As a way to exorcise all the bad mojo, my chancla and I put together a review of 2016 in tweets. Let’s take one final stroll down nightmare lane 2016 and then bid it a not-so-fond GTFOH. 

The year started with the death of an icon, which seems to have set the tone for the rest of the year. 

See what I mean? 

A devastating pattern was set. 

https://twitter.com/ImTiff_Errific/status/712673597672800256

When Prince died, the mass dislike for 2016 was on. 

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We started crying, “Enough 2016!”

https://twitter.com/140movierviews/status/723287616901255168

But 2016 was on a horrid roll and kept taking more of our icons. 

https://twitter.com/Mrydah/status/739121813528182788

The news was so awful that we started looking for anything to distract us from so much death. 

https://twitter.com/MisterBeebo/status/754137745241444352

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Distractions were all too fleeting before we would get hit with more sad news.

We felt helpless against 2016. 

Who could have predicted that the year would be a constant funeral procession? 

The news seemed like a bad joke. 

A horribly bad joke. 

Our collective morale took a beating. 

Relationships we had come to depend on came to an end. 

https://twitter.com/morriseygirl/status/778255031862697984

Legends continued to die. 

So many of us felt like we lost a bit of our childhood. 

https://twitter.com/TreyWalker2014/status/786563437291798528

We settled into a kind of numbness because it was all too much to bear. 

2016 even managed to kill a social network. 

Halloween could have been a welcome distraction, but it was poorly timed.

https://twitter.com/calshimkus22/status/793252755372593153

And the death announcements kept coming in. 

We worried over who might be taken from us next. 

https://twitter.com/Demygawdjr/status/796912842020712448

Trailblazers were not spared.

Celebrities that felt like family left us aching with their passing.

We got pissed!

2016 didn’t care, it kept coming at us when we were down. 

It was an abusive beatdown. 

And to quote the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that most people couldn’t get tickets to, “the world turned upside down.”

https://twitter.com/Livmae2016/status/807970247017906176

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I guess you could say we got really good at saying goodbye. 

After all, we’ve had so much practice at saying goodbye. 

And wouldn’t you know that 2016 would be bitter until the end? 

(Updated 12/26 because 2016 is a relentless abuser.) Now, George Michael is gone. 

(Updated 12/27 because this year is a nightmare we can’t seem to wake up from.) Carrie Fisher is gone. 

No more, please. 

(Update 12/29) Unfreakin’ believable! One day after Carrie Fisher dies, her mother Debbie Reynolds dies. 

Enough 2016! Enough. 

That’s it for this week’s The Flying Chancla Report. I love you mucho and remember, spread love, not chanclazos!

 

 

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