shitstorm

noun

1. (derogatory, slang, vulgar)A chaotic and unpleasant or violent situation.

   “The hell with Brown […] He's been missing all the shit storms. It's his turn.”

   “'Sometimes the pool-pah,' Bokonon tells us, 'exceeds the power of humans to comment.' Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as 'shit storm' and at another point as 'wrath of God'.”

   ““...seem’s he’s been tumbling ass over teakettle—though there’s no way to tell in this murky shitstorm, no visual references...””

   “"You and your cowboys just stirred up a shitstorm, agent."”

   “In Baltimore, the general rule is that if something looks like a shitstorm, smells like a shitstorm and tastes like a shitstorm, it goes to homicide.”

2. (idiomatic, vulgar)Considerable backlash from the public.

   “Near-synonyms: blowback, fallout”

   “When Abbott stated openly that his plan involved a new tax of 1.7% on large companies with big profit margins - those, in fact, most able to pay - he provoked a near universal shitstorm.”