accelerating downwards as the 2nd derivative also rises. Inflection point? ~~the assassinations thence '68 Cop riot at Demo convention.
Thence Shrub: the authentically hyperbolic segment continues..
Words cannot limn the feeling of being surrounded by the n+Many disingenuous in Armanis and the many groups not abetted by enough $$
..to be individually effective at driving the devolution. Ah.. But.. collectively ...

DJT got the 'shit-hole' epithet right, oblivious as to Which was the most dangerous shit-hole extant. Predictably.
Now he wants to play with new IRBMs ... insurance towards King-for-Liff (surely never far from his fantasies/asleep and "awake".)



(Would 'The Asteroid' be deemed, now: "a Lucky event?")
Similar outcome, but ..freed of a generation of 100%-angst, from cradle--> grave.. My pref is Door #3, Alex, of course. But the Dumbth + the Drumpf: they burn like a cyanide candle. While HALF of the 320M inhabitants locally ... want to join that fleet of shiny-new, '60s-excessively-massive motoring palaces redux, apparently the new rage: judging by visitors to "wine Country".
Clearly 'we' are too flagrantly-iggerant ever to contemplate the steps swiftly demanded by Real Life. And that mass of the more/More/MORE addicted has the turning-radius of a super-tanker. Tragi-Comedy; what a concept!

(Then too, Jack London's Ranch-oasis is a few miles south. He wanted to "burn like a candle". And succeeded, dying at Age 40, of some odd noxious organ disease.) Bette Davis--famously in All About Eve--saith: “Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!".

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