that I need to 'attend' there more often ... in the search for daily Intelligence in a failed-State. Too many distractions.. carz, illness elsewhere.. but still: Cats have evaded the only occasional cars-on-road to this cul-de-sac, remain healthy it seems ... and one is asleep on bed--a sleeping cat surely epitomizes that Complete-rest (as escapes so many denizens of our $$-controlled, commuting myriads at dawn each Commercial-day, y'know?)
One can learn a lot from these critters, I find. (For another friend: it's her Horses that keep her sane..)

This B-J compilation of the details of the dis-US's Fall towards either Insurrection (so unlikely amidst the comfortable/the obscenely-Comfortable) and rampant in the insufferable lo-information bloc ... is a gem of concision-with-Links. It has never been so Pellucid as Now: that every hour in which the Drumpf cabal Controls our future is a giant-leap Downwards. A 'congress' whose obloquy will be referenced/Despised by all successors--if there are such--for generations ... corrupts via every day We Tolerate their premeditated dismantling of most-every facet of the Constitution which they ignore, oft for personal-profit via smirking..! bald-faced-Lying and propaganda as makes Göbbels' speeches ..seem almost profound.

Carrion.. it's already in your Soylent-Yellow fast-food, as seems to stoke the brain-damage now so apparent, in its pandemic symptoms. Who Knew (in years past) that the savageness of My Gramma had spread exponentially (Human Events ... their bible ... still Lives in millions of brain-pans, and may appear as #1 on the necropsy of this ex-Republic.)

Nullo illegitimi carborundum is my shield against (that other Murican pandemic: Depression; as rampant as the current mere 'opioids' pandemic).
And for clear-cause: Liff Here has become--for the vast majority of the vox populi--a daily trudge through un-Civil 'justice' and un-Working medicine computer-"solutions" purveyed by white-coated minions whose eyes, when Noticed clearly: seem dull and un-perceiving of the humans before them ..as many contemplate their new Porsche (as the old one is nearly 3-years Old) as.. their actual-main earliest attraction to the craft was all-about the $$$..

Maybe the over-population has rendered 'Planners' completely incapable of the Scale/Relativity demanded ... even to achieve 'stasis' as all matters spin Out-of Intelligent control. Nature prescribes in such circumstances: Decimation, last I read. Maybe the Next Flu strain shall accommodate--remember 1918 when returning troops from the bloodbath of that War to End all Wars ... came "home"/infected en masse. Eh?

I'll watch, but cannot possibly engage in the sturm und drang now not "before us" but "immersed within". None of us could be prepared to actually Witness: complete dismantling of--not merely "the environment" but, of the chance even to nurture Sound-minds amongst the tykes--now nodding-out in perpetual computer games in most waking hours, fueled by Corporate food-like substances. I Can distance-self from that lugubrious free-fall, I am relieved to observe. (Elsewhere lives inchoate Madness, even I can tell. {{whew!}}
I realize too, that I'm fortunate not-to-suffer that list of maladies of many my age; one does not 'earn' such a reprieve; there's no ego-credit for random-luck, right? And as Ben Franklin opined,
"..I might someday achieve humility.. but then Vanity.. (forget the remainder: he thought that might prevail..)

Stay cool, y'hear? this has Got to be: the most intense Shaggy-Dog-Story ever witnessed in history! I wot :-)
(And in 100 years there Will be all-new-people! ... if quite a lot fewer. And Wiser, we may always hope.)
We have cold-blooded Work to do: GET THOSE BASTARDS OUT! by all means possible/discoverable.

SImilarly, in countless newish-means of communicating lies daily improved tactics against the Visigoths now not merely at-the-door ... but trashing the entire household; still, anyone still dozing away in that Complacency fantasy brain/off state.. is also a major Enemy towards recovery. Sic transist and all that.

Carz: it seems that Foord HAS kept their (actually generous!) promise of recompense, by check alleged at dealer: now (!) The cynic-within does however marvel at any such mondo-Corp actually Being 'generous' (thus: by Not-listening to their own gaggle of legal beagles who could spin mindless-delays and nickel-dime stuff/we all know that drill.)

Having spotted the achilles-heel-of 'hybrids' [simple old MTBF for the complexity of TWO complete power systems]--for which You pay all along, etc.
(That plus the entry cost as say, for the KIa new plug-in offering)
That too-many-$$ left moi with good impressions (not only by the BS-dismantlers at TTAC) but others:

Seems it's to be a '18 Hyundai 'ECO' as blows the doors off many hybrid MPG claims re "economy" but--also-too--has a Sport-mode and the kick-in-ass (measurable 0-60 performance ∆) of the smaller but Turbo! engine, not unlike the Black Shadow vee's Torque vs. all those vertical twin screamers. (Ran out of options for a left-over '17 and better rebates. Pity not a hatch-back but them's the brakes-breaks)

Recovery: last week was a kinda Haul the Debris truck-fleet thing. I drove over the road where I used to get barbered ... it looked exactly like Berlin '45 there, The salon /nearby houses completely obliterated. With housing another Universal Murican-nightmare, many folk are in precarious straits (even had we actual sane governance--but still, Gov. Jerry + State legislature are still amidst the remaining Good-guys of governance. ie
I was f*ing Lucky during crap-shoot of the two weeks of this plot being In- then Out-side of that Red-zone.
(Just across creek, a huge mansion of a local Gentry dynasty went *poof*. Cthulhu works in mysterious Ways.

More luck: the Opossum who cadged food, whom I ƒeared-lost.. came Through and looks back st me (in kitchen) after my X-10 Syst raises the lighting on his approach to dish: I wave/s/he? eats. All is well for yet another critter. Makes endorphins, all that.

Glad that you too have survived Cthulhu's warz on Repo-grade Weather in your bailiwick; saw the pix from the ground in your parts.. ... lit the Survival candle then (as the whole E. bloc of the dis-US got What-global warming? schadenfreude from the plurality of dysfunctional Despicables :-/

We Shall overcome it seems, so long as Young Un possesses the insight that: this Drumpf Clan is due for extirpation by most Americans du jour.
Drumpf + New/or Old nukes must be --[separated]-- before we have any actual Hope, here, I wot.