So quickly.

 I've never seen as many people close to me as scared as they are now--not during COVID, not after 9-11. My DnD buddies all work for the FAA. They keep getting ominous notes that huge cuts are coming. No one knows who's safe and who's not. No one has any notion of who's making these decisions, or what criteria they're using.

It baffles me to hear of people acting as if all this suffering constituted victory. "I never knew people hated government so much," one of my buddies marveled.

The short- and long-term suffering is going to be terrible. 

I keep thinking of books I've read (Max Brooks's Devolution most recently) in which a disaster happens and various characters have to adjust to the abrupt change from first-world safety to wartime all-against-all survival mode. 

How close are we to that stage? 

How much military or armed forces support does the billionaires-and-bullies-first accelerationis agenda have? Hegseth seems bound and determined to start a border war with Mexico. I fear what happens if there's any loss of life on the American side--or, just as likely historically, a fake story about American loss of life--from some random Mexican or drug gang or whatever. Nothing galvanizes like a war--We're the wounded ones now! 

I don't know. 

Things fell apart so quickly. 

Things fell apart so quickly.

Things fell apart so quickly.