DHS can eat a US defense budget sized bag of dicks
In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire's end when it stops building public architecture, whether it's art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it's over.
Separate and complex discussion defining "empire" in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.
Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.
Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it's a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.
Because, amd I will say this yet again,
Trump is not the problem.
He is the symptom. If it wasn't him, it would be anybody. He isn't in charge, he isn't calling the shots. The system that enabled his rise will exist after he has a stroke. It won't matter.
He's the distraction. The carnival clown to keep people from watching The Steves too closely (and the rest of the good ol' boys club).
10 years ago I met a hydrologist from Tehran. He told me aquifer depletion was a looming disaster then, and the government wouldn't face it.
Best non-fiction opening that sounds like a threat.
So, 1st ammendment is being suspended?
Set fire to the Capitol. Got it
Ypu know who downvotes this? Tiny-penised fascists.
How does it feel to be one of the prime content creators in the fediverse?
A couple months ago, I would have said Proton. But....
Here we are.
And NOW you can honetly say that, yes, everybody was indeed kung fu fighting.