re: #153 Mattand

Jesus, the United States is poised to become a banana republic with a nuclear arsenal capable of snuffing out life on the whole planet.

Years ago, I remember someone comparing us to the Romans and saying “At some point, an empire has to end.”

Never thought I’d be around to see it.

I knew that we had reached our apex on Sep 10, 2001, but really had some hope that we would hold on a while and not start the precipitous slide down within two decades…