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Can You Really Not See What’s Coming?
Shit’s about to get real, and nobody is coming to save us
You know how you feel when the forecast calls for a bad storm and you cancel all your plans and prepare for disaster?
That time is now.
Prepare as best you can and then hunker down. No, you don’t have to nail boards over your windows or retreat to your basement, but you need to do other things, because once Trump gets back in power, this country is going to change in ways you can’t even imagine.
You may think I’m exaggerating. I am not.
You might remember Covid
Before Covid, you probably never imagined we’d close schools or impose lockdowns or that so many people would die in such a short time. You may have assumed, having watched dozens of dystopian movies through the years, that people would come together to fight a deadly pandemic.
That didn’t happen. Covid brought out the very worst in some people. Millions of assholes refused to wear a mask in public. Wearing a mask is such a simple thing, yet some people defiantly went around with bare faces and zero shame. Ordinary human decency did not move them one bit. In fact, the deplorable people actually attacked people who tried…