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BurnDoubt

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17. Not to worry...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 03:24 AM

20 hrs ago

We’ve hitched our wagon to Ignorance and Greed, headed to the Abyss through a Hall of Mirrors.
The “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, in real time, Idiots trusting Imaginary Friends and Invisible Hands, Alternative Facts and Magical Thinking to avert our Fate.
It’s an ill-wind that blows no good, and The Huckster Is Makin’ Bank, so there’s always that, anyway………

It really is astonishing that this has been allowed to come to pass.

You could be forgiven for believing you’d been dosed with Acid.

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Not to worry... BurnDoubt 20 hrs ago #17

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