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The Worst is Yet to Come

The American government has only begun to sell us down the river.

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D.J. Byrnes
Jul 13, 2020
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Eating food through straws quickly got old. I am now perpetually hungry and yet somehow I can’t find enough excitement in me to suck down another cup of bone broth.

This puts me into a dickish mood where I can’t even be troubled to respond to text messages. “How are you?” people will ask in a way to which they already know the answer. I’d rather spend my…

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