@normjess @thordis not just ancient... But woefully underinformed about Trains.

@Huntn00 @benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox "Fuck off or we're dragging you to hell. Real hell. Not the one you imagined you'd be able to handle and where you could maybe even thrive."

@benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox America gets rid of governments they don't like.

American Democracy, for all it's foibles, was the weird, compromise-laden system that tried to get those switches to happen without creating a mass of pissed-off-Americans. And the current government knows it.

@benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox everyone jokes about rednecks.

Now imagine rednecks in the woods they grew-up-in sniping at agents, pulling them deeper into the woods, and then wounding one of them so they can draw out the rest of the squad.

@benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox everyone jokes about Karens.

Now imagine Karen with G-Wagon/Cybertruck/Yank-Tank with her kids in it and no fucks to give because she just saw her friend and neighbor get popped by someone 'Not From Their Town'?

She'll knock down whatever gravy seal, park with a wheel on his chest, and live stream them going through compartmentalization syndrome while calmly telling him he deserves it because he messed up her brunch plans with the lady he just shot.

@benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox A bunch of the people who knew how destructive and terrible Pissed Off Americans could be... who spent DECADES going "Let's see if we can just contain these couple of grumps and trust these folks who say they have it handled and know how to keep 'em calm" are now glowing Red, White, and Blue with the flames of apoplexy at the sheer incompetence and unbridled pettyness.

All the "When they go low we go high" folks are now basically going "High road's closed."

@benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox I don't think non-Americans realize just how scared _Americans_ are of Americans that are Very Angry and feel completely justified in that Anger.

That is America's greatest export. It was called-upon to help end two world wars with great success and try to tip the scales in colony skirmishes with far less success.

The people on our money are people who managed to wrangle that dark magic of 'Pissed Off American' for a while without destroying the country.