I’m still trying to make sense of things, like most of us I guess. But i do find reporting on the Mar a Lago Accords interesting as some part of an explanation for my some adults in the coalition of collaborators who may still care about foundational us centric geopolitics are playing their parts.

I got deepseek to find me the quote. Funny sidenote: In my prompt i referred to ‘the protagonist astarte’ because i listened to the book’s audio and didn’t know how to spell his name. So, I guess the AI decided Lorken’s name and pronouns are just ‘astarte’.
Anyway, here’s the foul portent:

Pay no attention to him! Its just silly stuff! He’s a silly guy!

I’m so tired of the voices crying hystrionics, their chant of ‘alarmist’.

It’s fucking alarming, Dan.

You’re a king for this. We need many many more people acting as you did. Thank you for using your time, privilege, and voice to amplify this message.

All joking aside, the path we're headed down is widespread civil conflict. Official corruption is generally more of an accelerant than the curtailment of rights, though they often go hand-in-hand, as we're seeing.