"This is feeling like the start of the movies in new theaters when they show off their sound systems and make the GONG sounds, and increase the volume at a slow pace, and you think it can't get any louder, but it just keeps getting louder until your eardrums are getting blown out-right now is like that, but with all the levels of fear and anxiety a populace can carry and still function."
"They keep turning it up, and we just keeping walking around, doing our jobs, unloading our dishwashers, assuming that either at some point it will stop or at some point we will explode, because this relentless horror is surely unsustainable, right? Like, we can't actually live like this? But we can! If the last decade has taught us anything, it's that we can."
"Take, for example, the recent kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. While photos of him with his wrists bound and eyes covered circulated in the media, the reaction wasn't only one of shock at this unlawful power grab, but also: cute outfit! Maduro was snapped in a gray Nike Tech Fleece set and I, for one, have so many questions. Since the raid happened at night, is this what he was sleeping in? Seems hot, right? Or was he wearing something else,"
Dryuary is rejected and January is linked to reasons for drinking, citing January 6, 2021 as a source of heightened stress. The national mood is compared to a theater sound test that gradually increases volume until eardrums feel blown out. People carry on with daily tasks—work, chores, and routines—despite mounting fear and anxiety. The pressure is described as relentless yet survivable, prompting dark humor and gossip as ways to cope. The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is presented as an example where shock at an unlawful act coexists with absurd focus on his gray Nike Tech Fleece outfit.
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