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<b>ADULT SITUATIONS DARK HUMOR SUPERPOWERED HEROES &amp; VILLAINS GOVERNMENT FORCES ANARCHISTS SPIES DEATH &amp; DESTRUCTION<br/>
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<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Today, thought POTUS Wile E. Wilbur, things were <u>finally</u> going to go right, again.  The pandemic had been defeated, since upon taking office he'd inherited the vaccine that had been developed during his predecessor's Administration.  Since then, everything else seemed to go to the shitter.  The open borders immigration policy turned into a disaster, because the trade unions were revolting about plummeting wages due to the influx of cheap labor.  Then his Party pushed through and he signed a minimum wage law which sent inflation into stratospheric heights.  They printed more money, but other countries wouldn't buy the higher priced U.S. goods.  The other countries that had signed onto the Climate Accords also said that U.S. money wasn't any good and wanted payment in gold.  Who could have imagined that?  No one President Wilbur considered a supporter.  Then there were the new laws enacted to get the country moving away from fossil fuels.  It was a great idea, but the energy costs to make renewable energy was tremendously greater than anyone in the Party had imagined.  Then there were the facts that the sun took an average of half of the day off every day, the wind didn't blow hard enough all of the time and if it got really cold then the wind turbines might freeze up.  But now, with the Yellowstone Geothermal Electric Power Generating Plant, things would finally go right, again.<br/>
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The tree-huggers in the party had screamed 'bloody murder' that any of the vast Yellowstone national park should be sacrificed to provide the masses with electricity, but relented when the Administration hired a relatively 'apolitical' polling company which told them that approval for an armed revolution was becoming more likely if they didn't do something that the public regarded as a net positive.  Electricity from geothermal power was, in theory, safe, clean and, for the foreseeable future, endless.  The project went over well in The Press, too.  A lot of the early work was done by the Army Corps of Engineers, while the Administration wrangled with Big Labor over how much pocket lining was needed, those bastards wanted to be paid in gold, too.  Most of the conservatives actually thought that geothermal power was a great idea, too.  This caused a knee jerk reaction in many Party members, because if the conservatives liked something, then there must be something wrong with it.  The caldera of molten rock, he'd been told the difference between magma and lava but the POTUS always got the two confused, covered an area of over fifteen hundred square miles.  Even if they made a teeny-tiny little hole in the Earth's crust, it shouldn't be too bad.<br/>
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A few 'Mad Scientists' and 'Supervillains" had managed to briefly take over the satellite and cable television channels, putting forth propaganda and a ridiculous theory that the geothermal program was fatally flawed, but President Wilbur knew fear-mongering when he saw it because fear-mongering was one of his greatest talents.<br/>
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'Marine One' and the other two helicopters escorting it, flew over the countryside.  All kinds of pilgrims travelled to be as close to the site of the power plant as the government military forces would let them get.  According to the news, the masses of people included pro-thermal power proponents that wanted to make sure any anti-thermal power people were shouted down, antigovernment protestors, and a number of doomsday cults having baptismal drives.  The news crews also interviewed Earl and Mabel Johnson from Alabama, seated in folding chairs, in the bed of their pick-up truck, with two big insulated coolers full of Hitchhiker IPA, who'd figured they'd get front row seats for the end of it all and avoid having to go through a nuclear winter.<br/>
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All sorts of people would be at the ribbon-cutting slash activation of the new power plant.  People in the party managed to convince some of the nation's 'Superheroes' to attend, first by appealing to their sense of patriotic duty and then pointing out that there was a good possibility that there might be some mad scientists and supervillains that needed to be thwarted.  Then there'd be the other government officials, approved scientists, world leaders and The Press.  The Press could be a bunch of fickle sons of bitches, in that if there wasn't a convenient conservative to bash then they'd go snooping about looking for any other type of political corruption.</span></span></span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 18px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Marine One touched down, inside the fences, but not far away from the building that would control the Yellowstone Geothermal Plant.  The POTUS would need a nap before the ceremony and activation, plus a little time to memorize some words that would seem more genuine if not read in front of a teleprompter....  Still, exiting the helicopter, there seemed to be people wanted to get between President Wilbur and his nap....</span></span></span>