{"id":33681,"date":"2025-06-26T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=33681"},"modified":"2025-06-25T23:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:38:55","slug":"dunwich-slips-into-permanent-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/dunwich-slips-into-permanent-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunwich Slips Into Permanent Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dunwich is a strange place.\u00a0 Although most humans here appear to be sentient, they’re not.\u00a0 Many of them continue to breath and move and even talk without even the tiniest shred of gray matter.<\/p>\n

First Selectman Cthulhu called a town meeting last night and tried to explain why they should finally vote to accept the 2025\/2026 budget during this third referendum.\u00a0 But regardless of how many citizens he ate, they would not agree to a budget.\u00a0 Finally after he was developing acid reflux, he asked them why they would not agree.\u00a0 Their spokeswoman was a vapid forty-something who stood her ground and said, “Why do we need a budget?”<\/p>\n

Cthulhu was so flabbergasted by this lack of understanding that he dropped the six Whatleys he was about to swallow and just broke down and wept.\u00a0 Finally he composed himself and just walked off right through the south wall of town hall and hasn’t been seen since.<\/p>\n

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In his absence I took it upon myself to explain to this rube just how government worked.\u00a0 I explained that a budget allowed us a framework for stealing the public’s money and also provide a basis for increasing this theft on a yearly basis.\u00a0 This actually worked and she thanked me for the clarity of my explanation.<\/p>\n

Seriously, this question was actually raised at a town meeting, “Why do we need a budget?”\u00a0 I think the millennials have reached that point where maintaining a viable civilization is very doubtful<\/p>\n