Food prices had risen for the ninth straight month, the effects of the Great Eastern Flood continuing in the grain markets. Love was combating the climate crisis by creating the White House Office of Climate Security, to be headed by obvious fascist-apparatchik-in-waiting Admiral Michael Dahms. “Sustainability is lethality,” Dahms said in his first presser. Desperate Democrats tried to explain away Love’s behavior by pointing to his reparations commission or all the women he’d appointed to his cabinet, including Sarah Caperno, the first female secretary of defense.
