The United States is reporting a run on one of its banks. Not since the 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual (then the country's largest savings and loan association) has there been a run like this.
Today's run is on the Silicon Valley Bank, and the current POTUS is doing everything he can to restore confidence, assuring depositors that their savings are safe, and that the federal government guarantees it.
If we get a running chance at the end of the world (as we know it), it will include line-ups at the bank. Line-ups at the bank and cars driving past with all sorts of stuff tied to their roofs.
Suddenly we'll see more than the usual amount of police cars on the road. Most of them will be moving faster, though some of them slower, their drivers looking us in the eye as they pass.
Soon enough, the three or four scruffily-dressed men who gather at the corner at 5pm will turn into eight or nine men, and then one day, if not the next day, twenty of them, half of whom will walk into the liquor store, disarm the owner (U.S. version), and take what they want.
From that day on, no more police cars, only military vehicles. And just when we're getting used to the uniforms, a change. No more insignias, no more flag, just scruffy soldiers, like the men on the corner, who sit around drinking all day, getting angrier, polishing the guns they took from the liquor store.
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