Is it as bad as you expected - worse?

[Hekate]

68. Yes I thought it would be this bad. I just didn't know the details.

I told an old friend who used to work in DC that I felt like we drove off the cliff, were still falling, and I didn't know when we'd hit bottom and go splat. She said we already had.

Have we gone splat yet? I do not know.

Edited to add: He does have the capacity to shock me deeply. That business with Lavroff, Kitslyev, and TASS in the Oval Office was massive.