Yellowstone National Park is actually a very active supervolcano that last blew its top some 631,000 years ago, creating the current caldera that is approximately 45 miles wide in one place and 30 miles in another, taking up space in three Western states -- Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana -- and making the Yellowstone supervolcano one of the biggest in the world. Hyper-active with hot spots, geysers and bubbling mud and other emanations. The ground under Yellowstone is constantly deforming, swelling up inches and then declining, as though the supervolcano were breathing deep, like an old man trying to calm himself down. Two magma chambers underlie Yellowstone roughly 5-7 miles underground, each measuring 30-plus miles across.
If Yellowstone exploded it would put enough ash into the air to stop all air travel, blot out the sun world-wide, kill most plant life including food crops, introduce a perpetual winter, and it would end Donald J. Trump. Like maybe nothing else can. Congress is worthless. The Supreme Court is squishy, the rest of the judiciary under constant threat.
Like maybe nothing else can. Well, there's one thing -- a reconstituted Congress. That's the midterm challenge for next year. Put Virginia Foxx back in the god-blessed minority.
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