Future historians are going to find it very hard to describe the history of the United States in the mid-2020s without using the phrase "perfect storm of assholes”.
@angusm The collective noun for such a group of assholes is obviously "a prolapse".
@cstross “It is my very great pleasure to welcome you all to the 17th Sphincterological Conference, the first such conference to be held on the devastated North American continent. Contemplating the ruins of the sometime United States at firsthand, as it were, from our secure enclave off the coast of West Virginia, no one can be left in any doubt as to the importance of our historical studies into the Great American Prolapse of the '20s. Among the distinguished experts gathered here today…”