It was meant to address freed slaves and their children. As slaves, they and their children were not citizens of the United States, with the abolition of Slavery the Amendment was meant for them because all slaves after 1800 had to have been born in the United States as a way to ban importing them from across the Ocean
The thing with McDonald’s Fries is that when they cool down, they get hard and lose their flavor. With all the artificial filler in the burger? That might last a long time!
OTOH, whether you want to call it luck or the grace of God, make your pick, but thankfully not even Vietnam, the Cold War, or the Soviet Breakup caused the nuclear matchstick to be lit.
That’s the sad part of all this: you know the oligarchs don’t really care for much and it’s basically the experience of watching Vietnam for a new generation.