Max, isn’t love really the true currency, though?

In an interview with NPR, Pelosi said she hadn’t changed her mind on impeachment. Instead, she called for the passage of a law that would allow future presidents to be indicted if they commit a crime. Of course, Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate would never allow that to happen. And if such a law were…

We are broken because we are ruled by corruption and money and a military industrial complex.

Nothing matters.

Honest, non-snarky revelation:

The dinosaurs will never die. And they will never quit.

This all sounds good in theory. This sounds like how it was written up on the promotional brochure.

Would it be fair to conclude that our Executive Branch* of government is not effectively checked by our Legislative Branch**?

until we show the will to stand up to tyranny in our own government.

That’s a good point, but I would half heartedly counter that it might in fact work, as a placebo does.

Today, it may seem impossible to imagine the U.S. government without its two leading political parties, Democrats and Republicans. But in 1787, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to hash out the foundations of their new government, they entirely omitted political parties from…

Yes, this is encouraging. (grasping for hope here.)

Are we ready to admit that our vaunted system of checks and balances is broken and is now effectively Placebo Theater?

troop, a thought bubble for you:

Concur completely, but I’m pretty sure that weapon sales and endless war is a bipartisan, all hands are dirty, issue.

Where are the Senators and Congresscritters who promised that they would hit the floor of the Congress and make hell if Trump tried to do this?

Can someone explain why the fuck the United States is protecting Saudi Arabia?

Listen, Ham and Cheese Sandwich does have some promising ideas about eliminating college debt.

Cats are so crafty that they will now hijack planes to kill birds.