Agree that the solution is extensive campaign finance reform. I’m ok with no term limits if someone tells me how to extract an entire generation of elected officials comfortable with being owned by moneyed interests.

Clever response Josh and I am fully aware of the literature and arguments on the issue. Not less thinking. Less thinking mired in perpetuating a status quo that has us ushering in a dark age of fascist oligarchy. Lobbyists OWN the government. Today. Remove them from the levers of power. #lizwarren

Sounds reasonable. Also sounds like, let’s not tamper too much with a system that is sending us headlong into fascist oligarchy.

I’ve heard public thinkers like the great Norm Ornstein make similar points. We are beyond the point of pondering such intricacies. The first system is profoundly corrupt and drowning in moneyed interests. And we are worried lobbyists… might have sway? Let’s throw them out too. There are solutions.

I remember when they did those stories characterizing Biden's aging as "signs of defiance."

I love how submissive morons in the world at large insist Trump won twice because Democrats failed to fulfill their promises - a largely bullshit claim - but when Trump fails at every step to deliver real advances for the working class, no one cares.

Yes, idiots talking about idiots, but no doubt an interesting phenomenon to have Marj Greene and this moron dissecting and challenging MAGA orthodoxies. Also, I hold Fuentes in contempt, but I can get how his on-air persona appeals to certain young men.

Under control? They long ago sold their souls and manage a billion dollar gambling addiction ecosystem that convinces every ten year old boy that sports cannot be enjoyed without gambling.

I have a great idea! Let’s get an early start on a circular firing squad slaughtering every competent governor and legislator for failing to pass every fabricated litmus test we can think up.

“A liberal ex sf mayor and Cali governor fails on transgender issues so let’s keep fascists in power.”

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The early weather report on my impending three weeks traversing Ukraine (Lviv-Kyiv-Kharkiv-Odesa and some mystery destinations) is the extraordinary kindness of strangers on these fantastic voyages.

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I’m a 60 year Celtics fan. I don’t like how the team discards loyal players like IT and Marcus like trash so for me I hope he is super successful on the Lakers. I care more about the humans wearing the uniform than the color of the laundry.