Okay but I actually would be really interested in Robert having access to the CIAs documents. Sophie can run the agency.

Embrace the rot in my ass

Hey! In fairness our legislation is also broken.

Unfortunately the law would’ve never applied to fox news, as it was broadcast only and cable was exempt. But even so nowadays so much of the information sphere is online, through Facebook, Twitter and the thousand different right wing blog news sites that you aren’t really going to be able to stop anything. The American system very dependent on the two parties having a bipartisan consensus. But after a few decades of the right wing media sphere whipping the base into frenzy after frenzy the ‘true believers’ are the ones in government now and the idea of compromise is done for.

I don’t know man, being poor doesn’t seem great either.

Well climate change was always going to be a crisis that was ignored until it started hitting people’s pocketbooks.

Notably the constitution doesn’t actually require a trial of any sort. The amendment was put in after the civil war, it would have been impossible to have a trial for everyone that participated in the Confederacy. Bit of an open question how that gets determined nowadays though.

Self preservation is a good motivator, self sacrifice on the behalf of others isn’t unfortunately.