[wally_bert]

Reminds me of the GI Joe episode where Cobra hijacks the airwaves. Quotes (more or less) from CC was “television is their friend” and “they believe what TV tells them.”

[pburgh01]

D.C really is becoming the new Rome circa 6th century. While the ruling class continued their feasts, games and debauchery under supposed Roman pontiffs and false Christianity, the empire was crumbling. Rome itself was outragously wealthy and prospering under a burgeoning bureaucracy and olicharchy. All the while the provinces were becoming unmanageable and the whole empire teetered on collapse as pointy hatted emperors, bishops and other Holy Roman whores continued to their welfare state fantasies and tyrannical control over the populace. What's old is new again.