[going hot]

The top echelon players, both sides, are drunk with power.

The lower levels aspire to reach that level.

The ones who don't play are weeded out.

Newt got himself destroyed when he tried to upset the cart.

His sitting on the couch was the surrender signal.

Trump upset the whole enchilada, he had to be destroyed, with the (no cliché here) full force of the US government.

It still amazes me we did not see another Dallas unfolding.

[dfwgator]

The top echelon players, both sides, are drunk with power.

Beats getting drunk without power, it's boring, no one listens to you.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Your comparison with Dallas is most apt. I wager neither of us wears a tin foil hat, but there will be those who think we do. They, of the tin foil hat variety.

[bankwalker]

A Dallas event is unnecessary now that social media is here .