Ep. 175: Insurrectum, Damn Near Killed Em

What's the key takeaway from the simultaneous stories at the end of 2023 that a Senate staffer is unceremoniously fired for filming a gay porno of himself getting railed in a US Senate hearing room and Trump getting kicked off the Colorado ballot for allegedly inciting an "insurrection?" Well, two things. First, the people endlessly screeching about decency and democracy care about neither. To them, some grandmas taking unapproved strolls through their Capitol building is indecent and violent, but filming a porn where Supreme Court justices are confirmed and 9/11 hearings were conducted is just an unfortunate personnel matter. Second, the School House Rock version of government, where it is "of, by, and for you" is a complete fabrication. You're not allowed to vote for who you want if who you want to vote for is pathologically hated by the side that films said pornos in the Senate, and they will stop at nothing (including making up narratives out of whole cloth) to take away your ability to vote for who you want. Democracy is dead and the ones screaming the loudest to save it are the ones that killed it.