They can make the filibuster be an actual Mr-Smith-Goes-To-Washington event again and fucking FORCE those fucking assholes to stand up there and talk for 24 hours straight. The change in filibuster behavior, which Republicans enacted, to just table anything that the other side said would be filibustered, should end. And spineless Democrats should do it and take credit for doing it, and look like they give a damn again.
Also because Bush, famously, didn’t drink. His wife made him stop long before because, well, she didn’t have the best results from her own drinking…
Then make an Amendment; that’s the legal way to change this. The only way.
That was a semi-final.
Just the fact that the FCC can issue fines for “bad” language on broadcasts has always perplexed me about the 1st.
There’s an actual, somewhat definitive essay on this distinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Hmm, as a kid growing up in a remote pacific area, the milky way felt blinding when looking up at it with dark-adjusted eyes. It’s magnificent.