BEWARE:    
   Without satirists, democracy will be in free fall.

   May Stephen Colbert continue to ply his trade 
   and let his light shine on love and laughter.        
   Sadness is not defeat if we can laugh about it.

     Someone has to call Putin's bluff.

     Someone has to call Trump's bluff.

  Trump is putting pressure on Zelenskyy;  
  says Zelenskyy can end the war 'almost immediately 
  if he wants to.'

   Trump wants Zelenskyy to surrender       
   so Trump can 'win' the Nobel Peace Prize.

Imagine:        
If Trump stood up and did the right thing,          
Zelenskyy might nominate him for the Nobel Prize.        
(A nomination by Zelenskyy would carry        
 weight nominations by Putin and / or      
 Netanyahu clearly do not.)

          When a clown.        
          moves into a palace,        
          he doesn't become a King,        
          the palace        
          becomes a circus.      
                        Turkish proverb

Why do we leave it to our children to protect themselves from mass shooters?

     The story Trump can't kill,
      it's growing.
     "This is not a hoax." -- Epstein survivors speak out

    "When (Lyin') Trump gets in a room with truth,      
     a fight breaks out."  [He's a liar (& a bully).]     
     -- IL Rep Mike Quigley

 People in Fox River Valley, Wisconsin -          
 a region that is so Republican        
 Democrats don't even run for political office -        
 are saying - out loud - "Trump is nuts"        
 and no one contests the statement.

   To Amy Coney Barrett:            
   If you don't know what a constitutional
   crisis looks like, how do you know        
   we're not in one?

   If we have a Congress that has surrendered 
   its power to the president,        
   that is a constitutional crisis.

   If we have a judiciary that allows the president  
   to break the law,            
   that is a constitutional crisis.

   We keep saying: "This is not who we are"  
     but "this is who the world sees us to be."

    Let us look in a mirror and find a better angel.

   Montana Rep Zinke said: "It's not about guns,      
   it's about anger." duh-h-h
   We cannot legislate hate away,      
   but
   we can legislate against easy access to guns.

It seems we are more concerned that people should have guns          
than we are that people in the U.S. are losing their right to life.

 The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

    Guns reign in the U.S.            

    The admonition:        
    "Stop using guns to kill your enemies" - empty words

    Our president tells us to "hate our enemies".          
    His message rings in people's ears.