Outsiders can agree all they want about that fact, but truth is created in small rooms it seems, and that truth can be very different than day to day reality. The rules of the game that were setup are complicated, and the players are currently still willing to play even though they didn’t originally know or imagine playing the game this way themselves, it seems to them to be a valid way to play. The regular people also play along, because of the rules of the game, even though how it’s played has changed, and some rules they thought couldn’t be changed can be, so they don’t all like playing anymore, but they are always the first to try to leave the game, so there are many guard rails in place to see that they cannot disturb the real players too much. Even though they could… Generally they don’t. So no, sanity is not politics, but that’s already baked in.

2+2=5 is not politics. Politics is a game of power, popularity, and persuasion, not math. If everyone in power says no, then it’s no.

You can’t prove a cover-up for mental failings when that person is getting up in front of everyone and talking on a regular basis. You might think it’s evil talk, you may even think it’s nonsensical babbling most of the time, but a shitload of people don’t think that. There are no consequences possible because this is an active choice, not a surprise outcome with a cover-up.

The US cannot boycott anything, but if they did, the venue owners would fold in less than 60 days.

They really mean this was fun, but they’d like a more effective version of the same.

Fuck around and get fucked, sometimes literally