The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.

Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.