We live in strange times. Fools, charlatans and Fox News refugees run our government. Yet, this is all normalized by cowering and cowardly “news” organizations desperate to curry favor with the current regime.

So, who will stand up and tell us the king is naked?

The Onion.

Yes, the satirical online magazine is the last bulwark of truth, justice and the American way in this nation.

They write truthfully and forcefully about the legion of cowards and bought lackeys that inhabit the halls of the two houses of the federal legislature. We have on one hand the fellow travelers of the Republican Party willing and happy to overlook any crime or power over reach by the President and on the other hand we have the Democrats, a party (with a handful of brave exceptions) so beholden to its donors that it is unable to actually represent any average American at any time although they occasionally hold a focus group to see what they should be saying since they have no message of their own save the continuous begging for more contributions.

The Onions speaks the truth and it is cruel … and funny.

And sad.

(A quote from the Onion’s essay is below:)

“Members of Congress—now, more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice,” the editorial states. “We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing. Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and groveling.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/onion-mocks-congress-cowardice-york-161111538.html