Tirade? What a curious term indeed to label the coupling of words into a stream designed to de-couple the irreality of the level of disinformation being put forth by those who choose to plaster half-truths and complete fabrications replete with nothing more than talking point after talking point all over the news with the overall seeming point being to mislead, obstruct the truth, and then vilify anyone willing to see through the smoke screen here in my country.

In the US Nero is happily fiddling away as the flames keep rising. We have a crisis of leadership, fueled in no small part by the idea our leader quite simply is not a leader at all. There's a total gridlock within our congress as factions bent on continuing further down the same path we've been taken down in the last few years that all too obviously leads to a place which looks gloomier and ever more grim by the day are pitted against a minority in government trying desperately to at least bring some sort of reason and debate to the table in hopes we can halt this descendence into darkness.

I would not wish the same scenario upon any govt or people, but if this ever happens in Oz I sure hope you can find humor in it then 'berto