Big money owns this country, and that is that. When the idiot Supreme Court "Justice" Roberts let Citizens United pass, the handwriting was on the wall, America changed from a one person, one vote democracy to a one dollar, one vote democracy.

For me, the most scary thing about what is going on in our country is that no one is in charge...it seems that someone put the needs of the 1% over the rest of us, and put all thinking to align with that perspective. Cut taxes for the rich, and when social programs are hurting, blame the poor for their poverty, blame the sick...and so on. We clearly are falling fast to a sort of grand depression for those of us at the bottom and an economic heaven for the Mar a Lago crowd.

Why yes, Rubio is just as corrupt and corrupting as his fascist boss. Important to note that American fascism is the same as Russian fascism, a movement devoted to the rule of the billionaire oligarchs with a dictator with unlimited power running the government.

Well, they are negotiating with a mass murdering psychopath who killed over 80 of their leaders in a sneak attack, a clear war crime, so there is that. One place in the world where strutting about acting crazy doesn't exactly make you stand out.

I get trusting "autopilot" on a highway, with limited access, but on regular roadways, way too many complications and drunk or drugged fellow drivers.

Yeah, time will tell, but the ugly of this second Trump administration sure does seem to be worse than that of the Nixon administration, and Nixon and Kissinger, it turns out, in order to get into the White House, deliberately tanked the 1968 Peace Talks with North Vietnam, so they could get elected in the chaos. Thousands of American troops died from that point on, and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people died.
Something about the Republican Party and national politics has it allied with the darkest and the deadliest.