If the USA can elect a hostile, kleptocratic, authoritarian boor like DJT and a pro-fascist Congress that abdicates its responsibility to uphold its US Constitutional duty to check the actions of a rogue executive branch, then Americans should not expect much deference or love from other law abiding democracies.

The hubris of every representative of this Administration is embarrassing.

To expect the world's adoration after all of the despicable behavior of this administration to the rest of the world is nuts!!

Bad enough that America's moron so publicly displays his ignorance and disrespect, but for his advisors and representatives to either "defend" or be complicit with Trump's vile and boorish actions, words, and manners is disgraceful.

This administration's seesawing commitment to America's allies and friends is overwhelmed by its steadfast affinity to Putin and his ilk.

Why shouldn't the Vice President see what his complicity has done for America's reputation in 12 short months?

It is a Cabinet officer's duty "DUTY " to advise the President wisely; to be the adult in the room. But this Administration's Cabinet has been not only negligent in its duties to America, but complicit in everything the moron chief executive is doing to destroy its global alliances and friendships. Bad.

Take the boos from the rest of the world as a vote of no confidence, and either resign or make much-needed midcourse corrections.

Q. How is there such a huge loophole in the US Constitution that a certifiable, amoral, kleptocratic, narcissistic lunatic, who probably wouldn't even pass a National Agency Check to get a Confidential security clearance can not only not end up in an asylum or prison, but could become a major political party's presidential nominee 3x and still become POTUS, not just once, but twice?

There oughta be a law!!

If the Senate confirmed any of the crime-addled Bozos Trump nominated, then any Senator who voted to confirm any part of the most-unfit-to-serve collection of agency heads and deputy agency heads needs to be recalled by the states that elected them. Disgraceful!

Kleptocracy pays, or so the Trump family seems to be discovering. Putin, Trump's man-crush, has become the wealthiest dictator in the world through well engineered kleptocracy. Why can't Trump follow his idol's proven example?

Despite Trump's vascular illness, he is charging full speed to attack every perceived enemy and insubordinate. He might have gotten his inspiration to destroy America's legal, social, and government institutions from his late Soviet KGB handlers and Russians-in-America mobster friends but his realization of the power granted him by the Roberts SCOTUS in this decision that any official acts are unimpeachable, and that he cannot be prosecuted for them has given him free reign to act criminally without fear prosecution.

The ultimate disaster to America that must be considered a possibility in the administration, is that the cancellation of 2026 elections is still on Trump's right wing handlers' and Trump's drawing boards.

El novio de pelo naranja y beso de Putin hace todo exactamente como el Fhrer le dicta. S, Trump es el arma ms efectiva de Putin contra la OTAN, Europa y la democracia.

Deja a Trump! Para eliminar a Putin.

Correction: "They both (Trump & Putin) see democracy and NATO (as dangerous threats) to their evil desires".

(I left out the word "threats" in my earlier post.)

Trump is a kleptofascist fan of Russia's kleptofascist dictatorship. They both see democracy and NATO to their evil desires.

How do we know? Look up Trump's personal history since he first made close ties to Brooklyn's Russian mobsters since at least the early 1970s, to his marriage to Ivana, daughter of an informant for communist Czechoslovakia's KGB-affiliated secret police, to his notorious money laundering of money for Russian mobsters.

It's very clear that if Trump put as much energy into shutting down Russia as he does into destroying NATO's and America's allies, Russia would be on its knees by now and Putin would be history.

See this thought-provoking response to Krugman's Op Ed:

Omg! The USA is going rogue! Under Trump, America is losing allies and the tight network of market-driven democracies is unraveling as the others see America's "America First" identity as hypocritical, because it spends too much effort supporting Moscow's desire to resubjugate Russia's former Soviet satellites, and cozying to Putin's kleptofascist ideals.

In the same vein, its seems that Trump has been influenced by one of Putin's most admired influencers, Alexandr Dugin, who believes that a Russia autocracy should dominate Eurasia, and America should collaborate with Moscow to dominate the North & South American 1/3 of the globe. If this is true, Putin-adoring Trump is only buying into the same playbook that Putin is playing by.

He's on the spectrum and might be a techie genius, but he's a heartless, bigoted, AFD supporting jerk, just lIke Peter Thiel and JD Vance. He's a clueless pox on humanity.

When ICE becomes as it is now ... a paramilitary internal special army, there's a big jump in the protection of Americans from its own military.

What's worse than this paramilitary organization being suited up in camo combat gear and face masks makes them more like Hitler's brownshirts or Mussolini's blackshirts. There seems something completely unconstitutional going on here.

Trump's Internal Military creation: America's expanded DHS special police (ICE) program.

Famous lessons they will teach all recruits for this national paramilitary force:

1. "Show us your papers!"
2. "Get out of the car, or you will be shot dead (3x)!"
3. "We don't care if you have a green card or are otherwise here legally, we can deport (or disappear') anyone Trump we want to."
4. Capstone project: "Legalizing cruelty, prejudice, and ignoring court orders 101."

Historical perspective: Himmler's SS and Gestapo were worse, but they had to have a model to start with. Under Trump's new "America First Nationalist Republican Party" this is a start. What a Party!

("If you're not on board yet, you soon will be!" RINOs, Liberals & fence-sitters all will be rounded up, branded as "communists", or terrorists and charged with "treason" by the MAGA Reich,)

Ugh!

(Hint: read the above with emphatic sarcasm as Arte Johnson's Laugh-In character Wolfgang would for best effect.)

Trump's Internal Military creation " his DHS program.
"Show us your papers!"
"Get out of the car, or you will be shot dead (3x)!"
"We don't care if you have a green card or are otherwise here legally, we can deport (or disappear') anyone Trump wants us to."

Maybe Himler's SS and Gestapo was worse, bur they had to have a model to start with. This is America's under the New ("America First Nationalists") Republican Party. What a party! Ugh!

The insurrection act is a predecessor to invoking restrictions on the press and potentially martial law. Given Trump's desire to become King (read dictator) any step toward suppressing dissent can morph into shutting down any media he declares seditious and to invoking the need to suspend elections.

Ancient inteliigence didn't hit ISIS. It hit a town that's been ISIS free for a while.

Communism and Fascism were related in that both were totalitarian and repressive tyrannical centralized government solutions. It's odd to see PRC referred to as "fascist", but it is definitely a surveillance state. So is Russia.

"Birds of a feather flock together!"

Trump's been "befriended" by Moscow's former KGB assets since the 1970s. Of course he's been brainwashed!