Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and John Adams would be horrified at America's national and many state governments today. Washington, Lafayette, and Jefferson probably would be, too.

Follow-on comment for Kelly, Tchump and Vance to echo next:

"Why can't America just get more on-the-spectrum, socially clueless trillionaires to be immigrants, rather than decent but poor and socially and economically downtrodden people from poor dictatorships and corrupt regimes? Don't American's know that billionaire-oligarchs in corrupt kleptocracies require their serf-class poor population to sustain their lavish inequality?"

Clueless billionaires, Trump supporters and racist Americans care nothing about equality and fair deals for anyone else. And the well-educated folk visiting America as it concludes nearly a quarter millennium of independence from a constitutional monarchy during this World Cup season are discovering that this country is being eviscerated by a smug, overly-self-absorbed class of fascist loving largely-white Christian nationalists who, from the Supreme Court to the White House and Congress and a multitude of state legislatures, are paving the way down hill toward making USA into a horrible example of how to turn America into a White-nationalist kleptocracy abetted by its oligarchy of kleptocratic billionaires and fascist nationalist theocrats.

God save America from all those vile thugs!

Since when did it become "classy" to act like JD Vance or have a mouth like Pres. DJ Tchump?

Conservative propagandists seem to think that vileness and contempt for the poor and less fortunate is classy and they're all adopting this administration's smug inequality.

Historically, Moscow has exercised colonization strategies to expand its "control" of neighboring lands it occupied through aggression. Since 2014, Moscow displaced 100,000s of Ukrainians in Crimea and sent in as many Russians to colonize the land for Putin. This is similar to what hapoened in Mariupol since 2022, and to Donetsk and Luhansk in the 1800's after large ore and coal deposits were found.

Historically, Moscow has exercised colonization strategies to expand its "control" of neighboring lands it occupied through aggression. Since 2014, Moscow displaced 100,000s of Ukrainians in Crimea and sent in as many Russians to colonize the land for Putin. This is similar to what hapoened in Mariupol since 2022, and to Donetsk and Luhansk in the 1800's after large ore and coal deposits were gound.

It's unbelievable that Kagan and Sotomayor sided with Alito and Thomas on anything!

What a great embarrassment for America. No US President was as narcissistic, mercurial, ill-mannered, and infantile as #47.

But the biggest American embarrassment is how great American suddenly institutions like Congress, SCOTUS, Library of Congress, and the Dept. of Justice have flipped their switches to becoming tools of this authoritarian lover of dictatorships.

The world is reeling with shock how its rock-solid pro-democracy ally has changed its stripes. It is now a vile, back-stabbing, superiorly militarized unpredictable loose cannon. America is now further from being "Great" in anyone's definition.

Now when global observers describe Trump's submissive government this is what they perceive:

"Sick America. Wrong-way America. One-Way America."

Not the way to make America "Great". It's foul-mouthed President has scammed so many Americans that the rest of the free world is simply stunned.

The drumbeat of faux patriotism" gets louder day by day. It sounds like a tune they marched to in Munich in 1932.

How is it that Ohio, the state that has been the home to more presidents than any other can also be home to some of the mist extreme MAGA legislators like Jim Jordan and VP Vance?

Putin is a nut who has been responsible for over one million deaths In his lifetime. He is dangerous. PRC's Xi leads the globe's most creepy surveillance state that demands social conformity of 800,000,000 people in his country.. Iran's Grand Ayatollah could murder tens of thousands of his own citizens in the streets of Iran or proxy states with ineffective pushback.

But none of these are as reckless and indifferent to people in general as the Trump family. Rules are obstacles for them to break as they please. And with billions in ill-gotten wealth, and with the largest arsenal on earth at their disposal and a cowed Repugnant Congress enabling his every foolhardy desire, the damage he already wreaked might not yet compare to his dictatorial rivals, but over 50,000,000 Americans have suffered to some extent by his dictates, and the security of billions around the world is every day at risk due to Trump's capricious whims.

Tavarish Trump and Putin sitting in a tree ...

Whatever they're up to, stop!America needs to sanction Russia and to support NATO and emerging market economies and democracies.

I wouldn't want to be a US intelligence officer these days, because no matter how accurate or dire any analysis or any report is, Dumkopf Tchump has his own ties to Putin that will supersede the most accurate assessments any experienced NATO analyst will present to the White House. This is the most politicized America's intelligence organizations have become.

Rubio has been poisoned by the Trump KoolAid. He's a MAGA-cult zombie.

President Obama's joke about Trump's future White House is no longer funny. Demented Trump has the design sense of a porn store operator who just won a mega-millions lottery and cannot stop his garish redecorating splurge!

Everything Trump touches has the scent and look of excesz and egotism.

If the KGB and Putin ever created a scheme to destroy America's alliances and cripple its national security infrastructure, could they ever have imagined the success they have had with Donald Tchump?

Sick. Absolutely disgraceful that the US Senate is confirming the lunatics Trump nominates. Why won't Thune stop Tchump?

Oh Gawd!! Can't somebody prevent POTUS Tchump from foolishly telling Xi that PRC can do whatever it wants regarding Taiwan? This nincompoop might just give Xi all the signals needed for Xi to be aggressive against America's friends and allies.

Who knows what Trump will do to sow more chaos wherever he goes?

Jonestown Guyana had hundreds of cultists who drank the poison-laced KoolAid. (This is chicken scratch compared to that!)

500,000+ MAGA cultists will do anything for their cult. What difference does it make to them that they've just been scammed by their. "Immaculate", "can-do-no-wrong" hero? It's just tithing the demigods.

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Patel, and Gabbard are all in the Kremlin's pocket. Why?

Trump's understandable - he's been skillfully groomed by KGB professionals since 1975 to hate NATO and to whine about imaginary grievances against America's government. He's been continually enriched by Russian mobsters and oligarchs. He's too ignorant and or compromised to realize he's merely a tool delivering great dividends to his fellow kleptocrats in Moscow.

Who knows what made Tulsi Gabbard a Putin fan, but it's been her MO since Obama's presidency. Hegseth? Money and ignorance and white, autocratic nationalism that somehow gets threatened by liberal freedoms and democracies. Same for Vance, and Patel's just another kleptocratic billionaire on a drunken joyride. Rubio? He hates Cuba and wants to make it another Batista governed clone of what it had been in 1950. (That was before he was born! Foolish child!)

Atrocious! And yet people in MAGA hats adore this filthy, narcissistic, kleptoctatic, Putin-loving, racist, hateful and shameless, anti-American, antichrist. What a cult!

Will America's Dictators-Wanna-Be(s) use the GOP & SCOTUS to scuttle America's democracy?

It's a looming threat that all the world's democracies are increasingly concerned about. Are there enough American voters sufficiently concerned to prevent this threat from becoming tomorrow's nightmarish reality?

Trump is working for dictatorships. But he's picky. Putin can do no wrong. Nor could Victor Orban. And with Maduro sidelined, maybe a Trump aligned dictator can be installed in Venezuela.

Oddly, the least democratic president in America's history thinks making himself King (and Pope, too) would MAGA ("Make America Great' Again"??).

Would Speaker Johnson and Senate Leader Thune clearly explain ho that's supposed to work???

From Adam Kinzinger's Substack;
Trump, after having a 90 min phone call with Putin, puts out a truth social that he is considering withdrawing troops from Germany. Something sinister is going on between this US administration and Russia's.

Every app you use has potential to intrude on your privacy. Or to give your data away without your control. Now AI makes easier to compile and analyze data on billions of internet users.

Bye bye 4th Amendment USA! That amendment is probably already irrelevant - sadly.

From the Press Secretary's notebook. "When in doubt blame Biden. If that don't work, blame Obama."