Hi Rightisrite: Thanks for the insight, you put things into perspective well. People say "Dubya" ran for Governor of Texas because of all the states, Texas is easiest to govern because the legislature only meets for 140 days every two years, although politics can be difficult there, as LBJ learned. Faraway Alaska (and Hawaii) also became states before Puerto Rico.

Wow! What a hill to die on, Senator Murkowski, in your socialist state. What? Socialism in Alaska? For 41 years, Alaska residents have been receiving annual dividend payments from the state's Permanent Fund. The 2022 payout was one of the largest in history, when every Alaskan received $3,284. Dies anyone else in America receive direct money like this from their state? But Republicans don't like socialism, right?

Hi Corky. You said it. What a country we have, simultaneously surrendering to the Kremlin AND the oligarchs. Twilight Zone episodes only lasted 60 minutes. Our ordeal will last four horrible years while avian flu spreads and gun shootings continue (Trumpf signed an EO loosening federal gun regulations). AND the Ukrainians and Palestinians have been thrown under the bus. Trumpf won 49.8% of the vote in 2024-- a plurality, not a majority-- and Teflon Musk received ZERO American votes, yet those two are in total charge of the US with Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu reaping all the rewards.

Thanks to GOP voters in 2024, America will be the greatest kakistocracy AND kleptocracy in history. I guess all Republicans in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and the other Red States are doing fabulously well, enjoying excellent, affordable healthcare, safe air travel, and monitored food production. Good for them.

The Beast is loose in Bethlehem. There is no stopping DOGE while Felon Musk and the oligarchs pauperize the American people and endanger US national security. Thank you Republican voters for this catastrophe which will affect poor members of your party, as well as soldiers needing VA care.

Too bad California doesn't have White Castles.

This is indirect ethnic cleansing. Andrew Jackson would be proud.

CEO Brian Thompson's corporate policies of "Deny, Defend, Depose" at United HealthCare (UHC) cost untold numbers of deaths by putting profits over people. The US is the only developed nation in the world without universal health coverage for all its citizens, unlike Canada, Germany, the UK, Israel, and all of the Nordic countries. The term 'medical bankruptcy' is unheard of in those nations.

Dept of Energy NNSA personnel don't grown on trees and most of them must pass a rigorous background investigation to obtain a "Q" clearance. Besides increasing unemployment throughout the US, Trumpf is making America less secure. Like I said, he's America's Godzilla. Putin couldn't be more pleased with his protege.

A federal lawsuit is filed in the jurisdiction of the weapons manufacturer (e.g. Colt, S&W, Remington). The Clerk of the Court assigns the case to a judge. If the judge deems the plaintiff has grounds to sue, the civil case proceeds. If the jury finds for the plaintiff, the guilty party must pay the damages sought. This is what happened to OJ Simpson when he was sued and lost. If the company doesn't pay, the USDJ orders the USMS to seize assets. Here is an example of a recent USMS enforcement from CBS news:

This drunkard was booed by American military families in Germany, forgot "E Pluribus Unum", uses Old Glory as a pocket square. Are there any Republicans proud of this tattooed dipsomaniac who paid hush money to a sexual assault victim in California, or the quisling in the White House?

President Claudia Sheinbaum is marvelous. There will be plenty of sharp ex-AUSAs that Trumpf fired ready to sue the murderous US gun industry on behalf of Mexico (which will also benefit the American people).

Trumpf is drunk on power, Musk is drunk on ketamine, and Hegseth is just drunk.

Republicans are proud of mass casualty attacks caused by assault rifles. Even good old flim-flam man/transvestite George Santos had jumped on board before getting kicked out of Congress. What an effing country we have.

Felon Musk built his "Colossus" super AI computer in Tennessee (taking advantage of the TVA energy grid) and wouldn't he love getting his hands on the new super AI computer "El Capitan" at Livermore? The Worst Person in the World is also trying to buy OpenAI for billions, trying to monopolize AI in the US. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

Now we know. All these years Republicans were gung-ho against Russia/the USSR not for patriotism, but for profits and the military-industrial complex. Distract Americans with the fear of communism while the tax rates for the wealthy dwindled from 90% for the first million to 13%. The Democrats were the genuine patriots against Russia, like JFK during the Berlin Airlift and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Look at these "patriotic" Republicans who avoided fighting the communists in Vietnam: Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Trumpf, Mitch Romney. All either got deferments or joined the Natl Guard to stay home.

Ukraine President Zelenskyy said Russia "must be held accountable for its actions" adding that it had become a "terrorist threat to the entire world." Trumpf has already thrown Ukraine under the bus to Vladimir Putin's delight. The ICC maintains an international arrest warrant against Putin for alleged war crimes, even though Trumpf sanctioned the ICC to help Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu who is also indicted.

After Col. Robert E. Lee defeated John Brown's tiny force, the local government charged him with "Treason against the State of Virginia" and within six months the poor man was hung. John Wilkes Booth attended the execution. After the Civil War, the government didn't know how to charge Jefferson Davis. He lingered in a Virginia military casement for a year or two before the government just let him go. Oligarchs paid his hefty bond. Treasonous Jefferson Davis would outlive Abraham Lincoln by 24 years.

With avian flu spreading, mPox comes just in time for RFK Jr becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Perfect.

Look at the expressions on the faces of the IDF soldiers as they abuse this shoeless Palestinian in Hebron, the West Bank. This is just pure hatred-- and hatred makes killing easy. (Photo: Reuters)