Hello Pam Bondi, if the GOP retains the House and Senate next year and Donald Trump then becomes President for Life (dictator), will you commit here and now that you will faithfully investigate all the unfortunate deaths that befall those on his enemies list? Or will you turn a blind eye because you fear being labeled a traitor and finding yourself on his enemies list?

What I did not hear during your confirmation hearing: TRUMP ist uber alles und Gott ist mit uns. Perhaps I was not listening carefully enough.

This message is intended for the elected and appointed cowards currently in government service.

You have two immediately available options to rid this country of this malignant disaster:
1) Impeachment by the House and conviction and conviction by the Senate,
2) The 25th amendment

You all need to have the courage to stand up to this man-child that is destroying this country; choose our current republic over dictatorship.

OK, let's look at this from a slightly different perspective. The first Trump administration learned that they cannot hide direct backchannel contact with their authoritarian counterparts because someone is always listening to those countries/people known to be frenemies of the United States. This resulted in some Trump people being caught, charged, and convicted of various crimes linked to these backchannel communications.

What then is the most obvious solution to the communication problem with their fellow autocrats? IMO, this communication problem is easily solved by using Signal, Gmail or any other easily hackable system to communicate with other autocrats. There is no real accountability because there is little to no paper trail available, especially if your choice of channel has an autodelete option.

IMO, these people were caught because of their arrogance and basic stupidity of thinking and believing that they are the smartest people they know. They communicated on these insecure systems with intent, not incompetence, IMO.

IMO, the only goal for SSA DOGE is denial of benefits for as long as possible. My bet is that when they announce the roll out of their replacement masterpiece it will require in-person re-enrollment in order to claim benefits. Likely the re-enrollment process will be initial denial of benefits followed by a lengthy review process, also in-person. Why else eliminate phone access and reduce staff?

Let's face it squarely, we are viewed as nonessential drains on capital. The capital that they think rightly belongs to approved fund managers, CEOs and corporate governance boards.

Not within a generation, Freedom (Democratic governance) will likely be lost in less than 2 years. Donald Trump cannot risk loss of the House or Senate as he pushes to become President for Life under a new Fascist government. Political opponents will find themselves under investigation and charged for something, for anything, or jailed so that they are eliminated as a threat. Those opponents who cannot be derailed need to take the stairs and stay away from windows.

Donald Trump is actively screwing all sides because he knows he is on a trajectory to become a dictator. What exactly do you think Donald Trump and Putin talked about during those "off the record" private meetings.

To Elon Musk: do you really think Donald Trump will allow you to remain rich? He wants and will take your money under some pretense if for nothing else as an example to other billionaires. Tesla will likely be shut down, Space X will become Space T, X will become T and be folded into Truth Social, Starlink will become Trump-link. You and all your children will be deported back to South Africa.

Ben Franklin said when asked after the Constitutional Convention what kind of government they had answered, "a republic, if you can keep it."

When is the scheduled premier run of "Springtime for Trump and America."

The term "Christian" is used very loosely in most political threads I read. People who make the claim to be actual Christians should be asked what Christian values they hold dear. IMO most answers would reveal they are not Christian but are adherents to the Old Testament "eye for an eye" message. Belief in Jesus should allow them to move past institutionally taught hatreds and need/desire for violence.

To answer some of your questions/insults ahead of time, I am not a gay incel. I am an old man and widower with adult children long gone. I want people to live by their claimed belief and am tired of all the discord and hate in today's GOP and MAGA president.

My father was a WWII vet. I am glad he did not live to see the GOP become the fascists he fought and sacrificed to defeat in that war.

Hello LYD, it is a matter of degree. At birth we are a blank slate. We are what others and events make us coupled with our ability to observe and understand events. Personally speaking, based on observations when I was a child, there was behavior I observed in others that I pointedly detested and did not adopt. Birth order is also key.

Donald Trump's formative years had to have been horrific. Elon Musk is a product of white apartheid South Africa. Dolly Parton was born poor but musically gifted and used those gifts to escape poverty. DP's family life and family support was most certainly light years ahead of both Trump's and Musk's.

I do not know any of these people but we can all observe their behavior and personal actions.

I assume everyone here is familiar with "The Portrait of Dorian Gray."

Sufficient wealth lends an air of unearned respect of the wealthy by people that do not know the wealthy person. They assume that the wealthy person is somehow better, stronger, faster, smarter that the average bear because otherwise how could they amass wealth.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are wealthy because their parents were wealthy, in a sense just dumb luck like playing the lottery and winning. Bill Gates was also lucky in that his high school had a well-equipped computer lab that, in essence, launched his career.

Wealth makes you into the portrait of your true self. If you have a hatred of everything and everybody, that is revealed over time by your own actions. If others have a vested interest in you for their own reasons, they begin covering up for you because you are their tool for their benefit for as long as possible.

If you are a wealthy but inherently a decent person, you will do good for the benefit of others without a need for recognition; Dolly Parton comes to mind. Her portrait reflects her true self.

Nobody is perfect and we all have ugliness inside. The question is how much and whether it can choke out our inherent decency.

It is interesting that Donald Trump, the GOP, and MAGA have stopped using the word "rapist" in their public comments.