Kings and dictators like spectacle, think Saddam in Iraq...

Well, millions of us will be out on the 14th to assemble and petition our government for a redress of our grievances...but one does wonder if it will resemble what the Czar of Russia did...attack the people for protesting.

Both Jim Mattis and Trump's old Chief of Staff, John Kelly, said that Trump was a fascist to his core. Of course it will get worse.

And don't think it cannot get worse...there is something in the genes of a lot of men, they have to dominate, they have to hurt others, they have to have all the power flow from them. He cannot change.

Well sure, but I remember 1968-1975, we had a lot of crap going on, we students shut down a lot of college campuses, Nixon stood on a car's hood to try and antagonize crowds so he could over react.

Trump is the disease, and yes, he may sooner or later kill this nation, in that America is about the rule of law, about one person, one vote democracy. I suspect it will come down to next year's midterm elections. If the Dems don't retake the House, he will have enough power to subvert the election process itself, as he tried to do on that murderous day, Jan.6.

No matter where he goes, I wish I trusted my government a little more, and feared WWIII a little less, then there is human caused global warming. Trump laughs at the idea of the Earth warming to deadly levels.

He is good at hurting America and Americans, and of course, the grift thing, but where has he helped Americans, especially those at the bottom of the economic pyramid? So many voted for him, and are getting kicked in the teeth when they try to work out their Social Security or Medicare.

Ultimately, war is the enemy, not each other. If we had a rational world wide legal system, a war of aggression would result in the trials of those who pursued the war.
As it is, I am amazed the US in not in a full on shooting war, considering that would make Trump a war time President and set him up for the mid terms to keep having a suck up Congress.

But bankrupting the government is exactly what Citizens United was designed to do, put the employees of rich people into office, to take from the poor to give to the rich, and when finally the country is bankrupted, then the Republican Party can finally destroy what FDR left...a social safety net that saved the lives of millions.

I am the same age as Trump, and really, really fear what is coming up until the midterms. I know what he is doing, letting out those demons held inside for so many decades, now he can ramble as much as he wants, total word salad, and his people don't care. He can wreck our economy, and this new bill might do that, and his people don't care.
They don't care, apparently, because they themselves don't care about America, they care about being entertained as those who watch pro wrestling are entertained.
We are so screwed.

I am an old man who, truth be told, has as his next upcoming life event...struggle, sickness and death. It is a painful realization but such is life. What people in many other developed nations don't have to deal with, is living without national health care.
We are a stupid people doing stupid things...ignoring the lives of the very poor and sick to pay all the attention and help, to enrich the rich.

Truth be told, I do pay attention to what Vance has said, is saying. Not because I think he is a good influence for my country, but because he is a, perhaps, the, voice of the radical right that has aligned with the insane right part of America's churches and who is quite possibly being groomed to be Trump's successor.
Fascism aligned with the Catholic Church...a fearful thing. One wonders just what the present day Pope will have to say on the matter.
Cannot be too cynical in the time of Trump, the people of Russia thought they had a democracy, but instead woke to find they lived in a dictatorship.

I suspect there will be many reminders of that comment, especially when this hurricane season brings death and destruction to Florida and the entire Gulf of Mexico coast.

Remember when w said he was the candidate for the "c" students? Not sure who Trump is the candidate for, traditionally, the Republican Party candidate for President hopes to win by combining the hate of American racial animus combined with the greed of the rich and the...powerful.

I am old and tired, and am scared of death, of course, but I do understand that I may be quite lucky to not have to live through the 2030's. With no safety net, and corporate boardrooms holding life and death power over the poor who need jobs but cannot afford to fight for jobs with those living in Vietnam, or China, or India...

I do mourn her death, and remember her contributions to a wonderful show. It was a time of great tv, great actors, and of course, as now, a time of great national division.

Chaos and division work to the benefit of Putin and China's CCP general secretary Xi and to Trump and his team of grifters, of course.

If fascist dictators like Putin have to be fought against...maybe the people of the world will then work to get to war criminal trials at The Hague for the other dictators and dictator wannabes who support apartheid like Trump...

So many of those in uniform that day will know what is happening, that they are being used by our fascist in chief to have everyone applaud and laud Trump...not them.
But when a war hits, when it comes to our shores, how many of the Trump gang will sign on the dotted line and put on a uniform?

And the carnage continues.