Isn't it just a little embarrassing for the Republican Party to have a President who is like a five year old, needs praise and constant bowing and kissing of his ring?
Happened when the Soviet Union fell, happened when the Roman Empire fell, empires tend to fall the same way as more and more wealth concentrates into fewer and fewer hands, and power concentrates as well and the worst of humanity rises to the top of the insanity...

I find it interesting that I believed the quote the moment I heard it...that it was said and it was said by someone at the company.

So it is the WH's perspective that military members are utter robots, and apparently the WH doesn't believe in the Uniform Code of Military Justice ...which is pretty damn nuts. Incompetence runs our country...

Inevitable..if the Republican Party loses the midterms in a big way, I look for Trump to pull a Nixon, and after making sure Vance or whoever is his VP at the time is compliant, and simply resign. And then the VP becomes President, and quickly Vance pardons Trump, Trump's family, the entire MAGA grifting empire...and then leaves office when the Dems take over, to run a bankrupted country.
Either resign, or call upon his violent army to stop the 2028 elections.

A nation is bankrupt when it cannot pay its bills, and will not play its debt. When one's creditors see that all one can do is pay off the service on the debt, but cannot pay the main amount, ever, it is all over.
Clearly, Trump sees that the only way to pay America's debt and not increase the taxes on his billionaire buddies is to take from the poor..so hello attack on SNAP, SS, Medicare, and so on.

Many of us out here lost in this America know in our heart of hearts that fascist cutthroat capitalism is in charge, they own Wall Street, Congress, certainly the federal Supreme Court, and Trump doesn't mind being called a fascist because at this point, he is doing what he can to take from the poor and give to the rich.
Fascism is the permanent rule of the very few very rich over the great many, using fear, intimidation, domination and violence...kinda Trump's war plan, war against we at the bottom of the economic pyramid plan.

And, I am sure, "Justice" Roberts is not done delivering this Constitutional Republic to those who run things...the American oligarchs.

I am certain of one thing, being 79, and being born just after WWII, my parents and grandparent's generations would have been shocked to see how far America has fallen, how terrible a President, Trump, it elected, twice. So many around the world died fighting fascism, including Russians, and here we have Russia led by a true fascist, and America being run by a Republican Party without regard to the rule of law.

I figure Trump and Putin, in their minds, have already carved up the modern world, with a nod to China of course.

Well, does one look to fascists who like flashing that salute, for anything but hate and domination? Musk has more wealth than half of the America population, at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Fascism is the permanent rule of the very few over the very many, using fear, intimidation, violence, and hate.
Interesting that Trump said he doesn't mind being called a fascist, for that is what he is, what kind of suppression state he is creating.
And major league fascists, like Trump, don't get better, they get more and more expansive in their need to dominate.
I really think the midterms will be the time Trump calls out his army, the stand back and stand back folks, to frighten voters to keep them from voting against him.

Oh, Trump will be on the trail, and so will Vance. If the Republican Party loses both the House and the Senate..Trump will be investigated and impeached once again.
I suspect it that happens, Trump will pull a Nixon, and resign and have his VP assume the Presidency and do what Gerald Ford did, and pardon Trump and his family for each and every grifting influence peddling crypto stunt they pulled on their way to great wealth.

America has had porous borders ever since 1964 when the Bracero Program was ended. It was how crops got picked, though it was also why it was so hard for the field workers to organize. IF Trump were really serious he would have had his gang pass draconian laws against big employers of those who are undocumented. Every hard right to outright fascist political movement has as its banner cause...hate on the strangers.

What on earth would Trump do if in fact the midterms go the Democrats way, and they hold both the Senate and the House?
I really am wondering if those elections are going to be held...insurrection, Martial Law, foreign wars...

May the Crown Prince one day be declared an enemy of democracy and not allowed in the US, when a decent human becomes President again, and may Trump one day pay for his sins, as in having to listen to St. Peter at the pearly gates telling him he has to go to the other place thanks to his support of the devil's ally, MBS.

Well, this atheist would be glad to see James Talarico in the Senate...he uses his faith as a support system for himself and some friends, not as a club to bash the rest of us with.

The most incompetent President in American history put into place by the most ignorant and hateful voters...today's Republican Party. Oh, and by the way, if the tariffs are declared illegal by the federal Supreme Court, and have to be paid back, when one looks at the huge tax cuts for the rich,,,one could be excused in thinking America is now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. If one can only pay the service on the debt, but cannot reduce the debt, then won't the creditors head for the hills?

Clearly, Putin is gearing up for another expansionist war if he can get Ukraine to surrender. Germany arming has to alarm a lot of neighbors, but then, NATO cannot depend on the US for much these days. One wonders why Trump just doesn't order all our troops out of Europe...he is more Russia's buddy than Germany's friend.

The far right looting the treasury, the way the fascist right looted the treasury of the Soviet Union as that Empire fell. I have absolutely no doubt that Trump and his gang are working on cutting this country up into little chunks so they are their allies can take it all when the bankruptcy gets announced as we one day fairly soon cannot pay our creditors (without totally taking benefits from the poor).

Bring back NASA, stop with the billionaire glorification of the exploration of space. America pays for it..,.it is not about Musk or Bezos...

We all know it is going to happen, sooner rather than later, as Trump works to find a way to declare Martial Law and so use troops to intimidate voters, or to stop the voting in certain states like Oregon which has total vote by mail.
I strongly believe in the civilian control of our massive military, but of course, that does mean that if our civilians in control are greedy corrupt thugs...our democracy goes down the tubes thanks to the Trump voters.

The poor in America, you know, those of us on the bottom half of the economic pyramid who have less wealth, all of us together, than does Musk in his greedy hands, well, no one is bothering to give us gold, they know we have no power, and are daily losing more and more of our power.
One person. one vote is now, thanks to the utterly corrupt federal Supreme Court and "Justice" Roberts and his Citizens United decision, one dollar one vote. Musk bought the last election for Trump.

I remember a time before Rupert and Fox lying News, when there was a Fairness Doctrine for the media...one could have a discussion with others and know all had the same set of facts. Now, however, those who watch Fox are not only fed partial truths, if that, but they are handed that news on a plate of gaslighting utter nonsense.

Fascism don't need no FairPlay, don't need no rules, it will never rest until democracy, American style, is dead and gone and grifting is the rule of the planet.