Some people really do rise to the occasion, and Zelensky has been a great patriotic leader for Ukraine. Trump is more what Yanukovych was for Ukraine, a President acting in the best interests of Putin and Russia.

And once again I feel compelled to thank those influences in my early life that caused me to walk out of church and become...a rational atheist who can look at people like Graham and know they are just greedy BS artists. Humans invented the god concept.

Trump hates poor people and certainly he hates people with Black or Brown skin the most, and if they are female...

If it were up to me, that prison would be demolished and in its place would be a park, with kiosks for food and places to sit and picnic...a positive influence on the city, rather than an icon elevating the lives of those who have committed major crimes.

It is all about votes...and has been pretty much from day one. If a group votes for Trump and his gang, they get funding no matter the idiocy they support, but if it is apparent that the members of that group are not MAGA, then Trump defunds them, or makes their lives miserable in other ways...he is not in service to America, he sees the Presidency as being CEO of a private company for his profit.

As the President of Portugal said, objectively, Trump is a Russian asset.

Translation: America is in thrall to Israeli interests, and this Iranian war is really Netanyahu's and AIPAC's war. You don't count if you need help as a senior, as a veteran, as a poor American.

Now here are a few wasted words: The President of the United States swears allegiance to the Constitution and the Republic, he is in service to we, the people, not the other way around. He is the worst President in American history, clearly in the control of murderous warmongers like Netanyahu and Miller and the rest. He has alienated us from our allies and divided us one from another, and yeah, the President of Portugal was right when he said that "objectively, Trump is a Russian asset".

Yes, thanks for the truth telling reporting. There are men and women and little children dying by the hour, all over the world, thanks to Trump's warmongering...and one has to add, thanks to Netanyahu's pushing Trump's buttons.
Trump was never capable of being President, but apparently MAGA didn't care.

Little left to say...either you trust Trump or you do not, and if you do not, nothing you/we say will make a tiny bit of difference to him, as we are not those controlling him...we are not named Netanyahu or Musk. Grift and graft all not strangers in a war, and with Trump as President, one figures there are hidden channels all over the place. We still have powerful news outlets, though soon both CNN and CBS will be totally propaganda tools for Trump, or at least the far right.

Nothing in today's "modern" Republican Party is about preserving or protecting our Constitutional Republic and its Bill of Rights. They are a totally sold out gang of souls in it for the power and the money, and they clearly understand that the job of a "modern' republican is to be servile, to be in the control of the very rich and powerful, against the needs and rights of the very poor, who greatly outnumber the Musks of the world.

American workers..get used to the storm coming your way, because AI and those who are making billions off creating a power to rival the working man or woman, that power is coming for your job, for your relationship, for your sense of belonging to a people, rather than as a refugee in your own country. Ask poor people today who are being priced out of the rental market, out of the education market, the health markets...if they think the super rich give a damn about them and their pain?

I find it hard to understand how anyone, anywhere, can say they are a follower of Jones for positive reasons...he did what he could to profit off the deaths of tiny children in CT, for instance.

The problem with having killed the rule of law, Israel will one of these days be at someone's mercy, and no one will come to their aid, because...genocide.

We have often wondered just what might happen if someone in cognitive decline ever took over the reins of power in the US and started acting in a dangerous and irrational manner.
Now we know...if he is Republican, they don't care about anything or anyone but their ability to profit off his grifting ways.

I look at some of the trolling against this decision and I really do feel the...hate for our Constitutional Republic. Of course, they tried to destroy Voice of America just because...
The truth is not allowed in a fascist state, like Russia, like China, like in Trump's administration.

Yeah, imagine if Trump were actually to write a memoir, well, with massive assistance by ghost writers, telling the truth of how he corrupted it all, using his own useful idiots... all to help Putin.

He is right, and one, at least me, think it is not ending soon, as even if Trump were to resign so the VP can become President and pardon him, as Ford pardoned Nixon, the corruption within the entire government will take generations to root out.

And not only is the design irrational, it is ugly, as if Melania used AI to design it. One wonders if President Newsom would be able to tear it down.

Not a lot of people out that day would have been intimidated by a couple of gunships...not a lot of people who will be showing up to vote in November will forget the nightmare of the Trump gang;s work to destroy our Constitutional Republic.

Why yes, America is led by the worst of the worst, greedy, ignorant, heartless thugs who seem to have invested everything they have in war and division and hate. And the bottom line is the following: The Republican Party is totally on board with destroying, totally, the enemy, also known previously as America's independent media, so that fairly soon it will be "1984"ish propaganda 24/7.
We are led by bloodthirsty cowards.

Big money owns Trump, and Trump owns the House of Representatives...so the midterms are once again spotlighted as being of great importance to our Constitutional Republic.

One imagines, not a call to arms, but a call to disarm from the Catholic Church...a pleading to spare the lives of so many and look for avenues of peace.
One imagines hope, but truth be told, one is a little delusional this early in the morning, I am sure in a few hours, one will see that Trump and his dictatorship have hate and horror in mind.

Is the grift stealing oil for private interests or is it just more Trump/Epstein distraction that costs many lives, many of them American?

When I see opportunistic men and women with Black skin cheering on MAGA, I have to wonder at the power of greed. The main reason Trump won office was because he could steal the Republican Party by being more racist than the Bush family, and more willing to ally the white nationalist power vote with his future.