There is stupid, but really, Trump is only pretending to be dumb, he knows that reducing radiation protections will kill people, but then, he knows human caused global warming is a great danger, and still he makes a lot of money supporting those who are polluting our air.
No such thing as a good Republican in the time of Trump...they are on board his dark and dangerous ship, and it is heading straight for the rocks of bankruptcy.

No matter, his grifting, influence peddling family will still make billions on is capricious ways...just give someone half an hour to invest on the internal news that the tariff decision goes against him, or some other significant legal decision affecting the stock market and they are set for life. He knows how to make a billion in a bankruptcy.

History will be the judge, if we don't blow ourselves up in the meantime. And history will show Trump to be the worst President the US has ever had, clearly a grifter out to loot the treasury, to enrich his billionaire caste by lowering taxes until the country is bankrupt, and then take away FDR's safety net.
Influence peddling is illegal, believe it or not.
So is extrajudicial killing of criminal suspects...both internationally and within each and every jurisdiction in America.

If Trump gets told that he overplayed his tariff hand, the money would have to be returned to...just who exactly?
As it is, Trump's major claim to fame is that he delivered a great big beautiful tax cut to his oligarch caste...and that was only possible with the money from the tariffs to offset the lack of taxes.
I wildly distrust this federal Supreme Court since he put three liars onto it, people who said they believed in settled law and all. I think one thing is certain, Trump will somehow profit and the poor will be screwed,,, that is the contract his administration has ON the poor and the powerless in America.

I am not a federal Supreme Court Justice, but I know that murder is murder, in every jurisdiction in these United States, to kill a criminal suspect in an extrajudicial way is in fact murder.

And I thought I totally distrusted the George W. Bush regime, compared to this Trump debacle, w was a genius and trustworthy as hell.

And Putin thought Ukraine was a ----- cat. It turned out to be willing to fight and perhaps die on the hill of independence from Russian gangsters.
Still, chaos works for Trump, as does that darkness that comes in the night and takes away your job, your housing, your food, and along the way it creates deadly wars all over the place.

So If I have a personal religion that says women are second class citizens so I don't have to hire or treat them with respect, is that ok? Can I refuse to hire Christians, or people who refuse to kiss my ass?

We all know the urge to just unload as the frustrations build up and build up, had the same urge yesterday myself. But I have learned that the next day usually reveals my need to apologize, so kept it to myself. But hey, what is the fun of being a fascist if you have to think of other people, and other days?

Stupid exercise in going along to get along, at the right time.
This morning I did turn the clocks back, but my computer and other links refused to do so, which kind of messed with my head at 3am.

No such thing as a good Republican in the time of Trump, for they have to support his march to total control, putting incompetent people like Patel and Kennedy in charge of American power centers. Sure, at least for the time being, we are screwed, and those who protest are seen as the enemy of the coming fascist state.

A democracy cannot slip to being an autocratic fascist gang unless the independent media is intimidated and shut down. That is clearly happening in real time as the billionaire oligarchs like Bezos buy off the media and turn it into just another tool of the far right.
A democracy has to have two independent political parties both dedicated to the rule of law and one person, one vote democracy. The Republican Party has been lost to Trumpian fascism...so there is that.
A democracy has to have an independent legal system, and as exemplified by the Roberts court, far right fascism is seen as originalism, and the rich have the right of representation and the poor have the right to suffer.

Well, when you elect a clear fascist to be President, you have to expect his hand in everything, the way Al Capone's hand would have run things including the legal system.

The surprising thing is that this particular opportunity for Republican Party corruption in alliance with the Russian super wealth was stopped. Who on earth this guy was a good candidate for that post?

The NDA also hinder high ranking officers from publicizing what they regard as illegal orders to invade without cause...that is a war of aggression and is illegal under UN standards, not that Trump cares a tiny bit about the UN and other nations.

It is probably even money that the federal Supreme Court will support Trump using federal troops in a Martial Law way. All Trump needs is a few fires and something he can declare as an insurrection. Scary times indeed.

And so we watch the ruling class, one by one, bend a knee to their lord and master...the king of Grifters...Donald John Trump.

Oh, come on. Would Jesus have protested Trump, or would he have simply joined in the line with his palms outstretched?
The Republican Party churches honor on their altar greed and mercilessness...and that is a fact. When has the Pope actually joined in a protest against the evil of the Crypto grifting gangster Trump?
And yeah, I am an atheist, words are useless against a force of darkness like Trump.

Yeah, well, he resembles nothing so much to me as that NYCity gangster who pretended to be crazy to avoid prison. Trump isn't crazy, he just doesn't care to toe the line when the line is drawn by a woman. He is even more misogynistic than he is racist.

Promises, promises.

Cheap vote, sort of protection for a few of the Republicans in tough races, because they all know the House would never allow a vote, and Trump would veto anything.

Well, the CIA did gin up an attack against an American destroyer, that got Congress to vote in war powers for the President and got over a million people dead in Vietnam.
We did have a President, Nixon, who, along with the great evil Kissinger, traitorously got the South Vietnamese government not to attend the 1968 Peace talks so Nixon and Kissinger could strut into the White House, and so there have been and are people who would consider the lives of fellow humans, including American fighting personnel, to be expendable for power.

A nepo of a nepo is the ruling class. They have it all, the children at the bottom have to understand that the day that they could work one job and it would pay for a family and a house...gone for most.

Pretty much everything I guy for the table has gone up a lot in price. Could be one day I will have to make a choice, eliminate chocolate, which is rising rapidly or keep chocolate and eliminate oat meal.
I bet coffee addicts are looking the the price rise of coffee and are wondering how they are going to manage living on coffee but no meat.

Trump is a fascist, and he needs a dark and dangerous enemy to scare the American people with, and he cannot use American African Americans, so immigrants are the target.
Truth be told, the best way to secure the borders from undocumented migration, if indeed that is what this country wants, is to penalize employers, not harass the poor and powerless workers.
America has had, for years, a porous border, for economic reasons...it needed the workers. Now, it is telling people who have been in America for decades that they have to leave.
Americans deserve to have strong border policy, but both political parties let things slide.