Uh...thanks to those who so stupidly put out this ad, it at once showed how corrupted and ignorant Vivek Ramaswamy really is. Exactly what does he offer to the voters? He has never worked in service to the people in any way, he will just be another fascist tool in the Trump grifting gangs toolbox.
I would ask just how stupid do they think we are...but after so many years of Trump, it is clear they think propaganda is news and enriching themselves is what we wish for our land.

Imagine with me, that you were a Camp Lejeune Marine drafted into the Marines during the Vietnam War, and there were some. You went through Marine Infantry training at Lejeune, and then was sent to try and survive being in the infantry for 13 months during that war. You did survive, though today you have multiple problems with your health and perhaps your head.
And you find out that in all the chaos you might get help for your health problems, but only if the fascist running the government is allowed to rein at the head of a fascist Congress.
You remember what you were told you were fighting for in Vietnam.
You vote Blue, just because.
Your cynicism is all you have left.
(I wasn't drafted, but did serve in the Marines in Vietnam, and met men who were drafted).

If Trump can rig the votes in Alaska, he can rig the votes, using a different excuse in Georgia, in South Carolina.
When Barack Obama was president, I trusted my government, with Trump as President, I trust that I cannot believe or trust the grifting fascists running any department in DC.

Big money is its own government, we are just along for the ride.

I find it impossible to make a comment since I understand that no one is in charge, no one in my government is listening, caring, what we at the lower end of the economic pyramid think or need. If someone greases the Trump's gang's palms, stuff gets done, satellites get turned on or off, and our King Musk is doing what he can to make sure the fascists both in America and in Russia prevail.
Ok, maybe that was a comment after all. Hard to be optimistic when one's government is led by a fascist in league with your country's worst enemy.

The greatest gift Americans gave to their country in my lifetime was the peaceful, non violent civil disobedience of African Americans led by MLK Jr. and John Lewis and so many others.
Apartheid is an evil thing. People who practice it inevitably become evil...think Netanyahu.

Brownshirts on the march...Americans expect and deserve to have strong and secure borders, but that is not what Trump is doing. He is telling his racist base, in "coded" language, that he is full on board with white power and harassment of those who have Black or Brown skin.
But no-one has the ability to reverse demographics...in about twenty years we whites will no longer be in the majority. Maybe People like Trump need to...leave the scene so the needed work of assimilation can continue.
Otherwise, we become India...riven by division.

One wonders just how permanently Jack Smith has retired...he would be great to head the investigations of the DOJ if and when the Dems take back Congress. He is one lawyer I trust, the country could trust, though MAGA wouldn't like what he found.

In a lot of ways, you are known, judged, by your friends, and Trump has some of the worst "friends" in the history of the world. Netanyahu, Putin...and so on.

I strongly suspect one of the darkest secrets of this idiotic Trump administration is that he makes very few decisions...he is as Reagan was during Reagan's second term, being paid to give speeches and let the "grownups" run things from the darkness.
Of course, he is not competent to make major decisions. Though Commander in Chief he knows nothing about the military, or, for that matter, about the lives and needs of those at the bottom third of the economic pyramid who are suffering massively right now.

Someone must have told him those Marines who went through training at Lejeune are as criminal and ignorant as he. I am one of those LeJeune Marines, went through infantry training and Machine Gun School there.
Some people go to Harvard, my country sent me to Machine Gun School.
Oh Yeah, 1968 was a fascinating year.
I however, living in vote by mail Oregon, cast my vote already.

Putin knows that there is a significant chance that the Republican Party and Trump will lose Congress, and thus he has to try and destroy Ukraine's will right now.
Putin is a war criminal. Trump and Hegseth are war criminals. So a meeting with them in attendance would be...what did the mafia call it? Oh, yeah, a Republican Party party.

As a kid we watched CBS news every night with Walter Cronkite telling the truth about what was going on in the world and in DC. Now, the big money boys are turning CBS into another Fox Propaganda Outlet...
When they kill all the independent media, our democracy will certainly fall as the people will be manipulated mightily.

My guess is that what will happen is Musk will be protected, one way or another, as a reward for his pouring all that money to support Republican Party gangsters.
If it were that easy to get an opponent's emails, even if they are public officials, everyone would be doing it. Considering the nightmare that Musk has dumped on America and the world one figures there is a lot of dirt...as he chortles over killing many people as he takes away their USAID and all.

I find myself hoping that a lot of oldsters, like me, the same age as Trump, see all this and learn a vital lesson...they invented retirement for a reason, we age, we lose a lot, but life can hold a lot of fun and wonder, if one just accepts that aging is real and not having a lot of energy or creativity some days is part of how Mother Nature has us age.

Trump is Yanukovych, the former leader of Ukraine who rules as a Putin tool until the Ukrainians tried to arrest him and Putin helped him escape to Moscow. Sure has the same feel as if Trump is supporting Putin for a possible escape hatch for himself.

I used to daydream about winning the lottery to take part in the "luxury" part of our economy, but now, if I put $2 in the lottery it is to daydream about...spending a lot of time in a rational country, like Ireland or Canada. I now understand that to be rich in America is to be part of a conspiracy to make sure the very poor stay so poor they die ten years before the rich.

Umm...if it was paid for with Pac money, it is supposed to be totally independent of the candidate...so it stays up?

I strongly suspect, as time goes by, one of the casualties of the Trump gangs strutting about the White House will be the possibility that ever again will an 80 year old man be in charge of much of anything. I am the same age as Trump, so I am not mocking anyone, but age limits have to be in place for not only the President, but Senators and members of the House as well.

Clearly,, Trump was "in the tank" for Putin from day one, and unless America finds a way to take big money out of our politics, our vaunted democracy is going to end up being just another pretend democracy, in realty a one dollar, one vote banana republic. I wish us well, voted yesterday, scary times indeed.

Democracy, one person one vote, is, if Musk and his gang have anything to say about it, being replaced by one dollar, one vote fascism.

Fascism is the rule of the few over the many, using violence (ICE), propaganda (the Ellisons), and of course turning the rule of law on its head, instead having the culture run by the rule of the jungle. And Fascism in the person of Musk is having its day, no doubt about it.
Wonder if these midterm elections will, when all is said and done, be somehow manipulated in the darkness.

Big money inevitably creates people who learn to love, to crave power and lust for domination.
Inevitably.
Big money took over the local university, the UofO, and now it is a tool of the Knight family and is doing what was done during the Dark Ages, killing the centers of light, in this case liberal education and replacing it with big time idiotic CTE causing football.

ICE is giving all law enforcement a bad name...because ICE is Trump's Brownshirt gang. Yes, the American people expect and deserve to have a strong and secure border, but this isn't that.

Take from the poor in order to give to the rich...what today's Republican Party is about, pure and simple. If you are at the bottom third of the economic pyramid, you are seen as serfs, undeserving of anything but a struggle to please your Muskian masters.
Vote Blue...