It was the war veterans and the oldsters who begged on street corners as the Soviet Union fell to the greed and the addiction to power of the fascist Putin party.
More than any one thing, it was the willingness to bend a knee to hate and greed of the Republican Party that caused this American crisis, and crisis it is, we are teetering on the edge of collapse.

Meanwhile, America is becoming a bankrupt empire, much as the old Soviet Union became bankrupt...as the wealthy looted the treasury, and the oligarchs stole whatever wasn't nailed down. As taxes get cut, and more and more people need Social Security and Medicare to survive, the house of cards that is our economy will fall. One figures that is the main reason crypto is the darling of the very rich, they can hide assets and survive the dollar's collapse.
We are close to not being able to pay our bills today...borrowing isn't paying.

I really do fear that his sold out crew at the Supreme Court will ignore the Constitution and somehow allow him even more power to tariff other nations at the expense of the American people.

Spoken by some, that sentence would have been inspirational, but spoken by a man deliberately killing thousands by withholding aid or vaccines...it is just a clarification that he is not qualified for the job.

Bankrupting America is good business for the Trump gang and their allies...Same thing as the Soviet Empire fell and the people's leadership went from old and senile, to out and out gangsters, to the dictator Putin and his oligarchs looting the treasury and living in the greatest luxury while the poor and the war veterans begged on the street.

Apple is a private company, and it can do what it wants. I do, of course, wish Steve Jobs were still around, I kind of think he would have provided strong leadership in this time of the Trump fascist regime.

One wonders what be revealed in today's reading of the Trump/Epstein files.

We are screwed because the American people, read the idiotic Republican Party, twice elected a fascist to run our constitutional republic, and that is that. The future can only be a hellscape, that those alive will have to survive, and they will never be able to unite and try to change things because of the gaslighting media that the billionaires own.

OH hell, just replace the word "Trump" with the word "Putin" in any headline today, and one can see just how screwed we are to have a clear fascist running things and one who is, as the President of Portugal said, 'objectively, a Russian Asset'.
If Putin were in the White House he couldn't screw up America more than Trump.

With the massive tax cuts, one can be sure that if and when the tariffs have to be paid back, and that assumes the idiotic Supreme Court gets things together, the super rich will get richer, and the poor will be impoverished. As America bankrupts itself toward the end of the FDR safety net protections, the rich today rule as gods, and if Trump and his Republican Party have their way, America will be Russia, with the oligarch billionaires ruling from the clouds.
Having watched America elect a clear fascist twice, I have little faith in the future of American democracy.

A poll is kind of an election, and we all know how Trump and his violent gang of insurrectionists feel about free and fair elections.

Ah yes, the rule of law...none are above it in a true democracy, but in a fascist regime like Trump and Hegseth are setting up, the rule of law is less a rule and more an order to harass and hurt the opposition in any way possible.
Goodness knows Trump is vulnerable to that "rule of law" things...influence peddling is against the law, and one figures if Jack Smith were able to investigate his crypto schemes...there would be charges.

In your face white power... demographic trends indicate that by 2045, we white voters will be just another minority in America, and that will not be allowed...They will find a way to make voting in America as irrelevant as it is in Russia.

Ah yes, crypto...the way that money gets laundered...the way that one hides one's assets from the tax man and the divorce lawyer.
If the Dems take back the House, one expects fairly soon a subpoena to get a clue as to Trump's grifting when he was in office. One expects that subpoena not to be successful as the very rich own enough of Congress to forestall all attempts at clarity.
Actually, I figure if Trump ever faces real legal trouble, war will break out and that legal trouble will be hidden away. Problem is, they need someone in Iran, or a group of someones, to attack Americans, like Hamas attacked Jews in Israel.
And then...

And how many people did Bondi say the Attorney General's office is investigating?
Oh yeah, they ain't.

Trump, pretending that ICE is about immigration, when in reality it is his brownshirt army, willing to intimidate anyone and everyone.
Problem is, along the way, our immigration problems get worse...but Trump's ability to divide us one from another means America is weaker.
And, I am sure, Putin cheers.

Trusting Putin is like trusting Trump...shows that one is either about five years old, mentally, or one is in on the grift.
Putin promised that Ukraine would be safe if they gave up their nukes...Putin is like Netanyahu, working to eliminate a neighbor state and put its citizens in concentration camps.

It is child abuse to withhold vital vaccines from a child.

I do wonder why Trump hasn't pardoned her by now. Sure, he would take a hit, ballot box wise, but then she could go off and not say anything to anyone ever again, or, I suppose she could tell the truth with no recriminations..oh right, that is why she cannot have a pardon right now.

How much is enough? How corrupted can a person be where they find out they can never return to being part of the whole, of humanity?

I certainly agree with the President of Portugal, who said that Trump is objectively a Russian asset. That being so, little of what Trump says is meaningful other than it is a statement from an enemy of our democracy and our right to protest and to assemble and present our grievances...to the one who does not listen.

At this point, cynics like me look at major moves in crypto and we look for the pump and dump scheme and look for who will profit...

Oregon is a Blue State with two very, very good Senators. When we went vote by mail, it freed up the people to vote, as they got their ballots weeks in advance, could do their research, could mail in their ballots and not have to worry about Election Day child care, or work, or health problems...

I am a veteran and one thing I would tell young people...these days there is no draft, so while one can volunteer for the military to be trained in a career field, if one volunteers for the combat infantry army, one will be risking one's life, alongside the children of other low income parents, to protect the safety of the very rich who will almost never volunteer to risk their lives to defend either America, or Americans.
Think Trump would change his ways and have his relatives risk their necks in combat arms?

White power South African style apartheid saw the right of the minority Whites to rule over the majority Blacks as okay with them, and using violence and ethnic cleansing...equally fine with them. That is what is happening in Israel, what Musk and Trump seem to be working toward in this country,,,certainly the rich live in a different America than the rest of us. All systems are set up to coddle them and to exclude us.