Demographics rule. As we get older, we get less like drunken 20 year olds and we get more like 'need to go to bed at 8 pm' old folks. Don't worry, as my boomer generation dies out, and we will disappear soon, the country will get younger, demographically speaking, and the murder rates will skyrocket again.

The ultimate evil, wars of aggression, like Putin's mass murdering tens of thousands of Ukrainians so he can steal land and children. But since America is losing, or perhaps lost, its moral center with the loss of the print media, it doesn't matter what is good or right, what matters is power and grift. Jared and Ivanka still made two billion from the Saudis, no matter what anyone says about corruption.

Personally, I think the US should just look at the Mars nonsense as just that, a way for Musk to take billions from the public trough, all the while knowing those billions, those trillions would be better spent housing, educating, healing, the poor and the powerless.
Of course the last is not in the handbook of those like Musk who are engaged in the hand to hand of our class war.

One wonders if all far right politicians have backers pushing them, or assisting them, in the class warfare that takes from the poor and gives to the rich. I imagine if Trump were ever to turn to the left, Musk would be at his shoulder shutting him down, or at least calling out the far right army of thugs, as in Jan. 6.

Worst President ever? That pretty much qualifies him for stupidest statement about a recently deceased political figure, ever.

Not sure the "Oregon" part of the label is needed. Just describing them as "two men" would have sufficed to offer a hint as to the why of the crazy.

Hmm...one wonders just what a Musk/Trump/Vivek world would look like. I imagine it would have a Putin in charge, and a lot of oligarchs still being tossed out windows, just those being tossed would be competitors of Trump or Musk.

Can't have a banana republic without a lot of bananas running around as official members of the superior caste...

If it was ok for my country to explode nuclear weapons of mass destruction over a civilian city in order to win a war, then it is ok for any country, any terrorist organization to do the same to us.
We burned alive thousands of little Japanese children in the greatest single act of terrorism ever committed by human beings.

No idea how others are handling this new America, but as for me, I am darkly impressed with the quality and power of my nightmares these days. Last night I survived, in the dream, waking up to a revolution in my apartment complex, and my waking, in the dream, in someone else's apartment.
And that is without Trump and Musk in actual power...one wonders just what is going to happen to our Social Security and other survival aides.

I don't think it will be complicated, this new administration, it will be as it was, dedicated to the principle that one takes from the poor and gives to the rich, then the rich reward you mightily, and the poor...well, screw the poor.

Life in an banana republic, it requires intentional scarcity and making the very poor the enemy...

So start his own tournament...he and a few others could help make Chess competitions really exciting, and no one would care what the hell anyone wears.

Come back in fifty years, and Florida will have lost at least 20% of its coastline to human caused global warming and the rising seas from the expansion of the volume of water at higher temps.
And still they will probably be voting into office old Republicans who ignore the needs of the poor and those sick and dying from heat stroke.

A lot of Germans voted for Hitler to gain power. Even more stood to attention and saluted as he walked by, drove by. They cheered and cheered, and then their guy murdered millions of people and then the world rebelled and at the end Berlin was pretty much totally destroyed.
We are, I would imagine, on the same kind of path, and one fears that the American people will not wake up, as the Russian voters did not wake up, until it was all lost.

Only way the Dems come back with force is if the far right overplay their hand across the country, across the world, and with Trump, it is hard to believe he won't be even worse this second time than the first.

The first female American President will most likely be a Republican ---------- in the mold of Thatcher, a person who loved power, that legal authority to grind the opposition into the dirt and laugh at their corpses. My guess, there are several in today's Trump camp who would love the job...
Would we ever degenerate so far as a nation to allow Kari Lake to take the job?

Oligarchy: A small group of people having power over the people and their Government and all aspects of life.
Patriarchy: A system of government where men have all the power and women little to none.
Plutocracy: A ruling class whose power comes from their wealth.

America: screwed, just screwed, as the Russian people were, are, when they woke to find out their democracy was just voted out of power.

So what is going to kill us first, human caused global warming, Artificial Intelligence taking charge of our military weapons, militarized weaponized viral weapons, nuclear war?

I haven't heard, are they working on a vaccine for Bird Flu? I don't care if RFK Jr takes it, or suggests it, Covid 19 killed over a million Americans before the vaccine came into use.

Capitalism inevitably runs its course until a very few control the rest of us, and that, my friends, is what we have in America, fascism that owns the media, Congress, the Supreme Corrupt Court, and of course, the White House.
Kind of relaxing understanding we are all just screwed.
I grew up in an alcoholic household and several times was in an accident as drunk version of mom drove off the road or into something like a telephone pole. Not her fault, she had responsibilities but was also so hammered by PTSD all she could do was drink and try to get through the day.
Like having Trump as President...have to survive the pain and fear when one has no control over the situation. I think they call it learned helplessness.
Screwed.

As things stand, it would break our Constitutional Republic to simply change the laws and ignore the direct Constitutional directives allowing all who are born in America to be Citizens. And the second his Supreme Corrupt Court gins up some sort of pretend law based on originalism is the day the Supreme Corrupt Court becomes just another gang. Either we are a Constitutional Republic or we are not.

Do some research on Ronald Reagans second term, how this country was led from the shadows by some remarkably weird people, thanks to Reagan's dementia. We are all at risk, but really, we should have an age limit for executive positions like President or Senator.

Who is the bigger narcissist, Musk or Trump? Not sure Trump would win that contest.