I fear that soon, all will be calm, as our media is forced to be tame, as the Russian media was tamed, with severe jail sentences for those who would actually utilize our freedoms, like the freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble and petition our government for a redress of our grievances. Propaganda 24/7, like in Russia, or China, or I suppose, in Florida.
I miss the print media, I really do.

I remember when Covid was far, far away, and then there was a case or two in Washington State, and then...a million people were dead in the US.
Electing self-serving grifters will work out well for the billionaire caste, but one really wonders if this is the year that Bird Flu is the new Covid.

Think he cares?
Of course he does, his narcissistic personality is why he ran this last time, why he is taking after all those who slowed down his grifting ways last time, I would imagine if he has his way and Jim Mattis and his former Chief of Staff, who both said he was a fascist to his core, would be tried for ....defamation.
I have no doubt, utterly no doubt, that he is cooking up a way to make the UK pay for laughing at him. Trump serves Trump, not the American people.

Gee, you mean they might lift that 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles that lets Tesla stay in business? I think Musk might have something to say about that. If that tariff goes, then I would expect Tesla to go bankrupt.

Trump owes the white male supremacists big time, so he will reward them at every chance he has.

Going to be hard to shut down the internet, but the people move with the help of leaders, and I have no doubt Trump has a list of people who will be in jail fairly soon, or so harassed legally, financially, that they have to move out of the country. I would bet that many at MSNBC, being sold by Comcast, is near the top of the list.
Trump got away with a clearly illegal coup attempt, there is nothing he won't try now.

The rich will rule like British royalty, inherited wealth will make them lords and ladies and own pretty much everything, certainly our Congress. I am glad I am an old man with not that much time left, because I very, very truly have no confidence in America's ability to right the ship of state...at best we are, will be Russia, with a pretend democracy and pretend rule of law.
Actually, I could amend the first sentence to be ..."the rich are ruling like royalty of old...".

Name me things that AI cannot do, and compare it to the list that AI can, or will shortly do...
People who will be losing jobs include lawyers, teachers, doctors, truck drivers, sex workers..and politicians if we just give up and let AI run everything. It will certainly be our war fighting military within ten our so years...

Wow, is Mike Johnson a clear and present enemy of our Constitutional Republic, he is so greedy for power that he is going along with those who violently assaulted police as the mob tried to coup their way to power.

Israel is an apartheid nation and America should stop supporting it with bombs and billions until it agrees to stop killing Palestinians and stealing their land. And yeah, with Musk as his advisor, one doubts that is ever, ever going to be a consideration for this country.

Trump is what happens, I suppose, if one is given over $300 million dollars by daddy, that one only ever works for daddy or himself, and one sees public service as a job for a sucker...
Of course, then the Republican Party ran that idiot to run the Executive Branch and now he is back to run it into the ground, and along the way, every mistake he will make will be blamed on "incompetence" by the experts.
This is truly Trump being as his former Chief of Staff Kelly and Secretary of Defense Mattis said about him...fascist to his core.

Milley was a good officer, someone who served his country for decades. In a lot of ways, Trump is his opposite, and that is a problem because we need someone who is focused, able to work with others...

We could have weekly, or daily contests..."What is the stupidest thing Trump has done this week, this day?"
I think abandoning the WHO is near the top of the list, but really, letting the brownshirts out to kill again...wins for his week.
Next week, who knows, maybe invading Greenland might win.
We elected an idiot to run things, could be democracy needs a few safety factors added in, like only letting people be President who served as head of an agency, in an executive position, successfully/. And not just serving as a tool in his super rich daddy's company.And maybe having other job requirements as well.
Me, I would make national service mandatory and make it mandatory for a President or Member of Congress, and of course, there would be an age limit. I am the same age as Trump and believe me, one's memory takes a hit after 75.

We live in unscrupulous pump and dump times...the grifters are in full flower and they are experts at lying and cheating the rubes.
Problem is, Crypto is a real and present danger to our own economy, to the digital dollar itself.

Yup...we are screwed, and worst of realizing that is that we are doing it to ourselves...AI will serve its masters, and that is the billionaire oligarch caste...

I wonder if George Santos is available to replace him. At least when Santos lied, it was entertaining.

Don't forget, Trump made out like a bandit when he bankrupted those casinos, and I am sure he has a plan to loot the treasury, sell of the national forests, invade some poor little nation to distract folks, and then walk away leaving a battered bankrupt nation and a lot of us at the bottom of the pyramid shattered.

It will be as if Al Capone had been elected elected President...up will be down, and down will be up, and to be statesmanlike and decent will be seen as weak, and to be murderous will be seen, what was it Trump said about Putin...?

I suspect it is true that a bully on the playground is a bully as an adult, and certainly Musk is proving himself as one who is always looking for a little kid to beat up, or a social media outlet to buy up so he can turn it into a propaganda outlet for fascism.

It will be like when Trump's Supreme Corrupt Court picks went through the nomination process...lying through their teeth, just so they can get into office and...well, just figure whatever was "settled law" will now be unsettled.
We are watching a grifting mafia team get assembled right in front of us...Putin should be so proud of his tool , Trump.

Oh, when they get around to dropping the big ones on London or New York or Washington DC, I kinda figure being off by a few feet won't matter, and when Trump has the First Marine Division invade Greedland...sorry, Greenland, NATO will be toast and...
Well, imagine the movie Wargames, with a different, no so cheery ending.

Nope, the first vote for Trump might have been excusable, people didn't really know him or believe he could be that bad. But the second time, after that coup attempt....to have voted for Trump was unforgivable.