Have to admit Trump is consistent...a consistent grifter at the top of his game, punishing those who don't cross his palms, and rewarding those who give him huge planes with promises of using American forces as protectors for them.

Hey, if you cannot trust the Health and Human Services Secretary, who the heck can you trust.
Conversely, if you catch him in enough lies, does that mean you shouldn't believe a damn word he says?
I am pretty much in the second camp, though I think he actually has an idea or two that makes sense, but if we listen to him, when the next pandemic hits, we oldsters will be toast, no doubt about it.

Interesting, but all in all, the best advice for we humans, is understand we need peace and quiet and being able to get a relaxed period of sleep. NOT, some idiot pill that somehow lets us survive as drones with little to no sleep. NO, I do not trust big pharma even a little bit.

It is as if our greatest enemies, including the mass murderer Putin and China's leader Xi, found a way to ruin American democracy by helping a fascist get elected to run our Constitutional democracy. And our greatest danger is racial animus, which Trump exploits day and night.

Road rage is one sign of a bullied and totally lost individual because to heal they have to see, to feel that who they hate, who they are so afraid of, raised them. Lots of people in prison who far too late realize that they were ;prisoners of their own trauma. Good therapy actually works, or at least helps one turn away from the stupidity of raging over insignificant things.

Think Netanyahu pandering to Hamas...until the breakout rebellion and yes, war crimes were committed by Hamas.
If Trump can get someone, somewhere, to attack America, he is President for Life, I am sure that is going on in his mind.
Iran, if you are listening...
I thought I was cynical thanks to Nixon and Kissinger and the Vietnam War, but Trump is a different kind of unAmerican fascist.

Chinese electric vehicles had a 100% tariff on them, now it is much greater. If Tesla had to compete without tariffs, vehicles from at least three markets would bankrupt them.
That is a fact, and the blame of that goes to people like Nixon, so long ago, for "opening China" to American manufacturing. The major companies made trillions by producing for cheap and selling for dear, and now Trump wants to pretend it just happened, his party isn't to blame...

Fascism, the permanent rule of a tiny majority over the great majority, using violence and suppression of rights, just does not allow the master race to fail. I am old and white and rule nothing and no one, and I certainly deny the legitimacy of the legacy of White South African apartheid.
Wonder if American apartheid is on the menu, at least the menu in Trump's noggin.

One sure sign of the apocalypse, at least in terms of civilizations crumbling, is when there emerges a tiny upper caste that takes it all, owns it all, and demands obsequious obedience..
And, of course, the people get sicker, and their tools...planes and cars and factories, crumble under the weigh of foreign competition.

If we are raised in a family that makes it all about power, children get produced that live by jungle rules...live or die, predator or prey, losers and suckers beware...

I thought employing Americans was the goal...but of course I was wrong. The goal is and always was, to weaken the unions and any power center that contains a lot of people who vote against Trump.

Courage in the face of fascism...inspiring.

Happened during Trump's first term too, this hopeful talk about the missing spine thing.
In the end, he was never held to accounts, though impeached in the House, and then he rallied his violent gang to attack the people counting the Electoral College votes.
If we do lose our democracy, it will be because of the unfathomable cowardice of today's Republican Party that refused to fight back against fascism.

Let us be honest here, the Republican Party regards the economy, anyone's, as being a zero sum game, for them to rise to the heights of unbelievable wealth, of course , there are going to be a lot of losers and suckers living in the tents alongside the roadways. When Putin rose to power in the wreckage of the old Soviet Union, it was the war pensioners and poor who begged on the streets.

Wait, isn't that Crypto's job, to be a currency the very wealthy can use to hide their assets from the tax man?

Well, the greater truth is that big wealth always corrupts democracies, the few find a way to corrupt and own the power structures, and then it is allegiance to the Emperor and then....chaos.

There was a time in the not so distant past that I saw myself as media and tech savvy, but not know. I do distrust Crypto with all of my being though, and think China has the right idea...don't allow it to corrupt the Chinese economy.

Well, our attacking Greenland would at once rupture NATO, which is one of Putin's major goals, so there is that for Putin's good buddy in the White House.

Democracy only works if the people are educated, both as to how things work and to how others think and what their needs are. Problem is, the most educated hate Trump.
As it is, the Republican Party of today is dedicated to weakening our international relationships, strengthening the groups who hate, and allying the hate with the rich to try and stay in power as a minority party.

Just Trump planning ahead, if he somehow loses both Houses of Congress in the Midterms, he will make sure his army is armed, out of prison, and happy to attack the police and the courts again.

Well, if he opens Alcatraz and sets it up to be a prison camp for opponents like Stephen Colbert and Maddow...when they get around to me I hope I get sent there. The view, of the bay, would be great, and goodness knows the conversations would be intelligent and fun. In that world, to have a brain and an opinion would be illegal

I am an old man who lives in low income senior and disable housing, and I wonder how many millions of people in this country are like me, watching Trump's attack on the administration of social security, the IRS, The Veterans' Administration, and other agencies that help those at the bottom third of the economic pyramid, and fear for our future.
A government is either for the support of a very few oligarchs, like in Russia, or it is to support all the people, including the poor.

It is as if Trump sees it as his duty to make Americans fear him, and the rest of the world to buy him off.
Are we sure Jared really didn't set up a good back door to the Kremlin? Much of what Trump is doing is pure Putin.

Thinking of the men of my high school class who died in combat in Vietnam , thinking of the men who I met and served with in the Marines who served in Vietnam, many of who were wounded/ killed in combat.
They served as they were asked, they risked their lives, and they trusted their government...time to remember their service.
Think of all those on the Vietnam Veterans Wall in Washington D.C....