I grew up in fundamentalist New England in the middle of the last century, and all in all, one of the best things I can say about myself is that I was able to be open minded enough to "wake" to the fact that racism and misogyny are bad things and making women and those with black or brown skin second class citizens is absolute stupidity.

Trump and his family get the absolute best of medical care, so why should he, and the other billionaires, pay taxes to give lifesaving care to the great majority of us out here in the sticks? He wanted to be praised for giving some help to GAZA, and I am sure he sees America as his, and it is his largess, not our right, that is to be responsible for Cancer care.

We are led by an army of grifters and incompetence is one of the qualities that got them hired,

Anyone out there think there is even one honest, courageous servant of the people left in American government at the federal level? If it were seen that Putin had turned someone and it would make Trump look bad, you and I both know it would never be known to the general public. Trump is now our "dear leader" autocrat...one has to wonder if he even leaves office when his time is up.

One wonders how one can have voted for Trump twice, and then somehow noticed something different this term than last. He is, was , will always be the grifting danger to our democracy he presented on Jan 6.

Well, if I were China, I would be preparing for war with Taiwan, while at the same time crossing Trump's palm with a lot of grift...there will probably never be a time when America is so undefended. Our Constitution mandates civilian control of our military, and that is quite reasonable, but in this time of Trump,
Hope I am wrong but the world hasn't been totally at war in a long time, and testosterone and all...with a clearly incompetent leader Trump and his acolyte Hegseth in charge of the defense department.

Long held Republican Party dream, bankrupt America by cutting taxes for the rich so far that America has to finally destroy FDRs safety net. Take from the poor to give to the rich...all that the Republican Party has been about for a lot of years, and the fact that they can get votes from poor whites who hate the same black people they do is frightening...it is how Hitler gained enough power to take over all reins of power

Putin, who wants Americans to feel the same sting he felt as the Soviet Union fell and was, instead of being seen as a great power, was seen as a joke. So he has to be grinning at the thought of Melania being seen as an American symbol. One of the many reasons I still think Russia had a lot to do with Trump's rise.

There is incompetence that costs those of us at the bottom our food, our housing, our medical, but there is incompetence that costs the rich of the major corporate boardrooms millions...and that is an enemy Trump does not want to have.
Might be significant to point out that the Republicans under Nixon "opened China to the West" so those same boardrooms could make stuff for cheap in countries that outlawed unions, and then sell that stuff to us for a lot of money, and now that same Republican Party is pretending they really care about the American worker.

Evil is a corrupting force, and Trump is as evil as it gets, as this democratic nation falls to autocracy and hate.

Pump and dump city...I am sure the crypto people are thrilled, as more and more dollars chase crypto cons, the profits go up, and the dollar weakens.

I knew someone who was wildly misogynistic all his life, he simply saw women as second class citizens, and not deserving of being in power over men. He needed someone to hate, and half the human population were his to hate and denigrate. Of course, one cannot be a fundamentalist Catholic or Mormon or Muslim and not be wildly misogynistic, There is a reason the second that the Democrats nominate a woman to be President the Republican Party jumps for joy...America is, thanks to its Fundamentalism, home to the worst kinds of misogyny.

The rules no longer apply to Trump and his gang, they can get as rich as they want taking bribes from CBS, from foreign countries, from any and all, and there is nothing any of us can do about it, because he has utterly corrupted the ultimate authority, the federal Supreme Court.

Uh, I am the same age as Trump, within a few days, and while I know there are old folks like us with still powerful minds...aging takes a toll, if nothing else it diminishes our energy reserves..we cannot engage for hours at a time, as a President must, and stay focused as we could when we were much younger.
We need, as the Vatican has, age limits on certain Executive jobs like President.

Getting attention by doing more and more dangerous stunts...looks like insanity to me, but then, I am old and don't even drive these days. Maybe the best life is one lived at that edge between life and death. To me, it is an insult to reality to embrace that level of suicidality.

Sooner or later, as the additional wealth poured into Crypto makes it rise to unimaginable heights, well, it will end and then comes the dump part of the pump and dump scheme.

Step by step, our autocratic dictatorship of Trump is coming into view...all he has to do is destroy a few more centers of opposition to him. Goodness knows the educated hate him, so to ---- with public education.

Glad to be alive, but as an old guy, I am also kinda glad I won't be around in twenty or thirty years, when it comes crashing down, amidst human caused global warming that will kill many poor people. We could have done a lot, but as it is, we are now lost to hate and fear and to living in a world where the rich get it all, and live maybe 15 years longer than we fellow humans at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The European Court of Human Rights, a home for respect for the rule of law, is, of course, irrelevant in all of this, as Russia pays no attention to what they say.
Human Rights, in a country like Russia run by a dictator, is a holdover from a time when there was a hope, a glimmer of a dream, that all nations would unite under a banner of hope and decency.
Then came Putin and Trump and yeah, ---- on earth administered by the idiots of the MAGA rioters.

Hard to believe that America is falling so far, so fast. One day we will wake to find out that Crypto is our new dollar, and cash is no longer used in many places, and the poor and priced out of the crypto economy, and ta da...autocracy.

Want to understand the strategy that runs the Trump autocracy machine? Watch some pro wrestling, and see how little of the noisy and violent drama is about law and order. It is about gang warfare and danger and letting the crowd yell and scream out their hate and wish to hurt and maim.

It is clear, either one if for one person, one vote democracy, or one is for the fascist empire in the making of the Trump grifting gang. An independent media is as valuable to a democracy as is having two independent political parties, devoted to the Constitution. Too bad America has only one such political party...the Democratic Party.

As a vet who used the VA as his main medical resource, I mourn this abuse of veterans for the profit of those looting the treasury. They are also going after Medicaid and Medicaid and food stamps, so all at the bottom of the economic pyramid will be placed in danger of losing vital resources.

I rose to the high rank of corporal in the Marines, a lot of years ago, and one of the things I did learn was the need for chain of command cohesion...and as Trump loses it more and more, his command structure will strike out on their own, more and more... and Hegseth is just the person this old guy wants making command decisions.
We lost the Vietnam War because we were, plainly said, on the wrong side. It was Catholics minority in the south running things as a colonial power, against the people who were overwhelmingly against the colonialists.
Kennedy got us into that war, but he was the civilian leader elected to make such decisions.
No logic in the next sentence, just the truth, America elected a true fascist, Trump, to make decisions with major impact...so of course our democracy is getting weaker and weaker.