Of course, just part of the Trump regime's pattern of rewarding its voters, and here that means those who were big fans of slavery and the domination of women, and attacking those who didn't vote for Trump fascist candidates.

The chaos in Russia as the Soviet Union fell was just what the fascists like Putin needed...and the chaos in our America is just what the Trump regime needs...they are not wrong when they say we may lose our democracy in our lifetime.

I did a good bit of reading on all of this when it first came out, and was appalled but not surprised...there is, or at least it was said that there was, a test to see if one were a good candidate to work for the CIA, and it involved not having a shred of human compassion for strangers, and it involved accepting male supremacy. Tall, blond, ken dolls...for a bit, were the ideal.

Fascism, the rule of the privileged few over the great many, using violence, intimidation, lies and the destruction of democratic norms, rules the Palestinian State in the personage of Netanyahu , and it is pretty close to ruling America as the Trump regime takes more and more power.

We could hold a contest to vote on just what is the stupidest thing the Trump fascists are doing, and truth be told, ignoring human caused global warming would probably win. Of course we need to help people and municipalities adapt to solar and wind and water sustainable power sources. What idiot would want us to lose a third of Florida's coastline, what idiot...oh right...Trump voters.

Putin is a mass murderer like Bundy...you don't negotiate with a mass murderer, you oppose them.

And those sold out souls fight like hell to make sure cities don't offer their own internet to the people and businesses...cannot compete with the large companies, who are getting more and more expensive.

Not a surprise, in this day and time, but as an old guy, I remember when, growing up in New England, one could trust the Republican Party to understand its obligations to the Constitution and to the people.

As a poor person, who finds the internet absolutely essential in getting through my day, from communicating with the VA to...yes, shopping for the best prices seeing as I cannot afford a car, well, of course is about taking from the poor to give to the rich, and this is a great example of that. He sees helping the poor as socialism, but helping the billionaire caste he sees as...helping family.

The day that CTE, brutal brain damage, can be diagnosed in a living person, is the day that football is banned in all High Schools, other than in Texas of course, since they don't care about anything but profits.

Terrifying tactic to bankrupt America by enriching the unforgivably rich and then tanking FDRs safety net, and taking us back to a time when a few old white men ran the world, certainly the US.
Fascism is the permanent rule of the very few supremely wealthy over the many by using violence, domination, intimidation and tossing democratic ideals out the window, along with a few opponents as in Russia.

Well, if one asks Grok, what does Covfefe mean, one is told"In summary, Covfefe has no definitive meaning"it's a cultural phenomenon born from a presumed typo, symbolizing internet humor, political discourse, and the power of social media to amplify mistakes."

Income inequality is increasing, and being made the law of the land, and so, eventually, we will go the way of the old Soviet Union, or the Roman Empire, for that matter, and when the changes occur, the streets will run red with blood, as civil war is the nightmare all nations face, sooner or later.
Unless, of course, the rich in this country can get the very poor to be locked inside Occupied Territory apartheid outdoor prisons.

Oh yeah, he remembers John Kelly and Jim Mattis, his former generals who stopped his first term idiocies...at least some of them. And then those two generals of "his' told the world he was truly fascist to his core.

Sure, he was a criminal deviant, but equally, darkly, interesting is how he amassed such a fortune. One has to wonder if blackmail had no small part in how so many influential men gave him millions.

Why the question mark? OF course the Trump regime is about vetting all for loyalty, not to the Constitution, not to the rule of law, but instead, to the true policy of America today and that is to let the family of grifters steal everything that isn't nailed down.

Still, from one perspective, Trump is a great administrator...of the Putin regime's hope to weaken America, divide us one from another and from our neighbors to the North and to the South.

As an old guy nearly 80, I can remember the 1950's, when Jim Crow ran those with Black skins off the sidewalks, and made sure only white men were seen in positions of authority. Women were habitually ridiculed in the media.

One wonders when ICE becomes an official goon squad to harass and when able, arrest those of us who are outspoken opponents of the fascists in charge of our government. Look at Russia, look at Afghanistan for that matter, to see how it is done. Intimidation doesn't have to mean going after all the opponents, it means finding a few very public opponents and treating them like crap.
The last is pretty much all Trump is about these days.

You vote for an incompetent grifter to run your constitutional republic, knowing full well he is a fascist at heart, and you quibble as to the company he keeps? Please, you are responsible for the debacle in Washington, at least own that.

Not a sign of stupidity, this attack on correcting global warming inaction, but a sign that those who run the show have everything invested in fossil fuels and would gladly sacrifice a third of Florida's coastline, for example, to their love of high stock market profits. We are led by the cruel and the criminal.

War is the enemy, not each other. I find it strange how often that sentence is attacked when I apply it to wars of aggression like Putin's upon Ukraine, or Netanyahu's upon the Occupied Territories. I think the rule of law, in reality, is not supported by those who run things from the shadows, overseas and certainly here in the US.

One has to wonder if the fossil fuel industry has Trump on a retainer or something. Human caused global warming is a clear and present danger, and windmills can help countering that coming disaster.

Big tent should result in big wins. Just hold fair primaries for all offices and let the voters decide.

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.