He is right, both about the inescapable dangers of AI/capitalism, and specifically about joblessness. We are not in charge of our laws, our country, our government, those with the big bucks run the show from corporate boardrooms.

Startling case of up is down and up is down, and why punish the guilty because...feelings?

States' rights?
Oregonians voted against sales taxes and for total vote by mail in all elections, local as well as federal. Of course the Trump conspiracy imposed (tariff) sales tax on all consumers without consent of Congress, or Oregonians. And Trump is working to get the damn federal Supreme Court to let him outlaw vote by mail, as when you give the people a way to vote that helps them to cast their ballot, Republican Party candidates tend to lose.

And I would advise our military officers, especially those in the army and marine corps, to get good advice in regards to what constitutes an illegal order, and what responsibility an officer has to refuse to follow such an illegal order. It is a war crime to extralegally kill a suspect, for example.

Pure politics...the Church, as it likes to be known, is losing power in the world, and so needs young people in the pews. There was nothing in his background to even suggest a "miracle".
I find myself quite grateful for my atheist, which lets me look at all this and see if for what it is, just another con game to gain wealth and power. The Vatican is a foreign nation, and its paid employees in the US should have to register as Foreign Agents. I look at the far right fanatic Catholics that Trump installed on our federal Supreme Court to take down our First Amendment rights, and I fear for the future of our democracy.

Sitting here trying to think of even one thing that Trump has done for the poor and the powerless...one thing. He said previously that the very rich are his people, they are who he was running for. For them, I can think of many things he has done to enrich the rich.

Screwed.
If NATO ever goes into a major conflict with Trump as Commander in Chief, and Hegseth running Defense...against Putin who Trump regards as a buddy...yeah, if I were France I would be working toward surviving a war against the "vengeful runt" as Navalny called Putin.

All this does point to a real danger point when the midterms arrive...if Trump needs a violent mob to kill and loot...He can then declare Martial Law to stop the mob he created...

Translation: Florida is an insane asylum run by the sickest of the sick. It now will let Polio back into our country, and other horrible diseases as well.
As a kid in the 1950's I remember the terror that Polio caused parents and the medical world, until the Salk Vaccine came along.

Communist, fascist...they both, at the top, look the same with a dictatorship and authoritarian rule for everything, over ever center of power. Stalin and Xi and Hitler...

Courageous patriots who have spent lifetimes helping the sick, the old, the infirm, pointing out that Kennedy and his boss, Trump, are exactly the opposite, they have spent a lifetime sucking up to the rich and the powerful.
Fascism, as defined by me as working for the permanent rule of the billionaire caste over the very few, using intimidation, violence, and hate, is all that Kennedy and Trump can offer. Well, that and an awesome amount of ignorance as to how real science works.

One does wonder, if his tame federal Supreme Court actually votes to uphold the law and tell Trump he cannot unilaterally declare tariffs on foreign nations, just how those tariffs are going to be returned to the people, the consumers, who have already paid them. As a Russian Asset he is without parallel, but as a guy who is entrusted to help all Americans feel like they are safe and protected...ok, he is also without parallel, at the bottom of the list.

Let that camel gets its nose under that tent, and fascism becomes an infection that is hard to stop. Denmark, ally with Europe as I am not sure America under MAGA can be counted on in a real crisis.

The illegal tariffs are, in effect, sales taxes that the people did not vote for, and would not vote for. And, by the way court who ruled they are illegal but let them continue, the greatest injury is to the consumers since if the federal Supreme Court rules the same way you ruled the money can never be returned to the people. You should have ruled to stop the tariffs.

Like James Mattis and John Kelly said, Trump is fascist to his core.

If one can tour London or Paris, and they choose to enter the US and subject themselves to Trumpian scrutiny, all I can say is, don't overstay your visa or other time limit on stay.

It is almost like there is a nurse just outside the door to the Oval Office, telling visitors, and staff, that Trump has lost a step, and like many with dementia, he only listens when the conversation is about him, and complementary to h

All I know is if some sort of WWIII breaks out, with Hegseth as our Defense Chief, and Trump as Commander in Chief...we can only hope the two of them stay out of the way when it comes to defense planning.

As Mattis and Kelly said, Trump is fascist to his core, and that means he has no regard for the rule of law, for the Constitutional protections regarding freedom of speech and of assembly. Should make the midterms and then the 2028 elections terrifying, if fascinating.
We are turning into Russia right before our eyes and ears...a land run by an authoritarian with the courts as his puppets and the media either sucking up to him, or in jail.

If you have to prove who you are to each and every website, then that means they can assemble your "performance", and both send you idiotic ads as well as, if so inclined, mess with you later when you are a candidate for public office and would rather people didn't know of your quite legal, but private, predilections.

They are not about stealing elections because they want to champion the Constitution, or find ways to help the poor and the powerless. They, the Republican Party, want nothing more than total power to take from the poor to give to the rich, certainly to the rich investor class, and that is that.

First Amendment be damned? Here I am referring to the Texan attitude of condemnation for all those who actually believe it means what it says, that we have freedom of and from religion.

Capitalism survives on a lie, that the future will be fine as problems arise there will be solutions that will keep the economy flowing and people happy. Human caused global warming will kill many, and of course, as the fossil fuels run out, costs for everything will rise to the heights, though the rich won't care as they have invested in big oil, knowing that with Republicans like Trump in office, the poor will always be weak and powerless.

Fascists playing nice with each other...Trump needs to stay in office to stay out of jail, and Putin..if the International Criminal Court get their hands on him he will be locked up for a long, long, long, long time.