Grandiose narcissistic people like Trump can only relate to people who have a powerful need to subject their authenticity and to follow "dear leader" or in their minds...daddy. So Trump surrounds himself by strange people like Musk and Vance and Hegseth and Kennedy...
They are not about "we the people" they are about..."praise me daddy, hear me daddy, let me hurt those people for you daddy".

It has been the plan of the far right for a long, long time. They want to get rid of the FDR social safety net including Social Security, and to do that they need a time when America is broke and cannot pay the benefits. Capitalism is about the ruling class, always has been and will always be, as more and wealth gathers in fewer and fewer hands, for the rich to win votes they need America alienated and divided.
Cue Trump and his grandiosity.

Shutting down Congress is one thing, stopping a newly elected Representative is quite another. The first happens every few years, but the second, should never ever happen.

America would be far better off with Hegseth gone than with a tame media ignoring the graft and the grift.

Disgusting and inhuman, but then, that is what Trump is at his core.

I remember a time in the not so distant past where influence peddling was illegal.

Putin is, at the moment, the planet's worst example of a mass murderer, so sure, go and suck up to him, it will play well at the ballot box?

Nixon and Kissinger did the exact same thing to get elected and then reelected. Nixon did what he could to provoke protesters, who were outraged at the conduct of the government in the Vietnam War. It took me a long time to understand imperialism, because it was up close in my face.

Our "First Lady" buddying up to our biggest enemy, and the worst mass murder on the planet at the moment.

Stupid mean thing done by those who are total toadies for the big oil and gas and coal boys. And America and the world will suffer as human caused global warming gets worse and worse.

A champion...yes.
A national media champion, yes, with a qualifier...the internet is not national network media, and more and more of that national media is bought by the rich to suppress the voice of the poor. CBS, The Washington Post, other major newspapers...they are lost to the forces of corporate cutthroat capitalism which is a great friend of the Trump gang.

The thrill of the abuse, the power in the domination...he is not one to be trusted with any lives, certainly not the poor and the vulnerable in America.

Don't forget, Trump is fascist to his core, and that was said by his former Defense Sec. James Mattis, and his former Chief of Staff, Kelly. A fascist believes, not in a Constitutional Republic, not in democracy, but in one person rule, iron rule. Let us see if Trump lets a red state get away with rejecting his domination tactics.

I live in low income senior and disabled HUD financed housing, and I really do believe that the stats are truth telling. I went to a talk about senior housing in my city, and could have walked out after ten minutes, as we were told there are no options for senior assisted care that takes only Medicare. Not kidding.
We need national health care, and to deprive life saving care is murder...by the system.

Really nice to see that at least in some places in our country the DOJ is doing its job.

Of course Oregon is in the sights of the Trump gang. It went vote by mail and turned Blue, and even though it doesn't find itself in the middle of things when it comes to Presidential Elections, it still has two Senators, and so quite unpatriotically, the Trump conspiracy is all in on frightening the electorate when it comes to voting.

Extrajudicial killings of suspects is murder...International Criminal Court says.

Anything to get the pro wrestling fans to come out and vote for him in the midterms. He won't be on the ballot, but events like this unite the image of Trump and violence.

Going to be a long time of escalating Trump aggravations as he does what he can to frighten MAGA voters into showing up to vote even though he won't be on the ballot. He clearly doesn't care about America, at least he doesn't care about those at the lower third of the economic pyramid, that is for sure. He doesn't care about people losing their health care.

Good luck getting any part of the Trump coup, especially ICE, being brought to court. Civil judgement maybe, criminal charge...doubtful. Trump wants the violence and intimidation and humiliation. It is how he gets through his day laughing at the pain and fear he is causing.

Cannot have a far right coup without the media filtering the news in a way that seems to show the people are behind the violence and intimidation. Fox News, Russian News...same same.

I wouldn't bet that that ranger who allowed the statue to return keeps his job. I think that act of courage was stunning, in the face of the Trump coup.

There is always a war plan, and it has to be updated often...how will the enemy respond if we do this or that.
Russia knows how we will plan push back if war comes,
Odd that Trump is pretending to be a strongman, a Daddy figure, since he is almost always in the corner of the enemy if they come by and look him in the eye. He doesn't have a relationship with Putin, he was put in his place and he knows it.

Some people never come to terms with their need for a daddy to run their lives...and Roberts clearly is in tune with our Deal Leader in the White House.

What is the job of a President, of a Congress, if not to help the people, help them when in need of medical care, food needs, housing needs, educational needs...
But of course, America is in service to the Trump cult, not the other way around.