I am certain of one thing, remembering Trump's ginning up the violence to attack the Capitol Building on January 6, to stop the counting of Electoral Votes by forcing Pence to obey or be hanged, Trump and his horrible gang of grifters won't go quietly. It is doubtful, but if the Dems take back both the House and the Senate there will be hearings, there will be impeachments, there will be hell to pay for the destruction of the East Wing...

Pressuring Ukraine to surrender all that land, that so many brave men and women died fighting to defend, so that Trump can both give his friend Putin a win, and also give Putin a way to take the rest of Ukraine in a few years when he has rebuilt his demolished military.
I am ashamed of the cowards who run our government.

Our greatest stupidity is electing human caused global warming deniers. People like Trump are a great danger to our civilization.

One has to admit that this version of the Republican Party has made the decision easier than at any other time in recent political history. Trump is dividing us one from another, he is daily alienating us from our historical allies, and he is encouraging the mass murdering psychopath Putin to keep it up since Trump has told Ukraine to surrender a third of the country.
The Republican Party is about the rich and the powerful, but they don't have the numbers to win elections, so they have, for a long time, used the "southern strategy" of Lee Atwater to get out the racist white southern and midwestern vote.
Was always thus, will always be thus, until the far right finally destroys our democracy and we are a pretend democracy with a gang running the show, a gang of billionaires.

Just a reminder that those tariffs on Chinese goods, come from American pockets, not Chinese.

One imagines she has powerful leverage on Trump and his cult...if she were to really "spill the beans" even his cult might be ready to support someone else.

"Thrown out of office" because he expressed his opinions according to his conscience. If one is in the employ of the people, they are not in employ of Donald Trump. The Republican Party has been destroyed, it is not an organization of people who care about the country and about democracy, they are to care about the care and feeding of one person, the cult leader.

People ask why, but for me the real question is who, as in who the hell is running this government if Trump is not. Aren't we in another Reagan time, when the President rambles on endlessly, but behind the scenes others are doing it all, including dropping off billions to foreign nations for no good reason at all.
Hope Melania is not doing what Nancy Reagan did.

I am old, same age as Trump, but unlike Trump I care about America and its future, both as a democracy, and as a home for the many who are at the bottom of the income pyramid.
I have given up that in the few years left to me I will see a government at the national level that is dedicated to reason and kindness and health for all. We are dominated by a Republican Party aching, just aching, to take from the poor to the give to the rich. When the core of today's Republican Party is full on racist misogynistic bullies, little will be done.

This country was founded by men, many of whom owned fellow humans as beasts of burden. Those rich men who founded this country saw women as incapable of doing much but cooking, clearing and bearing children. So sure, originalism is taking us back to barbaric times. The Republican Party is composed of, run by, mostly men who view the income inequality as being right and "godly".

National Health Care divides the trustworthy industrial countries from those countries, actually, that country, that cannot be trusted as they harm their own citizens. We are the only industrialized nation not to have some sort of national health care for all.

Trump is a perfect example of why the Civil Rights Act is still needed, he gins up racial hate to get votes and political power.

Supreme Court Fundamentalist fanatics will most likely give Trump the midterms by overturning most of the Civil Rights Act that remains.

Not in my name. Extra judicial killings of suspects is murder, whether it is done on the street in NYCity, or in the open ocean.

Again, if the feds want to make a strong point, the best way to do that is to hold large employers to the law, and fine or arrest those who break the law. America intentionally had a porous border after the Bracero Program was stopped in 1964, otherwise crops wouldn't have been picked.
Or, of course, farm employers could have paid more for legal immigrants and citizens to do the work, but those coming through that porous border didn't cause trouble, they didn't cause field strikes.

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.