And Putin thought Ukraine was a ----- cat. It turned out to be willing to fight and perhaps die on the hill of independence from Russian gangsters.
Still, chaos works for Trump, as does that darkness that comes in the night and takes away your job, your housing, your food, and along the way it creates deadly wars all over the place.

So If I have a personal religion that says women are second class citizens so I don't have to hire or treat them with respect, is that ok? Can I refuse to hire Christians, or people who refuse to kiss my ass?

We all know the urge to just unload as the frustrations build up and build up, had the same urge yesterday myself. But I have learned that the next day usually reveals my need to apologize, so kept it to myself. But hey, what is the fun of being a fascist if you have to think of other people, and other days?

Stupid exercise in going along to get along, at the right time.
This morning I did turn the clocks back, but my computer and other links refused to do so, which kind of messed with my head at 3am.

No such thing as a good Republican in the time of Trump, for they have to support his march to total control, putting incompetent people like Patel and Kennedy in charge of American power centers. Sure, at least for the time being, we are screwed, and those who protest are seen as the enemy of the coming fascist state.

A democracy cannot slip to being an autocratic fascist gang unless the independent media is intimidated and shut down. That is clearly happening in real time as the billionaire oligarchs like Bezos buy off the media and turn it into just another tool of the far right.
A democracy has to have two independent political parties both dedicated to the rule of law and one person, one vote democracy. The Republican Party has been lost to Trumpian fascism...so there is that.
A democracy has to have an independent legal system, and as exemplified by the Roberts court, far right fascism is seen as originalism, and the rich have the right of representation and the poor have the right to suffer.

Well, when you elect a clear fascist to be President, you have to expect his hand in everything, the way Al Capone's hand would have run things including the legal system.

The surprising thing is that this particular opportunity for Republican Party corruption in alliance with the Russian super wealth was stopped. Who on earth this guy was a good candidate for that post?

The NDA also hinder high ranking officers from publicizing what they regard as illegal orders to invade without cause...that is a war of aggression and is illegal under UN standards, not that Trump cares a tiny bit about the UN and other nations.

It is probably even money that the federal Supreme Court will support Trump using federal troops in a Martial Law way. All Trump needs is a few fires and something he can declare as an insurrection. Scary times indeed.

And so we watch the ruling class, one by one, bend a knee to their lord and master...the king of Grifters...Donald John Trump.

Oh, come on. Would Jesus have protested Trump, or would he have simply joined in the line with his palms outstretched?
The Republican Party churches honor on their altar greed and mercilessness...and that is a fact. When has the Pope actually joined in a protest against the evil of the Crypto grifting gangster Trump?
And yeah, I am an atheist, words are useless against a force of darkness like Trump.

Yeah, well, he resembles nothing so much to me as that NYCity gangster who pretended to be crazy to avoid prison. Trump isn't crazy, he just doesn't care to toe the line when the line is drawn by a woman. He is even more misogynistic than he is racist.

Promises, promises.

Cheap vote, sort of protection for a few of the Republicans in tough races, because they all know the House would never allow a vote, and Trump would veto anything.

Well, the CIA did gin up an attack against an American destroyer, that got Congress to vote in war powers for the President and got over a million people dead in Vietnam.
We did have a President, Nixon, who, along with the great evil Kissinger, traitorously got the South Vietnamese government not to attend the 1968 Peace talks so Nixon and Kissinger could strut into the White House, and so there have been and are people who would consider the lives of fellow humans, including American fighting personnel, to be expendable for power.

A nepo of a nepo is the ruling class. They have it all, the children at the bottom have to understand that the day that they could work one job and it would pay for a family and a house...gone for most.

Pretty much everything I guy for the table has gone up a lot in price. Could be one day I will have to make a choice, eliminate chocolate, which is rising rapidly or keep chocolate and eliminate oat meal.
I bet coffee addicts are looking the the price rise of coffee and are wondering how they are going to manage living on coffee but no meat.

Trump is a fascist, and he needs a dark and dangerous enemy to scare the American people with, and he cannot use American African Americans, so immigrants are the target.
Truth be told, the best way to secure the borders from undocumented migration, if indeed that is what this country wants, is to penalize employers, not harass the poor and powerless workers.
America has had, for years, a porous border, for economic reasons...it needed the workers. Now, it is telling people who have been in America for decades that they have to leave.
Americans deserve to have strong border policy, but both political parties let things slide.

Sooner or later, they will be coming for you and I, if we continue to think that we have the right to expression is this country, if we still think we have the right to assemble and petition our government for a redress of grievances. As it is, I am seeing more and more people afraid to speak their minds on electronic media, even in a private capacity.
American fascism is on the march in America and at first the dying will be overseas, then, if another Jan 6 happens to stop the midterms...it will happen here.
"Four dead in Ohio...".

Oregon was the first state to have full on vote by mail for all elections, local as well as federal. The voters said they wanted it, and for Trump to try and negate the will of the voters...shows how right Trump is about rich and greedy people trying to rig the election, but the conspiracy involves Trump and his grifty gang.

Bend a knee once, he owns your ass. That is how fascism works.

SNAP benefits go to poor people, but within the economy they go to stores and ultimately, farmers. We live in country that pretty much, at the highest level, doesn't care. It doesn't care that the poor live 9 fewer years than rich people, it doesn't care to support public education adequately, , and apparently it doesn't care how many people go hungry.

But the stock market is doing well, seems that is what America really cares about, the home of rich money.

And if one gets the flu shot and several other vaccines, one has a much lower chance of getting dementia. Kennedy is the worst appointment Trump has ever made, and that includes his three federal Supreme Court employees of the Trump conspiracy.

Competent people know competence and dedication to duty and to the welfare of all, and I have trouble thinking of even one person Trump has nominated or hired who was anything but a subservient tool to the Trump grand conspiracy of elevating him and disempowering the poor and the powerless.