Ethnic cleansing ongoing since the Six Day War and clearly Netanyahu wants to turn the Occupied Territories into first a wasteland of dead Palestinians, then a paradise for the Settlers. We lost our honor when we allied with the fascism of modern day Israel, truth be told. I am a nobody from nowhere, so I can say that, the evil that is Israeli apartheid is allowed by the silence of the powerful.

Illegal war of aggression against a nation that is no danger to the US...well, being a mass murderer worked for Putin, it let him consolidate power, and now I suppose that is Trump's plan.

Buying votes ahead of the vital midterms...and ignoring the fact that with the trump insane tax cuts for the rich, we are one day fairly soon going to wake up in a bankrupt empire, the way the Soviets woke to find out that those senile criminals who had been leading them let the country go bankrupt. And at the end of our empire, there will be Putin laughing and laughing. He was able to destroy America the way America destroyed the Soviet Union.
Truth be told.

America is led by those who have no problem with extrajudicial murders of criminal suspects, an action that is illegal in each and every jurisdiction in America. So sure, rest of the world, take care of your honor, for America no longer has any, it is led by a grifting nightmare of a fascist, as both Mattis and Kelly said, repeatedly.

Well, the delay gave them time to sanitize the Epstein Files to take out the references to the billionaire caste, and certainly they found a way to make sure Trump is protected.

So let us just accept the facts that 1) America is bankrupt thanks to the Trump tax cuts for the billionaire caste, and 2) we are led by utterly corrupt gangsters who are out to protect themselves not the American people. As America's ability to pay its debt totally goes away, we are in a Ponzi scheme economy,, where we pay off the service of the debt, and pretend, like Madoff did, that nothing is wrong. The Soviet Union showed itself to be bankrupt when it couldn't pay the light bills for the military, but all in all the very rich under Putin made out like bandits as they looted the treasury and took over.
Sound like our Republican Party to you?

Child abuse intertwined with big money corruption...one expects fairly soon she will either be freed, and her extortion of the President ignored, or she goes back to a real prison, and the Epstein files disappear.

Our planet has been held hostage to the insanity of big oil domination, and the children being born today will pay the price for ignoring human caused global warming. Even Bill Gates a few days ago bent the knee to big oil and to ignoring how dangerous global warming is going to be, and in some places, already is.
We are led by corrupt fools out to enrich themselves on the bodies of the poor and the powerless. That is why our American political systems are failing, that is why our American medical and Dental systems are devolving.

American fascism has been on the march for a long time, it was just that the national media tending to ignore that fact. What were we doing in Vietnam, but killing a million fellow humans to support the super rich and their devotion to fundamentalist fascism, with its devotion to religion and imperialism? Kennedy and then Johnson had us support the far right Catholic minority in then South Vietnam, especially after the French were run out of the country.
And when Dick Cheney, the de facto President instead of w, had us invade and kill at a whim...to steal Iraqi oil, that wasn't fascism? Fascism is militarism and rightest domination of all for the good of the very few very rich...

Well, this is how Trump got elected, by demonstrating his clear hate of those with Black and Brown skins, for his devotion to the concept that the super rich should own everything, and have the best of everything and the people at the bottom should suffer and struggle and die many years before the Musk, Trump fascist gang.

Problem is, Trump is the physical symbol of American fascism, but behind the scenes people with billions of dollars are working like hell to make sure the Dems never get back into power. Musk put over 200 million dollars in a super pac to get Trump elected again, for instance.
Our elections are rigged big time, thanks to the idiots at the federal Supreme Court who pretend that money is speech. Actually, money is bribery.

Tax the billionaire caste until the poor have as good a medical system as the very rich. Then bring back the draft and have all citizens, male and female serve their country in order to be eligible for the new medical system. As it is, the inherited wealthy live as gods, and the poor live as permanent members of the refugee caste, in a country where shelter education and medical care are priced out of reach.

We are Ukraine, as it was when Yanukovych was President. He was a Putin stooge, and ran the country into the ground, and then with Putin's help was able to run away to Moscow. And a greatly weakened Ukraine was attacked by the mass murdering war criminal Putin.
Trump is our greatest enemy, and we elected him twice. Not sure what the future holds, but I do fear for our Constitutional Republic.

At this point, many of us out here are wondering if anyone is minding the store, rather than grabbing for all the grift they can get.

Hey, if idiots elect a human caused global warming denier, they have to expect losing a lot of the coastline,, expect more and more deadly storms taking apart homes...you have to expect more social unrest as the poor understand it is all a game, and the game is rigged so they lose, and if they are Black or Brown, they have to expect a uniformed someone pointing a weapon at them sooner or later.

He and his grifting family have influence peddled their way to untold billions, so I doubt that anyone in the Trump gang need worry about how to pay for Thanksgiving dinner, or paying the rent/taxes on any of the many homes they have.
We are about to find out what life in the Great Depression was like, unless we really do replace the Republican Party with the Democrats to get things done. One has to wonder just how the corrupt federal Supreme Court will rule over tariffs, as if they have to be paid back...economic disaster, but If they are allowed to stand, more Trumpian grifting manipulation of markets and former allies.

Take away my right to live and vote in a blue state, in this case, Oregon which has a vote by mail system, and you take away my freedom to express myself, and you take away my constitutional rights, as elections are mandated to be a state's right to determine.
But then, it is quite in keeping with the fascist right's adherence to the Putinesque scheme of creating a pretend democracy so the very rich can rule as gods, and we the poor can suffer and die without housing or health care or even keeping the right to elect our leaders.

And then maybe talk about the reasons that we poor die nine years before rich people. Maybe talk about the need for national health care, we need SNAP, we need more low cost housing...
Yeah, the fascists pretending to be leaders of our democracy are in reality leaders of those who want to bankrupt America so they can end SS and Medicare.
Trump is a Nipo who is spectacularly ignorant of the stresses of life on the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Clearly, American fascism has the intent of having the oligarch caste buy up all the national media, and shut down the independent voices that oppose the Trump gang. I am a low income person who subscribes to the Times because more and more, especially after Bezos castratied the Post, I see that my hope, my mental health, is linked to having a sense I live in a democracy, not a Putinesque pretend democracy.

There is stupid, but really, Trump is only pretending to be dumb, he knows that reducing radiation protections will kill people, but then, he knows human caused global warming is a great danger, and still he makes a lot of money supporting those who are polluting our air.
No such thing as a good Republican in the time of Trump...they are on board his dark and dangerous ship, and it is heading straight for the rocks of bankruptcy.

No matter, his grifting, influence peddling family will still make billions on is capricious ways...just give someone half an hour to invest on the internal news that the tariff decision goes against him, or some other significant legal decision affecting the stock market and they are set for life. He knows how to make a billion in a bankruptcy.

History will be the judge, if we don't blow ourselves up in the meantime. And history will show Trump to be the worst President the US has ever had, clearly a grifter out to loot the treasury, to enrich his billionaire caste by lowering taxes until the country is bankrupt, and then take away FDR's safety net.
Influence peddling is illegal, believe it or not.
So is extrajudicial killing of criminal suspects...both internationally and within each and every jurisdiction in America.

If Trump gets told that he overplayed his tariff hand, the money would have to be returned to...just who exactly?
As it is, Trump's major claim to fame is that he delivered a great big beautiful tax cut to his oligarch caste...and that was only possible with the money from the tariffs to offset the lack of taxes.
I wildly distrust this federal Supreme Court since he put three liars onto it, people who said they believed in settled law and all. I think one thing is certain, Trump will somehow profit and the poor will be screwed,,, that is the contract his administration has ON the poor and the powerless in America.

I am not a federal Supreme Court Justice, but I know that murder is murder, in every jurisdiction in these United States, to kill a criminal suspect in an extrajudicial way is in fact murder.

And I thought I totally distrusted the George W. Bush regime, compared to this Trump debacle, w was a genius and trustworthy as hell.