Republican greed partnered with billionaire greed and need for power...means the future will be hell indeed, for the poor of the world.

First term, Trump had Mattis and Kelly and so many other experts trying to keep him from screwing things up, but this time Trump decided to go with hiring people who would kiss his ring, or foot if that was what it took and so now this American empire is falling the same way that the Soviet Union's Empire fell, until it was bankrupt and led by a man, Gorbachev, who didn't believe in the Soviet Union.
Trump clearly only believes in his gangster empire, and he hates the concept of a one person, one vote Constitutional Republic.

Fascism is the final face of almost all far right capitalist regimes, and the US is not an exception. Israel is a fascist regime, though it likes to consider itself democratic...it just keeps millions of Palestinians locked up in the Occupied Territories. Hell, even Xi's China is a far right fascist regime, where a few rule over the many using fear, intimidation, and violence.

Remember when Trump and Hegseth stared down that entire room of flag rank admirals and generals, and Trump dared them to walk away? That was how fascism works, it destroys the will of those in charge to risk opposing the gangsters in charge.

Gee, you would think that there is no one in charge of satellite near earth orbits...
And there isn't.

Well, Trump is in strong competition. I remember when Nixon and Kissinger deliberately destroyed the 1968 Vietnam War Peace Talks, so they could strut into the White House blaming the Dems for the chaos of the war. Many American military people died in that war before Peace was attainable again, and of course, hundreds of thousands of fellow humans, Vietnamese and Cambodian, died just so the traitors Nixon and Kissinger could be in charge.

"Person of the Year", not "Man of the Year", opens up the candidate list quite a bit, at least for me. There are many wonderful people out here in the hinterlands doing great work feeding the homeless, working on finding ways to house those without homes or hope, fighting in Congress for the right of the poor to even have health care.
AI, isn't a person because it is a piece of software dedicated to taking away jobs from doctors, lawyers, teachers, coders...and so on, so the very rich don't even have to pay salaries to actual human beings.
Me, I think I would nominate Greta Thunberg.

We have a Mad King sitting in our White House, given all the keys to the Kingdom by the insanity of the MAGA vote. He is like Reagan was second term, not in charge of much of anything, letting people in the dark corners run America into the ground, and is not competent to do much of anything but run his mouth.

So Russia is appealing to legal authorities that laws need to be followed, they should be given the money...after their mass murdering psychopath of a leader, Putin, had Ukraine illegally invaded and thousands of its citizens killed or wounded.

Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas, and in this case, one also gets up with an inability to show one as being an independent actor in Congress. Once a MAGA, elected by their faithful, always a MAGA. Ask MTG.

If Putin ever was going to directly challenge NATO and take over part of Poland, the time would be now since one really, really distrusts Trump to order American troops into battle in Europe.

We are, in many ways, led by some good people but also a lot of truly criminal human beings.

Can one President override a previous President's pardon? I imagine a lot of people got rich and I imagine that extortion is behind some of the latest pardons, so could a President Newsom, say, override a Trump pardon?

If Congress allocates billions of dollars to be given to states for various funding needs, and Trump "steals" that money to use in his political campaign to somehow win the midterms, then hasn't a law been broken?
We could ask the federal Supreme Court, but of course, most of those people wear knee pads under their robes, so I guess the answer is, no, it is not against the law to use federal funds designated for one thing for one's political payoffs.