Both James Mattis, Trump's first term Secretary of Defense, and John Kelly, Trump's former Chief of Staff, said that Trump was fascist to his core.
And so we elected him again. Fascists rarely just leave power and head to the country to raise chickens and flowers.
We are clearly now a fascist nation, just as Russia is a fascist nation, just like North Korea.
We went into Iraq to steal oil, we went into Venezuela to steal oil, and....Epstein.

As many of us have been saying for years, the rich are doing what they can to return us to, first, the 1950's, and then the 1850's, when a few old rich white men owned it all.

Not sure what on earth good today's United Nations can do, since there is no such thing as holding the larger nations to accounts in regards to international law.
This darkness will spread, I am sure, and the world will once again dissolve into what happened just before both WWI and WWII exploded. All it will take is one nuke, one attempt to kidnap the American President or a member of his family...
The "law" is an illusion, when applied to the rich and powerful, both in regards to people like Musk, and in regards to rich nations like America or China.
And a world without "law" is just a jungle, with nukes.

Even Kafka would be looking at our culture today and scratching his head in dismay.

Says a lot about the state of affairs in America today, it is all for sale, and at the top of the corruption is...fundamentalist christianity.

Trump knows his gang, he knows what will get them to show up at the ballot box in a few months, and it involves hate and the joy of having power, unfettered, to mock those who are sick and dying.

An administration that pardoned the Honduran President for massive crimes involving importing hundreds of tons of cocaine into America now, with a straight face, saying it is perfectly legal for it to kidnap the leader of a foreign country to stand trial in the US. President of Panama Noriega was taken by the US and was convicted of major crimes...so there is precedent.

The Trump cult, and that is clearly what it is, is like the cult that took over Antelope Oregon, only pretending to care about democracy and the rule of law, at its core it has dangerous and corrupt people out to take from the poor to give to...themselves.
So linking a venue long labeled as a John Kennedy effort with the Trump cult can do nothing good for artists, for what the Kennedy Memorial stood for.
It would make for fine public ceremonies if the Dems take over everything in 2028 and all the Trump cult perversions are torn down, as were the Saddam statues.

Misogyny is so embedded into our American culture, into the many fundamentalist religions like Catholicism, Mormonism, much of the Baptist world, that one can only hope we are heading to a future where gender is as relevant as shoe size...
I so wish her well.

Putin, Trump's mass murdering buddy, somehow is seen as a legitimate leader who needs to have his perspectives honored. It is like Ted Bundy running things.

What if it comes out that Trump really has dementia, and he is staying in office because he is so valuable to the far, far right...be is totally a tool of those at his elbow. Think Reagan at the halfway point of his second term...when the country was run from the shadows.
Should be a crime...but these days, the law is the property of the rich, as it is in Russian.

Who owns the large corporations, at the corporate board level, but the very rich and the very...fearful.

It is how almost all Empires fall, from the inside, as great wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands until the inherited wealth oligarchs are the new royalty, and the people stop caring about a government that doesn't care about them.
Think Soviet Union, created out of the chaos of WWII, by Stalin so that Russia would be surrounded by prison states, like East Germany, so Russia would never again face a danger like the Nazis.
Our national independent media is being rapidly being taken down and replaced by propaganda machines for the rich...we humans are frighteningly vulnerable to passionate propaganda.
We elected a clear fascist to be the national leader...twice. Makes me, on my more dark days, mourn, not for the past, but for our future.

The Democratic Party needs to listen and learn, and understand that it must return to being a "big tent" party, honor those who have like views on Constitutional freedoms and demands. That means losing some votes of those who see America as a haven for white nationalists, christian supremacists...and gaining a lot of votes of people who will take the trouble to turn out at election time to support politicians who care about them and their needs and kids.
I am an atheist, but would cheerfully vote for the Christian politician/preacher James Talarico...personal faith helps a person unite with others, and who cares just what rituals that faith includes? We have been divided for far too long by those fundamentalists who love the power and wealth that making everyone bend a knee to them brings to them.

Ah yes, Hoover. One wonders what he would have done to wake one day, as head of the FBI, and found that his President was Trump, a man with a really dark past. It was said that Hoover was not above blackmailing important people, and he would have had a lot to work with with Trump, is my guess.

No, the traditional independent media didn't fail us, many of them had to try and exist under new regimes of super rich fat cat rich men and women who want CNN, or MSNow, or the other independent voices to be stilled, and then loudly be a propaganda tool for the rich, like Musk, and the utterly undemocratic, like Trump.
Big business rules from the corporate boardrooms, and they stand for no elections that the poor and powerless can vote within.

Imagine someone taking Ted Bundy's side and defending his murders, saying we will never have peace if we keep on trying to get those mass murderers to court. Putin is just such a mass murdering psychopath, who invaded a friendly country, killed many thousands of innocent people, so he could steal land. To make peace with him is to say murder if a fine and dandy way to get your way.

Trump wanted to make a point, as to his power to dominate, to intimidate, and to do that he simply stole a political party, the Republican Party. To get elected as a Republican one has to show the Civil War South that they are true white supremacists, hate Black people, hate women in power, and are at the same time totally devoted to setting the rich up high as inherited wealth royalty in America. Trump fit the bill, and he has proven his right to call himself, privately, a fascist.
So now we have a wildly incompetent leader who cares only about himself and taking from the poor to enrich the rich, and along the way, humiliate women in power or Black People in power, or, for that matter, independent media.
Trump is pure narcissist and he is a danger to our Constitutional Republic.

America deliberately had immigration policies that allowed for a porous border, as after the Bracero program was stopped in 1964, workers were hard to find. And now, those hard working people are being penalized.
Yes, the American people want and demand strong borders, but at a minimum, the Dreamers need a path to citizenship.
And yes, President Biden should have been far, far more devoted to protecting the borders. He was warned it quite possibly would allow Trump back in, I remember one member of the press really hammering him on that point, and so now...here we are.
Admit all sides are at fault, but stop the violence and intimidation. Tell employers that they will be financially penalized if they hire undocumented immigrants, and everyone move on.

Democracy cannot exist, really, if elections and politicians can be bought off. Look at how Musk poured over $200 million to get Trump elected...
We don't allow defendants to pay off jurors, and we should't let the rich create an oligarchic pretend democracy here in America, as they did in Russia.

I sit here, an American citizen, and wonder how long it will be before they come after the rest of us, for the crime of speaking out, for opposing the dictator...
Think Alexei Navalny, Russian patriot who was imprisoned many times for opposing Putin.

Freedom of speech, of assembly, of being able to petition our government for a redress of grievances...all that and more is guaranteed to us in our Constitution.
Not in Bondi's constitution apparently.

Stupid is as stupid does...and MAGA and its leader, Trump, are champions of stupid. Nations that control firearms lower their deadly crime rates. I hope that one day in the not so distant future we actually elect people to high office to help us survive global warming...the stupidest thing we are doing to ourselves is letting Trump stop wind, wave and solar sustainable power.
So many mass murders...is that what MAGA wants?
You drop a heavy weight to the street below, you cannot later say you didn't intend hurting people...you make weapons of war easily available to the lost and despairing...the. doors of hell open up.

To be the enemy of America's independent media is to be an enemy of our Constitutional Republic and its guaranteed freedoms, such as freedom of speech.