He is doing a great job, of, what the President of Portugal said, being "objectively a Russian asset".

I really doubt that this old guy will ever respect the Republican Party again, ever. They knew full well who Trump was, what he was doing, but instead of risking their jobs they bent a knee, and kissed anything and everything trump demanded they kiss.

Beyond disgusting...a show of power, the fascist dictator wannabe forcing some people in the arts to bend a knee. He knows how disruptive all this is, he loves hating on intelligent New Yorkers, who hate him.

Courage is always inspirational, and Powell really is a hero. Trump wants what is best for him and his economic gang.

Cuba would be nuts to trust any deal with Trump..he is totally, and I mean totally, in the camp of the Cuban immigrants located in Florida. They won't be satisfied until America runs Cuba no matter the cost of American lives.

Trump punks ratcheting up the pressure to allow fascist ICE attacks on the peace and sovereignty of a state.

American fascism has been looking at American military power for decades, lusting for the dream of worldwide domination and intimidation. When the Republican Party morphed into MAGA, that opened the door to evil itself, in all its Jackbooted glory.

The Pope is right.
And when and if Trump orders American military to invade a NATO power to steal land and wealth, you will see illegal orders being given, and if followed, American officers at risk for arrest.

You build up an massive military, the largest by far of any nation, or group of nations, you have to expect that sooner or later the fascists, lusting for power and domination, will take over that military and turn it into MAGA on the march, to kill for supremacy and to loot whatever is not nailed down.

Epstein...one wonders if this increasing war mongering from MAGA and Trump is just his way of forcing America to stop looking at the Epstein files. And if you ever want to see what an illegal order, given to American troops looks like, look at the orders when and if Trump orders America to invade and occupy a NATO allied land.
Any officer who follows those orders is liable under military law.

But the stock market is doing well?
So the rich, as they plunder the land, as Trump takes from the poor and enriches the rich with unsustainable tax cuts, the rich are doing well. They don't hold jobs, they hold inherited wealth..

At this point, any rational, intelligent person understands that we are under the "rule" of an Executive Branch run by a criminal. Nothing he says is trustworthy, nothing he does can be seen as good for the country. It is an accident if he does something that is useful to all, for he is in it for the grift, and he and his family have made billions, billions, on influence peddling alone.
If it looks like he will lose the midterms he will either declare Martial Law and try to stop the elections, or he will resign to let his toy poodle, Vance, pardon him and his gang from anything and everything, whenever.

If the Dems win the House back in the midterms...and Mike Johnson is gone, then hearings can be held.

MAGA looked into the mirror when it went to the polls, and they elected their hero, the, to his core, fascist criminal Trump. Trump will never change, he is pure gangster, as Roy Cohn advised him to be, and along his way to power Trump has corrupted our American legal system, certainly the Supreme Court, and so if reason returns to Congress and the courts, of course he will be impeached, and then, no longer immune, he will be...okay, not tossed from office. That would take the Senate, and one doubts for that body to return to reason any time soon.

The war we should be fighting...against human caused global warming.
The war we are fighting...against our own Constitution, led by the clear fascist Trump.
In order to win, our Executive Branch needs to lose.

So, what has damaged American democracy more...the Nixon administration or the Trump administration? Since the Trump fascist machine has three years to ruin America, I figure it won't even be close at the end, because we may find ourselves being Russia, with a pretend democracy by 2028.
Anyone who voted for Trump to get him into office the second time knew full and well they were putting a fascist at the head of the government.

Kiss the ass of a fascist abomination leader, don't be surprised you end up covered in crap for the rest of your life.

Ultimately, fascism requires a stupid, stupefied populace, and that means science and history and sociology and the rest must to away, to be replaced by...oh hell, just watch the Harry Potter series and watch how everything was changed as the murderous fascist Voldemort took over. Harry Potter is a work of fiction, but it is solid in its warnings.

Democracy can only flourish when good and competent men and women "toss their hat" into the ring and there is a full and vital primary season. I look forward to the next few elections if indeed the Democrats offer their best ideas and people.

Just another sign that just like the sixties, each and every America has to be prepared to vote their conscience, and support those who defend our Constitutional Republic from people like Nixon and Kissinger, then, and Trump and his gang now.
Democracy is about standing your ground, even if that ground turns out to be a hill you will lose your job, or family unity, upon.

Secretary of American Fascism...says what? Do they really want to face Mark Kelly in the coming 2028 Presidential elections?

If it were me, I would be finagling behind the scenes to have Vance agree to the following plan: Once I, the President, resign, for health reasons, he automatically rises to President, at which point he pardons me, my family, my entire massive gang of grifters and insurrectionist, and then Vance agrees not to run again for President and the Republican Party has a full primary season and somehow find a non-Trump rational person to run for office.
It is what Nixon did though they first had to fire their sitting VP, Agnew, and have the party hack, Gerald Ford, become VP and then President.

If anyone in America earned the right to stand tall and express himself forthrightly, it is someone who served for many years and retired.

Wait until Trump and his gang...for that is what an American military officer becomes when it follows illegal orders, take over Greenland and absolutely wreck NATO.

You elect a fascist to run your democracy, don't be surprised if along the way during his Presidency he takes a wild turn to the insane...and being a world class grifter, make a million stops along the way to enrich the rich and impoverish the poor.

A few big powers rule our lives, and probably our futures, if we have any. At the top of the list is "big oil", they are the ones, I am sure, who grease the Trump gang's palms with enough wealth to have them try to destroy wind and wave and solar power so greenhouse gas producing oil dominates the energy outlook.