Well, Trump has a choice to make, he needs to decide if he is going full on fascist, and turns his MAGA horde loose on the polls in Blue cities. Or he can just ride it out, and no matter what happens on Nov 3, he can always resign and have the new President, Vance, pardon him, his gang, and then they all can go to...Mar a Lago.

Some people can resist the siren's call of corruption and perversion when their bank accounts get huge...and some just use the wealth to show exactly what is going on in their hearts.

One wonders just how far the MAGA right will go to make sure they control the House...and to keep the White House in 2028.
I have grown so cynical that I just figure Putin is another of Trump's advisors, and so whatever happens will divide us one from another and from our international allies.
Would a full on ground war with Iran be a big enough excuse for Martial Law to be declared?
I notice I post more these days, partially because I honestly fear that our right to express ourselves will be curtailed soon, as independent voices are shut down in Russia. We are losing more and more places to express ourselves. And big money is buying up more and more outlets...

I do hope the 2028 elections are held as scheduled, and Newsom runs in the primaries,, along with many other experienced and courageous Democrats, so the country can hear what those who cherish democracy and the rule of law sound like.
In contrast to the Miller/Trump gang, or the Miller/Vance gang....

Good thing the investigation is not going on in the US, as our legal system is so corrupted by big money and Trump that one could be pretty sure the guilty would go free and those who pointed out the astoundingly massive money laundering would be harassed terribly.

I have learned so much about my country, America, and its Constitution and its legal system, especially how the Supreme Court could get so corrupt so fast, thanks to the two Trump administrations.
Wish I trusted my federal government even a little bit...wish I really thought they had the best interests of those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Long ago, I recognized that the Trump administration is run by people who act in the best interests of themselves, as a grifting gang, and of those who are their patrons. So, when Trump does stuff that is to Putin's advantage, I just figure it is more of Trump dividing us one from another and from our historic allies, like Canada and the UK. We are led by people who really, really don't care.

Well, if nothing else, she just showed the world why Trump is distracting the country, the world, at the cost of lives, in order to, yes, protect his friends.

Well, Bezos couldn't give a bribe directly to Donald Trump, at least I think that is still illegal, but with this Supreme Court who knows?

Years ago, when Trump started his grifting Presidency, I said that it felt like American fascism was being encouraged by him. Now, it is clear that American fascism is on the march, in each and every MAGA stronghold, and I fear that includes the Supreme Court as well.

And who does the chaos help, and who does it hurt? This is just a repeat of the insane Nixon Presidency, when students were murdered by National Guard troops at Kent State, and the far right ginned up as much hate for fellow Americans as it could.

I am old and yet have never seen such a disconnect between the people and their needs and the conduct of the Republican political class bending a knee to the oligarchs.

We are led by greedy grifting thugs...at least that is how I see today's Republican Party under Trump. They are intent on taking from the poor, including health care and enriching the rich...so those aforenamed rich can send them millions of dollars of support through Pacs.

What good is MAD, mutually assured destruction, without being able to drop a few nuclear bombs on one's enemy? Goodby Moscow, it was nice to know you and your pretend democracy....is that what the future holds for our "civilization"?

Truly, it feels like Trump and Musk and the others at the top of the economic pyramid have a unified vision for America in the coming decades, and it involves people like them living as inherited wealth royalty, as they control the markets, and the political world, and the poor...not sure where we fit in the coming Ai debacle and software and robots work for peanuts and for the profits of our betters
A child of a poor man deserves exactly the same good education and medical care as a child of the unbearably rich...and if that isn't possible then he rich do not deserve to rule.

And even if peace prevailed, thanks to the idiots who let Trump get away with his "human caused global warming is a hoax" we on this planet are just plain screwed not matter what happens militarily.

Filed in Federal Court means, ultimately it gets reviewed and decided by the corrupt Trump Supreme Court?

Murder is murder, and the angle of the shooting from the phone of Stella Carlson showed clearly that two agents waiting until he had been disarmed before they executed him.
And don't forget this has an audience of two...Trump and his patron Putin. Putin wants chaos in America, wants us divided one from another and from our allies, so when Trump is being boxed in and the media is full of conflict...it serves Putin's hateful agenda totally.

Why yes, we are in great risk of losing our democracy to white power fascists, as big a danger as we faced when Nixon and Kissinger ran the country into the ground and four students were murdered by National Guard stormtroopers in 1970.
And no, National Guard people can be wonderful servants of the people but under the control of deadly bullies, innocent people die.

First rule of being a Trump servant...kissing his ass is mandatory, no matter the time, no matter the subject, no matter the idiocy. First rule of being a competent servant of the people in service to the Constitution, being an independent agent is essential, not being an all kisser essential.
So we see the problem here, she is unqualified for her job to serve us, she is only qualified to kiss his ass.

Murderous ethnic cleansing by any other name...

Why yes, our Executive Branch is run by a Putin ally, who is also a dyed in the wool fascist...and that comes from both his former Secretary of Defense and his former Secretary of State...oops, sorry, his former Secretary of State called him a moron, his former Chief of Staff was the one who called Trump a fascist.

How insane does our leadership on the national level have to be to get us out of an organization devoted to the survival of fellow human beings?

One remembers the CIA actions in regards to LSD and other drugs, torturing American 'subjects' in order to find the best way to torture people. One wonders who is being tortured these days.