Trusting Putin is like trusting Trump...shows that one is either about five years old, mentally, or one is in on the grift.
Putin promised that Ukraine would be safe if they gave up their nukes...Putin is like Netanyahu, working to eliminate a neighbor state and put its citizens in concentration camps.

It is child abuse to withhold vital vaccines from a child.

I do wonder why Trump hasn't pardoned her by now. Sure, he would take a hit, ballot box wise, but then she could go off and not say anything to anyone ever again, or, I suppose she could tell the truth with no recriminations..oh right, that is why she cannot have a pardon right now.

How much is enough? How corrupted can a person be where they find out they can never return to being part of the whole, of humanity?

I certainly agree with the President of Portugal, who said that Trump is objectively a Russian asset. That being so, little of what Trump says is meaningful other than it is a statement from an enemy of our democracy and our right to protest and to assemble and present our grievances...to the one who does not listen.

At this point, cynics like me look at major moves in crypto and we look for the pump and dump scheme and look for who will profit...

Oregon is a Blue State with two very, very good Senators. When we went vote by mail, it freed up the people to vote, as they got their ballots weeks in advance, could do their research, could mail in their ballots and not have to worry about Election Day child care, or work, or health problems...

I am a veteran and one thing I would tell young people...these days there is no draft, so while one can volunteer for the military to be trained in a career field, if one volunteers for the combat infantry army, one will be risking one's life, alongside the children of other low income parents, to protect the safety of the very rich who will almost never volunteer to risk their lives to defend either America, or Americans.
Think Trump would change his ways and have his relatives risk their necks in combat arms?

White power South African style apartheid saw the right of the minority Whites to rule over the majority Blacks as okay with them, and using violence and ethnic cleansing...equally fine with them. That is what is happening in Israel, what Musk and Trump seem to be working toward in this country,,,certainly the rich live in a different America than the rest of us. All systems are set up to coddle them and to exclude us.

America is for sale, by someone who clearly is out to loot the treasury and every part of America he can. When the Soviet Empire fell, the oligarchs looted the treasury and grabbed pretty much everything that wasn't nailed down...and it sure does seem to me that Trump and his gang are doing the same thing.

Have to hand it to the Trump grifting gang, they first went after the law enforcement people, and then they went after the law makers, so now no one is left to protest Trump's criminal gang. Nixon was shunted out of office by a partisan bunch, no way that can happen now, unless he wants to head for the hills and lets Vance take over the Presidency so he can be pardoned for everything he has ever done, is doing, will ever do.
The last is the gift I imagine his corrupted Supreme Court will give him...even more immunity.

Trump doesn't have to run for 'reelection" so he can be as weird and disruptive as his dementia tells him to be. But down ballot, come the midterms, Republicans, they have to be hoping for Trump to retire, resign, whatever you call it, not be in the news night and day.

And they vote, and their family members vote, and Trump is clearly an out of control fellow human who is not in control of his faculties.

The world does need a friend, and if that person is the Pope...great, and that comes from an atheist.

Fascism can be defined as being cutthroat capitalism with concentration camps. If Trump "wins" another term, those camps will not be far behind. Fascism can also be defined as "the permanent rule of a tiny minority over the great majority using intimidation, violence, and total media gaslighting.
The Post is fascinating, in a dark sense, by being one of the major gaslighting outfits in major media land. As the FDR safety net gets dismantled, one SS check at a time, we will find ourselves blamed for being a bother to the rich and the Bezos, the Musk and the Trump...fascists.

And now comes Bad Bunny and all those comments about Spanish speaking "Americans", from the Trump MAGA gang...I would imagine Trump's election forecasts are going to get even worse.

And I don't even consider Oz the worst of the Trump appointments...this term Trump is going full on "hate America first", day in and day out. Has to be working for Putin and Russia.

These days the fascist Trump isn't even trying to hide the fact that he is pure animalistic fascist, yes, to his core. Problem for the Republican Party is if they are really and truly patriotic and want to oppose him, that most likely would lose them their jobs in Congress. And as Trump has shown, any member of our law enforcement organizations who are diligent and go after Trump or his gang...they and their families are threatened.
Dark times indeed.

Hooray for Poland...maybe they are free of the Trump gang's influence and can really and truly to a complete and thorough investigation. Goodness knows, with Bondi and Kash and the gang, the US is never going to get the truth, the whole truth...nothing but the truth.

Nah, if I ever got to vote on how to solve America's financial crisis I would be voting to greatly increase the taxes on the billionaire caste. Of course, that will never happen since those super rich people are able to buy off Congress and of course, many important pelicans at the state level.

Yeah, but think how thrilled his buddy Putin must be reading of whatever Trump has done in the last 24 hours, any 24 hours. They, people say, supported him and his grifting family for decades, until he could steal the Republican Party and help take down the American Empire.

American fascism is on the march in states all over the country, and this is another example of looking for ways to rig the votes so authoritarians always win...as in Russia.
Georgia, it had a surprising number of very brave election officials who ran a fair election in 2020, no matter the threats from Trump.

Most things in life I, finally, sooner or later, understand, but having lived through the terror of the 1950's and the polio horror, to be against vaccines as RFK Jr. is, is quite...not understandable. MAGA, this is all on you.

As an old man I do think about the world after my passing, but truth be told, I think I may have lived through humanity's heyday...the 1950-1965 years, when life was fairly simple, the air was cleaner, the water less polluted, and hope was in the air.
You give powerful military powers independent thinking drones that can control a battlefield and a city, you give people like Trump addicted to power and who are without conscience...and yeah, nanobots should creep us out.

As a veteran I wonder what their excuse is from discouraging veterans from using the VA medical system. We used to have same day appointments. now it takes weeks to see someone.