So this is what the Russians were feeling when they woke from their elections and saw that their country was run from the shadows by goons and goblins of the Putin gang. It does hurt to watch so much of our media get taken over and corrupted by big money, outlets like CBS once were the gold standard for independent reporting.

All this stupidity can be laid at the feet of MAGA, they helped reelect a man clearly in Russia's grip, serving as an ally of Putin, and with each insane day Trump has weakened the US, divided us one from another, and from our international allies.

It was all over but the shrieking the day that Israel deployed its hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and aimed them at the Arab states that opposed its apartheid ways. Sooner or later, that insane asylum will explode and take the whole world with it to kingdom...gone.

Jared is just a punk underling in the Trump/Putin make billions while destroying America gang.

Fire and forget drones are being used in the Russian war of aggression against its once friendly neighbor, Ukraine. Now add in AI intelligence and decision making...and sooner or later, Judgement Day, though the morning after Trump got reelected, it felt like Judgement Day for a lot of us, and American had fallen to greed and ignorance and Russian assets.

Two things.
First, as a Vietnam Veteran, I am old enough to respect vital, sincere feeling of others who woke up earlier than I that that war was in idiotic expedition in imperialism, the Vietnamese people did not want us there, they wanted Uncle Ho. So if Bill Clinton or Bush sought an exemption...in that war, at that time, that was an honorable thing to do. It was also honorable to serve if that is how one saw things, as I did.
Now, WWII, a full on war against fascism, it would have been a different thing.
Second, Trump is clearly, as the President of Portugal said of him "objectively, a Russian asset".
There is no excuse for voting for Trump that second time, he had shown who he was during the insurrection of 2021.

Iran is not America's enemy, we invaded Saddam's Iraq pretending that he had something to do with 9/11, and we are going to attack and kill Iranians because...we want to steal their oil again.
Well, that and the fact that Israel has somehow become our 51st state and its apartheid policies are now our policies.

Capitalism is devolving along with our culture and government...and the consumer is the rube.

To repair the damage will require massive firings of the people Trump installed to be able to rule as dictator, and that is only possible if both the midterms and the 2028 elections go against the MAGA conspiracy.

American justice compared to UK justice. Here, in the US, the guy with the most to divulge gets dead. His female partner gets 20 years, though apparently she is near to getting a pardon from her good friend, the Trump part of the Trump/Epstein files collection of rich people porn.
In the UK, justice follows the law...One wonders if they in the UK will demand all the unreacted files as well.

Now here is a nightmare scenario...Alito resigns, Vance is nominated/appointed to his seat, Rubio is then appointed VP, only needs a majority vote in both Houses of Congress. Then Trump resigns, as Nixon resigned, and Rubio automatically ascends to President and pardons Trump for each and every grift ever, and pardons Trump's family and the entire gang, and then it isn't Trump in the new come the midterms, or the 2028 elections, it will be "good cop' Rubio.
Makes sense to me, though the Republican Party might find Trump not amenable to heading for the hills.

One wonders if anyone is able to keep tabs on the grift over the Trump administrations...goodness knows I am not. Being the same age as Trump, I am fine with understanding that aging is a bear and one needs to relax and let younger brains take over...younger as in sixty or so. So wish we had age limits on running for the Presidency.

Democracy allows, no...it insists, that there be at least two independent political parties keeping the other in check. Anyone who says that what I just wrote is a problem is a problem for our Constitutional Republic.

I am still working on the words "billionaire heir"...and am pretty much in agreement with the statement that what will be written on the tombstone of our democratic America will be the words "killed by the inherited wealth royalty that abandoned democracy for fascism".
Tax all billionaires at the 90% rate...great wealth is a great danger.

Blackmail is a dangerous game...if one were to indulge in such an activity, one might be fearful unless one were in federal custody, with cameras and guards...oh wait.

Yeah, the Russian oligarchs looted the Russian treasury as the Soviet Empire fell, too.

Let's ask some of the enemies of America who fought us and beat us, if having a lot of women in their combat forces were a hindrance, you know, like the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese. Patriotism is not necessarily a male thing.
War is evil, it should be encouraged to...die.

Whoever advised MTG to reverse course...kind of a remarkable thing to watch, a person work publicly, to redeem themselves from past stupidities.
Nice to see and hear. Hope it lasts.

In case anyone thinks this is a novel situation we face with an out of control President and Executive Branch composed of the most incompetent people in America...I remind you of the sixties, when we listened to far right John Birchers in the Kennedy administration who got us mired in an imperialist war against the people of Vietnam, and inside America, we were divided one from another, all so corrupt people like Kissinger and Nixon could...strut about hurting people for speaking their minds.
Four dead at Ohio...two dead in Minnesota...one hopes the voters have had enough come the midterms.
Just never depend on the Republican Party to do the right thing...more often than not...they will not.

And only about half the story has been told of Epstein and how he accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars from big money and big banks. I get corruption, grifting Trump style, but I am honestly surprised at how many super rich powerful men got caught up in the nightmare called Trump/Epstein.

And many people like me, oldsters, will sicken and die if effective vaccines are not available.
You know the weird thing, there are a lot of MAGA Americans out there who will keep on voting for the idiots who are destroying their country, just because, I imagine, Trump hates the same people they do.

We need to be clear, what is happening in our America has been happening all over the globe, as great wealth concentrates in a few greedy and grifty hands, they work to corrupt the legal systems and then the political systems of country after country. Some countries lose to fascism, think Russia, but that doesn't mean the heroes who fought valiantly, like Alexei Navalny, were wrong, it just means that hate sometimes wins over democracy.
We may lose our democracy, and damn MAGA for what they are doing.

Reasonable suspicion, meaning, if they have Black or Brown skin, if they speak English with an accent? See, that is in fact racial profiling.
Give us a break, this is all harassment of Blue people in Blue states to try and keep down the vote for the Democratic Party come midterms.
Everything else that ICE says at this point is hooey.
Americans expect and deserve strong and secure borders. Not sure what hassling people hundreds of miles from a border is about but making political points. Yes, America has had porous borders for many decades, get over it, give those folks here a pathway to citizenship, and move on.

All this does bring up the question of who do politicians answer to? If Congress passes a law that mandates an administration release certain files...does the President have to follow the law? Do his staff? Of course, I think the law is for all, but apparently a lot of people in the Trump grifting gang think otherwise. Should ask the Supreme Court if their mandates are actually law if no one will enforce them, as in no one in the Trump gang.