There is no "cure" for capitalism, it lies through its teeth so that it can turn Americans into frightened indentured servants to be fired at will when a robot or piece of software can do their jobs. If you trust Musk or Trump or any of the MAGA billionaires, and you are poor...you are a fool. Soon America will be too bankrupt to fund fully social security or Medicare, that is the absolute truth.

Either Trump destroys the rule of law in America, as Putin has done in Russia, or he faces great risks of impeachment if the Dems take back Congress. So here we are, indulging in an illegal war of aggression against Iran, a nation not a danger to the US in the least, and our ally is the nuclear power Israel, and the war is to stop Iran from getting such nuclear weapons, which it doesn't to have an is willing to agree not to develop them.
Fascists love wars of aggression...wonder if Trump would actually dare attacking both Iran and Cuba at the same time.

Ah yes, of course, Trump is being used by the Russian fascists...but make no mistake about it, today's Republican Party is about Trumpianism, in spades. They want to have a pretend democracy, like Russia has, where taxes are cut until they are barely noticed by the oligarchs and the corporate boardrooms where American business is really run, who it is run for.

Ah yes, the rule of law...one remembers when America was run by such a concept, where there were consequences for the rich and powerful for killing, stealing, insurrection....
In today's America, there is no rule of law for rich people, just for the poor. If you have enough billions, you can buy Congress, you can, like Musk, buy the Presidency for Trump, but if you are struggling along with social security, and watching the approaching cutting of benefits thanks to the Trumpian gang not giving a damn about you...

Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, those mentioned many times in the Trump/Epstein files are making plans for their next Republican fund raiser. I have little doubt Trump will, after the midterms, if they really do go against him and the Republican Party, pardon Maxwell, name Vance to the Supreme Court, put Rubio in as VP, and have Rubio automagically become President when Trump resigns, and then Rubio can pardon the entire criminal gang of Trump's, and Trump.
Why do I think that will happen? Because that is what I would do, and having lived through the Nixon years, watched that strategy work to keep a President out of court.

I do not know if James Mattis or John Kelly drink, but I would imagine times like these, when Trump threatens to cause a wildfire of war, that reminds Mattis and Kelly of their time keeping Trump mostly rational...and if they indulge...they shake their heads and take a sip and look to the skies imploring fate to let us survive as a democracy.

Too bad that the first organizations that Trump corrupted were the investigative services, and if they weren't mandated to be quiet about their activities, I am sure the CIA has been greatly weakened as well. You can buy a whole hell of a lot of grift, as in influence peddling, for one and a half billion crypto bucks.
Crypto is a threat to the dollar, when all is said and done, if it were me, I would be looking to make sure it had many more people regulating it.

Even if the coming elections go the Dems way, Trump will be influencing congress and certainly the courts. Lawsuit after lawsuit will have to be resolved, and it is conceivable that Trump has another three years, if he doesn't resign, to really screw things up.

Statistics are clear on the matter, if you bring a firearm into a household, the people most at risk from that weapon are people living in the house. When people lived miles from each other and getting their own food supplies was essential, owning a single shot weapon made sense. But in this wildly stressful world, having a loaded semiautomatic rifle within reach, when people lose their tempers and judgement, lives are lost.
Not to mention dogs are shot if they are worthless as hunting dogs...

I suspect there are a lot of Americans like me, who watched those tariffs run daily costs from small items like my daily fix of good dark chocolate to unacceptable heights... and then watched larger items get priced out of affordability, and hope Trump is the last politician who thinks taxing consumers to help producers is a good free market practice.
Of course Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars to reinstall Trump into the White House, if the tariffs on Chinese Evs went away, so would Tesla.

Had an odd thought, what if the midterms actually go totally against Trump, as do the 2028 elections? Can I adjust to mostly trusting my government in contrast to how I feel about the Al Capone/Putin villains that are running things now? And for that matter, what on Earth would Fox propaganda news do for viewers if Trump is finally seen by MAGA as the danger that it truly is?
Can one live on trust? I forget.

Anyone else notice the similarities between cartel behavior and the behavior of MAGA when their leader is sidelined, as Trump was after the 2020 vote?

There is only one reality, call it god or Mother Nature, and there is but one truth that describes the far right...it is their perspective that fascist "dear daddy" leadership of a family, a town, a country, is their right and duty. And those of us who are terrified of them are to be culled.

On why identification gadgets should need to have a court warrant to target someone.
Watch some of the NCIS, FBI, CIA nighttime shows and one sees that unleashed, those investigative tools can follow us around night and day, identify us, and link us with whomever we choose to speak to.

While, on one hand, one has to agree with Trump that this is the most powerful military ever, it threatens the world when led by a fascist. And it apparently goes to war needing a few plumbers and repairs.
And about that 45 minute wait thing...drink enough coffee to stay awake, there had better be shorter lines.

How much training does it take to learn how to button up a brown shirt, put on a firearm, and learn to duplicate Trump;s mug shot sneer?

The best at being the worst? It seems that administrations that are out to loot the treasury and take from the poor to give to the rich have a problem finding qualified gangsters. Trump has a talent for perverting people like Vance and Rubio, every part of the Trump administration is being run by the meanest and the greediest.

If you will remember, President Obama had a perfectly good agreement with Iran over nuclear enrichment...but Trump, being greedy for attention, tore up that agreement. Now he wants to make a lot of trouble perhaps kill a lot of people to call himself a wartime President...
It is a war of aggression to attack a nation not a danger to your nation, and that order is an illegal order, by the way. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed straight at Iran, so no one can say that the possibility of Iran's introducing nuclear weapons is the danger. Israel has done that in spades.

Suicide by cop has been a theme of these highly publicized half hearted assassination attempts.

Actually, I think when Alito resigns it will be Vance who will be nominated/appointed to the Supreme Court so that Rubio can be VP and then President when Trump resigns. President Rubio can both pardon all of the Trump gang, and also help the Republican Party actually not be decimated in the 2028 elections.
Time will tell.

I am sure there are more than a couple of heroes for democracy who raised the question of free and fair elections in North Korea, somewhere, and were rewarded with an early...death. He didn't even have to resort to an insurrectionist mob overturning election ballots...

Thank you. As a veteran of the Vietnam War, I know how important a strong Veterans' Administration can be to returning vets, and how easy it is to get lost to physical and emotional pain.
Still, while we are on the subject, my daydream is that one day we actually have a return of the draft, and all young men and women serve, either two years under arms, or two and a half years in civilian capacity, and after that service, are allowed to belong to national health care.

Fundamentalist Christianity is one of the major tools that the far right uses to get votes and divide us one from another. There is only one reality, and once they get a little child to bend a knee, in order to belong to a tribe, they have them often for life.

I find it odd that Capitalism lauds itself as the best system, but in the end, what we have, always, is a few astoundingly greedy power hungry emotionally damaged running the world, and the rest, at the bottom of the pyramid, unable to use democracy to right the ship because American democracy is bought and sold to the super rich like Trump and Musk.
Are we screwed? Of course we are. Are any of the Republicans who supported this Trumpian/Musk debacle of grift ever going to he held accountable...of course not.