Now that Trump has seen that he is above the law, that in fact there in no such thing as the rule of law when it comes to invading another country and killing thousands of its people, things are going to get insanely dark...as in multiple Gazas all around the planet.

Arrogance is one thing but Bondi is doing what she can, under Trump's direction I am sure, to destroy the rule of law here in the US as the US has destroyed it internationally. Used to was one could not invade another country and murder its citizens without fear of being hauled to The Hague, now, no one even bothers trying to stop the murders.

Manafort for years worked in Ukraine for the President, Yanukovych, who was tossed out and taken in by Putin. That former President lives in exile in Moscow, or at least he did.

Not a surprise that MAGA elected a racist, misogynist, suck up to the super rich, mock the poor regime of sold out souls. Soon their propaganda outlets at CBS, CNN when it gets its independent thinking lobotomized, will not ever let us know how we are being gaslit.

The stupidest thing about capitalism is its insistence on constant growth no matter the destruction of the air and the water, no matter the need to preserve the peace and safety of the populace.
If America had twenty percent fewer people but they all lived better, capitalism would say that culture is a failure.
Americans at at our limit, we, at least the bottom third on the economic pyramid, are living shorter lives...maybe look out for the people rather than the damn stock market.

Still, Trump can stay President if the elections are not held because some faction somewhere, say, allied with Iran, gets into the country and blows up a courthouse or something, and then Trump declares a national emergency.
Hard not to be at least a little paranoid in these times. As the old head of Intel, Andrew Grove, once wrote..."only the paranoid survive".

I am old, and am really heartened to see the huge turnouts in state after state of young men and women. Not an easy thing to do in some states where the lines may be discouragingly long to vote. Still I have hopes that the midterms hold hope for a revival of our Constitutional Republic. Democracy works when good people throw their hat into the ring, appeal to the voters, and after the election join hands, those who won and those who didn't, to work to...try and educate MAGA that America is not about kings and dictators.

Yeah but I have heard that the influence peddling is first class.

One can only hope this country does the same thing, sooner or later. Wish we had a national system of initiatives that we could circulate petitions and get such a thing on the national ballots.

I think Hegseth is Trump's worst Cabinet appointment, though Kennedy is a close second.

YUP, living in America today is, in a lot of way, an Alice in Wonderland experience, where people have power but no devotion to the people, or for that matter, to rational thinking.
Thanks MAGA.

That is how propaganda works, how the North Korean dictator can figure his little girl can rule millions...just gaslight the people and make sure none oppose the idiocy and propaganda. Melania is not the First Lady, as far as I can tell, she is Putin's asset in the White House aiding the division of the American people and laughing as she grifts her way, as her husband does. Did anyone give her millions to showcase herself at the UN?

Murder and theft as American foreign policy...not the first time, but such bald faced assertion of right to steal and kill...usually they get the CIA or someone to say America is under attack.

I am old, and am more than a little...frustrated that this is just another example of the Republican Party using political power to enrich itself at the expense of the treasury and using war and death to stay in power.

We are led by Al Capone and his allied gansters...pure and simple. They are looting the treasury just as the Soviet Empire treasury was looted as that Empire fell.

Want to know how long the Sunni (Saudi)-Shia (Iran) Civil War has been raging? Just put that question into google search.. of course the Saudis want the US to go bankrupt killing Shias and turning the Middle East back to their version of Islam. We are such fools to have bought into that idiocy. Talk about warmongers...Saudi Arabia and Israel...and of course our cognitively impaired President is an easy mark to both of those countries. Cross his palms with silver and America will invade anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Trump lies...that is all anyone has to know when they see a headline that somehow favors Trump. Iran has said there will be no negotiation with the US, and after that murderous attack I really doubt they will be lead to peace talks.

Trump profits from chaos, it was the same for when Nixon got reelected and certainly for George w who strutted about as a wartime President. Yes, we may have lost our democracy, thanks to MAGA.

In our face fascism, as it is clear that the Trump brand of American fascism is on the march, and we all know that fascists don't walk away from power without a lot of bodies being strewn about. They have to subvert our democracy or they will fall in the midterms and then in 2028.

Lying fascist at it again, throwing out the flimsiest of lies to justify murders of opposition figures.

No doubt about it, before Trump leaves office he will try another fascist coup, and if it doesn't work, I would expect him to resign and have either President Vance or President Rubio pardon him and his entire grifting family. And the Republican Party will do little to nothing to protect the American people from Trump.

Glad I am old and probably won't live to see the day that full on "dear leader" fascism comes to America, the billionaire oligarchs in America, as in Russia, are now gods, able to make up any news that they want to so the people have to see propaganda rather than news.

Trump Epstein files are still mostly hidden from the American people, and one can only imagine what those hundreds of thousands of references to Trump are about.
The DOJ is supposed be the people's agency, but instead, they are Trump's personal coverup squad.

We all know what is happening, more of the same Trumpist fascism, working to take away the right of the people to elect their representatives.

Apartheid, locking up millions of fellow humans behind concrete and bullets in the Occupied Territories until Israel can get away with total ethnic cleansing of the State of Palestine...that is what people are rejecting.