I am nobody, ignorant of why Trump let this nomination pass on by, but I have a nagging suspicion we won't be seeing any independent action from Rudd that Trump opposes, he won't be the New Pope. And one has a very powerful fear that those who say Trump is a Russian asset might be right. So....

After WWII< the world had a vision it was working toward, place where the rule of law held sway and conflicts were brought to legal systems to determine settlement. Now, however, the world can see that the vision that at least Russia and the US are working toward is one that includes dictatorship and thus the ending of free speech and the right to assemble and all.

Once they let you in on the grift, you cannot complain when they steal the silverware and all.

This morning is full of the most discouraging news about some very intelligent and powerful people and corporations. War certainly is far more well funded than peace and the rule of law.

Yikes, glad I missed that the first time...but certainly that is Trump's vision of the future, where American media resembles Russian media, terrified into servitude.
Thanks, framers of the Constitution, for helping Americans, from the start, be able to be free from someone else's view of religion.

We should have been attacked human caused global warming the way we fought WWII< with everything we have, because otherwise, well, soon the world will see what our idiocy has produced.

Wish I didn't recognize myself so much in him...we are of the same age, and goodness knows I am more than a little forgetful and all that. An old man of 79 could make a great President, though in both my case and Trump's, not gonna happen. I daydream a lot, but I don't pretend that those inner worlds are anything but fun...not to set upon the world.
And why on Earth did America elect him a second time?

I look forward to the day, I should live so long, when the headlines are full of news about new diplomatic work to make friends each other, with our EU allies, or with, you know, the human race.

Well, Putin got what he wanted from his asset, when Trump started the war of aggression against Iran, it meant Putin would never stand charges for the same in his mass murder of Ukrainians.

Well, the debate was really over whether the American people would stand for letting Trump turn ICE into his bully brownshirts.
No they will not.

Trump simply stole the Republican Party recognizing that at its core, its power came from voters who were white supremacists and white power holdovers. They knew that Trump was their guy from the start. And now, the party can manipulate the declining Trump to do anything they want...
Problem is, we the American people are watching, and if there is a tomorrow, if there are midterm elections there will be a reckoning.

Trump simply stole the Republican Party recognizing that at its core, its power came from voters who were white supremacists and white power holdovers. They knew that Trump was their guy from the start. And now, the party can manipulate the declining Trump to do anything they want...
Problem is, we the American people are watching, and if there is a tomorrow, if there are midterm elections there will be a reckoning.

Well, the Chinese people no longer have American democracy to point to and wish to emulate. Trump got elected twice ginning up racial hatred and misogyny.

It was, is, the tactic in Gaza as well, destroy the people's will to fight by destroying their places of safety, including hospitals and schools. There is no rule of law in our world right now...and so the biggest most murderous gangsters are killing and stealing at will.

I suppose that Putin is not unhappy that his oil is now offered at a premium to the world markets. His puppet in the White House is doing a great job of bankrupting and dividing America, never mind any other place.

The worst thing for the US is to unite the Iranian people to fight back, and of course, for the world, as the Straits are easily disrupted.

Oh, we should have been working on human caused global warming ever since the 1960's, in a unified battle as we fought in WWII. But instead the greedy Republican Party just nominated idiot after idiot, people like Trump who denied human caused global warming even as the Florida coastline was diminishing...so the big oil and natural gas boys could profit mightily and pay off Republicans in Congress. We are totally and permanently screwed...life in some areas like the desert southwest will be dangerously hot.

One lie after another, he cannot do otherwise.

So many people in our government, like Lindsey Graham, are inhuman bullies who pretend to honor the Christian Bible, but instead are more about Mein Kampf I suspect. They daydream about destroying the world order to strut about in uniforms as everything burns.

Demented bully in charge...killing as he pleases...what can go wrong? I thought the Vietnam War years were bad because of bad leadership and our being, as it turns out, on the wrong side. But since the cowardly Republican Party cannot stop Trump, the next three years may in fact be existential, as in "gee, why not use tactical nukes, gee,,,).

Pathetically, I see that performance art, and I don't think anything at all, just another day in America run by fanatics for their profit and our...sorrow.

So this is what it like living in a family run by a gangster, who threatens any and all, a gangster who is demented and not aware of himself or his actions.

Calling this trump debacle a "war" somehow elevates it to being in the same regard as WWII. NO, this is a murderous campaign by a gangster, head of the US Presidency, to wreak as much hell upon the world as he can until someone somewhere actually brings him before a court.
Murder is murder, and we, America, are murdering thousands, as Putin is murdering in Ukraine.

ICE are the Trump gangster's brownshirts...out to keep power no matter what Epstein file gets released. Also out to bankrupt America for his buddy Putin is my guess.

And there sure does seem to be another straight line between the Trump Epstein file release and the distraction called WWIII.