We are not Russia yet, though Trump and his gang are working mightily to get us there...where the media is jailed or killed for opposing Putin. In Navalny's case, he was jailed and then killed.

It was decided by the Supreme Court, you are free to burn a flag, it is freedom of speech. There is this thing called a Constitution that actually unites us, no wonder the Trump conspiracy hates it so much.

More and more it is obvious that Trump's main job is to ruin America, divide us one from another and from our international allies.

Their crazy is going to get a lot of we seniors dead. We oldsters were dying rapidly due to Covid, until the vaccines came out. And as a kid I remember the polio nightmare. Kennedy is so idiotic he has to be in his job to screw with America on orders from Putin to Trump. Sure feels like Trump is ruining everything about America.

Imagine if the rule of law still existed in international matters...Israel and America attacking Iran and killing many of its leaders would have been seen immediately as a war crime, and warrants would have gone out for Netanyahu and Trump. But since America was persuaded to ally with Israel, and the world cannot hold America to the rule of law, Iran is being turned into GAZA.

Ah yes, the march of the "unawake" in Florida and Texas. America has moved on, women are equal to men, gay people exist as equal to straights...and in about twenty years we whites will be in the minority in America...might as well get used to that fact.

Oh sure, women want to return to the greatness of the early 1950's, when men ruled the roost and women were very much second class citizens, pretty much baby machines and cooks and cleaners...
This earth cannot "carry" the number of humans on it as it is...

I bet James Mattis and John Kelly have stories to tell...hope one or both of them write memoirs of Trump's first term. Hope we survive his second term.

The head of Murder Inc. said what?

Hmmm...how is that not illegal influence peddling?

Trump has proven that the Civil War hates have not left us, we are, at times, led by a majority of racist misogynists who really want the US to return to the early 1950's, when women were second class citizens and the rich were gods.

Well, you elect mean and stupid and greedy, you get a true fascist who is about grift, morning noon and night. This happened in the Old Soviet Union as it fell as well, leadership by senility.

Never have I been so discouraged as to the future of America...It isn't just Trump but the entire MAGA movement that clearly has no concept of the rule of law and its importance to world peace.

Talk about 1968 Vietnam War Deja Vu.. We did exactly the same things, there and then, that we are doing now. We controlled the skies and the seas and won every battle...but we were on the wrong side.

American fascism on the march and in almost all the offices of our national government. Fascism is not a friend of Constitutional freedoms...like freedom of speech and assembly and all. Will America survive this assault? Russian democracy fell to dictatorial fascism, and it is clear authoritarianism is on the agenda for the Trump gang.

The truth seems to be important to a few of us, but as far as the grifting Trump gang...a lie is as good as a truth any day if it lets them gain a vote.

Glad I am old, and won't be around to see what a nightmare America will have to survive when Trump finally bankrupts us the way the Soviet Empire got bankrupted, with idiot foreign wars and internally the oligarchs looting the treasury and leaving things in such a state that war veterans and pensioners begged on street corners.

Is there any part of the American government Trump hasn't screwed up? Certainly one of the truest things anyone ever said about Trump is that he is, "objectively, a Russian asset".

As the President of Portugal said, "Trump is, objectively, a Russian asset".

We are a remarkably stupid culture, we should have been fighting human caused global warming for decades, using wind and wave and solar. But no, MAGA is determined to make sure the antiscoience idiots of the Trump gang make it a certainty that global warming turns our earth into hell.
Yeah, I wouldn't think having kids to survive all that is a good thing.

I am a Boomer who has heard that Gen Z is having a hard time finding a rationale for bearing children who have to grow up in the future America of...Putinized democracy with pretend rule of law and pretend one person one vote democracy. There is no cure for Capitalism, it, sooner or later, ends with a few super rich gods ruling over the rest.

Texas is a weird state, so many poor and low income Texans vote Republican Party just because they...??? Is it all about Civil War holdover hatred of people with Black and Brown skin?
One hopes that Talarico finds a way to win.

Trump is relying on his tried and true policy of "in your face lying" so that one has to understand the truth and stand and deliver one's truth on Election Day...and if they are in the habit of just shrugging and going along with him, MAGA like, yeah, FDRs safety net of social security and medicare could be toast.
Even for the great grifter Trump, taking medicare and medicaid and social security from MAGA and asking for their midterm votes is going to be a tough sell.

You cannot teach a man clearly in decline all that much except to try and explain that his judgment is faulty and to resign and stop trying to blow up the world. But then, Trump is so easily manipulated he is the far right's best chance to strut on the world stage, on top of a lot of bodies. One expects Cuba to be next, or another Blue City like Portland or SF.

I love the fact that this atheist can listen to him with respect, for he is not about domination and demanding all bend a knee, he can help heal our nation, certainly the religious/secular divides. I wish him well.