Well, VOA was originally an antiRussian agency...and so, with a Russian asset in the White House, one expects cutbacks on things Putin doesn't like.

Just another MAGA mess...it was clear from at least the late 1950's that human caused global warming was a clear and present danger, but the far right kept on voting in idiots like Trump who are so sold out to the big oil and natural gas folks that he does what he can for them...to make sure sustainable energy, like windmills, are not supported.
It will be for the rest of our lifetimes, no matter how old we are...hell on earth, we did it, and we the poor will have a hard time surviving it.

Yeah, all in the interests of the child, of course...who will grow up with enough hate to fill a swimming pool.

Well, let's be honest here, just how much talent does it require to bankrupt America, divide us one from another and from our allies? Trump has done a masterful job of finding the worst to do their best to ruin this Republic, and al they while letting him and his gang loot the treasury and grift massively.

These weird times are so against the rule of law in so many places one is surprised when a judge stands up and says...No more. We are a Constitutional Republic and that is that.

I object to the fact that much of fundamentalism is not taxable...
Blue States tend to understand that women own their own bodies, red states tend to understand that we still live in the 1950's, where rich old white men rule it all.

Translation: there is a lot of wealth to be gained from keeping tens of thousands of people engulfed in the chaos, so every few years change sides...

As I remember from my high school days studying the holocaust, the Brownshirts did such things as they brutalized their way to total control of their dear leader. There were people deemed not of superior stock and were candidates for death camps.

Kennedy is illustrating the greatest sickness of them all, how a human being can ignore the needs of millions of Americans, just so they can have a blast pretending they are good for something but chaos.

One wonders if one's buddy should apply for a job with the Trump conspiracy, goodness knows if crazy is a requirement to work at FEMA, my buddy is of superior quality. There are people in this country who really and truly believe that space aliens are amongst us and are guiding us along...though considering the insanity of the times, perhaps they just said "to hell with it" and left until we extinguish ourselves as a species.

"Know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to run away.." Kenny Rodgers gave great advice to the grifters in the White House...when everyone sees the con, you are headed for jail if you don't head for the hideouts.

At some level one cannot blame Trump, it sure does seem like he is in clear cognitive decline, but he has so intimidated and bought off the Republican Party that no one will 25th Amendment his early retirement.
The Republican Party either gets it together, or this country will not only find itself bankrupt, as the Soviet Union was bankrupted by insane foreign wars, but this country will have no friends to help out.

From now on, it will mostly be about the midterms, and the Republican Party somehow surviving to run Congress. Hence, appealing to the far right religious bigots who really and truly do not believe in the First Amendment protections for those of us not Christian. Yes, Hegseth has a right to his personal religion, but sure does seem like a move to "establish" fundamentalism in the public space.

Having an independent FED is proving to be a very, very good thing in the time of Trump, one fears what happens when the FED chair is replaced.

Boot licker extraordinaire. He is an example of who national government should not hire...totally without a heart and the ability to act independently in the interests of the American people if the President orders him to do something idiotic.

International politics now resemble the tinder dry times just before both WWI and WWII...hope another world war doesn't spark up thanks to our greed for oil.

Once upon a time, there was a semblance of the rule of law in place in the world, and embargoes like the one America has placed on Cuba were seen as illegal. You don't like a country, don't go there. I imagine that American attacks on Cuba have helped strengthen that country's ruling regime. I am no fan of the Cuban government, but then I am no fan of the clerics in Iran, but I recognize an illegal war of aggression when my country indulges in one. Heck, I am a Veteran, that seems to be what we do.

Just another grifting greed head delighting in the fact that the current President is easily manipulated as his disability gets worse and worse. Sure, President Biden had aged, but Trump is clearly 25th Amendment bound sooner or later. One expects that Rubio will be appointed to be his VP somehow, and then Trump resigns and Rubio pardons him and his entire grifting gang...like Ford did for Nixon.

One the one, perverse hand, one has to admit that Trump has a talent for finding totally sold out, incompetent tools to put in his Administration.

And when the US falls down and needs help from the world...from Greenland to Canada to Mexico to NATO countries, to African countries...one would expect a lot of FAFO>

If there were such a thing as international rule of law obligations, Trump would have been charged long ago, as would other Presidents, for the illegal blockade of Cuba. But then, there are the attacks and murders on Venezuela and Iran...

Sorry, but this all feels like Trump's disability is showing, bit by bit he seems to be losing the ability to listen and process information and carry on intelligent conversations...Not his fault, at this point his handlers are just delighted to manipulate him so that their own private wars can be fought, including attacking the independent media.

Well, we can be sure of one thing, the person most happy about how well Trump is doing as a Russian asset...has to be Putin. Weakening NATO has to be high on his list.

Wish Talarico the best, love to see him in the Senate speaking his truth, our truth, day after day...Even if Trump goes away, Trumpism, the march of America fascism won't go away anytime soon, and there is no cure for capitalism, where the few own it all...

Fascism 101...create an image of those who you want to invade and kill...and make that image of dirty, animalistic deadly creatures, instead of human beings trying to survive the day.