Fascinating how easily hate cloaks itself under pure white religious garb...has always, will always, and yet, for the discerning, there are wonderful people who believe, who take comfort and hope from their religion, and that is why I, an atheist, am so glad Talarico is running and hope he wins. His religion is no danger to those who see differently, he is an inspirational challenge to the far right.

Capitalism in its finest moment...as wild eyed wars break out and various stock markets head for the heights...oh wait, I meant, the Straits, as in dire.

All I can say is I am betting, friendly bet, that Trump resigns just after the midterms, if they go as badly as they promise at the moment, so that he can be pardoned by the new President, Rubio, who would be given the VP after Vance...well, takes the Alito seat?

Well, Trump needs a win, and Xi is brilliant enough to offer him one, though in the trade though might be the freedom of the people of Taiwan. Not sure why Xi would want a meeting with Trump, a man clearly on the downslope of cognitive decline and who no longer speaks with the backing of the American people.
Okay, maybe Xi is planning to give Trump a piece of idiotic golden something, to get him to preen and whatever.

As one who served in the Vietnam War after training in South/North Carolina in the Marines, I, for one, am glad Nancy is refusing to offer troops as sacrifices to Trump's greed for ...distraction?

Yeah but Putin's Russian coffers are bulging with profits..and Iran is actually making money selling its oil, thanks to Trump.

Interesting that both Putin and Trump use the same tactics and language to kill people and steal their land/oil. I have long past stopped wondering if Trump is a Russian agent...for he is clearly a Russian asset, and that is all that matters. The world should, in its quiet moments, steel itself for what is coming...Putin didn't leave, and one fears neither will Trump, not voluntarily, not without unleashing his brownshirts once again.

Come on, let's for once and all admit that Trump ran a deliberate campaign to somehow ally those who live to hate and those who value the rule of the jungle over the rule of law. Brilliant in that it was successful, insane in that it could only lead to what is happening, American fascism being on the march in the halls of Congress, and that means you, Republican Party.
No country should feel superior to America, they either fought their own civil war against the end point of capitalism, fascism, or they will one day. It is the end point of most capitalist cultures that the very few rule the great many using intimidation, hate, propaganda, distracting foreign wars...in short, Trumpist fascism.

Yup, we killed the rule of law and now all that remains is the law of the jungle, and unfortunately for the US, we have one wildly incompetent President leading us into that war.

Again, the transparency of the grift means that Trump has to 'retire' and let Vance replace Alito on the Supreme Court, so that Rubio can be VP and then President...thing Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon for any and all crimes, think Rubio trying to salvage the Republican Party 2028 elections by pardoning Trump and his grifting gang so there are no trials to remind Americans how idiotic MAGA was.

Small point needs to be made, when America murdered the rule of law for international relations, that meant that the rule of the jungle would take over, and that is insanity times ten.

Imagine for a minute that there really was such a thing as the rule of law involving sovereign nations...then the US President would be brought to The Hague to stand trial for murder on the high seas, in Venezuela, in Iran, and for the illegal boycott of Cuba.
But the Bush family killed the rule of law with their shock and awe campaigns to win something for somebody, probably for American big oil interests.
Without the rule of law, the rule of the jungle prevails and sooner or later...nuclear weapons of mass destruction make an appearance, and Israel has several hundred.

I have found that a true Christian is one I, an atheist, not need fear or hesitate to interact with...they have their faith and its responsibilities and the rest of the world has theirs. I wish Talarico well.

Oh yeah, I hope both Mattis and John Kelly have written memoirs detailing their first terms in Trump's insane White House, where they worked mightily to keep the Presidential fascist from killing demonstrators and starting wars. Not sure the Republican Party can be trusted with our American Constitutional Republic...they are too greedy and willing to take from the poor to give to the billionaires.

Big oil got us into the two Bush Iraq wars, into this Iranian war...and so on and so on, they see that all the oil under Middle East sand belongs to them...when the Iranians nationalized their own oil we murdered their democracy and installed the murderous Shah.

Now the murderers want to walk away from their murderous illegal, undeclared war, so they will claim victory and like Putin, will wait for another opportunity to kill and loot and steal land.
Epstein Trump...they must feel that threat is lessened.

Been one of the goals of the fascist element of the Republican Party for a long long time, to bankrupt America so the oligarchs could rule and FDRs safety net could be first, reduced, then torpedoed.

These are perilous times, no doubt about it...to speak the truth about the demented Russian asset in the White House is to lose one's job as a Republican Party, to lose one's freedom if in the military, and to lose one's mind, if one is a MAGA cult member.

American fascism is on the march in pretty every corner of our government...and frankly it doesn't seem that it took a lot of convincing for the Republican Party to turn against the needs and the hopes of the very poor.

The future, I am sure, will walk on down to where climate change deniers are buried, the Rush Limbaughs and Trumps of world's history, and urinate on their graves, for there is no way to avoid the hell of global warming now, thanks to the deniers. We should have been fighting global warming with the same passion that we fought WWII, everything we had.

No American blood should be spilled to support Israeli apartheid...and at its core, that is what this is all about. Iran was once again negotiating for an agreement, like the one that Trump tore up. This war with Iran is illegal and immoral and could well lead to what the Vietnam War led to...tens of thousands of Americans dead, hundreds of thousands of civilians dead, and in the end...for nothing.

Still, as a clear Russian asset, Trump is doing his buddy Putin, quite proud. Americans are divided one against another, and against our traditional foreign allies, and certainly NATO is weaker...

These are indeed perilous times, where the person running the largest military in the world is determined to start wars of aggression across the globe, to kidnap leaders and murder those who he cannot get to capture...all without excuse and without permission from Congress, which make them illegal wars. This is all on MAGA. Trump is their mistake, it is for them to fix things...if possible.

Trump's capitalism looks a lot like Xi's communism, central command for everything. Although, one might say it most resembles Al Capone's gangster regime.

And now interview, privately, so they don't lose their jobs, longtime VA employees.