Nothing in today's "modern" Republican Party is about preserving or protecting our Constitutional Republic and its Bill of Rights. They are a totally sold out gang of souls in it for the power and the money, and they clearly understand that the job of a "modern' republican is to be servile, to be in the control of the very rich and powerful, against the needs and rights of the very poor, who greatly outnumber the Musks of the world.

American workers..get used to the storm coming your way, because AI and those who are making billions off creating a power to rival the working man or woman, that power is coming for your job, for your relationship, for your sense of belonging to a people, rather than as a refugee in your own country. Ask poor people today who are being priced out of the rental market, out of the education market, the health markets...if they think the super rich give a damn about them and their pain?

I find it hard to understand how anyone, anywhere, can say they are a follower of Jones for positive reasons...he did what he could to profit off the deaths of tiny children in CT, for instance.

The problem with having killed the rule of law, Israel will one of these days be at someone's mercy, and no one will come to their aid, because...genocide.

We have often wondered just what might happen if someone in cognitive decline ever took over the reins of power in the US and started acting in a dangerous and irrational manner.
Now we know...if he is Republican, they don't care about anything or anyone but their ability to profit off his grifting ways.

I look at some of the trolling against this decision and I really do feel the...hate for our Constitutional Republic. Of course, they tried to destroy Voice of America just because...
The truth is not allowed in a fascist state, like Russia, like China, like in Trump's administration.

Yeah, imagine if Trump were actually to write a memoir, well, with massive assistance by ghost writers, telling the truth of how he corrupted it all, using his own useful idiots... all to help Putin.

He is right, and one, at least me, think it is not ending soon, as even if Trump were to resign so the VP can become President and pardon him, as Ford pardoned Nixon, the corruption within the entire government will take generations to root out.

And not only is the design irrational, it is ugly, as if Melania used AI to design it. One wonders if President Newsom would be able to tear it down.

Not a lot of people out that day would have been intimidated by a couple of gunships...not a lot of people who will be showing up to vote in November will forget the nightmare of the Trump gang;s work to destroy our Constitutional Republic.

Why yes, America is led by the worst of the worst, greedy, ignorant, heartless thugs who seem to have invested everything they have in war and division and hate. And the bottom line is the following: The Republican Party is totally on board with destroying, totally, the enemy, also known previously as America's independent media, so that fairly soon it will be "1984"ish propaganda 24/7.
We are led by bloodthirsty cowards.

Big money owns Trump, and Trump owns the House of Representatives...so the midterms are once again spotlighted as being of great importance to our Constitutional Republic.

One imagines, not a call to arms, but a call to disarm from the Catholic Church...a pleading to spare the lives of so many and look for avenues of peace.
One imagines hope, but truth be told, one is a little delusional this early in the morning, I am sure in a few hours, one will see that Trump and his dictatorship have hate and horror in mind.

Is the grift stealing oil for private interests or is it just more Trump/Epstein distraction that costs many lives, many of them American?

When I see opportunistic men and women with Black skin cheering on MAGA, I have to wonder at the power of greed. The main reason Trump won office was because he could steal the Republican Party by being more racist than the Bush family, and more willing to ally the white nationalist power vote with his future.

Never has "follow the money" been more important...They didn't get all that money by being great investors, they got it by, well, one things by methods so dark and dangerous to the rich and powerful that we probably will never actually find out who get their palms crossed, what bribes were paid...whatever.

So, it is ten years from now, and all American military might is AI connected, all can be fired and work independently, and someone hacks something, and our civilization is toast. People worry, perhaps with great cause, that the AI companies cannot be trusted, but hey, put all that power in the hands of a military led by another Hegseth...nightmare city.

This must have been as it was in Russia under Stalin...his underlings afraid to try and curtail his more murderous impulses, a nuclear power in the grasp of a very very dangerous man.

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.