Translation: I, Justice Thomas, am soon to be private citizen Thomas, and will need a sinecure, a do nothing, pay millions for stupid speeches like this one, and the grifting window is open. Trump cannot pardon himself, and if the Dems take over the Senate, which is a possibility, he might not be able to get through another Justice pick. He would have to resign and have a Republican Party hack ascend to the Presidency and pardon him, the way Ford pardoned Nixon.

Businesses are obligated to run things for the profit of the owners, not the workers, not the community...it is the bottom line failing of end term capitalism, a few own everything and everyone.

Trump acts like a hoarder...he needs to have towers of stuff, all over the place, so that he knows he is loved. Hoarders often live in a pretend world where stuff is relationship. He clearly is lost in daydreams of great arches and ballrooms and hotels from country to country...all with his name on them.

Bankrupting America day by day, waiting for the time when they can toss out FDRs safety net and turn us into an out and out fascist country.

Vance just polishing up his credentials as a Trump gangster, for the time when Alito really does retire and Trump looks perhaps to Vance to fill that seat, and for someone like Rubio to be VP and then President to pardon Trump.
You know the pardoning thing has to be on the mind of the gangsters...if Trump were to refuse to let someone else be President, the pardons wouldn't flow to him as the President cannot pardon himself.

In some communist countries it was common practice to take over the majority religion with people that were loyal to the government and able to mouth a few words of "scripture". One would expect the Trump gang to do such a thing if it were possible, for Trump clearly is about being dictator, and there can only be one...Look at what Trump has done to the Republican Party.

Are we sure this all isn't just some sort of group hallucination, something we might be able to wake from sooner or later? How could America have fallen so far, so fast to both elect and then reelect an out and out fascist?

Anti American sentiment? AntiTrump sentiment more like it...Anti hate sentiment, and above all, people are recognizing that with Trump, fascism is trying to gain a permanent foothold in our highest offices.

Talarico is a great candidate...I hope he does well and actually wins in Texas, and who knows, is considered for VP candidate in 2028 to combat the darkness of the white nationalist male supremacist faction.

Hope other nations have the guts to work for change in the apartheid nation of Israel.

Al Capone in the White House, methodically changing out personnel in our government until the gang runs everything, steals at will, and you cannot do anything because then you are arrested.

My father worked for a large company in East Hartford Ct until his death. I remember some of his stories of the "meat wagon" that would be sent out to haul away dead workers...Still, as an old man myself these days, a quick, painless death anywhere, even in such a place, would be better than weeks in a hospital drugged to the gills.
And yeah, end stage capitalism is where we are headed, where workers are to compete against robots and software pretend people.

We started the fire and now we are trying to profit from denying any firefighters entrance to the fire...
We murdered over 80 Iranians as they met, at our request, to try and work out a negotiated agreement like the one President Obama had...before Trump tore it up. We started a war of aggression and that is what the history books are going to say.

The more I understand the eternal conflicts in the Middle East, the more I wish my country would just leave, and tell countries like Israel or Iran or the Saudis...we will buy oil, we will trade, but we will not engage in forever wars, we are done.

Remember that old joke about the old Vermont farmer being asked directions to somewhere, and his response being" well, uh, I don't think you can get there from here"?
I don't think, with Trump and Hegseth running things, we can get to a place of peace and security for the US. Trump is too much of a Russian asset to get things done that works for all.

One fears that what is going on in Trump's noggin resembles the playacting of pro wrestling, or the brutality of these stupid fights where heavily muscled men beat each other to early dementia...shades of the Roman Coliseum times.

If Putin allows it in Russia...Trump will allow it here...for we are a falling Empire and...well, it is all because MAGA voted for a true fascist, twice...Trump and his family are walking ethic violations, heck Jared is King of that lab.

If the mobster doesn't personally get something profiting him, it is all on the chopping block. America is a falling empire, as the Soviet Union fell, and soon it will be too bankrupt to do much of anything, but hey, Trump and his gang will be as Putin and his oligarch gang are in Russia, absolute gods of the darkness.
Just ask the Pope if he thinks America is a safe country to speak one's truth to power....

People on that side of the Ocean clearly know fascism when they see it, and Trump and Orban together can only mean one thing, more for them, less for the people and their kids.

Good, this planet is clearly trying to support far more humans than it can safely support. Fewer people, slower rise in human caused global warming and overuse of resources.

NASA is us, the American people, and I wish we spent national treasure on NASA space travels, rather than those that glorify the billionaire caste.

Hmmm...who do I distrust more...the Trumpian mafiosa grifting their way to billionaire caste heaven, or the AI-Crypto-Tech Bros working to turn the future of the world into hell for ordinary humans competing with robots and intelligent software?
Neither can be trusted unless one is very reich...sorry, very rich and can bribe those who need bribing.

I remember decades ago, when I was a very young man and was introduced to drugs and the culture of taking risks in regards to mystery pills and liquids.
Now, I am an old man, and yeah, I barely trust anyone anywhere, including myself, but recognize RFK jr, as a BS artist of Trumpian caliber.

Negotiation? The last time the Iranians sat down and tried to figure out how to negotiate a treaty with Trump, he tricked them into thinking he was serious, and then he murdered over 80 of their leaders...like a mafia chieftain he rules the military for his own benefit.
So yeah, if it were me, I would negotiate...in Washington DC where he probably wouldn't be able to kill all of my negotiating team.

Prior to Putin's idiotic attack on Ukraine, he did what he could to weaken that government and people, including having an asset of Russia, Viktor Vanukovych become President and rule to let Russia dominate.
One wonders just what Putin's endgame is if indeed Trump were a useful idiot or otherwise an asset...and NATO is weakened...