Fascism, the permanent rule of the very few over the great majority of us, using violence, gaslighting propaganda, and elitism to the max, well, it is our turn to either fight it and win or fight it and lose, our democracy.
All because, MAGA, and the Republican Party held their subservience to the ruling class to be an American value.

Rigging the vote for fun and profit...there is a better way but the truth is, in most of America, the Republican Party is the minority party and to stay in power and keep on taking from the poor to give to the rich they need to rig the elections.

Well, there will surely be a large tv audience for some of the matches, especially the one in June with Iran, but not because people care about "football", it will be the controversy and the ugliness of anything that Trump gets his greedy hands on.

I find myself a huge fan of Talarico, and I identify as an atheist. In no way is he a danger to those of us who see things differently, he is supported by his religion but in the race will be clearly showing how much of a danger white nationalist Christian nationalism is to our Constitutional Republic.

Take from the poor to pay for the tax cuts that enrich the billionaire ruling class. Day in, day out, Trump and his gang are going about their work, of ruining the lives of poor Americans.

One wonders just how idiotic were those on the Grand Jury who allowed the indictment to stand. Hillary Clinton would probably have been President if not for Comey's thumb on the scales at the last minute, but still, he did not commit the crime of threatening the life of the President.

One wonders why the Democratic Party doesn't sue, why one independent journalist has to sue to get the feds to follow the law? I would wonder why the utterly corrupted Republican Party is so on board with the coverup, but after all this time, it is just a truth that the Republican Party is as corrupt as Trump.

Time to reign in Cutthroat Capitalism as it inevitably results in the very few owning it all, and the very many of us find no ears to listen to our suffering. If the billionaires move offshore...more the better. Tax them the way they were taxed in 1954, our economy is failing and FDRs safety net is in great trouble.

Sorry, but BS doesn't cut it as American foreign policy. Trump destroyed the compromise that let inspections make sure that no nuclear weapons were produced, so all this is on Trump and his mafia gang of MAGA pretend experts. Israel introduced nuclear weapons of mass destruction and has aimed hundreds right at Iran, so they have no right to complain if Iran wants to try and protect itself.

As in the US, no one is technically above the law, but in reality, if they can keep chaos going the rule of law becomes the rule of the jungle, and genocide in the Occupied Territories certainly qualifies as the rule of the jungle.

"Losing confidence"? Really. Hegseth has the morals of Ted Bundy and the incompetence of the Three Stooges, but without any of the Three Stooges saving graces.

My country, my country, your dalliance with MAGA is quite possibly going to make America much worse, for a long time...
I do have to admit though that democracy means even the fascists get a vote, and if they prevail...the end of democracy is the result.

Manly men doing manly things...one does wonder just why adult men don't, sooner or later, repent from their needless killing of fellow creatures on this earth.

I am no financial genius but even I would know to check on Trump's history in grifting in the financial world, his astoundingly perverted cheeriness at bankrupting companies as he takes too much of their assets into his financial stream. One does wonder if there really will be a trial...discovery would be a nightmare for those who set up the adventure that cost him so much.

Trump is the best at being the worst, he has gotten his idiot gang so willing to betray America that they sit still for in their face grifters like Jared. Soon there will be primary elections across the nation..one hopes the Republican Party is paid back for their cooperation with the devil.

I wish MAGA folk kept their stupid hats on all the time so we would know who to thank for the return of measles and one fears...polio.

We are being betrayed by our government, in plain sight, as all this anti science nonsense is going to lead to worse health outcomes...

Poor people die around ten years sooner than rich people because...of vegetable oil?
Maybe you make America healthy by passing National Health Care, by not cutting Snap food benefits, by increasing funding for housing and along the way increase taxes on those who are deliberately electing people like Trump because he is will on his way to murdering SS.

Despair comes heavily armed in today's America, and if one wants to commit suicide by cop, and get the most attention...
Trump needs attention, shooters need attention, one worries that June's World Cup games in LA might be the excuse Trump needs to stop the midterms.

It is like having Al Capone as your President and finding out that to make sure he was never arrested himself , top people in the FBI and all other federal investigators were fired if they even thought of investigating Trump, or rather, Capone.

To be so Anti Science in the face of clear evidence that vaccines save lives, that Covid vaccines save lives, that measles is a great danger...well, it is itself clear evidence that Trump cares about votes over lives.

Trump, if allowed, will bankrupt this nation the same way he bankrupted those casinos...and he will demand millions or billions to simply go away, as he did when the casinos went bankrupt.

In some many places, in so many ways, in plain sight, the grift continues as it did in the falling Soviet Union, until that Empire was bankrupt and without a sense of unity, until the senility gave way to the gangsters of present day Russia. Ask yourself, why did the US invest huge amounts in Battleships...ordered by Trump, Battleships that were obsolete at the start of...WWII.

I would phrase this diminution of American influence differently.
Americans voted in a Russian asset to its highest office, twice, and along the way that asset has weakened our Constitutional Republic to the point it just may fall, as the Soviet Union fell, as Russian democracy fell to the gangsters.
Sure, a time of mourning, a time to preserve our pride by speaking out, and voting, knowing all the while that almost none of us get to vote where and when it matters, in the huge corporate boardrooms that first delighted in offshoring American jobs, and now is delighting in turning the American workforce as just an army of robots and software pretend people.

AI, and especially Anthropic, shows just how powerless we are to run our country for our good, rather than the good of a few super rich people. AI will unite with already robotics to make much of what humans do something that AI/robots can to for corporate profit. That profit will take from the poor and give to the rich, those who can invest a lot in companies that, from the start, are about making pretend humans, AI, more human than humans.
AI, at least to my way of seeing, is the alien invasion we have been fearing for many years.