I would love for the opportunity to vote for Mark Kelly for President in 2028, it will take someone like him, with guts and intelligence, to try and reverse the horrendous damage the Trump grifting gang has done to our country.

As for me, I simply define fascism as being the permanent rule of the very few oligarch billionaires over the rest of us, using intimidation, violence, gaslighting propaganda, and utterly corrupt political systems bought off to elevate the rich to god status, where the rule of law no longer applies. We are now, in more and more parts of the US, a fascist state, and that is that. We are as the Russians were as their Soviet State fell to outside forces, the CIA etc, and to inner oligarch rule.
I vote, living in a Blue State in a Blue City, as least for now, one's vote means something.

There are six "Justices" who lied through their teeth at the Congressional hearings, saying there really was a thing called stare decisis...and then they did what they could to overturn the people's right to have human rights, say, the right to own their own bodies...and certainly they were all about Citizens United changes that stole American elections for the oligarchs. As Trump said, they owed him their jobs, and they paid him back a hundred fold.

That is the thing about delusional thinking, when one is talented in such ways, one can be commanding an army of supporters working for all, when in fact one is simply a muttering fool. Still, like the Mafia leader who wandered around NY city pretending he was crazy to avoid "the man"...not easy to fool people into leaving you alone when they watch you profit mightily from your crimes.

Put simply, a significant part of Trump's "army" is composed of the "non-college", people who never went to college, and would never go, they were intellectually separated from those who would go and become leaders and all that. So sure, Trump mocks the educated, for those who really will show up, are showing up, for elections, seeing Trump as their champion.
Sure, Harvard talent is great and necessary, but for too long this country offshored the jobs "the non college" used to have, this country lionized those with Phd degrees and denigrated those in the trades.
Happened in Hungary, in many places across the world, as the far right wins previously showed.

No one wants Iran to have nuclear weapons, certainly they were not working for such things when President Obama's deal was in force, and very few wished for Israel to build up a massive force of at least two hundred nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed straight at Israel's enemies in that part of the world, including Iran. If one nation develops and aims weapons at another sovereign nation, that sovereign nation has the perfect right of self defense.

One wonders if we are at end stage Trump administration, where he resigns and retires to Mar a Lago and doesn't have to worry about insulting his base, or if we are at end stage American Constitutional Republic, since he is now bragging about not bothering to follow several of the Constitution's mandates, including going to Congress in regards to his illegal attack on Iran that led to $5 gas.
Or yeah...both.

At this stage in the Trump conspiracy, literally no one can be trusted to protect the people's interests over...Trump's personal needs and wishes. She is free to plead the fifth, they are free to give her a pass on anything she says, she is free to say she would not reveal Trump administration secrets. And there we have the hearings?

Trump is responsible for the carnage. Sure, he is old and lost in his delusions, but legally, he is perfectly fine to stand trial for the many, many war crimes he has committed. It is murder in every jurisdiction in America to kill criminal suspects extrajudicially, by the way.

Why yes, we are led by idiots and very, very incompetent people. Hegseth had never run an large agency like the Defense Department, but that is ok, before MAGA elected Trump to be President, he had never been in the military or served as a political leader anywhere, at any time.

It is not hard...it is not complicated, Israel is a genocidal apartheid state keeping millions of Palestinian Arabs locked up behind concrete and bullets, bullet paid for by American money.
And also, the Nazi murders of millions of people because they were Jews happened and must never be forgotten or forgiven.
Netanyahu is a terrible person, but then, so is Trump.

Israel's many wars of aggression illustrate how committed they are, under Netanyahu and Trump, to in your face genocide.

Yeah, negotiations tend to go badly when one, in preparation for the negotiations murders over 80 of a nation's leaders including the father of the guy now in charge. Of course, a permanent war in the Middle East is what Netanyahu wants and needs and he has enlisted Trump in his insane love of wars of aggression.

War, or murderous attack on a Nation with the intention of stealing their oil, clearly an illegal war of aggression. Here I am writing of both the present wars against Iran and against Venezuela and of course the coming war with Cuba, a nation without oil but Cuban exiles have a lot of votes in Florida.

Israel has the "disease" of being an apartheid state, and it has infected many countries, most notably the US, with the sickness of genocide. Weird thing is, if Israel had instead worked hard for peace and worked to help the Palestinians establish a state, Israel would be stronger, more unified.

Fascinating...Musk bought a Presidency for Trump and he is the world's richest oligarch...one would think he has it all wrapped up...nice to see independent judiciary in action.

I am a bit surprised at how much heat this all has produced considering who the President and his family represent, have represent, will represent, over time.
And yes, I fully expect Trump to resign if the midterms go as badly as predicted, so Vance can pardon him and his entire grifting empire.

Trump admires Putin for many reasons, but I am sure one of the top reasons is that Putin owns the Russian legal system, and as a dictator he gets to turn every thought and impulse into reality...
Trump, our President is a danger to the safety of the world...we went from being a shining city on a hill to being the most dangerous, drug addled heavily armed gangsters out there, and here. We even let people murder children in schools...something correctable by controlling firearm possession.

Just a small point...Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed straight at Iran, so Israel is in no danger from Iran. The attack by the US and Israel on Iran was murder, illegal and was, at one point in the history of the UN, actionable. But now the rule of law has been encased in concrete and dumped into the depths of the Strait...
Trump is bankrupting America as he bankrupted those casinos, for his personal enjoyment and profit.

Problem is, many if not most of those who vote for Trump are about such racism and the domination of white men over women, over those with Black or Brown skin, whose religion might not be fundamentalist Christian.

Julius Caesar, in his most insane, grandiose moments, doesn't compare to Trump wild eyed narcissism. Napoleon, Alexander the Great...Trump joins the army of those who don't care who they murder, who they invade, pathological murderers all.
Trump is at war with each and every freethinking America out here in our American who likes those Constitutional freedoms like freedom of religion, freedom from religion, of speech, of the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition...
Damn the Republican Party for championing someone who loves seeing American fascism on the march, who has no problem with the Lee Atwater campaigning tactic of dividing all using hate.

Closed door lying session, one figures if anyone knows how dangerous it is to tell the truth about the Trump cult, it is Pam Bondi.

And equally dangerous for America and Americans, China is far more advanced than the US when it comes to sustainable energy and having a unified people. But then, hate and division are the only things the Trump cult have to offer.
We are led by grifting gangsters, and we are wandering in a very dangerous and frightening world, without competent leadership. Personally, I think Trump these days is more and more intentionally a Russian asset.

Without racism and misogyny the Republican Party would be toast as a national party, and we all know that. Research Lee Atwater if you have doubts.

Sort of like me saying I was a great student when I first went to college, gambling on the hopes that no one remembers me...but still, Discovery...sending people subpoenas having them testify in open court or in a deposition to the truth...I would bet Kash would be mighty embarrassed, and a lot poorer, for he is liable for defamation when he takes after those who testify.
(Gee...all those hours watching Law and Order is paying off...I understood what is going on, I think).