As for me, the greatest loss to date...is our morality, our ability to claim that we are friends of the rule of law. In truth, we murdered over 80 people in a sneak attack on Iran, and we murdered many people on the high seas and goodness knows we murdered many people when we kidnapped Maduro.
We killed more people than Ted Bundy....so I guess we Americans are mass murderers.

So ask someone why they voted for the fascist Trump, to run our democracy. My guess is they felt left out and liked the idea of taking the entire country down the rabbit hole to its demise.

If I were in the travel industry and depended on getting a lot of foreign travelers, I would be holding my breath during the World Cup matches...if ICE treats LA the way it treated Minneapolis, if there are terrorist bombings...if there are riots....

I don't bet, but if I did, I would bet that Trump will, fairly soon, resign so that Vance can rise to the Presidency and pardon everything and anything that the Trump grifting gang has or will do.
Then Trump takes his billions and laughs like anything at all the fools who voted for him to do anything but wreck this country. It is what I would do, though I do long to spend my last years on a Hawaiian beach, and Trump probably has different visions of his heaven on earth.
Is he screwy enough to actually cherish the thought of a fight for a third term?

Surviving a fallen empire, one thinks of the great movie, Doctor Zhivago, who at least had Julie Christie to provide warmth on frozen nights.

And don't forget, a Nepo of a Nepo is a ruling class...looking at who is getting richer and who amongst us is getting poorer.
It took me forever to understand that we "lost' the Vietnam War because we were on the wrong side, we killed to protect French Colonialist imperialism and domination of the poor by the rich.

Predator/prey cutthroat capitalism, the kind practiced by the Trump grifting gang, says things are going absolutely wonderfully if a few billionaires at the top run the show for the rest of us buried at the bottom.
And one watches the sold out Supreme Court make sure your vote doesn't actually control anything or anyone. Today's Republican Party is the property of the grifting class, Wall Street and the rest, who are doing great.
If you voted for Trump twice...this is so on you.

I don't know, the billionaires and the Trump gang are doing quite well using AI, of course, their plotting is in your face power, or did you think that tariffs were a tool to help you, instead of the big boys.

Clearly, today's Republican Party is as yesterdays was...segregation in terms of who gets to be at the top of the economic pyramid, and who gets discriminated against in the voting booth...all to support the billionaire oligarchs who run this country. Yes, things are getting more and more expensive, but the money is flowing into their pockets, out of your's.

Fascism is the permanent rule of the very rich over the rest of us, using violence, intimidation, and above all, gaslighting propaganda masquerading as independent media. Capitalism in America made the transition to fascist state building years ago.

For once there is a politician who is willing to call Israeli apartheid for what it is, a murderous land grab. Evil is noted by the universe, and then there is payback. I hope against hope the world can somehow find a way to help Palestinian Arabs create a state before they and their dream are killed. Killing Arabs to establish an Israeli state means Israel no longer deserves American support. And yeah, I wouldn't trust Trump to do the right thing ever.

Murder is murder, and just because you have the power to kill at will doesn't make you a savior, it makes you a mass murderer like Ted Bundy.

Trump is a man clearly in the grip of delusion, immersed in his own inner turmoil and memories. Reality, now that is not allowed in such a brain, nor is caring for the poor and powerless, especially if they are not engaged in bending a knee and genuflecting to the same delusions that he is.

Strange how China is held in such low regard, if one goes to Fox unNews, and in such high regard when it comes to major world nations who are not run by an idiot who says that human caused global warming is a hoax.

Men of vision and peace, proven warriors for the rule of law. America revealed that at least some of us had a clear vision for a future of wonder, and unity, when we elected President Obama.

All I have to defend my country from the forces of fascism, and both Trump's former Chief of Staff and his former Secretary of Defense said he was fascist to his core, is my itty bitty vote. I would love to cast a vote for, say, Mark Kelly for President and someone like AOC or Mayor Pete for VP.
Hope there are both midterms this November and of course, the elections of 2028, without a Trump in sight when one looks to the federal ballot.

Hurry up and create a way to reverse time...I want to go back in line and do this living thing again, and this time raise hell rather than being the good kid. Imagine being in junior high and knowing what you know today...okay, maybe not junior high, that would be miserable no matter the conditions.

I am certainly no automotive designer, but I am sure I could design a better looking vehicle, certainly one with more practical uses than the Cybertruck. It is not as if you can rob a. bank and drive away without being noticed...there are very few around. Kind of says, labels itself as saying..."here I am, I voted for a clear fascist twice...and all I got was this overpriced goofball of a truck".

Talk about suckers and losers.

Second Amendment...A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Wikipedia article on it is really informative, but all in all, we don't live in the same world as those who framed the Constitution lived in. The National Guard is a well regulated militia, the guy who wants to buy an easy to convert to automatic fire assault rifle...not in a militia other than the one in his mind.
As long as the far right keeps us divided and afraid to assert our needs for peace and safety, all mass gatherings will have to be protected from...that guy.
The people are the militias, they were not referring to individuals.
If Madison lived in these times, read the times every day...

Apple, it is rumored, is about to come out with such devices...hope the recording indicator is large and obvious.

MAGA elected Trump twice, so they clearly don't care about much of anything to do with health and human services.

If Putin hadn't attacked his friendly neighbor...so many people on both sides would still be alive. But he did and he is nothing more than a mass murdering psychopath...He probably figured he had to attack Ukraine or else its incipient democracy with the rule of law would have encouraged Russians to do the same thing, try to run the country for the people not the billionaires.

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.