Hard to believe that EVs are not the wave of the future.

Half of the human race are female. To disenfranchise them in order for a few ego ridden idiots to be able to prance about on a stage pretending speak for, to be, god, is...is...awfully human.
If I were boss the law would mandate that half of all political positions are filled with women.
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Predator/prey cutthroat capitalism results in decentralized power as the billionaires run things from their very undemocratic boardrooms.

Half of the electorate are MAGA diehards who put a clear fascist into the White House...twice. So yeah, I think we are as the Soviet Union was...falling like a rock. But make no mistake, Russia is powerful even though it is a dictatorship...it has enough nukes to turn the civilized world into one crispy hell. If Trump goes for an illegal coup, he does have his tame and corrupt Supreme Court to rely upon.

Clearly there is a mood in the White House, and that mood is "with us, or against us" and to be with Trump is to be without independent mind, or rational thinking...to be idiotic as Patel and as destructive as Kennedy, that would be RFK Jr, not necessarily the Senator.
Would Trump have the stones to appoint random Jan 6 leaders to ambassadorships?
This chaos happened in Russia too, just read Alexei Navalny's autobiography "Patriot". First came the senile leaders, then the gangsters, and then came Putin and the oligarch inherited wealth royalty.

I think what is happening is that a few years ago the Republican Party was alerted by a demographer that somewhere along the timeline, perhaps in 2045, we whites are not going to be in the majority, and so from then on it is war against that ever happening. The Supreme Court is corrupt, that is clear, as Trump said in regards to them "you owe me". MAGA is white supremacy, it is male supremacy, it is at its core, White Christian Nationalism.
Racism is not new, but it is clear that the midterms just may be a time when America faces a real danger of another Jan. 6 coup attempt.

We Americans are waging war against the world, murdering and blockading at will, all highly illegal but since we murdered the rule of law no one can stop us. It is as if the mass murderer Ted Bundy were running the White House. I don't care if this brutal behavior makes MAGA happy, it is making the US an outlaw nation.

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".