One quite irrelevantly wishes for a war for peace, with a reorganized UN, where to belong a country has to belong to the International Criminal Court, where wars of aggression are penalized.
Problem is, there is far more money to be made in ginning up war over peace.

They still sell tobacco...and it is a poison that kills many millions of Americans, and all those young people will quite possibly be addicted to nicotine and die ten years early from tobacco related deaths, as did my father and both grandmothers. Start 'em on sugar and then caffeine and then tobacco and then expensive drugs from their physician.

Pence is as millions of believers are...trying to stay true to their ethical perspectives, and stay Republican Party members. Trump would do to Vance what was done to Pence, in a heartbeat...have his mob attack him in various ways including through the media.

If Trump doesn't resign soon, if he tries to stay in control through the midterms and then the 2028 elections, of course there will be massive interference with electoral processes all over the country. If it were me, if I were Trump I would be resigning and having Rubio, somehow take over for Vance as VP, to rise as President and then pardon me and my entire nightmare of a gang.
When the Soviet Union Empire fell, the oligarchs got impossibly rich, and when the dictator Putin killed the independent media the Russian people had no way to know what was going on.

Ah, here is a tiny, itty bitty little point that helped the Soviet Empire fall.
When the billionaires profit more from the destruction of the economic system, than from doing the hard work of keeping things working, when they can loot the treasury and buy up all the property worth owning...the country falls.
And here we are in Musk and Bezos land.

Hard to deny that Putin, at least in spirit, has been at Trump's side ever since day one, as Trump weakens America massively, dividing us one from another and America from our traditional and powerful allies.

Why yes, I do say that Trump has turned immigration control and enforcement into his personal brownshirt army....
The American people expect and deserve a strong and secure border, but that is not what ICE is about.

All empires fall, but sometimes there are revolutions that show the disappointment of the lost and the poor. Tax the crap out of the billionaires, arrest the Trump gang for crimes against humanity, certainly Trump is a mass murderer like Ted Bundy.

MAGA made sure America had a murderer in the White House, a man who would ignore international law and elevate the genocidal government of Israel to the status of 51st state. Apartheid is an indicator that a state is not a democracy, goodness knows Israel is no democracy, it has imprisoned millions of Arabs in the illegal Occupied Territories.

I hope there are many people out there as cynical as I am about how the legal system handles a dictator wannabe. The truth of the matter is, MAGA and the billionaire billies, sorry, bullies, got him back in the White House to destroy our constitutional republic not save it. The damage has been done, SS and medicare and medicaid and the Defense Department and the Department of Education, and Health and Human Services, and so many other needed protections for the American people...murdered.

And through it all, make no mistake, is the hand of MAGA, insanely choking itself by elevating our fascist in chief. MAGA, as our empire falls, you elected your own emperor, to destroy our democracy.

Cutthroat capitalism at its finest...cutting jobs, depreciating lives, ruining family hopes...to ally the super rich with the robot called Power, America's future of wreaking havoc for profit.

One fears the future...when the rule of law is finally dead and gone, when independent media is also dead and gone, to be replaced by grinning propaganda tools like Fox News, hello "1984"

One catches glimpses of what the big boys of the oligarch caste are doing, and...one feels distrust,, to the max. Most Americans are fine with their limited knowledge of computer science and of the internet, but certainly AI will be run by and for those who care about hauling in all the money in the universe, from the yokels.
Yokels like me...

I strongly suspect the Iranian war of Trump's will pass the "accomplishments" of the insane Vietnam War...with less done, and our leaving in disgrace earlier.
To attack a nation, in this case Iran, and murder over 80 of its leaders is a war crime, as it is a war of aggression.

And the difference between the mass murdering psychopath Ted Bundy and Putin is ???

Slowly, this civilization of ours is transitioning to a hybrid, part one person one vote democracy, and one dollar, one vote oligarchy.
Bring back the draft, and not let anyone vote until they have served for the mandated time either in a civilian capacity or in the military. And no corporations get fitted for uniforms...

As for me, an oldster...I love NASA, but until they fix the coming SS shortfall, and other FDR safety net programs, I see no need to spend billions to such an excursion.

Just a small, itty bitty tiny point...We murdered over 80 leaders of Iran, with a sneak attack, in a bald faced war crime. Anything that comes after that is not a negotiation, it is extortion and deserving of a visit to the Hague for Trump and Hegseth.

Trump knows that overwhelmingly the Federal Work Force is against him and his cult...so sure, shutting them up and down is part of his grand conspiracy.

They didn't teach in my high school civics class...wonder if Alabama ever bothers even having such classes...

And why would Alabama want to indulge in racism so late in the election cycle, other than to rig things for the far right, totally white.