The weird things is, ok, one of the weird things about Musk, is that so much of his wealth comes from the people;s treasury, and truth be told, NASA could have done what he has done by hiring the same magnificent engineers....
Musk is about socialism for the oligarchs. And screw Mars, by the way, it is fool's grift.

Well, if Santos actually gets convicted, one would expect Trump and his gang to make such an activity to be quite legal, or one expects Trump to get himself pardoned some way or another.

Maybe America has to give Trump 10% of all appropriations so that they actually come to be.
What a gangster...thanks MAGA, we have for all time a great example of a terrible leader.

Break bread with evil, you are excusing the evil, or applying for a job in its gang....

Do good, avoid evil, purify yourself...what the Buddha was supposed to have replied when asked how an adherent could follow his ways...
I wonder what a simplification of Trumpism would look like...
Don't care about doing good or avoiding evil, just grift it all until the rubes come for you with pitchforks?

I find it fascinating that the word "fascism' has morphed, now while it still describes cult behavior, the greater danger is that it describes the permanent rule of the billionaire caste over the rest of us at the bottom third of the economic pyramid, using hate, fear, division from fear of the "other", and the utter destruction of our once powerful independent media. Gaslighting propaganda ls the order of the day for most people in their media markets.

When one thinks about it, it is really weird to make one's skin color the controlling element in how one respects another human. But then, we are a land that, not many years ago, held that all Black people, including little children, were born to be slaves.
Hate is certainly on the ballot in most of the country, certainly in the Deep South.

At this point there is little say, since them's that have ears to hear have already gone antiMAGA, and those in the cult...think Berlin contrasted the start of Hitler with the huge rallies, and the end days of Hitler, when all those cheers turned to horror.

It is not as if we in America are sitting pretty and don't need massive works to be done by our government...say about human caused global warming, and making sure FEMA is up to snuff.

I am a Vietnam Veteran...so let me comment on how low my contempt for some public officials can go...or, on second thought, let me simply express contempt for those MAGA who are still empowering our idiot in the White House as he murders his way across the globe. Imagine if Iranians had flown drones into Congress and killed over 80 of our leaders, and then they asked us to negotiate a treaty...
Yes, people like Kissinger and Hasset can lie day and night, with a straight face, or with a grin on their faces.

Imagine yourself as being the target of far right misinformation and doxxing...I give Talarico and the other Democratic candidates for the House or Senate a lot of credit for putting up with Republican Party harassment.

The Iranian hardliners profit from Trump attacking them, and for a time, Trump profited by murdering Iranian leaders. If there were a functional United Nations and International criminal court, the ICC would be holding hearings on the war crimes committed by Trump and Hegseth.

Too bad history rewards the psychopathic bloody bullies who murder and call it leadership, and lead from being the worst of the worst, terrorists with a joy of killing, for in one regard history has to mention Trump, he is a man who, without talent or a vision, stole a political party, the Republican Party, and used it to steal from the people, mercilessly. Just as was done as the Soviet Union fell and the billionaires looted the treasury and everything that wasn't nailed down.

As corruption goes, Trump is world class, head of the class, going into the history books for all time..
Sure, he is the worst President ever, if one looks at the Presidency as being an office in service to the people of America, but as a candidate to the grifting hall of fame...stunning. Just watch his face as his critics point out his crimes...he takes great pleasure in it all.

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.

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.