It is as if no one competent is in charge...but the Republican Party has things in control, heck I was just watching their dear leader be "interviewed" and say as much, as he ran away from the interviewer.
No, it is not a good thing to have a man clearly in the grip of dementia running the country and declaring war all around the place.
But hey, what the heck to I know. I am not MAGA, and they were elected twice to run things...

Big oil don't care...it was on board the Republican Party train assaulting oil rich country after country, but the minute such a thing as demand destruction happens around oil...hello peace.

Home is where they have to take you in, if you have to go there.
School, for many of us, was just such a home although we as kids didn't realize that any recognition or attention came at school, and home was to be endured. And so many of us found ourselves looking to go to school forever, at least that was how it seems, and many of us were devastated as we transitioned to adults, unable to know what we wanted to do when we grew up because we really didn't want to grow up.
To be unloved and unwanted and uneducated...hello massive prison populations.

If Putin himself were in the White House he couldn't do a better job at weakening America and dividing us one from another and America from our needed allies.

Legally, why is it that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons? Not arguing the advisability, but the legality.
Israel introduced such weapons of mass destruction and has hundreds aimed straight at Iran, the US has thousands within bombers and missiles. Self defense is the highest priority a nation can have. It is nonsense to say the Iran war is about nukes, it is about stealing Iranian oil, as the conflict has been since we murdered their democracy to put in the Shah.

Not the stupidest thing Trump has ever done, but close. As it is, as a resident of Florida, he is totally on board the astounding lie that human caused global warming is a hoax, all the while Florida coastlines are being submerged thanks to ocean warming.

No such thing as a good Republican in this time of Trump fascism...might as well just admit that half of the country is on board the brownshirt train. Trump corrupted our federal judiciary, and clearly he is about doing the same within our military...

Trump is running out of qualified goons, he now is dipping into the bottom of the barrel. When Vance, a lawyer, is elevated to the Supreme Court, in either Thomas' seat or Alitio's, one has to wonder if Rubio will be soon leading things. No such thing as a good Republican in this time of Trump...though soon they will have a chance to prove me wrong.

Actually, I think when Alito steps down, Vance will be offered his seat first, so that the sold out soul Rubio can be first VP, then President when Trump retires, and then Rubio, like to obedient tool that he is, will pardon Trump and the entire grifting influence peddling clan.
Time will tell. But Roberts took down our democracy when he voted for Citizens United, so yeah, all the rest is politics and pretend.

What a waste of energy...we are fighting against the March of American Fascism out here in America, but there, they are pretending that everything is hunky-dory. To break bread with Trump is to say his murderous warmonger is not so bad. I mourn how much of our once independent media has already fallen to the fascist American billionaires like Musk.

Today's Republican Party is about being sold out souls in service to the billionaire oligarch caste who are taking over America, one corrupt Republican Party member at a time.

Israel is an apartheid nation keeping millions of Arabs locked up in the Occupied Territories until it can unleash its settlers to manifest destiny Israel to double its size and eliminate the Palestinian State once and for all. That is the truth, so every dollar we give Israel, every bullet, every bomb, just makes us co-conspirators. What is going on in Gaza is genocide.

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.