Science. There are now a huge base of studies that show that the shots work, both for oldsters like me for covid and the flu, and for kids with measles. One even gets some protection from cognitive decline from taking some of the shots...real science shows that. Get a Hep B shot...get some protection.
But...Tennessee..

Listening to Talarico is like listening to Barack Obama or Michelle Obama talk, something inside just relaxes and trusts what is being said, as it is being said by someone who cares about Americans and our lives.

Why yes it is as if Putin were at Trump's shoulder telling him how to weaken American and its intelligence services.

Further weakening the dollar and its influence in the world. We are led by utterly immoral people who really, really don't care about Americans, at least those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. We don't know from a Wall Street Market, all we know is counting our pennies or SNAP benefits at the grocery.

There are a lot of us Vietnam War veterans out here, still surviving, watching this debacle unwind in real time, and remembering how America had to somehow pull itself out of the debacle of the Vietnam War and the miserable Presidency of Nixon/Kissinger.
It is going to get a lot uglier before it gets better, is my guess. Trump may have dementia, but he knows how to play his backers for suckers and losers. Hope no more American military personnel are hurt his blundering.

Trump isn't the most creative person in our government...he follows patterns. Look at how he profited mightily by bankrupting casinos, and then demanding a great amount of money to just go away. As I understand the shenanigans, he played his own partners for suckers and losers.
He, I would imagine, will do the same to the present day Republican Party. They want him to go way away, perhaps before the 2028 elections, they let him rig things so he resigns, and the VP becomes President and pardons Trump for every illegal thing he and his family have done, are doing, or will ever do.
Would you want Trump anywhere around come the midterms, never mind the 2028 elections if you were a Republican?

All in all, replacing James Mattis with Hegseth was the shot that may have lost America as a constitutional republic, as sooner or later the military will be run by Trumpian goons for the good of the billionaire oligarchs, as happened in Russia.

The dollar cannot be as strong as it needs to be if it is in competition with crypto...there is just too much cash running around being laundered.

Dementia, it seems, can walk and talk and show a lot of passion, not appropriate passion, but very real stuff nonetheless.
Want to take bets if Trump is able to carry out Putin's grand dream for another two years, with the help of the Republican Party?

For years, many of us have simply pictured Putin at the shoulder of Trump, whispering in his ear, suggesting as to how he can enrich himself by destroying America. This is surely just another helicopter fleeing from the roof of the embassy...

War, above all, is about the murder of the rule of law, and thus war will never die as the tool of the rich to...well, prove wrong the sentiment that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

This is one ugly world, ugly time. It is true, if Iran's enemies have weapons then Iran has the right to defend itself from those weapons...
Let's see, the US has thousands of nuclear weapons of mass destruction, and by now the Israeli military must have hundreds...all aimed straight at Iran.
Don't suppose the US could just abandon the entire damn Middle East, and leave that insane asylum to its fate?

MAGA, one wonders if our Constitutional Republic will still be standing after the catastrophe called Donald Trump is done destroying things and murdering people. We murdered, in cold blood, over 80 Iranian leaders, and to get them to slow their attack of reprisal, we said we would bribe them with 300 billion dollars. Insanity in the White House, all thanks to MAGA.

As a veteran, thanks to the VA for still offering the covid shots and for helping in this research. It has been known for a long time that for we oldsters, covid shot save lives.

When greed rules over rational organization...think Russian revolution, think many different armies run by the most violent and horrid.
As the oil runs out and we pay for our grand stupidity in listening to the global warming deniers by not having the sustainable energy in place, when huge swaths of America are pretty much unlivable...then the Republican Party will abandon the oil barons...and not before is my guess.

Cue the movie industry...show us what life will be like in ten years...I have problems envisioning everyone linked to high speed in each and every moment...How is not going to just become Orwell's "1984" with a few Muskian oligarchs running the show?

Will our democracy even survive to hold the midterm elections? If Trump can order up a murderous attack on a sovereign nation, and kill over 80 of its leaders...he can do anything, anywhere. For him there is no Congressional oversight, goodness knows there is no ICC.
Courage and uniting with those who remember America as truly being a shining beacon on a hill...all we have left.
No kings indeed, with Trump it is always, all days, no dear leaders...

Fascism is clearly wearing to make an attempt at running the world again, with much of the Trump gang in its grip.

Love is something that will follow that man for many a year...

Well, our democracy may not survive your inhabiting the White House as President, so you have that to crow about...with two years to go you could do even more damage to the US than Vanukovych did to Ukraine prior to their tossing him out to run to Moscow.

We human beings need to have a sense of belonging, of caring for something or some cause bigger than ourselves, so if it is national sports competitions, more the better.

The jury has been back, for many years now, on whether Americans can be trusted, in all their passions, with being heavily armed and walking about the streets. They cannot.

There is a certain sickening odor emanating from dear leader cults. and goodness knows Trumpism is that. Weird things is, sickening as the cult suckup is, it pays off for some idiots. Look at who is running Trump's administration. Cannot get more weird or incompetent than Kennedy.

And I thought my old age was going to be boring...The entire Trump family is a huge bag of corrupt slime. One sees why Trump did his best to first corrupt the highest court first..."Justice Roberts" is as corrupt as he, as far as I can tell.

Mess with my ballot in Oregon, you are committing treason, and that is not to be ignored.