Medical science, proof that there is hope in the future...as opposed to Trump/Kennedy science, proof that idiocy might actually bring polio back, certainly they have brought measles back.

Alexei Navalny wrote in his autobiography "Patriot" that the Soviet Union fell first to the senile leadership, then gangsters took over the bureaucracy and then the oligarchs stole everything that wasn't nailed down...and then pretend democracy under the dictator Putin. Navalny was a hero. Putin and Trump are simply Al Capone type gangsters.

It ain't corruption if he can get you to disbelieve your lying eyes...just as it wasn't an insurrectionist mob...

Musk came in and just tore agency after agency apart. He had little knowledge of the jobs of those he fired, he just wanted to lower governmental expenses so he could have the massive tax cuts for the rich and greedy go through. We are led by very clever, but very bad people. I used to wonder why the German and the Japanese people just let their government hurt so many people, now I know first hand...corruption at the highest level, combined with fascist ideology...

As non violent civil disobedience goes...I love it.

And now the world class grift starts...and if America somehow needs to go to all out war...we are going to find out that sold out souls looking out for themselves don't good leaders make.

For the most part, today's Republican Party is a danger to our Constitutional Republic, because they are smart enough to know that we have a sort of Al Capone now in the White House and almost no Republican has the spine to fight for us, non MAGA folk and protect our rights.

Trump is famous for opposing crypto , saying it was a danger to the dollar,
I also said the same thing.
He then went on to make billions from what said was corrupt and dangerous to America.
Of course, many, many MAGA lost an immense amount in that same crypto scheme.
Sort of government by Al Capone, who pretends to give a damn about you or I, and who walks around in religious garb pretending to be the Messiah of Greed.

Yes, Mike Johnson is a coward and an enemy to our Constitutional Republic...he is willing to risk our military strength in order to kiss Trump's rump. Again. Vote against the NDAA.

And yeah...now look to Texas adding fundamentalist Christianity to public school dogma...a fundamentalist religion that considers women second class citizen...What can wrong with letting religious bigots rule the roost and classrooms?

Still, Citizen United let Musk buy the Presidency for Trump and the 2028 elections...one wonders if a trillionaire has enough money to convince the remaining MAGA to vote for the most corrupt, the worst leader, America has ever seen. Roberts laughed when people told him that Citizens United would cost us our democracy.
Fascism, as defined by me, is the permanent rule of the billionaire caste with a totally corrupt legal system and a pretend democracy, where the rule of law is replaced with the iron hand of the "Dear Leader" monster. One person one vote democracy is replaced by one dollar, one vote...and yeah most states are being massively corrupted by big money and gerrymandering.

And here is my prediction...Trump walked away from those casinos he bankrupted quite wealthy...as he told them the only way they could get their casinos back to try and fix them would be to grease his palms. That was, as I understand it, done, but still, the damage was unfixable.
So, for Trump to walk away from the debacles, plural, he has caused in our democracy, he would need assurances that if he resigned, say, in a month from now, that a party hack, say JD or even Rubio, as VP, would rise to the Presidency and pardon him and his gang from any and all crimes.
He then goes to Mar a Lago rich as hell, laughing all the way.
If Alito or Thomas resigns soon he can put JD, who is a lawyer, in that seat and Rubio as VP.

One has serious doubts that going forward the American electoral system will be even close to representing the needs and voices of the poor and the powerless. They, as in MAGA cultists, haven't taken over each and every department in our government for our good, but for the good of their damn bank accounts.

Ah, corruption...Trump loves the smell of that in the morning...

Why is not the question...the real question is how to entice people from a nation that has it all to come to an America where hate and division and the rise of authoritarianism rule? How stupid do you think people from Norway are?
(My favorite singer comes from there...Sissel).

As I said in Trump's first term...if indeed he sets up prison camps for his opponents, I want to go to the one with the folks from MSNow and people like George Conway. I like intelligent conversations, and in prison one probably is safe from MAGA propaganda.

Some things cannot be opposed, like medical science that over the years has shown that vaccines have saved many millions of lives. Oh sure, Kennedy can oppose them, but not in a rational way, the way one would hope the head of HHS would run his office.

And don't think that in the end, Trump will be brought to justice, to Justice, through the American legal system. He will soon be pardoned for each and every damn thing he and his grifting gang ever did...all he has to do is pardon them, then resign, and then Vance or whoever is his VP at the time, automatically becomes President and pardons Trump.
Otherwise, Trump out of office in an America where the Dems control both Houses of Congress, would be investigated in many states and certainly by the reconstructed DOJ. Resign and get a pardon...what I would do.

Too bad those American media companies didn't fight back like the BBC is doing.

For once I agree mightily with Kennedy...we are, at our core, protected by the Constitution against deadly conduct by private companies. Congress needs to pass a law. Another law.

Wish I wasn't so surprised that the Supreme Court thought things through and held that the Constitution means what it says.

Fascinating. Now, if Voice of America still broadcast into Russia to try and help the Russian people understand how badly they are governed, maybe there would be some hope of Putin leaving his dictatorship.
But gee, for some reason, we cannot fight against the far right bullies running the Russian fascist regime...

I think there is something wrong with me...I looked at that word "unfeasible", and laughed. Trump actually looked for someone to do the impossible, and they proved that it....was impossible. American fascism is on the march, and somedays it is found driving down the reflection pool of stupid.

Corruption and incompetence was always the action plan of the Texas Republican Party, but this particular election will show just how bizarre things have gotten. I look forward to Talarico's election to the Senate, and to his alliance with Bernie to try and help the bottom third of the economic pyramid, rather than the 1%.