Interesting concept...late stage capitalism, which many of us see America being captured by, to the massive profit of the oligarch caste. One key part of late stage capitalism is that there is an economic pyramid with a few at the top, owning maybe half of the wealth, and the rest of the country struggling at the bottom
Funnily, some of us also see late state communism as pretty much the same thing, as a few billionaire oligarchs grift their way to immense wealth, as happened as the Soviet Union fell.

I just watched a small video of Abdul El-Sayed explaining Medicare for All. Sure makes sense to me...would be a relief for tens of millions of Americans.

I wonder if MAGA would like to weigh in and explain the rationality behind our support of the apartheid nation, Israel, as if it is our 51st state, and them maybe explain that sneak attack that murdered over 80 of the Iranian leaders, meeting at our direction to hammer out another agreement.

I just spent a quiet moment or two delightedly daydreaming about America rationally taking all of its forces, and money, out of the insane asylum called the Middle East, and having a foreign policy of "tending to our own knitting", to use an olden phrase.
We are, more and more, looking as the Soviet Union looked as it fell, and it could no longer pay the electricity bill for its military bases and it couldn't afford to keep a fleet roaming the seas.
We are, as they were, led by senility and criminality, and our oligarchs are looting the treasury, in effect.

If someone gave me a couple of billion dollars to invest, just because of who I am related to, by marriage, yeah, I would be grinning too.
Worst President ever with the worst advisors ever...

If Trump is nettled about his past trials...come 2028, or after the midterms if the Dems take back both Houses of Congress, there will be massive investigations looking at his "wealth building' .

Fascism is always on the hunt...its hate needs to be fed, night and day, and Trump is the clearest example of that. Has Trump done anything of merit in regards to the poor and powerless in America, for those who cannot afford their rents...cannot find a health plan that lets their children get covered?
Sure, there are governmental programs but Trump and his gang are doing what they can to take those lifesaving programs away. Many people have died since they shut down USAID.

Either Trump is relieved of his command, or America, fairly soon, will bear the responsibility for unforgivable war crimes, more war crimes.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Republican Party to find its spine.

It is one thing to have an enemy across the ocean who one fears, it is quite another to have one such person sitting as the leader of one's own country. Frightening times, incompetence leading the way in all spheres of governance.

If Putin were sitting in the White House as Trump's sole advisor, things couldn't be handled more stupidly.

So Trump resigns just before the midterms, rather than after, and is pardoned by President Vance, and he hides from being in the public eye.
If he doesn't, the Republican Party is going to lose an amazing amount of political power, almost overnight.

"Join us in the denuclearization of...Iran..."?
Iran, to be clear, had no nuclear weapons, whereas Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed straight at Iran.
South Korea needed to keep its forces at home...it has an implacable enemy just across its border.
Trump is the worst President in history...he takes aim at our allies and pretends to be great friends with our enemies.

Again, if it were me, I would be plotting out my resignation from the Presidency so that the VP can automatically rise to the Presidency and pardon me and my entire grifting gang. I do believe courts have ruled there are limits to a President's pardon power, he cannot pardon himself, and he cannot do it as part of a criminal activity. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Roberts' Court holding him to the law.

Texas...given the choice between a good person Talarico, who is in it to serve the people, and the other guy, there is a chance Paxton will be their Senator for six years. We deserve the politicians we get...

Maybe in the middle of a war you go with the system you have...big change has to weaken our posture.

Well, we sure as hell seem to be following a path, the one that leads to Orwell's "1984".

Hell, even my dark chocolate, that helps me wake in the morning, is way up. Trump;s early life, as I understand it, was as a wildly pampered kid of super rich parents....he had no way to know how the middle class live, never mind we the poor. He was and is about himself. Does't belong as President of this huge country. He is profiting mightily by things, so of course he smiles a lot.

At this point, I don't believe one damn word from anyone linked to the Trump debacle. I am sure, behind the scenes, corruption is pretty much all this is going on.

Imagine with me, that AIPAC loses power and America once and for all finally sees that Israel is not the 51st state...and we walk away from the entire insane asylum called the Middle East.

This is one crazy country in one crazy time. We vacillate between people like Barack Obama as President, the best in my book, and Donald Trump as President, not only the worse but, writing as one as old as he, utterly without the capacity to learn to even care that he is destroying our country.
I do know one thing though...there is no such thing as a good Republican in this time of Trump...they are profiting off his greedy and hate.

As empires fall, those who are the most greedy and without any ethical concerns, loot the people's treasury and hide their criminality behind insane foreign wars.
Well, here we are...falling, falling, and not in love but instead, into whatever late stage capitalism presents to us.
We the poor, one thing is certain, no one is looking out for us.

Well, if my wife had just given birth and was working for a cruel idiot who made her stay on a "bait" plane while the boss hid away...I would ask her to find another job...her family needs her in one piece.

Must be disgusting to have worked so hard to become a lawyer and then found oneself in the employ of Trump's version of the American government, out to mess with the poor and the powerless by championing lies by Trump and his gang.

The reason that the US hasn't left the area to its madness, I am sure, is because enough money has been distributed to those in power, including both parties in Congress, to keep American power killing for...not sure what or who, to be truthful.

Sooner or later, all governments face the same risk, communist or capitalist...late stage anything results in a few greedy bullies trying to rule forever, and take everything. In a dark sense, there is little difference between what is happening in Russia, China, North Korea, and the US...banana republic or democracy. The SPLC has been an ally of democracy and the truth for a long long time, so of course it is under attack. I sincerely fear for the coming midterm elections. If Trump and his gang need a terroristic attack to stop the elections....like Netanyahu needed Hamas...