You cannot take it with you, I am told. Trump is what is happening across the American financial world, the rich are becoming gods in that they own it all, their kids get the best, and the poor get...trade school.

America was lucky as hell to have the fight for rights of African Americans led by MLK Jr., as he believed in non violent civil disobedience. It took a long time, but things are definitely better than they were in 1960. In twenty years or so we whites will not longer be in the majority...now that would be an amazing time to experience. Even Trump using ICE as his brownshirt gang will not change the demographics.

Again, one does wish there were job qualifications in political jobs, people would have to show talent and experience in high level jobs...

One might ask if the ugly can get worse, I mean we started a war with Iran and murdered over 40 of its leaders, partially to distract from the Epstein files. If the Dems do gain control of both Houses of Congress and the Epstein files are released, what is left for Trump to do but try another insurrection riot?

MAGA looked at Trump and the women he ran against, and they said...hell no, we won't be allowing no woman to be boss...
And so, the idiocracy, for at least a couple of months, or perhaps for two years.
Imagine decent people, imagine there actually being a heaven, imagine Jimmy Carter looking down and weeping for his country.

Either the rule of law, or the law of the jungle, take your pick...goodness knows I wish the UN could adjudicate all such issues...
But then, I am an American and my idiotic government routinely murders criminal suspects on the high seas...so clearly I am powerless to stop anything or anyone.

Massively important medical study, that America will mostly ignore. To know the facts, and still go out to a Saturday or Sunday football game, or High School Friday night for that matter, is shameful, it just is. Clearly, football should be abolished in high schools as it is child abuse.

In every jurisdiction in America, the extrajudicial killing of criminal suspects is murder. They are carrying out those murders in your name, if you are an American.

He bankrupted those casinos but don't forget, he refused to leave their governance until he was given a lot of money. Then he left and the rest were left to try and pick up the pieces. That sure feels like how he is treating this country as well...bankrupted, for the profit of himself and the billionaires, and then he either gets total pardon or...nice country you got here...

How they treat people in foreign lands is how they are going to treat us right here in the good old usa. If you are at the bottom of the economic pyramid, you are worthless to them, so you survive only if you struggle and take whatever low wage is offered....unions are the enemy in America.
ICE murders people, and so does Hegseth, day and night.
Read up on Hitler's brownshirts if you want to see what may be heading our way in the last days of the lead up to the midterms.

It was nice belonging within a country, my country, the United States, when it did peaceful and useful things around the globe, when it cared about the poor and powerless right here at home. Now, I live in a country that is led by some terrible human beings, war criminals who murder at will for their own personal profit, and along the way, they are bankrupting the treasury by insanely large tax cuts for the billionaire caste.

Late stage capitalism looks like late stage communism looks like late stage Russian style fascism...a few billionaire oligarchs own most of the wealth and have corrupted the entire legal system...And here in the good old late state capitalist empire of the Trump fascist regime, we look forward to several years of hell as he tries to destroy our one person one vote democracy with the help of the bully gangster Musk.

The DOJ is just another arm of the Trump fascist regime and that is that. Corruption is the order of the day.

If in federal forests, they are my trees, I am a citizen and I own them. If you follow the money...one thing the people don't get is a return on owning their own country. That isn't socialism, it is pure capitalism.

Big money showing its...love of self and hate of the people. As many have said, including Bernie, either we take money out of politics or we lose our Constitutional Republic to the billionaire oligarchs, as Russia lost their young democracy.

Shades of the Vietnam War years, as we, yes, woke, to the fact that the war was engaged in without properly looking at the fact it was a civil war to defend the people against the colonial aggressor, in that case, the French Catholics, and in the case of the Iran war...not the clerics, but by killing all the Iranian leaders, all we did was consolidate the people into fighting the US. This is an illegal war in Iran, and our murder of those leaders was a war crime, and not getting Congressional Approval made the war quite illegal.

All I know is that for the first time in my long life, Comcast offered me near gigabit speeds, and I indulged and it is quite wonderful. If it is possible to offer over cable wires, the great majority of Americans are able to have it, and the feds are just being...wrong.

Only two choices for how the future goes, either we devolve into being a fascist, banana republic state where the super rich dominate, as in Russia, or we evolve into a country where all share in the wealth and have access to a great medical system and have decent housing.
Trumpism or Bernie-ism.

So if the cops can have shock gloves...cannot any citizen on the street wear them as they will?

I mourn this war, it seems to showcase bravado and boys with big missiles over the need to work toward a dream of a peaceful, united planet were the rule of law is prime.
We are the war criminals here, we are the murderers who tricked the Iranians into meeting so that we and our 51st state, the nuclear powered Israel, could kill them. If that is fair for us, that kind of sneak attack on their leaders...

It is as if Putin were standing at Trump's elbow, showing him how to bankrupt this country and weaken our military. Both Russia and China stand to gain from our weakness and from having an idiot like Hegseth in charge.

American Fascism on display. Here, I define Fascism as "the permanent rule of the very rich oligarchs, at the top of the economic pyramid, allowed to live as kings and queens of all". Russia is a fascist state, and so is America, though for a bit still we get to vote, but make no mistake about it, if there is even a chance the rule of the fascists might fall, we will end in some sort of nuke exchange that will stop the voting this time.

Is it mean to hope that a lot of previously unvaccinated MAGA parents get measles themselves?

Ah, the rule of law...I love the optimism shown...one can appeal to the courts for justice. Imagine a world where the rule of law held power, where America would have had to go to an international court to fight Iran, rather than commit the war crime of murdering over 80 of its leaders.

Oh, many of us out here know full and well we are not in control of out government, of our country...them's with the big bucks own both. But we get a chance to cast our tiny vote in November, and then in 2028, and one hopes a lot of tiny votes unite to de-elect the damn quisling Republican Party.