Fascist war criminal, and here I am writing of our President in the US, wants a friend at the meetings, so he makes sure Putin, the worst war criminal on the planet, attends.

Remembering the far right bigots put on the Supreme Court by the Republican Party, and their lies about "settled law"...yeah, lies are what we have come to expect.

Ignorance of a problem is not solving it, and it sure seems like the geniuses in the Executive Branch are intent on ignoring the needs of the sick and the "ahem", minority, and the "male" of course.

Well, she is clearly willing to sell whatever is left of her soul to the Trump gang for a few bucks and people being forced to listen to her lies, so maybe either Press Secretary or another follower slightly behind him telling him he is the best and the smartest and his name will live in the people's minds forever.
In truth, of course, Trump will be as Thatcher was, yes, there will be great celebrations all over the land when he dies, but it will be a uniting of those who hate his guts and what he has done to our America for Putin.

A positive action honoring an honorable person...may that be the order of the day.

A quick word about repression, when they can trick us into stifling ourselves, we become more and more depressed. The cure...is tell your truth, and in this case, try to wake up MAGA to the insanity they have imposed on our country.

At the moment I am reading a memoir of Charley Sheen, and I expect there to be an explosion of memoirs coming from professional military people who tried to serve their country honorably while it was led by incompetent people like Trump and Hegseth. I would love to read James Mattis' memoir of Trump's first term.
As for me, I am convinced we Americans are trapped by a Viktor Yanukovych situation. He was the Putin quisling who led Ukraine until he ran away to Russia, and administered Ukraine for the greater glory...of Putin. Trump is such a person, it sure seems to me, he is dividing us one from another and America from its allies. In Ukraine, they got rid of all those nukes and received a promise from Russia to not invade...
Russia might not try to invade America, but Poland, or some other NATO country....perhaps.

Well, "w" was wildly unpopular until 9/11.

The new way that Trump's ring can be kissed, lying about the health status of Americans.
Well, after you spend decades lying about human caused global warming which is going to be devastating...a few cases of measles is not such a big thing.
We are led, at least writing of the Executive Branch, by that scary combination of incompetence and craving for power that surely will result in, not only brownshirts, but a riot of insurrectionists called upon by Trump if both Houses go to the Dems.
He needs a Hamas style terroristic action so he can declare martial law.

On one count I don't disagree with the new standards...sex work is not anyone else's business.
But that ---------- thing...one has questions...

Let's see, they gave a guy 28 million and he has to give back 700k. Big money sports is all about the...greed?

Well, Trump and Hegseth did invade/murder people in Iran and Venezuela to steal oil, so why wouldn't those gold reserves be any different? Trump has an excuse, he clearly has cognitive decline which he is trying to hide by insulting everyone and everything, but Hegseth has no excuse...

If Israel cared about democracy and the rule of law, and about the Palestinian People it wouldn't have assassinated Rabin. Israel is an apartheid nation every bit the racist murderous nation that South Africa was, or for that matter, Hitler's Germany was when the Jews were rounded up and locked in the Warsaw Ghetto.

It is the platform on which all fascist national takeovers rest...hate of "the other". Here in the US it is those with Black or Brown skin who speak a language not English, who have a religion not fundamentalist Christian. It is how Trump got elected, gearing up the fear of "those people". In the UK it was how the far right got the UK to leave the EU...
Lot of votes in hate.

Making America over in his image...barren, pretentious, without compassion for the outcast and those at the bottom of the pyramid...

Should be illegal to bribe a public official, but in the time of Trump and in the world of the Roberts corrupt Supreme Court, bribery is how things get done. Citizens United is taking America down to full on fascism by the oligarch caste.

Propaganda is not needed when a nation tells the truth, and when it doesn't, words are ignored.

No way Trump and Hegseth are working to strengthen America, every day they divide us one from another and America from our strong allies. If Putin were in the White House, at Trump's shoulder things couldn't be worse.

All the Republican Party has to do to get rid of trump is pay him off, the way he got paid off to go away from the bankrupted casinos. Sure, America is now bankrupt thanks to the massive tax cuts, but Trump, I am sure, would take a few billions to go back to Mar a lago with a complete pardon.

If ever there were a war that proved Marine General Smedley Butler's comment, and title of his book, War is a Racket, it is this Middle East war to steal Iranian oil, and kill Iranians for Netanyahu.

As has been pointed out since the founding of this country, we either take money out of politics and elections, or it all falls to the inevitable revolution of the rich and greedy caste.
And yes, I do think we are in a falling empire, there are too many of the uncaring, super rich looting the treasury with huge tax cuts to ever pay our bills, so that means we are in fact BANKRUPT.

Think Putin is afraid of the Russian legal system? He owns it, lock, stock and political class.
While I think many in the Democratic Party here in America are fine human beings, they are trying to be lawmakers in a land run by gangsters, and even if the midterms go their way...Trump. He can get us into a shooting war at any minute, to distract from his grifting ways.

It is the inevitable rise of the gangster caste when you elect someone like Al Capone to run your government, then the real law is outlawed so the outlaws can steal at will. We are living in a falling empire, run as the Russian empire is run, for their own gangsters, the billionaire oligarchs.

Oh hell, I should hang out a shingle and give financial and legal advice. I am not a billion dollars in debt, and have no real idea how the markets work, other than to be absolutely certain the game is rigged, no matter what game, by this time the super rich have it all under their control to fleece the poor and the powerless.
These days I often hear the songs of the "Music Man" rambling around in my head as I see the corruption spread. The "hero" was a con man who sold lies and musical instruments...

This country of ours has so many needs, so many old and disabled people struggling to get through their days, but Trump and his gang are focused on grabbing all the grift and bribes they can before the midterms probably bring in the cops, or the Democratic investigations.