Bizarrely, the American people, on both sides, are for strong and secure borders. The problem is that Trump and his far right gang are about generating hate for people with Black or Brown skin, especially those who speak Spanish...as that tactic is what works to frighten some people. It is how Farage to the UK to leave the EU, which weakened both, for Russia is my opinion.

Bankruptcy works for those with all the money...and here I am referring to the bankruptcy of America, a nation that cannot, or simply will not pay its debts. That is why taxes are being reduced for those with a lot of money, they know what is coming and they don't care that the social networks will be hammered.
Think jerks like Musk and Ellison are about shoring up Social Security? Musk will end up killing many many thousands with his attack on USAID.

Israel under Netanyahu is every bit the apartheid nation that South Africa was, but Israel doesn't have the guts that South Africa displayed in ending apartheid and going to a full on one person, one vote, share the power, democracy.

Discovery, while I am not a lawyer, is now one of my favorite words. In lawsuits, it means that if Trump accuses you of terrible things, defaming him or whatever, you get to get his own records and recording of what he said and did, in order to discover and show the truth to a jury.
And yeah, the truth is in short supply whenever Trump attacks someone for opposing him. One thing Trump is not, he is not in any way someone who supports the First Amendment's protections for free speech.
It is why our new Greek Ambassador isn't going to sue anyone anytime soon...there are actual recordings of her bragging about her "pay to play' actions.

Weirdly, all that Trump and his gang have really done is show Americans, and the world, that our election process of having the states run the elections works and works well.

I notice that nothing has been done to her, and unless she is replaced, our Ambassador to Greece will be a very corrupt Trump crook.
Ok, not a surprise other than it was in the press, usually the grift is handled a little more discretely.

So we had a workable agreement, then Trump urinated on it. He then ordered, or rather Netanyahu ordered, the Iranian leadership to gather to construct another agreement, and when they did, he and Trump and Hegseth murdered over 40 of the Iranian leaders, in a clear war crime.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, at this point that comes from either Netanyahu or Trump/Hegseth is to be trusted even a little bit.

As for me, I get that America is engaged in late stage, or end stage, capitalism, where a very few greed merchants own most of everything, and they control the political world so the poor have no chance at gaining ground. And, bizarrely and funnily enough, late stage communism seems to work the same way, a very few Kims or Xis or whoever, own the state.
Human nature seems to listen to fear and the need to dominate over the sense that we are a community and need to watch out for each other.

This modern day UN had proven itself, is proving itself, to be a worthless organization since war criminals like Putin and Trump get to veto anything they don't like. We just attacked, legally, the ICC, of course, as the rule of law is something Trump hates mightily.

Another way to drive the stock market up, so those rich folks who live and die by dividends and "the market" can see their investments rise, at least temporarily. If Trump and his gang gave a rip, they wouldn't have done what they could to take from the poor to give to the rich in the huge tax cuts.
Probably doesn't matter, as it sure does seem to some of us out here that America is now bankrupt, in that bankruptcy is about either not being able to pay one's debts, or unwilling.

Kind of odd, when I was a lot younger, I had to do a lot of research to understand the candidates and the needs of the country. Now...I just vote Blue, and that is that. There is no such thing as a good Republican in this time of Trump, if they were any good, they would have been McCained or tossed into the street like Cornyn.

I sit at my computer some mornings and just wander around the news sites more and more weirded out...
Somehow half of the electorate took a look at the Trump gang and said, sure, I am going to vote for greed and racism and hatred of women and the bankruptcy of America.
And now, here we are.
To fix the problems would require, can one unplug and reboot and entire federal government?

Practicing for Judgement Day?

Bottom line, times two...
Both Israel, which has hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction, and the US, which has thousands, cannot tell any other country not to have the same weapons. Israel introduced those nightmare weapons into the insane asylum called the Middle East, and then convinced Trump to go along with murders of 40 of the top Iranian leadership who were meeting at our insistence to craft another agreement. So now it appears that Iran is more unified than ever, with the hated clerics, against the West.
And now the Saudis want nukes...
Our foreign policy is designed by stupidity itself.

Make no mistake about it, MAGA would rather destroy America, make it a bankrupt banana republic, if that meant that they, white male fundamentalist gangsters still ruled the rest of us.

Social Security needs to be protected not only for we oldsters of today, but for those who are just starting their work lives. Problem is, with this present Republican gang running things, thinking ahead is seen as a dumb thing, not a brilliant thing.

Kennedy is one cruel man. He is not so stupid as to think that what he has demolished will never return. He clearly loves being in the bully role. He is what the world was run by long ago, ignorance and a willingness to let the poor and the powerless suffer.

One expects that she is going to find out the difference between having power and having respect. Her mocking of mainline media is going to haunt her for a long long time.

Yeah, the same kind of takeover is happening in Colleges all over the land, here in Oregon Nike and its allies are turning the UofO into a right wing employment agency, and many programs of a social nature are being cut. Republican Party nose got into the Presidency of the University, and now the corruption of Nike is complete. People are distracted by big time sports, which is a tragedy since CTE is most likely going to be found in the brains in many football players, when a test is finally found for a living person.

And those with oil to sell are making out like bandits, like Texas big oil bandits.

Attempted corruption is still illegal. But then, we are dealing with a corrupt Supreme Court at the top and a totally in league with Trump DOJ and Attorney General...so the rule of law is not what is going to be considered until the Republican Party is tossed out.

Russia, like the US, is the type of nation foretold by Orwell, in 1984, where perpetual foreign wars, internal constant surveillance, and shadow government always lurking in the shadows are all the people have, will ever have, thanks to the domination of the super rich. Putin is going to go after what used to belong to the Soviet Union, and of course, the US has a government working mightily to separate the US from Mexico and Canada and of course, NATO.

Again, either the rule of law or the law of the jungle, there are only two choices, and clearly, the Republican Party and its goons are all in for the second. We invaded Iran and murdered over 40 of its leaders in a sneak attack, as they were meeting at our insistence to create a new nuke/non nuke with inspections, agreement.
We are the darkness spreading all over the world, no longer is America a champion of hope, it is a...well, with Hegseth and Trump in charge, influenced by Netanyahu, it is war crime itself.

Cannot say we were not warned, but then, we were warned about the huge dangers of human caused global warming and here we are, about to start experiencing hell.

When Empires fall, as Navalny mentioned in his autobiography, first comes leadership by senility, then the gangsters take over, then some bodies fall and the dictator for life takes over along with his small army of inherited wealth oligarchs.