Take from the poor in order to give to the rich...what today's Republican Party is about, pure and simple. If you are at the bottom third of the economic pyramid, you are seen as serfs, undeserving of anything but a struggle to please your Muskian masters.
Vote Blue...

As the oil supply, over the next few decades, slowly slows down, the west's cutthroat capitalist system slows down, and that will be that, we either become socialist and keep a lot of the citizens alive, or we become a kingdom and a very few rule over the serfs. That is our future...and the discussion we don't have the guts to conduct.
Vote blue, it is the only way to keep the Musk's and the Trump's of this country from turning us into a "1984" nightmare of a country.

Curtail the power of the dictatorial Presidency? My goodness, next they are going to say he cannot take all the classified info and store them at a Mar a Lago bathroom.

Whistling past the graveyard...their guy is clearly in cognitive decline, and it is clear to all but the most unworthy that for the good of the country, Trump must step down.
Goodness knows he will not rule over Congress for the next two years as he has for the last.

Churches and other houses of worship used to have ushers...now they have armed security. End stage capitalism, where a few own it all, is not pretty, or safe.

Trump and his gang clearly believe in the law of the jungle over the rule of law. Once Israel introduced nuclear weapons of mass destruction into the Middle East, it was only a matter of time before principals in the Sunni (Saudi) - Shia (Iran) civil war gear up for...one doesn't expect that MAD, mutual assured destruction will work around suicidal regimes.
If I had a Time Machine and could go forward a hundred years, I would bet that the nuclear exchange that surely will be the result of the world's adopting the law of the jungle starts in the Middle East.

Two more years of this misery...thanks MAGA. One wonders just how many stupid wars we will be forced to engage in, how bankrupt our country will be before he leaves, as he left his bankrupt casinos... richer for the destruction he caused.

Not that long ago, in the US, there was discussion as to the usefulness of getting a degree in journalism, but clearly, one of the bedrocks democracy rests on is a free and independent media, and there are always power hungry thugs out to steal a seat, or a government.
Got my mail in ballot last night, will walk it down to the drop off site...easiest ballot I have ever filled out. Vote Blue, stay true to "no kings" because America cannot fall to the greed of a few ever again.

Trump is working to try and get his more radical MAGA voters out to the ballot box, though not sure how many will be turned on by this nightmare of a video of an emotionally disturbed person killing himself tragically and horrifically.

The jury has been back for a long time now, rendering the verdict that no, we humans cannot be trusted to be heavily armed in a culture that dumps despair and hopelessness on so many people, and then supplies many of them with mind destroying drugs. Despair comes heavily armed in America.

Sooner or later the decline of our culture was bound to happen, since we keep on electing climate change deniers like Trump, big oil was going to start getting scarce, and the climate will start killing people...but the decline shouldn't have happened for decades.
We should have been working mightily to make our culture sustainable and healthy for all, but then, socialism is the answer to the question...will capitalism, late stage, kill us all or just the very poor?

What happens when you "represent" a safe far right seat...fascism is sure to rear its ugly fist and demand obedience to "dear leader". Nice that what the law actually says, that it is for private conversations, was illuminated.

Camel's nose under the tent...Trump wants, of course, to steal Venezuela's oil, and to run his empire with American military power as the cudgel.

Stalin knew that it was close, Hitler could have defeated the Soviet Union and taken Moscow...so to make sure such a thing never happened again, he turned Eastern Europe into a prison, so of course Gorbachev did a good thing by ending that system of Russian control of so many millions of people.

You simply cannot hold an event, invite the press to question you, but then tell one member of the press that you are censoring them. If that is indeed Maryland's law, it is in violation of the First Amendment...she, the reporter has a right to be recording.
Wonder why Trump never tried such a screwy move.

Essential question: Will the Republican Party let Trump ride off into the sunset, and take the hit for years to come, or will it actually defend America from its greatest danger, him?
He can, of course, just resign, get pardoned by the new President, either Vance or by some machinations, Rubio, and like a demented Scrooge McDuck, just revel in his billions?
I have a hunch the pardon will come but only after Trump gets more billions...as some sort of revenge from the Republican Party.

Odd how a lot of us, from moment one, when he drifted down that escalator, knew he was bad for America, and yet, even today, there are diehard fans loving his every move, including the clear insanity of publicizing the death of a clearly troubled fellow human being. Someone must have told Trump that he could get people out to vote Nov. 3 by giving then blood and horror.

Let's see, Trump and his gang have screwed up the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Memorial reflection pool...kinda seeing a pattern here...

Would that this were a time that people listened to rational, caring, intelligent people...At the moment AI tends to be tame and fun to be around, but then they grow up and in this case, first will be killers of massive proportion as the world militaries use robots and ai software to use fire and forget killing machines. And then, having evolved into self replicating intelligent creatures, they take their sentience and go on strike.
It is inevitable because the world's militaries are obligated to field the best weapons they can, and because the capitalist world isn't at all democratic, it is run by corporate boards out to make a profit, no matter the cost.

Actually, Oregon has two great Senators, in Wyden and Merkley, people who know what life is like for the poor and the powerless...those trying to make the rent, one hopes they are in the majority come November 3.

Musk's one dollar, one vote democratic ways have to, sooner or later, result in a change in the law, but for now, the Supreme Court's thick thumb is on the scale.
They said that money is speech. You don't let people bribe jurors in a trial, we should'.t let Musk buy off half of Congress, the Republican Party half, supporting their candidacies.

At this point, one doesn't even bother doing the research to disprove something nonsensical Trump says. He makes half of what he says up, knowing that he is in power and there is little to nothing the press can do to him for lying, at least until the midterms.

The Truth is out there...but the truth is, this administration wants someone expert in not knowing and not caring and certainly not an expert in any damn thing but loyalty.

Antitrust law...to work for fairness and against monopolies. You know, like the monopoly that the billionaire caste, people like Musk and the Ellisons, are creating to oppose our free speech.

He has several good points, and yeah, I hated myself for laughing. We do live in a f****** sick culture, as Carlin said.