@#5

I do not disagree.

But the question I have to ask is along the lines of ...

How long before the GOP realizes what they have been supporting?

And as a followup question ...

When might they eventually grow the backbone to do something about it?

@#55 ... The individual's right is no longer supreme. Liberalism is being replaced with oligarchy and autocracy...

Is Liberalism about the right of an individual being supreme?

Or is it about the rights of the People over the dictated rights of the oligarchy and autocracy?

The people of Hungary recently had the ability to express their opinion on that topic.

Taking a step back from this latest miasma to emerge from the mouth of Pres Trump ...

His comment indicates the qualification of those senior officials who surround him in the White House, and his possible interaction with those officials.

Stated differently, were Pres Trump's senior advisors chosen by Pres Trump because they would only agree with him, or were they chosen for their knowledge of their tasks?

Trump: Obey me, or be fired.

The law and the Constitution do not matter.

Just obey me or be fired.

So a Republican candidate for Governor of Connecticut seems to have been using Connecticut funds for her own personal reasons?

Quelle surprise.

More from the article ...

... Stewart suspended her campaign for governor this month after a law firm hired by New Britain released a report alleging that she used her city-issued credit card for "routine living expenses," political campaign-related expenses and purchases for family events.

The expense reports show that Stewart's spending increased over time, especially after her children were born. Overall, purchases on her card from June 2016 through November 2025 totaled more than $200,000. ...

@#10,11

... and that has to do with the security of the US ... how?

@#7 ... America deserves the destruction that he is reaping. ...

A lot of subtly in a reply to that. Allow me to try ...

I'd say that America needs to see the destruction of its electoral choices.

But does America deserve that destruction?

imo, too soon to tell.

Will America wake up and once again fight for Democracy? Or just allow itself to deteriorate into an autocratic oligarchy?

As I said, too soon to tell.

@#2 ... how "anti-war" protests cost Kamala Harris ..

You noticed that also?

MAGA seemed to be vehemently anti-war back then.

Now, not so much.

More from the article ...

... A developing El Niño that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't make the potentially deadly storms disappear, federal and outside meteorologists predict.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued its seasonal outlook for the Atlantic, giving a 55% chance of a below average season. The agency forecasts 8 to 14 named storms, with 3 to 6 of them becoming strong enough to hit hurricane status and 1 to 3 of those intensifying to major hurricanes.

A normal hurricane season has 14 named storms, seven of them becoming hurricanes and three of them reaching major hurricane level, which is more than 110 mph (177 kph).

Eighteen other groups, private and academic, have also forecasted what they think the season will be like and most of them also call for a below average summer and fall. Those other forecasts average a dozen named storms, only five becoming hurricanes and two of those being major ones. Those forecasts also call for the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index, which takes into account strength and duration of storms, to be 80% of normal. ...

@#2 ... Do we have evidence of T-rex with longer chicken wings? ...

Insightful question.

More from the article ...

... Then, the researchers compared the length of the forelimbs with the length and robustness of the skull in 61 theropod species.

Sure enough, the link between reduced forelimbs and skull robustness was found to be strong in five separate families of theropods: tyrannosaurids, abelisaurids, carcharodontosaurids, megalosaurids, and ceratosaurids.

Skull or body size alone didn't seem to correlate with forelimb size. Many of these predators grew into behemoths, but some stayed relatively small, even while packing a powerful head/tiny arm combo.

Stranger still, the team found that, across different lineages, the arms shrank by different proportions. In some cases, the whole limb shrank in tandem, but in others, some parts shortened more than others. ...

If you want to learn more ...

imo worth a read.

But also keep in light that 2026 and 2028 are not 2024.

@#7 ... The local MAGAtards are sad little jokes. ...

I disagree.

It seems to be the comments they post that are the sad little jokes.

@#2 ... The subject is motor oil, ...

Yup.

And I mentioned, my annual motor oil change.

That reply is the best your current alias can come up with to gainsay my post?

So lame.

@#& ... Cuba is not a national security threat to America. It was not yesterday and it is not suddenly a threat today. ...

Pres Trump seems to have learned to carelessly throw around the word "security" when he wants something.

e.g. his billion-dollar ballroom is for security (though Secret Service seems to have issues justifying that assertion).

How, exactly is Cuba a security threat to the US, when Cuba is suffering under Pres Trump's embargo of Cuba?

Or is Pres Trump admitting his embargo is not working>

Pres Trump's question: Has there been any history regarding White South Africans that is an issue here in the United States?

More from the article ...

... Public health experts, including those who were on the frontlines of Covid-19 during the first Trump administration, say neither hantavirus nor Ebola represents an immediate threat to the average American.

But the trust deficit leftover from Covid is showing up in the public response to the two viruses -- and laying bare the challenge for public health officials if either escalates, or when the next major pandemic arrives.

That mistrust could be particularly pronounced within President Donald Trump's base, including some Make America Healthy Again supporters who embraced the so-called medical freedom movement during Covid. ...

This is the way it should occur, through our Judicial system

And not through some secretive grifting 5-member board that Acting AG Blanche appoints.

@#14

Currently the polls tend to be polling RV, or registered voters.

As we move closer to Election Day, the polls slowly switch over to polling LV, or likely voters.

@#5 ... WHO authorities stressed that their role is to offer technical and operational help to national health agencies, which have primary responsibility for detecting the spread of diseases under international rules. ...

WHO helps the national agencies, but those national agencies have the responsibility for the detection of the spread of a disease.

Once that detection is ascertained, then WHO steps in to help.

Pres Trump has critically crippled that detection ability with his DOGE campaign.

And now the world is seeing the effects of Pres Trump's decisions.

The WHO has been criticized by SoS (et al) Rubio.

Primaries that allow only members of their parties to vote in them tend to attract the more radical voters of the party and tend to endorse the more radical candidate that the party has proffered.

Here in CT, it is often discussed opening primaries to everyone, with each voter allowed to vote in only one primary. In that manner, unaffiliated voters (as independent voters are called here) can also take part in the primaries.

More from the article ...

... The study suggests that as their prey grew bigger, tyrannosaurs and other large predatory dinosaurs evolved to use their powerful jaws as their primary weapon.

As such, their arms shrank over time with disuse, until they became the funny little chicken wings we laugh at today.

This research is far from the first to suggest that these puny limbs were vestigial, but it goes further by linking the shrinking arms with the evolution of huge, powerful heads and jaws.