For 80 years, Pax Americana promoted free markets, democratic principles, and justice. It also kept despitism and dictatorships in check. Is Pax Americana dead? All hail Tchump!

For 80 years, Pax Americana promoted free markets, democratic principles, and justice. It also kept despitism and dictatorships in check. Is Pax Americana dead? Al hail Tchump!

Traitor to freedom and democracy! Slave to kleptofascism.

This administration is going to lead the USA into the toilet. How 70 years of hard earned Pax Americana can be flushed away by a demagogue who believes dictator Putin is a great leader and his "best friend" could never have been inagined 20 years ago. Now with a feckless GOP Congress we're watching history getting flushed in the crapper.

To the rulers of communist Chinese and fascist Russian rulers, the supply of organs is limited only by the size of their respective prison populations.

Beware. This is only a training step to invoking the Insurrection Act and shredding the Posse Comitatus" Act aimed to limit the federal government's ability to use the military for domestic law enforcement and prevent the military from becoming too involved in domestic affairs.

After that, the next step could be martial law, suppressing the press and freedom of speech and dissent, and postponement of elections. Germany of 1933 meets America 2026.

Already Trump's surprise termination of Maxar intelligence reports to Ukraine stunned our allies and the repercussions will be drastic. Why invest in US defense products when the US can change or alter the product remotely?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

General military dictum.

MAGA(fP): By Trump's strong faith in Putin and the Russian oligarchs, Trump's version of MAGA is "Make America Great again, (for Putin)"

The KGB could never have been so lucky as it has been with Donald J Trump! Brainwashed to think our allies are enemies and that our career civil service is corrupt and that Trump's bigotry is wisdom, Trump admits he gets "more reliable intelligence from Russia" than from US intel agencies.

If so, it's likely his Putin inspired advice is aimed to destroy America's global influence and credibility. And it's working! It's. Even working to the extent that JD Vance is calling for Europeans to support pro-Rusian political parties like AFP, snd ethers across Europe & South America.

When an entitled brat starts whining for special favors, indulging it is the wrong thing to do!

The MAHA (make America healthy again) report on the adolescent crises like ADHD, says that these are caused by food additives and environmental issues. It says medicating the afflicted is unnecessary. Experts disagree.

Thank you Siri for typing my comment. Now let me correct all of Siri's errors. Sorry I didn't proofread what Siri typed

No surprise here, except that whistleblowers are complaining to the Press. It's very likely that the DOGE MUSK-eteers uploaded every single file they could from every agency they could and most of it may be on the cloud or sitting in some server in the Arctic somewhere.

What better way to screw America in the American people then to upload every single byte of data from government information systems and then be able to secretly sell it to whatever adversary is willing to pay for that information? Treason from on us by Putins best friend forever.

No surprise here, except that whistleblowers are complaining to the press. It's very likely that the DOGE MUSK-eteers uploaded every single file they could from every agency they could and most of it maybe on the cloud we're sitting in some server in Iceland or the Arctic somewhere.

What better way to screw America in the American people then to upload every single bite of data on government information systems and then be able to secretly sell it to whatever adversary is willing to pay for that information, Treason from Putins best friend forever.

The critical issue that Americans should be concerned about is low voter turnout.

Most elections usually get only 50% or less voter participation. With a nearly 50-50 split between Republicans and Democratic voters, too many elections are decided by approximately 25% or less of the constituency!!

No experts have documented significant rates of election fraud in American elections. But low voter participation is a real, very evident problem!

When Oregon sent every registered voter a ballot to be returned either in person or by mail, voter participation rates surged to 80%. Voting by mail as an option drives up voter participation.

Oregon's model is one every state should emulate.

The critical issue that Americans should be concerned about is low voter turnout.

Most elections usually get only 50% or less voter participation. With a nearly 50-50 split between Republicans and Democratic voters, too many elections are decided by approximately 25% or less of the constituency!!

No experts have documented significant rates of election fraud in American elections. But low voter participation is a real, very evident problem!

When Oregon sent every registered voter a ballot to be returned either in person or by mail, voter participation rates surged to 80%. Voting by mail as an option drives up voter participation.

Oregon's model is one every state should emulate.

The huge US flag flying from that tank with an equally large Russian Federation flag was very likely just pro-Putin propaganda. After 3 1/2 years of costly war, Russians are (or WERE) largely demoralized or apathetic. Trump's overt alliance with kleptofascist dictator Putin weighs on Russian propaganda scales like a superhero's endorsement. L

Despite Putin's 2021 revisionist oration to his nation to convince every citizen of Russia that Ukraine was always and always will be Russian, Trump's very very public affinity for an otherwise globally ostracized war criminal Putin is like a papal dispensation.

For every career military American veteran Trump's endorsement of Putin is a hard pill to swallow. Since WW2, most American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines believed the US flag represented fairness, justice, freedom, opportunity for all, and a high standard of personal and national integrity. All qualities that dictatorships like Putin's lack.

In a word, this administration's poorly disguised love for Putin and all he stands for is DISGRACEFUL.

Trump is Putin's lap puppy.

Trump is Putin's lap puppy.

No doubt about Trump's favoritism for "tough" autocrats who have something Trump covets. Trump's been groomed (brainwashed) by KGB affiliates since the 1970s when he began cavorting with Ivana Zelnikova. Her parents were informants for the then KGB-affiliated secret police. After that, Donald's and Ivana's children were raised on the laps of their then communist autocracy-supporting grandparents.

No wonder Trump's casinos would launder money for Eastern bloc entities, and no wonder Trump bristled at the West's counter-intel and counter organized crime networks. His casinos were fined over 2 dozen times for violating anti-money laundering laws and many of his wealthy Russian occupants of his properties were identified as having suspicious nefarious ties to Moscow.

With over 50 years' grooming from Russia's autocratic oligarchs, it's doubtful Trump has the guts to be tough on Putin.

Friday's Alaska Summit Agenda;
(Warning. Any resemblance to the actual agenda is coincidental.)

AM:
1. Putin - why I love Trump, my BFF
2. Trump - why I love Putin, my BFF
3. Putin - what's in it for my BFF Trump if I annex Ukraine
4. Trump - what's in it for Vlad, my BFF, if he helps me annex Greenland and Canada and to get the Nobel Peace Prize

PM:
5. Lunch Break for Caviar &Big Macs:& Vodka
6. Blood brotherhood ritual
7. Then: Deals are signed, sealed and delivered.

Next summit: Renaming the Arctic Ocean, "Vlad & Don's Ocean"

Trump got what he wanted when Pennsylvania's voters pushed him over the Electoral College votes needed to be certified. (Was PA's vote rigged?) Black voters for Trump made significant impacts in Pennsylvania and Michigan. But as Trump the evangelical group before Election Day, "Vote for me now, and you'll never have to vote again."

That wasn't hyperbole " it's appearing more and more likely that Trump will either declare the end to elections, or create a system as Putin did in Russia where the outcome of elections will be predetermined, and voting will just be part kabuki dance to give the appearance of a fair contest.

While Putin & Trump are cutting deals on how to illegitimately appropriate countries that don't belong to them, Putin will advise Trump and Traitor Vance how to split the Arctic Ocean with Russia after Vance & Trump take over Canada and Greenland.

Greedy is as Greedy does. Two peas in a pod.

If anyone wonders how democracies fade away, it's when one side of the political spectrum gets riled up by honest satire and discovers ways to persecute the satirists. Mugabe, Orban, Putin are relatively recent examples of autocrats who have quashed their opposing satirists.

And Fox fans, don't think Fox's style is satire. An analysis of Fox's "Five" shows it has non of the class or nuance or principle that Colbert has. It masquerades as a newsy talk show but is basically just a parade of bullies who resort to a chain gang of boorish insulters of anyone and everyone they want to demonize. And Greg Guttfeld's blanket accusation that every target of his "a Communist" orb"a terrorist" isn't funny or satirical. It's slanderous. And like how the honest world responded to Joseph McCarthy who made wild snd inflammatory accusations like that, there's no satire or truth in such accusations. Just mean spirited evil. (Like Himmler or Mussolini eere when they made such accusations.)