Mitt Romney summed it all up well:

"Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies."

Good for now. Until the next Congress is fully sworn in, the idea of counterbalance in Congress to Trump is still theoretical. I'll believe it when it is official.

Then, Congress's #1 job will be to carry out its duties as laid out in the Constitution to be a check versus unlimited Executive Branch power. And maybe, just maybe, Congress can find reason to impeach Alito and Thomas for kleptocracy and extreme conflicts of interest and to have Putin's comrades Witkov and Kushner sent to jail for violating the public trust..

Congress can do little to stop Trump from buddying up with Putin or Kim. And this is where his Russian-mob trained inner brain leads him to try to be just like.

Mueller figured this out long ago.

Maybe this is a good thing. Some adult needed to take control of this impulsive 80 year old infant.

But is Natalie Harp is working for dictators Putin or Kim or Xi, it might not be such a good thing.

How many accidents have been caused by distracted drivers trying to find the right spot on an illuminated screen at night (or an dark screen in bright daylight)?

It's so frustrating manipulating a video screen while driving!

Karma will bite the most deserving in the butt so hard it hurts!

Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies were Trump's fault. Supporting Trump's recklessly flawed nominees and policies were every incumbent Republican's fault. Every Republican who supported Trump's nominees and unconstitutional policies should have expected a rebuke.

Thank you ordinary Americans for cleaning the clocks of so many Republican incumbents, the unamerican crapheads who surrendered to Trump and his band of incompetent kleptofascists and who uttered not a word in defense of the Constitution.

Next steps - jail for comrades Kushner & Witkov, impeachment of Alito & Thomas at their next breath of kleptocracy, and bye bye Hegseth, Blanche, & Patel.

Serves the criminally negligent senators and representatives from the Republican goon club right. To not restrain Trump from all crappy BS, from Musk and DOGE. to tariffs, to worst ever cabinet picks, to verbal attacks on America's closest allies, supporting dictators like Putin, Kim, and Xi.

Republicans including Susan Collins have ONLY themselves to blame. They could have AND should have REJECTED Trump's least ever qualified Cabinet nominees, including Bondi, Hegseth, Gabbard, RFK Jr, and they should have stopped Trump's illegal tariff nonsense, his ICE goon tactics and his sending pro-Putin real estate deal grifters to represent USA in war negotiations.

Simply the GOP Congress shirked all if its Constitutional duties and now the piper has come to collect his dues.

Sounds like another Trump family get rich scheme is working for Merika's First Family of Corruption.

Comrade President Dictator Vladmir Putin wants to see the US military distracted and alienated from its NATO allies, and as a result, so does US President (Dictator-in-waiting) Don J. Thump.

Comrade President Dictator Vladmir Putin wants to see the US military distracted and alienated from its NATO allies, and as a result, so foes US President (Dictator-in-waiting) Don J. Thump,

For Trillionaire Musk to spend $500,000,000 to "support" politicians is a drop in a bucket to him. Kind of like a mere millionaire investing $500 to buy, er, no, ... , to "support", a bucket of politicians, or like an ordinary citizen's "investing" $5 to $50 on their bucket of favored pols.

Moral: Big money buys more influence than mere ordinary citizen's money. Mega-big money buys 1.000 x more influence than mere "big money".

Democracy by ordinary "human" citizens is screwed.

Eberly " yes, the "new" Republican Party was developed in the era after the Civil War and into America's Gilded Age. Owners of big businesses essentially bought their way to power and "bought" many politicians. Sometimes they even bought Tammany Hall types, too.

Thiel and other pro-Trump & Vance billionaires see this time as the sunrise of America's new Gilded Age. Trump's Republican party is hungry for the gravy train of spoils to come from an AI-fueled and fortified 21st C. Gilded Age.

The worst thing for Cuba would be to affiliate with Batististas, folks like those who profited from Batista's exploitation of Cuba's poorest people and who were complicit with mobsters. The Trump Administration would open Cuba up to all sorts of pro-authoritarian greed-filled exploiters and would in all probability merely be an inverse nightmare for Cuba and so many Cubans.

(Lo peor para Cuba sera afiliarse a Batistastas, gente como aquellos que se beneficiaron de la explotacin de Batista de las personas ms pobres de Cuba y que fueron cmplices de los mafiosos. La Administracin Trump abrira Cuba a todo tipo de explotadores proautoritarios llenos de codicia y con toda probabilidad sera simplemente una pesadilla inversa para Cuba y tantos cubanos.)

Oh that Trump. He is going to be trumped by Jack and the BBC.

Comrades Steven (witless) "Witkov" and Jared "Kushchev" are greedy kleptocratic stooges for kleptofascist Comrades Trump and Putin. When the self dealing of these four dishonest billionaires is fully revealed all four comrades deserve whatever public humiliation that can be heaped upon them.

Maybe they can take refuge on some flamingo island in Albania and rot there.

Scott Kirby is a great American. A grad of US Air Force Academy and completely aware of the innate dignity of all who serve regardless of the size of their family's net assets nor fame or influence. His rise to the top echelon of the corporate world is due in large part to this kind of internal compassion for all.

It seems that the Trump team has something up their sleeves. And if their bag of tricks fail, Trump can ruse up some reason to declare martial law and dismiss the results of the elections. And who is there to stop him from doing that?

Congress? Hahaha!

The Supreme Court?? Haha! Trump's got a bigger lock on a larger share of the Supremes than he has on Congress.

The Pentagon? C'mon, let's get real!

JD Vance? Really?!! He's a sucker for autocracy. Just read his praises for Germany's Putin-backed AFD.

Comrades Steven Wittkov & Jared Kushchev also ought to spend life in a luxury shack on the northern tip of the Kola Peninsula. Hey, its climate is almost like Greenland's.

Trump and Ukraine's Putin-loving, treasonous refugee from democracy, Yanukovich, ought to be roommates for life sharing a dacha in Arctic Siberia. With only 10 lbs of coal per year between then. Two Russia-loving toys and tools of Putin deserve to spend the rest of their lives in Siberia as comrades in cold.

It's a miracle Trump hasn't been impeached yet! So many laws broken and emoluments taken. So many court rulings against him. But the GOP Senators and Congress just won't take a stand, and a corrupt 6-3 SCOTUS majority always bends laws to bail Tchump out. At least 3 of those 6 Republican SCOTUS judges should be impeached.

The great USA has really abandoned its leadership position in the Free World. Is Pax Americana officially dead? Or can it be revived?

Voters should recognize this change in our global prestige by voting GOP congresspersons and GOP US Senators out of office for supporting the nincompoop in chief and his merry clan of billionaires and autocrats.

When Comrades Witkov and Kushvov are Trump's "envoys" it expected that the comrades will try to arrange Muscovy property deals for Trump Inc, and to force Ukraine to cede unoccupied Ukrainian territory to Putin.

So why isn't Zelensky conceding to Kushkov's and Witkov's "deals"? It's obvious to anyone.

Why is the president of the USA so beholden to a klepto-fascist, colossal-scale war criminal and sponsor of state on state terrorism? It's intuitively obvious to everyone.