"My only question is why haven't more non-irrational, non-conspiracy-aligned Republicans not stopped supporting Trump?

Yhe answer to your question is another question: Why would any rational, intelligent person become a Trunp supporter in the first pkace? Answer to that question is that a rational, intelligent person never would have become a Trump supporter. Irrational, unintelligent people are but they can't become rational and intelligent. The problem America faces is that there are many nore irrational and unintelligent people in America than we thought. Sometimes we think we can communicate with them and change their minds; that's the crazy part of us.

Our International airports will be overwhelmed by idiots a/k/a MAGAmorons heading for Moscow to claim their rewards for being traitors to America. I sincerely hope they aren't too disappointed by the living situations they will soon be enjoying and I di hope they pirchased a one-way ticket because we will celebrate their leaving but not their return.

"It's called democracy. Democrats should try it, since it's right in the name."

Oddly stupid post. Tell us moron, when was the last time Democrats lost the election and then invaded the Capital to prevent the certification of the election by assasinating the Vice President?

President Biden looked at the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump and withdrew his candidacy so that a younger candidate could win and defend our democracy. So when is Jill Stein going to demonstrate her connittment to democracy through personal sacrifice? Sorry, spoiler candidates like her and Ralph NADER are far more concerned about their own egos than democracy. This election reveals the truth about Stein: Her own Ego before democracy is her priority! We have Russian sympathizers defending Stein here! Laughable at best. Stein needs to exit the race and get behind the preservation of deocracy! If you didn't learn anything in 2000 then you'll probably refuse to put American democracy first but just admit the truth Stein supporters, you're really closeted Trump supporters. Don't be offended by being identified honestly, embrace what you are! So, you're Trump supporters! Own it!

"It's called democracy. Democrats should try it, since it's right in the name.'

Like Trump did in the last election? Insurrection, invasion of the Capital, the hunt for Mike Pence to assassinate him so he couldn't carry out hia Constitutional duties?

Sometimes patriotism becomes more important han personal ego gratification. George W. Bush benefited by Ralph Nader's need foe ego gratification. I wouldn't want to be Jill Stein if her ego enabled Donald Trump to win! Oh, the preaching about democracy be Putin sychophant EFFETELIAR is sadly laughable' Go preach to Putin about democracy ASS***e1 If they let you give us a call from Siberia and let us know how well recieved your opinions are!

Analysis: Cut taxea for the richest Americans and you get huge campaign donations, cut taxes for the workinf class you get an expanding economy.So it comes down to rich people buying elections vs. leaders vreating opportunities for investment into our economThe ROI contributions to Republicans appear small vonpared to invstments into our economy rhat buys new equipment and creayes profits. Dob't invest in your favorite corrupt politiviam's campaign; invrst into the bidinesses thst employ your consyituents.

i Think it should be said: that perhaps Kammala Harris is probably going to be the President to launch the United States onto a path of economic success in the same way FDR did! Hey, Republicans despised him too and then they made lots of money!

I feel afraid to hust say I'm feeling good about the upcoming electiion! I especially like the tone of Kamala Harris's tone of forward looking progress for working class entrepreneurs who are he real innovators that created America! Her tax deduction of $50,000 for a new business owner is nothing short of brilliant! I was a small business owner and capital outlays of cash for new equipment are the life's blood of success for small, new businesses. That will be the biggest investment in jobs since FDR. oUR NATION NEEDS TO LEARN FROM THE PAST AND ESPECIALLY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL pRESIDENT IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY!!!

"The Centurion Lounge is free for me because someone else has chosen to pay for it.

And how long do you think it will remain free for you if somehow Trump could issue an executive order reducing interest rates to 10%?

zzzzzwhy does Donald want to take away your free benefits? Hmmmm????/ Cuz he's desperate???

Trump economy 10weed taxes but that idea wouldn't sell in America so we just renamed it inflation and then blamed it on the next administrationl i.e: Biden. So today; SURPRISE! he wants to do the exact same thing again.

"Trump's on his way to saying, "F&&$ it! NO TAXES ON ANYONE ... EVER!!"

Yes. and that would turn the dollar into worthless paper. The government has to have a source for something of real value but when the 1%, who have most of the money, are unwilling to return a portion to the government even their own money becomes worthless; Germany 1930.s so they elected a right wing tyrant who made the people work for nearly free so that the rich could keep all of their worthless money. So Hitler did then what Pitin is doing now. Invade another country and steal their wealth. This only works though until the victim nation runs out of wealth to steal and then the aggressor nation has to invade another victim nation and the cycle will keep repeating until someone stops the addressor which is what the U.S. is trying to do in Ukraine right now but Ukraine only has so many men to sacrifice in this war. NATO needs to step up now and reinforce the Ulrainians with both war materials but also troops or elsw Russia's unqurnchable thirst for unearned wealth will motivate Putin to invade more of Europe. We've all seen this movie before but some of us (Republicans) didn't learn anything. The Russian demands for wealth will not just atop; they have to be stopprd! That's going to be expensive but waiting longer wpn't make it cheaper! Probably the only wealth in Russia that could be tapped to repay the world is their oil' which means, Putin amd the evil oligarchs who caused this war bt stealing all the wealth of Russia and leaving the people to starvr and freee in winter but, just as Czar Nicholas learned, the hard way, today's oligarchs will also have to learn.....starting with Putin hanging in Moscow and probably a bloodbath of the o;igarchs similar to th e "reign of terror" during the French Revolution.

Trump's "Truth Social" is an obvious oxymoron!

"Trump thinks himself a king."

I've been saying that ever since he took his spoiled brats to have dinner with the Queen of England; he thought he should be treated as royalty. (and his fu**ing kids tpp!

OMG! What I got from that was a very difficult and not self-serving responsibility of President Kamala Harris. She will have to oversee a thorough de-politation of the Attorney General, the Justice Dept., immigratiion (large scale blatant corruption there, virtually all departments.Once begun; this sort of investigation could go anywhere. OMG! Having a Prosecutor as President and from the people that she will actually do it? That would be historic! Probably her nre slogan vould be: Kamala will clean your house!

Gracie suggests Fox for a debate but why? No ewal Democrat ever watches Foz and no Tepublican would ever watch MSNBC so I suggest the most honest and fair netwoek: PBS, oh wait the truth is biased in favor of Dems. Facts are also unfair advantages. It's almost like reality, outside Fox News, is slanted for Dems. Because Foxfreaks are rarely, if ever, exposed to truth. It is a little harsh when you are still in recovery from Fox addiction, but, hold on....it will get better! Jst remember a day without Hannity is a day without lies!

Thing about MAGA; if the past was so great we wouldn't hao great so we changed itve changed anything but it just wasn't so great so we changed it. Which was better? 1929? or 1932?

In reality, EVERYBODY got the questions ahead of time. Team Trump just wasn't listening.

No he was listening but he just had the wrong answer for everythin; MAGA. turns out.SURPRISE! Most Americans don't want to relive the bad old past!

"Trump campaign swore it would release proving that the female worker at Arlington National Cemetery was the one in the wrong, not the two Trump thugs who physically pushed past her as she was doing her job."

And they would also like to rewrite the Insurrection at the Capital, the Iraq war, the Vietnam War The Great Republican Depression of 1929. WWII, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Obama, and now the Future: Kamala Harris. Republicans don't create the future they just try to rewyite it. Hell, Ron Desantis has tried to rewrite slavery; it was really a trade school.

"Fox News renews invitation for Harris, Trump debate."

And with fact checking by Sean Hannity, LOL!

BTW, I've posted here a very long time but that was my first use of LOL! At least as my old memory serves.

If Republicans can't shut down the government or even if they can Kamala will be running on who is better at preventing economic catastrophe. She has all the cards for leading us into the future; All she needs to do is keep asking what year MAGA refers to. Most Americans want a great future not a return to the past!

Seems to me that Trump doesn't scare Republicans like he did before the debate. I suspect that doubts about him are getting stronger. If he loses on this he loses in Nov. and he will cease to be the most powerful person in the GQP and Republicans will become fearful of the GQP label. I think Trump's association wiextremists ia changing fron the sourve of his strength to his Achiles heel. Extremism is not gaining votes for Republicans any more; now it is costing them votes. His disastrous debate performance and his poor choice of running mates has u started his slide but his poor choice of running mates has made it worse for him. Trump seemed to forget women can and will still vote in America and Vance has managed to convince most women think that the GQP is offering them a future of pregnancy after prefnancy just like our grandmothers endured. Vance was a stupid choice because he really only appeals to one demographic and it is a shrinking one; straight, white, not college educated men. If you look at the voting population of today that is just the definition of MAGA and the future is so not described by MAGA! Definition of MAGA today is different than 2020. Then it was no more woke. Now it is rule by cranky old white men who want women in the kitchen fixing their dinner and not interupting when the men talk about politics. OMG! We have a non-white woman beating Donald Trump in debates and in polls too!
So now that ass***e wants to tank the economy just so he can try to blame Biden/Harris but it is too late now. If he were to succeed now, which is doubtful, and actually shut down the government it would turn both houses of Congress and his defeat would be insured because he would get the blame.
It really seems that "if you give them enough rope they will hang themselves" is playing out in real time!

GUNSLINGER i don't know if you live in Florida where we have Amendment 4 (right to abortion) coming up for vote in November and political ads on TV trying to sway voters both btsoth pro and con.Probably the best ad for the right to abortion is a elderly doctor talking about the existing bans on abortion which could cause him to go to prison for giving a pregnant woman the healthcare services she needs to save her life.I try to look at things from both sides but that abortion ban is costing women's lives and many of them are already mothers so if they die it is a trajedy for their children too. I have very little patience for these Christian anti-abortion activists these days and that doctor makes the case pretty clear why abortion is healthcare sometimes and putting doctors at risk of prison is just an evil idea.

"Tell us you don't understand high deductibles and copays without using those specific words."

OK, so how about a national healthcare plan without high deductibles or co-pays or profits or high executive salaries oe bonuses? You''ll never actually fis healthcare in the United States as long as it is based on profits. I'm all for profits on most things but not healthcare. And now that we're discussing idustries that should not be for profit? Prisons!

I think that the oaths of office various officials take under oath should be reviewed and if violated there should be consequences ad it should apply to everyone with no exceptions or immunities and include, especially, the Supreme Court.

A_Monson should we have the post office politicized and mail delivery times used as tools to depress votes? DeJoy should be immediately removed from office for malfeasace and charged with a crime for it. He should go to prison.

"Election workers are less worried former President Donald Trump will prosecute them if he wins the November election and more worried they'll be physically attacked if he loses, according to a new report."

Putin info bullitin to all wannabe dictators No. 115

It is much easie to kill your opponents once they are already in prison. It's amazing what a prisoner will do for a pack of American cigarettes.

Thread isn't about the national; No it's Texas under Abbott!

"The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state's 2021 ban on abortion care -- far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds. From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time periodal.

Do Republicans think it is a competition to see how many pregnant women they can murder/ They sure seem to be trying to win!