"We are going to have to be damned lucky to avoid a major recession or much worse."
It goes without saying. Republicans always get into power specifically so they can create an economic calamity foe Demodrats to clean up, It's in their DNA!

"John Anthony Provenzano, a 30-year-old who appears to live in Virginia, operates the account utism_ (formerly known as JohnnyBullzeye), and, according to a tip and a records request response from the U.S. Navy, works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland"where the Navy manufactures explosive ordnance."

How can this freak get a security clearsnce; he should not beworking explosive ordnance. Anyone so involved in hate and extremism is seriously mentally ill and dangerous, IMHO!

"John Anthony Provenzano, a 30-year-old who appears to live in Virginia, operates the account utism_ (formerly known as JohnnyBullzeye), and, according to a tip and a records request response from the U.S. Navy, works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland"where the Navy manufactures explosive ordnance."
t a security clearance?
Is it just me but how is it possible that this freak has such a job? How could he get a security clearance? He shouldn't be anywhere close to explosive ordnance; IMHO! I honestly do believe that anyone so invested in hate and extremisn is dangerously menyally ill and dangerous.

"Nobody is will8ng to answer #194. Not at all surprising. With all of Zed's moral preening he can't answer that question."

Personally I just don't give a crap if he pardoned his son for inconsequential crimes far short of attempting a coup. Y'all didn't just ignore Trump's crimes; you vited for im for President.

18M downpayment on a pardon?

Why woild we want a man with a drinking problem to be Sec. of Defense foe crying out loud? There were no better experienced people Trump could choose? It would be funny except for the seriousness that should govern such a decision. If he were an officer serving in the military he would not be promoted to the next rank.

No real journalist should be contributing content on Twitter. No legitimate future journalist should contribute to any publication owned by a billionaire because the economic interests of such rich people are so large that everything they report could effect their botton line. They are affected bu so many issues; ecology, global warming, technology, war, space exploration, everything has an effect on their profits so how can we trust their opinions on anything when every opinion they allow to have a voice is evaluated by lawyers, accountants and whatever other professionals thay employ to evaluate every thought expressed in terms of its affect on the billionaire's interests? It is much like when a President of the United States speaks; every word will be examined by many people to glean any nuance of his/her (her haha!) probable policy decisions. Billionaires are scrutinized nearly as muchas Presidents.

"and those who have relatives overseas who don't want to be killed by American made weaponry in the name of democracy and freedom anymore."

They certainly are not being killed with American made weaponry today; you must be referring to the unnecessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started by George W, Bush and which opponents of those wars were called traitors even by Fishpaw who now pretends to be anti-war hypocrisy of Republicans who cheered on Bush ( Bush Presidents) to invade Iraq twice because they just were salivating over all that oil, as described in PNAC but which, in the end, George W. Bush was too stupid to even get, not that I give a crap. But now, suddenly, Republicans are all worried about the costs of war because we are supplying an actual democracywith the weapons they need to defend itself from a super power that signed treaties promising to never invade in exchange for them givibg up their nuclear weapons . Even the man who put that deal together, President Bill Clinton, now says he regrets it because Putin and Russia just can't be trusted to honor treaties which is also why Ukraine will not negotiate for peace. You can't negotiate with terrorists and Putin is a terrorist

"Unfortunately, on one side you've got the entire military-industrial complex, all the professional warmongers, all the mainstream media, and 99% of DC political swamp-monsters, while on the other side you've basically got a bunch of crazies who are racists, homophobes, misogtmists etc. Yeah those protecting us do gey a little out of controk but WWII taught us to never be unprepared again/ We need to control our mulitary butt we do not want to dismantle it. But we also must control those forces which want to march us backwards to an era whe certaib minorities were axtually criminalised simply for being who they are. What does "Make America Great Again" really mean? I've been waiting for an answer since I first heard it! So, what the f**k does it really mean? When was America so great that we want to return to that time?

"week after Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, and we're giving these cretins a seat at the table considering plastic pollution of our oceans when their oil is the basic resource for plastic production? No, the world needs to tell Saudi Arabia you are not welcome here with the realization that leading such a movement probably puts your name on an assasination list of the Saudids. Wonder what would have happened if George Bush wasn't owned by the Saudis? Someday, the real truth about FDbya and the Iraq invasion will come out. The importance of that is that right wing news sources kmew all of this but chose to support yje invasion of Iraq so this post isn't an accusation agaibst Saudi Arabians who clearly are guilty for 9-11; no it's an accusation against Fox News who knew what really happened but still led their viewers to support the stupid Iraq invasion whivh vost us trillions of dollars and thousands of our soldiers lives.....So now..... you morons are going to continue listening to Fox News? Yes you eill because it i
' as laid out in PNAC.

"When Democrats start acknowledging they were totally wrong about the border,wokeness,"

When corporate America owns up to the fact that they hire these "rapists and murderers" to do all the jobs Americans don't want to do and, let's be honest here, corporate America is Republican. They have demonized the workforce Trump plans to deport. I'm no btilliant predicter of events but I suspect the mass deportation is going to get smaller and smaller as large corporations figurw our loopholes for the immigrants they employ brcause it will create a quasi-indentured workforce who will either work for very low wages or face deportation

"It's your "christianity" that's been rubbing off on me that you're seeing."

Be real careful absorbing Cotjy's type of Christianity because you might find yourself having compassiun fot those "rapists and murderers" that Trump wants to deport and even wanting to allow women to have control over their own bodies. Hell, eventhe rights of LGBTQ people so be careful if that kind of Christianity rubs off on you. It could have dire consequences.

Judging fopm the comments of his which have already been reported I believe his Mom!

One clear fact emerges from this thread; Thenull is a misogynist assh**e! Hope he grows up someday!

Psycho Putin will never accept a deal that includes Ulraine's membership in NATO. It's a waste of time proposing it. I suspecy Zelensky is prposing this to show the world that Putin is blovking ant peace treaty because Psycho Putin will only be satisfied with total domination of Ukraine so he can make it as backwards and impoverished as Russia. Hell, the reason for this war was the difference in living standards was causing unrest among the peasants in Russia so Putin decided to wrexk Ukraine to destroy theirb standard of living. He couldn't stand having a successful modern democracy on the southern border of Russia causing Russians to ask; why can't we have that too? And that is the rreal reason for the invasiob.

Oh my, you mean appointing a person with no relevant experience ans who's qualificationare large campaign contributions is not a good idea? Who knew?
The Senate's real patriotism will be tested in the approval hearings for most of -------- appointments.

I want to trmind everyone, inthe early 8o's my job required us to take lie detector tests every six months and drug tests too, Congress took care og the lie detector tests and the realization that the company needed me more than I needed them resolved the drug tests by telling my employer yhat I would submit to the insulting test but I woyld not promise to pass it so he would have to decide if the fact that I smoked pot at home was important enough to fire me, I took the test and was never bothered about that nonsense . As it turned out later, the Controller of the company, am uptight ass***e was caught stealing big bucks from the compsny and, undeservedly lucky for him, the company chose not to press charges and just fired him eith his agreement to pay back the money which was poetic justice after years of that assh**e putting the rest of ud through so much bulls**t!

There are two sides to this to this topic. Ma.nyivers and run drivers are caught because of surveillance cameras, thieves breaking into home, businesssesm etc. are identified, rapists caught, thugs beatingpeople are identified. The problrm isn't cameras; the problem is that our lawmakers haven't kept up with trchnology and made laws to prevent the use of surveiaynce systems to be ised to invade our privaccy or to track our movements when it is not relevant to a specific crime. I realize that the cameras roll 34/7 but laws could be formulated limiting the viewing of those recordings without a specigic crime which would limit their use as evidence. Of course there will be abusees but intelligent, well thought out laws, vould peotect us from Big Brother, though that AI technology will become a huge intrusion into all of our lives when it is jpinedto all of our surveillance systen systems but we won't stop .technology; we need law makers savvy enough to understand it and write laws to protect us from being wtonhfully harmed by it. Maybe we need legislative bodies rducated on high tech so they could devise ways to protect us from potentisl abuses of it. Let's faxe it, we can't stop trchnology so all we can do is try to protect ourselves drom it.

"By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent"

Too dumb to warrant comment.

Donald Trump will just claim all the statistics are rigged and that he does have a big majority of the popular vote and the rest of his party will believe it for the next foe years if Trump says it because it's a cult and most of us know that now, in four years all Americans will know it.

Tuberville is a senile old racist who doesn't know where he is most of the time. But the rest of that Party, have ant of them directly attacked Putin or Russia who are the aggressors who invaded a nation that never threatened Russia? No, they blame Biden as if Biden is connitting the crimes against humanity that Putin has ordered his military to connit in Ukraibe. But Republicans are strangely silent about the realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraibe. It's a sscared of Putin if they are afraid to offend that psycgotuc dictator? What the hell is going on? Even the President Elect seems afraid to say a word against Puyin who is murdering thousands of innocent people as if it is his right to do so and the entire Republican Party is afraid to say anything about it! Hate to say it but it does seem Trump is more loyal to his nentot than to his country? And he is going to be our President? This situation is unprecedented; we'vw never had a traitor as our President before but it seems we do now!
So, we all know Tuberville is a crazy, unpatriotic piece of filth but he is not alone in the attempt to sway public opinion against Ukraine instead of the mass murderer Putin. But we have plenty of surrender monkeys right here on DR who just think Ukraine should just give up land for pesce, Ukraine is not going to do that because lunlike American Republicans they aren't cowards so scared of Putinn that thet even support Putin's bitch as our President and apparently never think they could dsre to speak out against Putun no matter what he doe, just like his bitch! It is a shameful display of cowardice in our government today like I have never seen in my life. The only era we could rven remotely compare it to is the Isolationist era of 1936-1941, when Americans hadn't yet figyred out that Hitler was our enemy. We had American industrialists going to Germany who ere just so impressed with their factories even though the Nazi's crimes were beginning to be reported. Much like the GQP today! The Party of Cowards!

lue to Donald Trump don't let your "wife" stand too close behind tou when you are descending high staircases. Sometimes "wives" are ambitious and when their older fuddy duddy "husbands" judst keep living day after miserable day, sometimes a :wives" accidebtally get clumsy on those stairs or nrxt to yhat balcony railing. So Donald, don't turn your back on J.D.

"It's Peter Thiel."

But he isn't fear Elon Musk will control zzzzzzzztrump like a pupprteer snd sctuallt be our "shadow President"

lue to Donald Trump don't let your "wife" stand too close behind tou when you are descending high staircases. Sometimes "wives" are ambitious and when their older fuddy duddy "husbands" judst keep living day after miserable day, sometimes a :wives" accidebtally get clumsy on those stairs or nrxt to yhat balcony rai. ling. So Donald, don't turn your back on J.D. Hey, in his mind he would just be ending America's Hitler's rein of terror. Can'y mske this stuff up, that is exactly what "wife" J.D. said about his husband!

"TonyRoma is a lesson for us all- you can sound completely brilliant, but at the same time be completely wrong."

About what? I suspect that he contradicts the talking points you've been conditioned to believe. Tony isn't afraid to present the actual truth to anyone because he knows he can baxk-up his aeguments with facts unlike "talking point repeates".

I mudt have missed something; what's up wiyh Tony Roma? Van someone clue me in? He's one of my favorite posters on this site! I yhink he is brilliant! I don't say rhat about many posters here.

Trump woulld send in the military if he was already installed as Fuehrer! "YYou vill get back towork or the Gestapo vill deal with the Union vermin!
Years ago I saw a movie about Nazi Germany and in one scene the workers at a facyory decided to go on strike so the Gestapo brought in tow trucks and hung them tight then and there, no charges, no trials, And the movie was based on actual events. Is that the America Trump thinks is "Great Again?"