Anyone else notice the similarities between cartel behavior and the behavior of MAGA when their leader is sidelined, as Trump was after the 2020 vote?

There is only one reality, call it god or Mother Nature, and there is but one truth that describes the far right...it is their perspective that fascist "dear daddy" leadership of a family, a town, a country, is their right and duty. And those of us who are terrified of them are to be culled.

On why identification gadgets should need to have a court warrant to target someone.
Watch some of the NCIS, FBI, CIA nighttime shows and one sees that unleashed, those investigative tools can follow us around night and day, identify us, and link us with whomever we choose to speak to.

While, on one hand, one has to agree with Trump that this is the most powerful military ever, it threatens the world when led by a fascist. And it apparently goes to war needing a few plumbers and repairs.
And about that 45 minute wait thing...drink enough coffee to stay awake, there had better be shorter lines.

How much training does it take to learn how to button up a brown shirt, put on a firearm, and learn to duplicate Trump;s mug shot sneer?

The best at being the worst? It seems that administrations that are out to loot the treasury and take from the poor to give to the rich have a problem finding qualified gangsters. Trump has a talent for perverting people like Vance and Rubio, every part of the Trump administration is being run by the meanest and the greediest.

If you will remember, President Obama had a perfectly good agreement with Iran over nuclear enrichment...but Trump, being greedy for attention, tore up that agreement. Now he wants to make a lot of trouble perhaps kill a lot of people to call himself a wartime President...
It is a war of aggression to attack a nation not a danger to your nation, and that order is an illegal order, by the way. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction aimed straight at Iran, so no one can say that the possibility of Iran's introducing nuclear weapons is the danger. Israel has done that in spades.

Suicide by cop has been a theme of these highly publicized half hearted assassination attempts.

Actually, I think when Alito resigns it will be Vance who will be nominated/appointed to the Supreme Court so that Rubio can be VP and then President when Trump resigns. President Rubio can both pardon all of the Trump gang, and also help the Republican Party actually not be decimated in the 2028 elections.
Time will tell.

I am sure there are more than a couple of heroes for democracy who raised the question of free and fair elections in North Korea, somewhere, and were rewarded with an early...death. He didn't even have to resort to an insurrectionist mob overturning election ballots...

Thank you. As a veteran of the Vietnam War, I know how important a strong Veterans' Administration can be to returning vets, and how easy it is to get lost to physical and emotional pain.
Still, while we are on the subject, my daydream is that one day we actually have a return of the draft, and all young men and women serve, either two years under arms, or two and a half years in civilian capacity, and after that service, are allowed to belong to national health care.

Fundamentalist Christianity is one of the major tools that the far right uses to get votes and divide us one from another. There is only one reality, and once they get a little child to bend a knee, in order to belong to a tribe, they have them often for life.

I find it odd that Capitalism lauds itself as the best system, but in the end, what we have, always, is a few astoundingly greedy power hungry emotionally damaged running the world, and the rest, at the bottom of the pyramid, unable to use democracy to right the ship because American democracy is bought and sold to the super rich like Trump and Musk.
Are we screwed? Of course we are. Are any of the Republicans who supported this Trumpian/Musk debacle of grift ever going to he held accountable...of course not.

Problem is, Trump needs really bad people to help him accomplish his grifting, and America seems to have a lot of those around. And he can recycle them by pardoning them so they can insurrection again.

How crazy would it be to wake one morning to see we invaded Greenland, and they used our missiles to...
I have a lot of nightmares, it seems to be an aging thing, but at least they stop when I wake up. One can only hope that one day soon we will wake from this devastating nightmare of Trump and the cowardly Republican Party ruining the country, and our alliances.

These are times that bring out the cynic in many of us. I figure this is just payback for all the nefarious stuff our CIA and other governmental agencies pulled over the years, Putin watched our CIA delight in supporting really bad people for the Soviets and then the isolated Russia, not to mention how they killed the Iranian democracy, in wars of aggression took out the governments of Iraq, and Vietnam and a lot of places in South and Central America.
One has to agree with the President of Portugal that Trump is clearly, "objectively, a Russian asset". We have idiots running things, dividing us one from another and our country from its historic allies. All so Trump can grift his way to more and more billions.

So this is what the Russians were feeling when they woke from their elections and saw that their country was run from the shadows by goons and goblins of the Putin gang. It does hurt to watch so much of our media get taken over and corrupted by big money, outlets like CBS once were the gold standard for independent reporting.

All this stupidity can be laid at the feet of MAGA, they helped reelect a man clearly in Russia's grip, serving as an ally of Putin, and with each insane day Trump has weakened the US, divided us one from another, and from our international allies.

It was all over but the shrieking the day that Israel deployed its hundreds of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and aimed them at the Arab states that opposed its apartheid ways. Sooner or later, that insane asylum will explode and take the whole world with it to kingdom...gone.

Jared is just a punk underling in the Trump/Putin make billions while destroying America gang.

Fire and forget drones are being used in the Russian war of aggression against its once friendly neighbor, Ukraine. Now add in AI intelligence and decision making...and sooner or later, Judgement Day, though the morning after Trump got reelected, it felt like Judgement Day for a lot of us, and American had fallen to greed and ignorance and Russian assets.

Two things.
First, as a Vietnam Veteran, I am old enough to respect vital, sincere feeling of others who woke up earlier than I that that war was in idiotic expedition in imperialism, the Vietnamese people did not want us there, they wanted Uncle Ho. So if Bill Clinton or Bush sought an exemption...in that war, at that time, that was an honorable thing to do. It was also honorable to serve if that is how one saw things, as I did.
Now, WWII, a full on war against fascism, it would have been a different thing.
Second, Trump is clearly, as the President of Portugal said of him "objectively, a Russian asset".
There is no excuse for voting for Trump that second time, he had shown who he was during the insurrection of 2021.

Iran is not America's enemy, we invaded Saddam's Iraq pretending that he had something to do with 9/11, and we are going to attack and kill Iranians because...we want to steal their oil again.
Well, that and the fact that Israel has somehow become our 51st state and its apartheid policies are now our policies.

Capitalism is devolving along with our culture and government...and the consumer is the rube.