I have found that a true Christian is one I, an atheist, not need fear or hesitate to interact with...they have their faith and its responsibilities and the rest of the world has theirs. I wish Talarico well.

Oh yeah, I hope both Mattis and John Kelly have written memoirs detailing their first terms in Trump's insane White House, where they worked mightily to keep the Presidential fascist from killing demonstrators and starting wars. Not sure the Republican Party can be trusted with our American Constitutional Republic...they are too greedy and willing to take from the poor to give to the billionaires.

Big oil got us into the two Bush Iraq wars, into this Iranian war...and so on and so on, they see that all the oil under Middle East sand belongs to them...when the Iranians nationalized their own oil we murdered their democracy and installed the murderous Shah.

Now the murderers want to walk away from their murderous illegal, undeclared war, so they will claim victory and like Putin, will wait for another opportunity to kill and loot and steal land.
Epstein Trump...they must feel that threat is lessened.

Been one of the goals of the fascist element of the Republican Party for a long long time, to bankrupt America so the oligarchs could rule and FDRs safety net could be first, reduced, then torpedoed.

These are perilous times, no doubt about it...to speak the truth about the demented Russian asset in the White House is to lose one's job as a Republican Party, to lose one's freedom if in the military, and to lose one's mind, if one is a MAGA cult member.

American fascism is on the march in pretty every corner of our government...and frankly it doesn't seem that it took a lot of convincing for the Republican Party to turn against the needs and the hopes of the very poor.

The future, I am sure, will walk on down to where climate change deniers are buried, the Rush Limbaughs and Trumps of world's history, and urinate on their graves, for there is no way to avoid the hell of global warming now, thanks to the deniers. We should have been fighting global warming with the same passion that we fought WWII, everything we had.

No American blood should be spilled to support Israeli apartheid...and at its core, that is what this is all about. Iran was once again negotiating for an agreement, like the one that Trump tore up. This war with Iran is illegal and immoral and could well lead to what the Vietnam War led to...tens of thousands of Americans dead, hundreds of thousands of civilians dead, and in the end...for nothing.

Still, as a clear Russian asset, Trump is doing his buddy Putin, quite proud. Americans are divided one against another, and against our traditional foreign allies, and certainly NATO is weaker...

These are indeed perilous times, where the person running the largest military in the world is determined to start wars of aggression across the globe, to kidnap leaders and murder those who he cannot get to capture...all without excuse and without permission from Congress, which make them illegal wars. This is all on MAGA. Trump is their mistake, it is for them to fix things...if possible.

Trump's capitalism looks a lot like Xi's communism, central command for everything. Although, one might say it most resembles Al Capone's gangster regime.

And now interview, privately, so they don't lose their jobs, longtime VA employees.

How is Israel an ally of the US, they are keeping millions of Arabs locked inside the Occupied Territories and are doing what they can to ethnically cleanse their way to apartheid unity? We gave them the bombs and bullets to genocide their way to a Palestine free Middle East.

Peace was obtainable, in negotiations with Iran, but our "leaders" wanted war. If Israel would stop the apartheid and actually help the Palestinian people create their own state, peace would be obtainable.

Well, VOA was originally an antiRussian agency...and so, with a Russian asset in the White House, one expects cutbacks on things Putin doesn't like.

Just another MAGA mess...it was clear from at least the late 1950's that human caused global warming was a clear and present danger, but the far right kept on voting in idiots like Trump who are so sold out to the big oil and natural gas folks that he does what he can for them...to make sure sustainable energy, like windmills, are not supported.
It will be for the rest of our lifetimes, no matter how old we are...hell on earth, we did it, and we the poor will have a hard time surviving it.

Yeah, all in the interests of the child, of course...who will grow up with enough hate to fill a swimming pool.

Well, let's be honest here, just how much talent does it require to bankrupt America, divide us one from another and from our allies? Trump has done a masterful job of finding the worst to do their best to ruin this Republic, and al they while letting him and his gang loot the treasury and grift massively.

These weird times are so against the rule of law in so many places one is surprised when a judge stands up and says...No more. We are a Constitutional Republic and that is that.

I object to the fact that much of fundamentalism is not taxable...
Blue States tend to understand that women own their own bodies, red states tend to understand that we still live in the 1950's, where rich old white men rule it all.

Translation: there is a lot of wealth to be gained from keeping tens of thousands of people engulfed in the chaos, so every few years change sides...

As I remember from my high school days studying the holocaust, the Brownshirts did such things as they brutalized their way to total control of their dear leader. There were people deemed not of superior stock and were candidates for death camps.

Kennedy is illustrating the greatest sickness of them all, how a human being can ignore the needs of millions of Americans, just so they can have a blast pretending they are good for something but chaos.

One wonders if one's buddy should apply for a job with the Trump conspiracy, goodness knows if crazy is a requirement to work at FEMA, my buddy is of superior quality. There are people in this country who really and truly believe that space aliens are amongst us and are guiding us along...though considering the insanity of the times, perhaps they just said "to hell with it" and left until we extinguish ourselves as a species.