When I was a younger man, forty years ago, as a student at UofMichigan I went to a total of eleven Grateful Dead shows. Traveling around to different States with a group of friends. FUN times. I was more into the whole scene than I was much of the music. A lot of drugs. No responsibilities. It was a different era and a different Moder8. And then I woke up one afternoon as a 21 year old Peace Corps volunteer in the poorest rural area in Paraguay with no electricity, running water, flush toilets or telephone and zero other Americans anywhere near me.

For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago.

RIP

You know you have struck a nerve among the most abusive and insecure MAGAts when they quickly respond to your post with a funny flag. Derision and lies. What else do they have left?

Vance is a whore.

Give it another twenty years. Places like Mar-a-Lago will be under water. And Texas will be a wasteland.

No foreigner in his/her right mind invests large sums of money in a thoroughly corrupt kleptocracy. And certainly not anywhere in South or Central America.

#17: I know if I lived in a third world country I would rather have China be the main patron and supporter of my nation. Especially if I were located geographically a long distance away. It is no shock that China's power and influence has grown exponentially throughout Latin American and Africa.

Difference between Iran and Venezuela is that it appears most Iranians oppose the Theocracy running that country. In contrast, most Venezuelans WHO STILL LIVE IN VENEZUELA support a Left leaning government It is all the expatriate Venezuelans who are in celebrating the most. Kind of like expatriate Cubans in Miami.

If they J6 scum had been charged with sedition and treason like they should have been, many of these scumbags would have been put to death. They are not just criminals... they are anti-American terrorists.

Here in Ventura California there were three different protest (each with about fifty people or less) within fifteen miles of where I lives. That blows me away. I don't know how this plays in Texas or Florida, but here in the Golden State most people are appalled by the current behavior of "our" Federal Government.

Trump cannot be removed from office or die soon enough. He is everything that is worst about humanity.

#29: Trump believes that most people throughout the world are whores for money. And, in so far as his main life experience has been in the real estate business, it is easy to understand why he believes that. But, other than MAGAts, Oligarchs and people who mostly lean fascist, sovereignty is a separate non-negotiable issue.

So, in other words, the Administration's "fraud task force" is designing itself to be a political hit squad aimed at Democrats and other people who Trump does not like.

Trump is prepared to invade Greenland, Venezuela and Cuba. Does any intelligent person doubt that he is also willing to militarily invade Minnesota?

And for you all idiotic right-wingers who always are whining that none of this affects our daily life, OPEN YOUR F------ EYES already. Everything climatically is changing dramatically everywhere in America.

I am surprised there are not more stupid MAGAts on this thread whining that it is all Biden's fault. No lie is too idiotic or inaccurate for them to the swallow.

I can't help but suspect that all this barking and growling about taking Greenland by forceis really, in the end, about telling Russia and China: Hands Off. Unfortunately, Greenland is stuck in the middle of all this totalitarian posturing. And... Trump clearly is stupid enough to make the situation far more dangerous than it already seems to be.

At least, imo, that is really what is going on here.

This is not like going into Panama or Grenada. This will be to the benefit of NOBODY. Not even the American oil companies. Just another huge expenditure for the American tax payer, and the death of numerous innocent Venezuelan civilians just trying to live their lives.

And as always, the rest of the world will lack the courage to stand up to this unprovoked US aggression. Trump is counting on the silence, cowardice and perhaps short term self interests of everyone else in the world.

Happy New Year to all!

I am convinced that I have some form of TDS. Every time I read some new revelation about Trump, Bondi, Hegseth, Noem, Leavitt, Eric/Don Jr., the army of MAGA syncophants and liars in Congress, etc., I get really angry. It has even greatly reduced the amount of time I spend reading the news and even spending on sites like the DR. I don't want to hear it anymore. It is all sickeningly dishonest and stupid. And the idiot out there who actually for Trump twice is mind blowing. ---- it. Don't bother me with news about Trump. It just really pisses me off in a way I never expected national news to affect my anger level. Trump is undoubtedly the worst POTUS ever. Greedy, corrupt, dishonest, vulgar, mean and evil. An administration of pure feces.

Currently South America's biggest problem and cause of chaos is the United States. It did not used to be like that.

Have you Rubes gotten it through your heads yet? It is all about glorifying Trump's insatiable narcissism and not about improving America.

Fair or not, you are judged by the company you keep. Especially if it is over many decades. And especially if that company is internationally notorious for both pedophilia and perversion.

I will say this much: Something has gotta give. We can't go on with a Supreme Court that has such contempt for both the Constitution and stare decisis. It is destroying our society and even many rightwingers are beginning to understand that.

It appears that by this point it is MAGAts who suffer TDS (and not the rest of us) in their blind fanatical desperation to deny what is obvious to any clear thinking person. Donald Trump is a pedophile.

More Pedo-proving pictures of Trump? Yawn. We get it already. Trump is and always has been a total pedophile perv. MAGAts seem to like that about him.