Just in the last week, Trump arrested 2 Black journalists, seized voting records from majority Black Fulton Co GA, posted a meme of Obamas as apes, & demanded control of 15 majority heavy Blue cities. Racism has always been the core appeal to his most rabid base.
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us
("Political Science" Randy Newman)
Putin has to take Ukraine to win. Zelenskyy only has to not lose Ukraine to win. Taking the Russian terms of surrender, via his ally Trump, would be a disaster for Ukraine, for Europe and even Taiwan. It will not happen.
Trump wants AI companies to manufacture their own energy? And we can assume those plants would be largely controlled by AI. And since energy is what AI lives off energy, what happens when humans must beg for their share?
"Sorry Dave, I can't do that"?
(2001 A Space Odyssey)
Since the payroll of the US Military is $1.3 Billion per day, the Mellon donated $130M pay is for 2.4 hours of one day. So there is more to this story ...
Why does a ballroom need to be on the Trump Palace grounds? Is there any other Federal property available?
BAD news: Trump is acting with reckless abandon on every front. GOOD news: is when people act with reckless abandon, they end up crashing. HOWEVER, people crashing often hurt more than themselves, and a president's crash could be America's crash which would be MORE BAD news.
A Federal grand jury is going to be extremely deferential to the prosecutor when it comes to classified information. It's almost a lock that they will indict John Bolton no matter the circumstances, which are always fairly complicated in these circumstances. 🤷♂️
Act one of civil war. Trump deploys troops to Democratic cities. If he's allowed to continue, his goal is to provoke protests, met by Federal force, ending in what he can call riots, a declaration of insurrection, and imposition of martial law.
Act one of civil war. Trump deploys troops to Democratic cities. If he's allowed to continue, his goal is to provoke protests, met by Federal force, ending in what he can call riots, a declaration of insurrection, and imposition of martial law.
Two things can be true at the same time. The murder of Charlie Kirk was a villainous, horrendous act. Trump & Miller are racists and would-be fascists. And, BTW, as far we know now, there was no "they" who murdered Kirk. It appears to be one guy, raised by Republicans.
You know what would be good FBI experience for identifying violent criminals in a large crowd? The agents who investigated January 6.
Who have been/are being fired.
One shot kill, rifle from the rooftop, so far a clean getaway, certainly seems like a professional assassination. The assumption is a political motive, but we don't know that yet. The more professional, the less clear the motive.
B. Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." The streets are very safe in North Korea and communist China. Your choice America...
The only good thing about Trump spinning out of control is that one way or another he will splatter on the wall just like his ketchup. (There are too many bad things to list.)
Ironically, I just watched the 1935 "G-Men" (James Cagney) last night, the archetypal image, only to wake up this morning to see SAs used as the dictator's dogs. 🤮
Bolton is easy pickin' folks. Won't massively upset Democrats and certainly not Magats. But it's only the beginning, the tip of the revenge Trump dictator's revenge iceberg.
There is no peace agreement and there isn't going to be any peace agreement in Ukraine for a long time, if ever. The parties don't agree on anything, not on ceasefire, not on territory, not on future security, not even on having leader meetings. NOTHING
Trump did not make the compliance with NATO's 5% of GDP, Putin did. But Trump's shirking from being the leader of the Free World did assist him. Trump continues to push NATO into being Eurocentric. The "coalition of the willing" as a subset is moving much closer to troops in Ukraine.
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There's no difference between an Article 5 type guarantee and Ukraine in NATO. Trump won't get agreement on either from Putin, so they might as well just agree to accept Ukraine into NATO with the condition that Article 5 only applies to territory not yet taken. And eff Putin.
It's Trump who thinks states are leaders one on one. Has to have been Putin's plan. In the air, when Trump could not decide who he's bringing, but Putin has all along. Putin wouldn't let Kellogg go. He set the stage exactly as he wants to try to overwhelm Trump.
When women marched on DC in pink hats in 2016, Hillary was in the woods. When Americans marched with flags "No Kings" in 2025, Kamala was licking her wounds. Leaders champion the cause, waving sabre of battle, because they feel it in their bones, not because they seek office.
Right up there with Stalin and Mao
Trump's personal lawyer now DOJ official talking to sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell for a 2nd day can't be only exculpating Trump, but likely a diversionary case against someone else (in addition to the faux exculpation.) A 2nd former Pres should be preparing for the sh#t cannon
Make America Great Again like when we created the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, War Powers Act, Inspectors General Act, Reagan Immigrant Amnesty Act, and Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare).
Iran tries to buy time with a calculated kabuki dance for the local audience, but unlike their recent similar moves, this one today appears to show such weakness that I don't see how the Israelis don't keep up bombing until there's a regime change, for good or bad
The US is rushing to war with a Sec of Defense more concerned with a makeup room in the DOD than actual military ops, the Director of National Intelligence is a Russian agent, and the Commander in Chief thinks the Declaration of Independence was written after the Civil War. ☢️
"Firefighter arson" is a well-known phenomena where a firefighter (usually volunteer) is actually the firebug who set the fire in order to have the fire brigade then attempt to put it out. You know, just think Trump and LA.
So weird Trump is grabbing tax paying Home Depot day laborers and restaurant busboys in California but not the murderers or rapists he promised, or even grabbing laborers from Missouri or Alabama.
