Agreed 100%! There are few officials in this administration who have not shocked me with their blatant disregard for norms, precedent, truth and even the law! I’m not a doomsayer, but I can’t shake the feeling that we’re so far down the road to authoritarianism that we may not be able to get back.
You’ve encapsulated it in those three words! I guess once you’ve solved every problem in America and the world as the panegyrics of his cabinet secretaries would have us believe, there’s nothing left on your agenda but to pursue personal vendettas. Or rename departments for no good reason.
His cabinet meetings are like those in all the countries with authoritarian leaders like he aspires to be. He’s a doddering fool, reminiscent of King Lear in his need for praise, except that Trump’s amassing power, not relinquishing it!
Except that the cartoonist has minimized the fawning and praise that’s totally without a basis in reality! It should be more like: Thank you for your leadership, Mr. President. You’ve managed to end joblessness even as you’ve eliminated crime in our cities, restored our standing in the world, ende….
…One hard-line voice in… Netanyahu’s government, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, has urged the military to starve whoever disobeys evacuation orders and remains in Gaza City, while another, Energy Minister Eli Cohen, has called for Gaza City to be demolished into a ‘city of ruins.’”
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
My country on its way to becoming a police state!
Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment
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🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
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Ive seen his reporting and its been good! As far the allegations of him havinv a role witn Hamas, we have only the Israeli allegation as evidence. Foreign reporters are not allowed in! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump's plan for the United States to win the global race for AI dominance has some good ideas, Thomas Wright argues. "But over the past few months, Trump has undermined his own goals and ceded much of America’s leverage to foreign powers":
Wait, is this a movie? I was hoping I’d finally wake up on Election Day 2024 to find out the 8 months since last November were just a bizarre, terrible nightmare! But a movie is ok.
CNN Exclusive: USAID raised "critical concerns" days before a $30 million grant was awarded to a controversial US and Israel-backed aid group, documents show.
A federal appeals court has struck down the "click-to-cancel" rule designed to make canceling subscriptions easier, just days before it was scheduled to take effect
This is why we need FIGHTERS in Congress!!!
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Morocco🇲🇦 will reopen its embassy in Damascus for the first time since severing ties in 2012 amid Syria’s civil war, King Mohammed VI announced Saturday. The move signals a diplomatic shift after over a decade, though no specific reopening date was given.
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
Yes!
Breaking news: The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into real estate transactions involving New York Attorney General Letitia James — the first known criminal probe of a law enforcement official who took action against President Donald Trump.
