That's not good, but they are getting what they asked for. They have no one to blame but themselves for voting for

the candidate that promised revenge against liberal, gays, immigrants and everybody else in the US they hate.

Trump doesn't have friends. Every relationship he has is purely transactional. If you can give him something he wants,

you are his friend until he no longer needs you or decides you aren't loyal enough.

Hilarious! "Hill Republicans are struggling to act." That defines the MAGA-GOP.

Trump wants to increase government revenue, but works against that with his efforts to destroy the IRS. Like his efforts

to attract foreign investment colliding with his war on immigrants and sending Koreans packing, He's going to run out of money for his pie in the sky golden Dome and other projects as his tariff measure flop and IRS revenue dries up. He's not a genius, he's an moron.

While Trump characterizes his ICE and National Guard "surges" as anti-crime, The masks ICE personnel wear, their refusal

to present identity credentials or warrants, and their ultra-violent tactics are resulting in a surge in violent crime. some of that rime is perpetrated by ICE, and now other criminals are piggy-backing on illegal ICE methods.

All his life Trump has felt spurned by New York, which never gave him the respect he thought was his due. He retreated

to a compound in Florida, but he still harbors a deep grudge agains the city where he grew up and tried to establish a real estate empire.

No we will never go back to "normal." We will never again trust conservatives to abide by accepted norms, ethical

guidelines, or the law. We will assume they will always act in their own self-interest, and screw America every chance they get.

That's what happens when you let ICE officials wear masks, hide badges, and arrest people without warrants.

Pure anarchy.

To defeat the Texas gerrymander, Democrats need to go nuclear

Excellent discussion of strategy to defeat the MAGA push for totalitarian power This link is a gift: https://wapo.st/414kptg. Read the whole article for details.

"During the decades-long nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, leaders on both sides relied on a state of mutually assured destruction to keep the two countries from stumbling into an apocalyptic war. There are two strategic concepts from that era that apply well to Democrats today: counterforce and countervalue.

Counterforce posits that the best way to deter an opponent is to credibly threaten the use of one’s own nuclear capability to strike at the opponent’s nuclear forces. In the context of today’s redistricting wars, that means neutralizing the weapons Republicans are using — directly, surgically and proportionally — within the sandbox of redistricting, as we’re seeing from New York and California. They gerrymander their big red state; we gerrymander our big blue state.

It’s good that Democratic leaders are trying to leverage counterforce deterrence on redistricting. But, if New York, California and other blue states want to deter red-state aggression more comprehensively, they also need to consider the grislier logic of countervalue. Rather than threatening to destroy an adversary’s military capabilities, a countervalue strategy in the context of actual nuclear war is focused on making credible threats against cities with tens of millions of civilians on the theory that those losses would be simply intolerable."

Netanyahu was elected by the people of Israel to, among other things, run the military. While individual Israelis are

not responsible for the conduct to the war, the same was true of Germans who did not support Hitler's genocide. So, don't blame "Germany, blame Hitler?" It doesn't work that way. I don't feel responsible for Trump's fascist conduct of a war agains immigrants but I'm afraid the United States, as a country, does indeed bear the responsibility for his actions. The same is true of Israel. I know the many Israelis and Jews are opposed to Netanyahu's handling of the war. I don't blame them - I love them. But Israel must take the blame for the decisions of the head of state, just as the US must take the blame for Trump's actions. Until the military mutinies or the people of Israel forcibly remove Netanyahu from office, that will remain true.