With reckless staffing cuts being made now, Trump and Musk intend to crash the Social Security system and rebuild it to cover only those at or near retirement age. The rest will be forced to rely on Wall Street for retirement security which has been the Republican dream for decades.
Mitch McConnell just made a point that Democratic leaders should be shouting from the ramparts. Military aid to Ukraine provides American jobs in 36 states, because we are primarily sending them American made weapons and munitions. Trump is effectively a Russian asset.
I assume they had to pull fatso off the golf course for that photo op.....
It's time for us to go beyond shock and outrage and begin to strategize on how we can collectively roll back our financial support of our government.
The semantic issues are a head fake designed to distract us. The real overthrow of our democracy lies in putting fanatics in charge of the FBI and Justice, and decapitating the military. We need to pull back economically to make sure his supporters feel the pain.
My bad. It should have been clear to me that your rejection of white privilege in no way meant you would tune out the presumed recipients of that privilege who remain employed by MSNBC. So go ahead and reload so you can shoot some more friendlies.
Don't let your outrage over termination of talented hosts of color blind you to the talent of white MSNBC hosts who continue to carry the banner for all of us who detest Trump and his fellow travelers.
There will be plenty of time for Ukraine to "renegotiate" this bad deal once the Russians are back home licking their wounds.
I'm not an attorney but I think the "He is a dick" defense may work in this one.
It is also predictable that the chaos Trump creates will eventually result in his overthrow. When that happens, every Republican senator and representative who supported him and contributed to our anti-constitutional demise will be subject to charges of treason against the oath of office they took.
We are driving the people with talent and ethics out of government. God help anyone who depends on honest and competent civil servants.
Not sure how much of a loss it is to be deprived of listening to her lies. The reporter's challenge is to always report on what they actually do as opposed to their rationalization for doing it.
All of this chaos is designed to overwhelm both the system and our senses. The end game is to decapitate the heads of the military branches and replace them with Trump loyalists. At that point our democracy will be gone.
Somebody who is secure in the knowledge he never has to run again.
The Buffoon In Chief just days ago encouraged every Federal employee to take a buyout and leave their posts immediately. Wonder how many critical mistakes would be made if those talented and experienced people took him up on that?
Not reassuring at all to realize that the real force lies in Elon Musk's decisions about who to primary and who to allow to survive.
I pledge to donate $100 to whichever Democrat runs against Thom Tillis in 2026. Who else is with me?
One by one, the steps required to overthrow American democracy are falling into place.
I did the grocery shopping for all of the years when our children were at home because I was better at it. That's what a division of labor according to skills looks like.
Learn from Mitch McConnell and do as much as possible to help this administration fail. I will reduce spending to the minimum level possible, and no longer report untraceable income. Honesty no longer pays in a country that has just elected the worst fraud and liar to ever hold the presidency.
The notion that we're screwed is specious. The extent to which we participate in and support the Trump economy is controllable to at least an extent. No big purchases in the next few years for me.
I learned to live without Twitter (or X as that disinformation platform is now called) and I can learn to live without Facebook. These tech plutocrats will learn their actions have economic consequences to them.
I have to commend Dean Spanos for taking that dumpster fire of an organization to Los Angeles and relieving San Diego fans of the need to give a damn about their failures.
It would look a lot better to Canadians if Trump and the Republican Party were gone.
Can you imagine how much we'll pay for food if Mexico imposes tariffs on the billions of dollars of produce we buy from them while we simultaneously drive out the immigrant workers who pick produce here?
I am a longtime Times subscriber and I look to them for truthful reporting, not "balance." I am probably following Harry out the door.
Two people who got filthy rich by being ruthless to competitors are now going to take an altruistic look at the government? Please. They will use their influence to get even richer while competitors die and the rest of us get poorer.
Trump is creating a disincentive for blocking his nominees by putting forward exponentially crazier candidates when his nominees collapse under the weight of their own awfulness.
History will regard Garland as perhaps the most deficient Attorney General in modern U.S. history. Whichever puppet Trump gets as his A/G will use the power of that post far more effectively than Garland did.
She has probably broken more big stories than any other journalist over the last ten years. Hard to put a price tag on that.
"Then just hang there." This from my high school P.E. coach when as an 81-pound freshman I could not do a single pull-up. BTW, I had eleven varsity letters at the conclusion of my college athletic career.
Collectively we have immense power. One of the greatest of those is to cut back on our spending so the Trump economy declines. Sure this hurts innocent people, but we can't bring the country back to sanity without pain.
We will need to replace our defective dryer sometime in the next month because once Trump takes power, we will not spend one dime more than is necessary to meet our basic needs. Our democracy won't survive unless he fails, so economic pain will have to be visited on people who voted for him.
His economic well-being depends on becoming subservient to Trump. Ours does not.