We are now seeing predictable results of Trump/GOP policies. Higher costs for most everything. People dropping health insurance. Brain drain due to defunding scientific research. Secret police detaining people without due process. War for no good reason. Vanity projects. This is the GOP world.

Trump starts a war for no clear reason without Congress’ approval. The US uses up valuable weapons, loses some people, and kills civilians. Pakistan brokers a cease fire. Now we pay Iran to transit Hormuz, they still can process Uranium, and new leaders are more radical than before. So much winning.

Let us see this clearly. Trump continues to use up military assets to attack Iran for no good reason. This has made us much less secure. 1-We are using up valuable weapons 2-We are encouraging direct attacks on the homeland 3-We have lost the cooperation of our allies. What can go wrong?

This will be controversial, but I think it is extremely important for Dems to get a Senate majority in the midterms for the sole reason of using the McConnell Doctrine to delay consideration of any new SCOTUS vacancy until the next POTUS election. Hopefully no vacancies occur before Jan 2027.

Best summary of the Iran war I’ve heard so far: a tactical success but a massive strategic failure. The US has the most capable military in the world for which I’m thankful (and we’ve paid for it), but there has never been a coherent strategy beyond Trump’s toddler-level mental whims.

I get the feeling that Trump is about done with the Presidency. He thinks no one wants to cooperate with him, too many people cause him trouble, and gov’t is stupid. He just doesn’t want to put in the effort anymore and thinks he’s above the office. So why not declare victory and just walk away?

Went to dinner with my wife and daughter at a nice but by no means fancy brewpub restaurant. Bill with 20% tip was over $130 for two entrees, an entree salad, a beer and a mixed drink - about $40/person. Thanks to Trump and GOP non-governance for this and $4/gal gas in an already shaky economy.

Trump is now considering diverting US military aid from Ukraine to the Mideast. His level of rank corruption sees no limit. Why not let the filthy rich oil princes pay for their own defense? No, make the country invaded by Russia suffer some more and further degrade European/NATO and US security.

Markwayne Mullin confirmed as head of DHS along party lines by Senate Republicans. Another unqualified Trump worshiper heading the department that’s supposed to protect us from terrorists - just as we stir up the hornet’s nest in the Middle East. Great. Remember that Republicans made this choice.

It is abundantly clear now more than ever that the Trump admin is dangerously incompetent and corrupt. Our security is threatened, our economy is being driven to recession, and the rule of law is ignored. There are no strategies, just immature bright object reactionism. Thanks, Republicans.

Just when you thing the idiocy can’t get any worse - now Trump has lifted sanctions on oil from Iran and Russia. We go to war with Iran and respond by allowing them to get more money. Let’s also help Russia. What’s next - gifts of uranium processing equipment to North Korea?

Under Trump the US is less safe, less prosperous, less respected, and less healthy. Why? It’s because he is incompetent, criminally corrupt, dishonorable, and unfit for office. He is enabled by the GOP through Congress’s capitulation and corruption of SCOTUS. Sounds like a great opposition platform!

Trump stating that we should continue attacking Kharg Island “just for fun” is by itself an automatically impeachable offense. Using our military is not a game. Lives are at stake. It’s as serious as it gets. His flippant attitude is disgusting, perverse, and warrants immediate removal from office.

A serious question to all Americans who have children old enough for military service: do you trust Trump and his military leadership to thoughtfully deploy them and maintain their safety? If not you had better speak up now. I fear his unhinged ambitions will eventually require them to serve.

1/ Here we sit mid-March 2026 and Trump continues to drive the US into deeper and deeper trouble. Starts a war for unknown reasons and without a plan. American lives lost. Munitions depleted. Civilians killed. Energy prices skyrocketing while economy was already fragile. US soft power gone.

Trump and the GOP are going to feel really bad impacts of their policies very quickly now. The economy is at a tipping point. DHS is less effective with the shutdown. We are at war. Trump and his regime clearly don’t know what they’re doing. Problem is, the rest of us will also feel the splatter.

Among the many things we have learned about Trump’s Operation Epstein Fury is that 1) there is no plan or coherent objective for this war; 2) they forgot to consider that Iran might actually defend itself; and 3) budget cutting and DOGE chaos has weakened our ability to protect our assets.

This Iran war is off to a great start. 4 US casualties, loss of 3 fighter jets to friendly fire, and some of the people the Trump admin identified to lead Iran have been killed by the US. There is no plan forward. Watching oil up almost 8%, natural gas up 5%. So much winning.

The longer the Epstein War goes on with Iran, the more the Trump regime will learn about the term “unintended consequences”. I find it very hard to believe that any strategic thinking or gaming out of potential outcomes played any part in the decision to launch these attacks.

Trump has once again blatantly violated the Constitution. Launching an attack on a sovereign nation seeking regime change is a declaration of war any way you slice it, and only Congress can declare war. This is an unambiguously impeachable offense. Time to impeach and remove before Americans die.

A reminder that Trump needs to be impeached and removed from office. Why aren’t Democrats on fire about this? Yes, it was tried twice before and failed because of spineless, complicit Republicans. Have things got better or worse? It should be getting easier! We need to keep trying until it sticks.

All blue state legislatures and governors must pass laws that will prohibit all ICE or border patrol operations within 25 miles of any polling place. Laws are needed by the 2026 midterms to prevent Trump goons from disrupting voting. States control elections; they need to maintain their integrity.

A regular reminder: Trump soils everything he touches. The sooner we can remove him from office, the less soiling that will occur. Hello GOP Congress - this is solely on you. Time to do damage control. Get a spine.

Please stop all the talk about seizing Greenland. It’s one of the stupidest ideas coming from Trump, and that’s saying something. A great real estate deal - send money and/or troops to set up military bases in a place where we already have military bases. Someone please call out this insanity.

Today’s check in: bad jobs report, citizens killed by federal police, pillaging a sovereign country’s oil and placing proceeds in an offshore account, blatant corruption financially benefiting leaders, POTUS claiming he is only constrained by his “morals”. Year 1 of Trump II off to a good start.

Has the symbolism of an ICE agent murdering someone named Good sunk in? “ICE Murders Good” should be spread far and wide. Never has the truth been more succinctly embodied in a headline.

Happy New Year to all! Let’s hope 2026 is the year we can really start to right the ship. It will take a while, and we have lots of stuff to clean up, and more messes will be made. But the is the United States of America. We can do anything when we work together!

The end of 2025 brings us one year closer to the end of Trump’s 2nd term. In a functioning republic he would have been impeached and removed the first time, prosecuted for his blatant crimes, and in prison. The GOP bears full responsibility for enabling him. They cannot be trusted to govern.

So very sad that Ukraine’s ability to end the war with Russia depends on our simpleton POTUS, his inability to comprehend the situation, and how easy he is to fool and manipulate. Global peace and security is at stake for generations to come, and we have to rely on an ignorant narcissistic idiot.

Once again our legacy media have sanitized and normalized Trump. His speech last night is described by headlines as “combative”, “bellicose”, “fast-paced”. How can they be trusted to deliver any news when they can’t accurately describe what is clearly obvious to anyone who saw it.

Recent news about US drug boat attacks and the reactions of those in Congress to seeing videos of an attack further adds to the GOP’s defense of Trump at all costs. They have enabled him and are fully responsible for all of his atrocities from ICE raids to illegitimate SCOTUS rulings. Never forget.

Saw a report today that Kier Starmer, UK PM, has recognized that BREXIT was a bad move for the UK economy, something most rational people saw from the start. Let’s not forget that BREXIT is another right-wing economic policy fueled by their media machine via anti-immigrant and isolationist rhetoric.

Another day, another set of impeachable offenses by the Trump regime. It is truly way past time to impeach and remove Trump for so many crimes that listing them would exceed the character limit of many posts. Need to get the GOP on board or out of the way since it’s clear they won’t convict.

Today the current government shutdown with Trump as POTUS becomes the longest on record. Any guess who was POTUS during the now-second longest shutdown? Donald Trump. Anyone see a pattern here? If you want a dysfunctional and corrupt government count on Trump and the GOP to deliver.

And all the Whos down in Whoville showed that Democracy can’t be bought in a store. Maybe Democracy and Freedom mean a little bit more. So now let’s make the roast beast and who pudding affordable!

It’s clear that Trump sees no need for Congress. He thinks that he needs no approvals for anything - how to spend money, who to go to war with, who to arrest, detain, and disappear. Congress’ inaction has enabled him. Never forget that the GOP is solely responsible for this.

The so-called “conservative” Trump/GOP has forced gov’t ownership of company shares, directed which companies should merge together, shaken down companies for “donations”, pardoned convicted criminals, and has increased US debt fastest since Trump’s 1st term. Doesn’t sound conservative to me.

Remember the fundamental truth: Trump soils everything he touches. With his gawdy bad taste, corrupt practices, disregard for any law, and bad faith dealing he will cause anything he touches to become broken, unusable, non-functional, and utterly revolting. Been true his entire life.

1/ In mathematics there is the concept of a limit. It’s basically a number an equation will reach if stretched to infinity. With the Trump regime I believe there are two limits we are headed toward and may reach unless real efforts are made to stop them.

1/ It’s No Kings Day! I have a feeling there’s will be an epic turnout to protest the Trump regime, his complicit GOP do-nothing Congress, and his corrupt and illegitimate SCOTUS. It saddens me that this even has to happen at all, but the embedded lesson is that the fight for our rights never ends.

1/ Taking in all of the recent news on young Republican racist posts, Trump targeting “democrat” programs for funding cuts, and the GOP’s no-negotiation stance on ending the shutdown, it occurred to me that we have lost a fundamental aspect of governing in the fog of all these GOP-created crises.

It’s day whatever-it-is in the continuing saga of how the GOP is incapable of governing, amplified by their infantile fealty to Trump who can’t run anything without screwing it up. Who cares about governing when you need to hide the Epstein files? Your plane has been delayed to protect pedophiles.

To no one’s surprise Trump shows his true colors at the Kirk service. Anyone that calls themselves Christian should recoil in horror to his vile, profane comments about hating his opponents after Kirk’s widow says she forgives Kirk’s murderer. He is a vile self-centered anti-Christian narcissist.

Can we please stop casually using the term Christian to describe Charlie Kirk? His wife did the right thing by saying we should forgive his murderer but Charlie did anything but speak and do things that were Christ-like. It’s a perversion of the faith that hijacks the true teachings of Christ.

The degradation of the US has moved so quickly it’s time to demand Trump’s removal from office now, GOP majorities be damned. Since many are vulnerable, a focused campaign to Dump Trump is needed. Get the votes to impeach and convict, or force his resignation. Make it too painful to support him.

1/ Today we experienced a full frontal assault on our first amendment guarantee of a free press. The FCC, acting like it’s now the Ministry of Truth, thinks it can threaten broadcasters over content of their programming beyond that of decency rules. Blatantly unconstitutional and patently illegal.

1/ The GOP/MAGA/Trump regime sees the Kirk killing as their opening to start cracking down on dissent. As with other rights they ignore they will cause short term pain to lots of people until the courts can act. People will be targeted, arrested, and imprisoned on the whims of right-wing outrage.

1/ My 3 takeaways so far after Kirk’s killing? 1)The killer was internet-meme driven from a MAGA-friendly family steeped in gun culture. 2)The vast majority of political violence and killings are by right-wing extremists. 3) Kirk was a propagandist who profited off of right-wing division and hate.

1/ I have had just about enough of the GOP, enabled by the legacy media, whitewashing Charlie Kirk’s legacy. They paint a picture of a transformational figure that gave conservatives a voice and engaged in intellectual debate. In reality he was a profit seeking hatemonger.

1/ My 9/11 story - a very good friend worked on the 105th floor of one of the WTC towers. When news started to come in that planes hit the towers I kept dialing his office number. Initially I got his voicemail, then just a fast busy signal. My heart sank.