Andy1

Either Trump really thinks it is within the realm of possibility that the entire Iranian military will surrender, drop their weapons and the government will sign “Documents of Surrender”, or he spends his time writing about the fantasy dreams he has. In either case, he is completely detached from reality. Is this winning?

This is corruption by a President on a scale we have never seen before. His only purpose in office is to enrich himself and seek retribution on his enemies.

They have to score on one of these PPs!

This is Trumps choice of an arrogant America alone foreign policy. And then he complains that no one is helping open the Strait.

Another clown in Trumps clown show of unqualified idiots leading our government.

This is outright theft of 1.7B from the US Treasury and I’d challenge anyone to explain why it isn’t so. Meanwhile, JD is crowing about cracking down on Medicaid corruption. What a joke.

Trumps 80 year old brain is demented and not with realty. This is not normal for a President. If Putin or Kim Jong Un was doing this, they would be mocked here as an insane lunatic. We know that is what other nations think and say of Trump. It’s time for the 25th. His happy time is when he is alone in bed raging on Truth social until he finally dozes off to sleep. It’s his self medication to put his brain in a happy place so he can go to sleep. Elon has Trumps algorithm tweaked just right to make him happy. Then each morning, his staff wake up and first thing they do is check to see what dementia Don was posting while everyone else was sleeping. Next thing they do is decide how to frame the insanity for the narrative of the day as he falls asleep at meetings during the day. We’ve got 2 1/2 more years of watching his brain turn to mush.

Americans demanded it and Trump made it happen. Put Trumps head on a mountain in Venezuela in front of a Trump tower.

That’s an interesting read and it doesn’t seem that Trump and crusader Pete thought about any of it. And now they don’t know what to do. And Iran is just fine stretching this negotiation out as long as possible.

I’d vote for most of that. I’m undecided on #5. I agree with the priority reversing #1, but that decision has been terrible for democracy. That decision reinforced the system of American government run by and for corporations. The role of citizens is to fund and serve the corporations or get out of their way. In my ideal world there would be a federal representation rights law that governs the mapping of congressional districts and requires the proportion of those districts leaning red or blue to reflect each state’s registered voter roles. A red state with 40% democrats would be required to have 4 of 10 congressional districts be composed with democrat majority populations. And vice-versa in blue states. These maps should be supported by SCOTUS as they would be color blind since according to them we are now in a post racial society. This is not a hard problem to solve if there is a will to do it.

Yes we have had it forever. That doesn’t mean it is right or good. With computer tech, districts can now be tailored to have a high likelihood of producing whatever result the ruling party wants in the election. Eliminating state minority party citizens from representation in government is not democracy. More representatives from competitive districts would result in more representatives actually working to solve problems for their mixed constituencies rather than going to Washington to do performative party warfare.

Both parties have done it. Before there were some legal limits. With new ruling those are gone and voters will be disenfranchised all over. It’s terrible for democracy. Republicans in NY and MA should have reps as should Dems in LA, FL and OK. If it were me, the district majority representation should be proportional to the States red/blue split.

I didn’t reference any party. It’s wrong.

Gerrymandering is the root of all that is broken in our politics. Politicians in secure districts assume the attitude of no compromise with the other side. This also leads to the same representative being in office forever. Now that the SC has removed all restrictions on gerrymandering, it will be worse than ever before. This, like the Citizens United ruling, changes everything and not in the favor of democracy.

The MAGA rubes will never see their gold phones. It’s all just another scam for Trump to take money from regular people.