Ralf W

He's just more and more a Republican. Not just the war powers vote, but the need to attack a person for the temerity to attempt reporting as a journalist.
And an extremely base, racist, bullshit attack at that.

Murder by Neglect need to be a thing, and these ICE/DHS bastards need to be charged and tried.

Gotta be a safe seat, but he's anticipating 2, 4 or more years of "not having any fun" while in the minority?

This feels like the sort of unintentional curse a nation puts on itself.

These reckless, stupid "War Dept." guys didn't learn anything about Shahed drones from Russia's massive use of them?

Of course they didn't, because 1) they're arrogantly unteachable, and 2) they believe all their own gaslighting about Ukraine being a 'weak' fighter.

Idiots!

(For reference, Duluth MN is at 46.8° N!!)

Grandpa 1: Wholesale leathergoods salesman for company so small his territory was the entire Lower 48. In the 1930s when roads, cars & tires were nothing like today. He'd be gone for 2-3 months at a time.

G. 2: Nurse, then administrator at a mental hospital in the sticks at 64°N latitude in Sweden.

Perhaps a “DEI hire” would be better at empathy - and geography/spelling.

This is what Marco Rubio is actively doing right now!

They're ALL colossal fvkups.

All the worst people serve Trump.

"We follow all laws" is the summary whopper lie under which 1000s of smaller operational lies get their wings.

Catastrophic dunces.

I'm occasionally unsure humanity will come out of the next 1-3 years in a state better than "Mad Max".

Their "communist" in the bio says I should not have bothered engaging.

I'd say being smart is a liability, because smart people might get an inkling they could be held accountable in 1 to 3 years.

The Trump Admin is really misfiring on all cylinders.

Sometimes we do. The pendulum is way effing out of whack right now, but 10 yrs ago we were doing alright (not everyone, of course, but there actually was a rising tide lifting most boats, and increasing awareness of who wasn't on board).
Bleak now, but the pendulum will swing back. Already starting.

done door knocking, party work, and so on. I don't know who is being quoted, but it sounds like they need to blameshift for their own sense of failure.
Leave me fully outta that.

As someone who has been to dozens of state legislative nonprofit 'lobby days', written & called 100s of times to elected officials up and down the hierarchy, motivated & trained others to do similar, I say "Bullshit!"

I know lots of other people who engage. Who are poll workers, civic volunteers 1/

This Administration is chock full of End Times freaks, so this is a warning to duck and cover (with all the horror that that reference to 50s American nuclear "preparedness" can convey).

That's senility making it impossible for him to focus.

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.

Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

So the US, by rushing into war, with no State Dept warning to American travelers and expats, has created a situation where they *now* warm to evacuate, when flights don't exist.
And now State is shutting down embassies, so non-commercial paths out are impossible.

A perfect Marco Rubio cluster f**k.

force it on the American people. But the fight to prevent them is ugly, and will get worse.
We do have to be realistic that they will (are already!) use violence to try to enact this unwanted vision.

And yet, in this increasingly unchurched country (not at all alone in that), this conservative thrust is no more popular than Trump himself.
The American people have become *more* welcoming of immigrants since Trump re-took office.
So, yeah it's what radical cons want, but I don't believe they can

I do not like seeing "Backed into a corner" about all these crazed people, and also on my TL tonight reports of Armageddon talk in the military.

The under is US nukes on Iran, tho.

$300,000,000 in fighter jets, gone in the blink of a "friendly" eye!

No one (everyone) could have predicted.

Trump has achieved what Putin has wanted!!

It's got a panicked, "Tapdancing as fast as I can!" feel to it.