The corruption in the US is unparalleled. Trump neutered Congress and the Senate, he owns the Supreme Court and he cut taxes for the wealthiest, all the while gutting programs for the working-class. He controls most of the media and can shoot anyone and not be held accountable. Good luck Murica.

Great to see there are principled women!

Good luck getting the billionaires to stop gaming the system, or the media for that matter. Americans don't have a functioning democracy, they have a full blown oligarchy.

This is the outcome when a country elects a criminal with dementia.

Understood. From Korea, to Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, GulfWar1 and 2, Iraq and Afghanistan one wonders who is driving the tank? It's disgraceful how Trump and company have abandoned Ukraine and allowed the genocide in Gaza to happen. The US has engaged in war over 91% of its existence.

Sorry to burst your bubble but the alliances America nurtured and valued are irreparably broken, and not temporarily, but for generations. The world is tired of the man-baby-ganster, that Trump is. Trump is a metaphor for the corruption and rote in the American empire. The sheer idioticy is epic.

Chalmers Johnson's "The Sorrow of Empire", illustrates the American empire's defense spending over the decades after WWII. It's perpetual war for perpetual peace, as Gore Vidal wrote and until America weans itself off the drug of war the shit show will continue. Fundamental challenge is needed.

And who will step to protest the astonishing corruption in the Trump and Putin governments. Corruption exists in every country, this doesn't excuse it but how much has Trump earned in crypto this year? $10 billion? And how did Putin amass his fortunes on a government salary? Please, why so silent?

Brown's very existence depends on resisting Trump’s desire to assert his own twisted view of reality. It's bad enough that his wrecking crew is pushing back against reason and science. The Belle Epoque is over, hastened by his fascist regime and sheer stupidity. The world sees the sham.

Funny to think how one group found disfavour with their original belief and then decided that they had a better interpretation of the divine. Over 45,000 changes were made and in each one that specific "congregation" believed they possessed the truth. And we're only talking about Christianity.

Did you know that there are over 45,000 sects of Christianity? They just can't get along and can't figure out how to celebrate their invisible sky-dog.

Is anyone really surprised? If you are you are an idiot.

Paul Krugman published an article revealing that China has now almost doubled the electrical production of the U.S. The U.S. will never catch up. It's the end of the Belle Epoque for America.

Someone in L.A. finally figured out how to push back intelligently. More States need to do this.

It did happen soon enough before the genocide.

It's tragic to see a country that once believed in the rules of law to have fallen so far. It's the end of the Belle Epoque America. What's also disturbing for the future is that it happened not with a bang, but a whimper.