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   ICE officers are getting charged with assault. Tariff refunds have started. NATO just gave Ukraine all the money it needed for years. Democrats won the redistricting war. High gas prices and inflation are permanent given that the Republicans have upended the world order and erased America's influence. Crushing dissent, using the legal system against the media, defunding your local police in order to create a federal secret police force, enriching a small group of favored donors, threatening citizenship and attempting to outlaw elections are the auspices of communist authoritarians, which is what the Republican Party has devolved into. Loss after loss for Trump in the courts, on top of a disastrous war where he's been busted lying every day, sets the Republican Party up for decimation at the midterms.  My republican friends need to remember the entire issue with Trump taking classified docs versus the docs photographed still in their boxes next to Joe's corvette. Trump ...

  Conservatives attack Democracy when they don't get what they want. This is a far cry from the beginnings of the Republican Party as an anti slavery party. Justice Clarence Thomas' recent rant, at the University of Texas of all places, solidifies that what makes someone conservative in America in 2026, is a desire to control the destiny of their neighbors. Dissent has been weeded out on the right. The proof of this is in front of our eyes every night on the news. But instead of just ignoring murder on the high seas, the dysfunction of hunting the world over for weapons of mass destruction that never existed, or using the Old Testament to turn away from United Nations weapons inspectors, Clarence Thomas decided to go to war with progressives since, you know, God and not the Constitution, or the Magna Carta, are all anyone needs to protect their rights. Clarence Thomas could not be further off. His delusion is his party's delusion however. As dumb as his sta...

  Let's be real for a minute. The Pope, aka The Holy See, is not concerned with Donald Trump. The Pope however is challenging Conservative Christian viewpoints on the separation of Church & State, as well other popular opinions untethered to scripture. Pope Leo is well aware of the abuse of Jesus by those calling the DOD the Dept. of War.  Elected Republicans are walking around America using their pronounced dedication to Christianity to excuse away Trump's racism, violence and self enrichment. The Republicans have built abhorrent prison camps and filled them with Catholic and Christian migrants fleeing violence and corruption. The Republicans have proclaimed they are doing the work of the Bible by removing the evil doers, and their supporters think it is righteous to follow these political marching orders. Meanwhile, the parents of Marines, old ladies gardening and most disgustingly, folks dutifully showing up to immigration court proceedings, are being hauled a...

  4/7/26 Trump is one incredible failure. He took out a full page ad in NYC in 1989 calling for the death penalty for five innocent youngsters. Then he bankrupted the entire town of Atlantic City, by selfishly declaring chapter 11 on four different occasions in '91,'92, '04 and '09. As president the first time, he was impeached twice for things he did, it's just that a handful of republican senators who he'd turn on later, decided to let him off the hook. Now we have Iran extorting individual ships for millions, demanding war reparations and Trump's only response is to threaten to blow up power plants and roads, two things that are completely illegal.  Trump is a bigot. Trump is a human butcher. And Trump needs to be behind bars. The amount of illegal activity occurring, as his family enriches itself every day, is perhaps the grossest scene in America's 250 year history. Trump is a disgrace and the country should hold off on celebrating its 250th birthda...

  Can we please get back to tennis y'all ?  No, really, top players - get back to it. My heavens, what else do these folks have to do ? But I am losing this war, aren't I ?  The tourny pull outs, the injuries, the walkovers, the complaints about the drudgery of the world tour, they all sorta relate to what's going on with the rest of sports. But it doesn't need to be that way, and it never was that way. Tennis grew out of the generosity of people already involved with other sports really. And it's power then grew out of it's own popularity and the governing bodies that oversaw their largest events. But the advertisers, like boosters in college, took over. Those with cash laying around, took over. Just a few years ago, people were lamenting the power of the four majors. Today, people would sell their soul to put the genie back in the bottle and get back to that simplistic system. The four majors and the ITF rule book, like four chords and the Lord. So what the he...

  What happened to the business minded Republican Party ? In my lifetime, a republican is supposed to be hyper efficient and no nonsense when it comes to problem solving in Congress. Classically, a republican has no time for the slow drudge of government and the tentacles of regulation. But in 2026 that has been turned on its head by Trump and his steroid pumping leadership. Trump has sought control of every facet of American life. It is stunning how he turned the entire party on its head. The Republicans have turned against every pillar of their existence, unleashing the military on the voters, allowing for brand new interpretations of very old laws every day and spending the great grandchildren's money. There's nothing left of the party against government intrusion and overreach. The Republicans have learned how to control America by turning America off. In doing so, they have been forced to blow up their own house.    Today, Trump is on the hook for many hund...