The big news of the day is the  longest presidential address to Congress in history .  President Donald Trump talked for a little more than 100 minutes.  I watched the whole thing, and wonder why. Many Democrats did not even show up, and  some just left during his speech , with  Rep. Al Green  (D-Texas) being booted out.  Several held small signs.  Women wore mostly pink.  Others wore blue/yellow in support of Ukraine. He mostly bragged about doing so much. He repeated his assertion to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal. Assailed the Biden Administration a lot, calling Joe the worst president in American history.  One of his lies/exaggerations, for polls have  Trump as the worst .  In that survey, Biden came in as the 14th greatest president. Here is  one example : “Over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are aged over 160 years old,” Trump asserted. He then added there are 1,041 people over ...

The planned signing ceremony in the White House Oval Office of the USA extorting Ukraine to give up its rare earth elements for peace with Russia  exploded into a shouting match among Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance.   Zelenskyy was kicked out of the White House. What happened?  There will be reports citing White House, media and Russian views, but my take is that this meeting was planned as an ambush for Trump to extract his revenge stemming from his  first impeachment  in 2019.   Further orchestration becomes obvious when  Senator Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) immediately called on Zelenskyy to resign .  The whole misadventure surely looked like that scene in films you've seen of a schoolyard bully beating up a classmate.  It was terrible to witness. From  Fox News : After the Friday meeting, Zelenskyy wrote on X, "Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank...

Sure, many of President Trump's executive orders are leading us to a constitutional crisis.  But what is the worst case scenario?  We lose Democracy and become a Dictatorship.  Terrible, but most of us will carry on with our lives, and so will the rest of the world. Other Trump edicts will hurt the poor, middle class and elderly.  There will be serious reductions in social benefits, especially in medicine,  public welfare, education and the like.  But many of those hurt should have anticipated this course of action if they voted for Trump, or not.   Social Security will fade and become unavailable for most, and those already on it, will see payments decline over time.  But again, they will survive, only not so well.  The rich?  They will do better, probably muchly so. The most damaging of all Trump acts is in the remediation of global warming.  This could be so serious as to lead to billions of human deaths, and perhaps trigger...