Trump is delivering a message to the architects of the old world order that Washington should have delivered decades ago: America is finished being the fucking life-support system for governments determined to destroy themselves. The Soviet Union collapsed 35 years ago. Yet NATO's machinery kept turning, Europe's political establishment kept demanding American protection, and Washington kept treating every European geopolitical ambition like another sacred obligation for American taxpayers to finance. Meanwhile, Brussels buried industry under regulations, Britain traded much of its manufacturing strength for financial services, and Europe's leaders became increasingly dependent on the very American power they love to lecture. What a magnificent fucking arrangement. They make the decisions, America supplies the money and weapons, and our children inherit the risks. Now Trump is challenging the entire racket. He's talking to Putin because avoiding a catastrophic confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia matters more than preserving the foreign-policy establishment's comfortable Cold War fantasies. He's challenging the assumption that Ukraine must remain an indefinitely funded confrontation. And he's confronting Iran's revolutionary regime over nuclear ambitions that demand a fundamentally different strategic response. Different threats. Different interests. Different decisions. Apparently, this is incomprehensible to the arrogant bastards who have spent their careers treating alliances like religious commandments and American resources like an unlimited expense account. Their greatest nightmare is a president demanding to know what America actually gets for carrying the burden. Because once that question gets asked, the whole rotten arrangement faces scrutiny. The blank checks, the obsolete assumptions, the European dependence, the endless insistence that Washington must preserve a geopolitical order regardless of what it costs. Let Europe's rulers explain why their ambitions deserve priority over America's security. Let NATO justify its demands against today's strategic realities. Let the permanent establishment defend every fucking dollar and every risk it expects Americans to shoulder. Trump owes them no automatic obedience. America was built to defend its own future, and it has no obligation to be buried beneath the rubble of somebody else's failed empire. (article below)

This is what oligarchy is: Elon Musk, the richest man alive, plans to spend at least $100 million to help elect Republicans. We must end this corrupt campaign finance system, get rid of Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to public funding of elections.

Strasburgh did…why? Because it was a real world offer…and then was the World Series MVP..

Now look where the franchise is at.

Governor Whitmer has ushered in a new era of campaigning as an influencer rather than discussing any political issues, plans to improve our state or qualifications to lead. Here’s Jocelyn Benson, taking a break from supervising her own to election, to eat strawberries:

Michigan Gov. Whitmer says her signature accomplishments are road upgrades, free school lunches, civil rights protections for LGBTQ residents and the enshrinement of abortion rights into the state constitution, the result of a ballot initiative.