I know of no greater fool than a person unwilling or unable to learn, or seek advice from those who know more than they do. Highly successful people are open to mentorship at some point in their lives or continued growth/learning.  Highly effective leaders defer to experts to make decisions, scale and expedite. They know what they don't know or make hires to do jobs better than they could.

You're right though. He had guard rails on the first term, and nearly a dozen of those people later came forward and said he should never be president again. He's crazy, mentally ill and surrounded by sycophants this time around. Last night exceeded any loss I could imagine though. Texas going blue? Pffft! I would have lost money on that bet.

This.

Tough to listen to.

Calling ICE "Law enforcement" is a stretch to say the least. They violate our First Amendment, Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights just for starters. They have no ID. They mask their faces. They use weapons of war on our streets and are absolutely not trained to deescalate, they do the exact opposite...the escalate violence.

Neither American that was MURDERED by these fucking goons incited anything or were acting violently. Not even close. They were exercising their First Amendment rights. Good was given two conflicting commands, was turning her wheel and was going maybe 5 MPH. The agent shot her multiple times in the face and then called her a "fucking bitch" after doing so. She had a heartbeat for another 8 minutes, while ICE goons stood around and refused medical personal to intervene.

Pretti was helping a women up when Trump's secret police gassed him in the face, beat him with a gas canister, took his legally registered gun away and THEN shot him in the back multiple times. He did absolutely nothing to provoke these lunatics. As he laid on the ground, they counted the bullet holes in his body, and were not interested in getting any medical attention.

Any one of you sick fucks defending this fascist behavior are traitors to this country and can kiss my fucking ass. And yes, this is 100% fascism. Make no mistake about it. What we're witnessing is the federal government invading and occupying our cities and shitting all over our Constitution just like like our 34 time convicted Felon president does almost daily.

After the blatant murder of another U.S. citizen exercising their First and Second Amendment rights, the federal government lies to us again and tell us not to believe our own eyes. They accuse this ICU nurse at the VA of being a "domestic terrorist."  Then their Attorney General sends a letter to the governor of Minnesota saying she can "bring and end to the chaos" if they provided they the DOJ access to Minnesota's voter rolls."

This shit isn't about immigration and never was. I'm sure once this government has access to voter rolls they'll act with only the highest integrity at a benefit to all of us.

Trump going into Greenland would be one of the biggest destabilizing world events possible. I truly hope he does not do it. But as we've seen, he always starts off "joking" about something, then talks about it more as time goes on and then finally does it. He's a true threat to our society as a whole. As you said, all the guardrails are gone and he's surrounded by sycophants and yes men. Rubio doesn't strike me as somebody on the verge of leaving, but who knows...

Maybe somebody can inform me about a time in history where a country had a masked police force without ID, and how that ultimately worked out for them. Seems like all the 2A conservatives who warned us about government tyranny and waived their pocket Constitutions around sure are quiet now. I guess they don't think they'd be next in a right wing led authoritarian government?

The administration gaslighting the American public after the ICE murder was very Orwellian and cruel. Every time I think I can't be shocked any further, they amp it up. Vile and disgusting.