Same.

The problem with taking him "seriously and literally" is he says everything on every issue, sometime even in the same speech.

Thank you. That's a wonderful summation.

They don't have a coherent plan. Full Stop.

There are people focused on the tax cut. There are people focused on "reforming" gov. There are people focused on Israel. There are people focused on Ukraine/Russia. There are people focused on "making vaccines safe".

There are no doubt several also focused on enriching themselves.

The people focused on vaccines don't understand vaccines. The people focused on Ukraine/Russia apparently get a lot of their info from Russian "news" feeds. The people focused on the tax cuts either don't know or don't care about the economic side effects. Ditto whoever is feeding Trump ideas on tariffs.

This is a clown show, there are no realistic "long term plans".

The interesting part will be what happens when they run into facts. What happens when Putin refuses to make peace. What happens when they try to dismantle vaccines. What happens when the various department heads discover they need the next two layers of management back because they were doing useful things.
What happens when Trump running wild with tariffs crashes the economy.

Trump isn't going to accept responsibility for anything bad, but hopefully the voters will.

These stats are why I claim that Israel deliberately attacking civilians isn't supported by the numbers. I get that this is really grim and really brutal, but it's also expected with Hamas' style of fighting.

So if 15 ambulance/medical personal die, Israel is doing a good job if 3 of them were Hamas and a great job if 5 of them were.

It's in NY. State will be fortunate to get life.

I'd call it more a political assassination than a class thing.

The most important stat is civilian:military ratios.

My link is to a listing of estimates. The various ratios bounce around over time but between 80% and 66% civilian seem a good median. So between 4:1 and 2:1 civilian:military. At the moment the list leans towards the former but I suspect an edit war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war#Civilian_to_combatant_ratio

IMHO the stat "women and children" is so vague to be worthless. We need to know how many of those "children" are male and how many are female.

The unfortunate reality is a 4:1 ratio is doing better than expected in this kind of war even before factoring in Hamas deliberately putting it's own civilians in danger.

Israel seems to be doing a good but not great job by the standards of urban war.

The key thing in that post is how they handled the 17 protesters.
https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/20250311-pathways-to-peace-disturbance.cfm