You keep referring to this behavior as if it is something new. That is an error, imo.
You people either knew what you were supporting, or worse: didn’t know what you were supporting. Trump was never a wolf disguised as a sheep; he has always been a VERY obvious wolf. Sorry, but I had to say it.
I am not sure he has become anything, or changed in anyway, he is what he has always been, an amoral narcissistic opportunist.
That people fell for such transparent lies, and rhetoric is baffling to me.
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This is a real thing.
Don’t ask me to cite my source - I took a blood oath.
The executive has been getting more and more powerful for decades now. For example, past Presidents have routinely declared war despite that being a matter supposedly for Congressional debate, on account of it being too urgent to wait for that basically. Once we are committed to a conflict it is hard for Congress to pull it back anyway – the “dogs of war” have already been “let slip”. Trump is the culmination of death by a thousand cuts like this. Yes, Trump is uniquely shameless, etc., but the office was just waiting for some shameless fucker like him to take these ever-expanding executive powers to their logical conclusion.
The capper, of course, was SCOTUS saying that a President is untouchable for criminal responsibility for anything that can be stretched to be considered “in the course of his official duties”. That decision IIRC is less than a year old but it has already borne bitter fruit.
The Consultant’s Dictum applies here: “things are the way they are because they got that way”. Plenty of blame to go around.
More damning than a picture of him with two young girls one on his knee pointing to, what is likely, a cum stain on his pants?
A video that would make 99 out of a hundred catholic priests throw up out of their eyeballs?
Have I gone too far? I sense I may have gone too far, nah it’ll be fine.
Wait, this is an actual photo that’s in the public domain?
AFAIK it is a description of a picture Epstein allegedly had in his personal vault, which he showed to the writer who was gathering data for his biography, just before Epstein’s arrest. He showed it to his biographer so that the biographer understood Epstein had “kompromat” on Trump, just in case. He allegedly said, “I may be a pervert, but I’m not a fool”.
Presumably whatever was in that safe was obtained by the feds after Epstein’s arrest. I also recall contemporary news accounts saying they found hidden cameras all over his digs, and that suggests he had plenty of compromising videos of everyone who ever was within those walls.
Here again, it is just anecdote (although this guy was interviewed recently, and you can probably Google your way to his name and the name of his interviewer). But it does seem that revelations of this nature must exist to explain Trump’s behiavor about the Epstein “files”.
Um a seemingly impossible task. Unless… Is there a video of him pleasuring … and thats why he died.
Tom Wolfe interviewed on the podcast the Daily Beast. Wolfe reports that while interviewing Epstein he was shown the picture.
I think even atheists have to appreciate (despise?) the “antichrist” - al supernatural ability that Trump has to evade all form of Justice. The man himself claimed (rightly) that he could “shoot a man on (whatever street - I think it was fifth (down in the Wall Street sector) - and get away with it - and not lose any voters”.
Clearly Trump is getting away with child trafficking and who knows what else (well, we all do … and that’s kind of the point).
This populace is so indifferent and incapable of effecting change that Trump will get away with whatever he wills. The only justice will ever be an uprising on the Left.
He is no different that Ann Bolean. Her fateful moment was, so we are told, the phrase “let them eat cake”. It enraged the French peasants so much that they took over the capital and had her beheaded. Only the same fate, and I don’t care if I say it, is deserving of Trump. He is beyond reproach and deserving only of the mob.
But where is the mob. Disenfranchised, working pay check to pay check. Scared. Who had the times these days to launch a revolution. And that is why Trump gets away with everything. It is not to his credit but to our discredit.
It will be. It will be absolutely just fine. The ethos of the left is laissez faire. They can’t fight against corruption because they’re all corrupt. The people need a leader to advance an attack. No one will lead. We think it’s all atrocious and detestable and yet why does absolutely nothing get done? No one cares. No one has the moral backbone to fight to the death. That is not only a commentary on moral relativism. It is a commentary on how displaced the common American is from his constitutional right to overthrow a corrupt government by way of force. Pitiful.
Hi! We often gotten are hopes up from time to time.
You may want to look that up, Ratty.
A sweeping generalisation about 50% of people, and I suggest an oversimplification.
Hmm, be careful what you wish for.
About what specifically?
Again about what? This seems like another sweeping generalisation.
For what? It’s not at all clear what you’re saying here.
That’s in the constitution?
A narrow majority just voted in a president who has done, and is doing his level best to remove every check and balance against executive power, and who seems to have naught but contempt for the constitution he has now twice sworn to uphold.
I agree with this insight. Dissent has long been neutered in this country by a combination of selfish indulgence (addiction to the consumption and attention economies) and carefully titrated earning power (enough to have some luxuries and at least a guttering candle of hope for a better life, but not enough to do anything but put one foot in front of the other).
Despite being aware of this, I also suffer from it. I should probably be at more protests, taking more risks, etc., in spite of my age. But my increasingly constrained circumstances and the needs of a disabled child probably foreclose retirement for me, along with the extra time and energy and options it would afford me. My only outward-facing outlets honestly are work (which I fortunately enjoy) and online engagement such as this.
Storming the Capitol building to attempt an insurrection when Trump lost.
Mary Ann Twonette???
Isn’t that also a dubious source?
I think you might be basing this statement on the assumption that he knows what the constitution is or says. The only way the genius might have a clue about the constitution is if someone read and explained it to him daily. Although a talented artist might be able to put it into pictures as long it was in comic book form replete with action hero’s and lots of KAPOWS and a few bombs and missiles. Not for historical accuracy but to hold his interest.
The other day he said that the constitution was written after the civil war. If he doesn’t know what is in the constitution he can’t really uphold it. It might be time to ensure that anyone seeking public office prove they know and understand the constitution. Say a two hour civics test with scores posted widely before they can run. And only those scoring at least 80% eligible to run.
Now some might counter with the argument that such a measure would be discriminatory to those with cognitive impairments to which I would say, “and your point is”?