Saying it yet again, in another way:
I. He has attacked our heroic reporters for doing their job;
II. He has defended a man our CIA (and others) said was guilty of having a reporter killed, butchered. And this was a US-based reporter... In spite of the evidence, he just waved it all away and decided to proclaim, himself, that this wealthy and elite prince was innocent! (This was a prince whose daddy appointed him the Prime Minister, sort of like our own president getting wealthy thanks to his daddy's wealth before him... and by endless lawsuits) The point being, this is not a freely elected noble leader, this is a wealthy prince having a brave reporter butchered to death and getting away with it;*
IIa. It should be noted that the felon president isn't coddling a likely butcher out of the kindness of his heart... he's arranging oil deals, golf deals, investment deals for his family and other ultra-rich families... my friends, this should NOT be so;
III. He has boasted about getting away with sexual assault - boasted and laughed about being able to get away with it because he was rich and powerful and privileged;
IV. He has publicly boasted and laughed about using that same privilege to ogle half-naked teen-aged girls;
V. He was a frequent friend of a now-convicted (and now-dead) pedophile;
VI. He said of the pedophile's assistant, "I wish her well..." and his administration got her a cozier jail cell after some unknown "deal" was made;
VII. He has pardoned convicted criminals who assaulted police officers in a public insurrection at the Capitol;
VIII. He has pardoned millionaire and billionaire friends who were legally convicted of crimes and cons;
VIX. He has praised and defended and lauded/allied with dictators, oppressors, murderers, fascists while at the same time attacked and belittled our traditional partners - nations that are free republics, not dictatorships or run by strong men;
VX. He has refused to be transparent about his finances and the ways he and his family are enriching themselves with his presidency;
And I could go on and on. This is not a normal presidency. At some point, dear conservatives, you really need to finally say, "Whoa, THIS is too much... I've been conned. He truly was corrupt and indecent and vulgar and acted in ways that enriched him and his name and empowered actual criminals, racists, nazis and sexual assailants."
Please, join the majority of the nation in standing opposed to a criminal and corrupt administration. If nothing else, conservatives used to be concerned about crimes. This is a criminal administration, pardoning and defending wife abusers, child abusers, wealthy thieves, murderers and just the worst of people.
* RE: powerful people like the Saudi Prince getting away with literal murder, it should be noted that this is the way of our world for people like the prince and the pervert president. Even the Biden administration refused to hold the prince accountable. These people are not like Us.
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Trump hosted a dinner for an assassin who ordered a journalist dismembered. Trump is a sociopath.
Our local Thugs who defended Trump - Glenn musters up the moral failure of “not always agreeing with him” - they are not conservatives.
Tell the Truth Dan. Use truthful words. These are not Conservatives. They have an ideology that supports the brutality of White Supremacy. And then they disclaim in public while thrilling in private. Their life is plantation life.
Actual Conservatives acknowledge the fact.
“Trump and Vance not invited to Cheney’s funeral, but political leaders from both parties expected to attend.”
Such weird times. And they don't even understand how weird.
And not a good Weird, either.
Marshal, do you have anything on topic and supported with facts to say? If not, move on.
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
Dorothy Day
Trump is deplorable.
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
President Trump’s statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine.
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
~Erich Fromm
Good points/quotes, all.
What's amazing (re: killing fishermen accused with no support of being drug smugglers vs pardoning rich drug smugglers) is how so very few (or any??) conservatives have even acknowledged the glaring hypocrisy in it.
I mean, clearly, Trump is not a man of moral ideals or reasoning beyond "might makes right" and "as long as I can do it, I can get away with it." He just instinctively pardons and gives a pass to those who are very rich or very loyal to him. It's not about the crimes done, it's about wealth and power.
But it's just sickening that a rich and powerful man actually convicted of large-scale drug smuggling related charges is pardoned but people with NO convictions and not one bit of evidence that they've done anything wrong are summarily executed/murdered without even feeling like an explanation is to be given. This pervert felon has done a great deal of evil in his life, but this has to be one of the greater assaults on human rights and the notion of a free republic.
For the awake, it’s easy. The foundations are crumbling on 5 centuries of nation building y dispossessing Others of the land, labor, limbs, loved ones, and their lives. The kind of White-Supremacy syncretism with radical Protestantism necessary to justify such horrendous inhumanity is increasingly confronted and retarded for more than 5 decades now. And the rage has mounted because they don’t know how to be any human identity, only fake narratives of superiority.
By God’s mercy this, too, will pass. We can still found a country if we overcome.
War Crime
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.
But the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”
Such weird times.
"For the last decade there’s been a debate, among people who don’t like Donald Trump, about whether he’s a fascist.
The argument that he isn’t often hinges on two things. First, when Trump first came to power, he lacked a street-fighting force like Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts, even if he was able to muster a violent rabble on Jan. 6. “Trump didn’t proceed to unleash an army of paramilitary supporters in an American Kristallnacht or take dramatic action to remake the American state in his image,” wrote the leftists Daniel Bessner and Ben Burgis in “Did It Happen Here?,” a 2024 anthology examining the fascism question.
Second, Trump didn’t pursue campaigns of imperial expansion, which some scholars view as intrinsic to fascism. “For all of Trump’s hostility towards countries he perceives as enemies of the U.S., notably Iran, there is no indication that he sought a war with any foreign power, still less that he has been consumed by a desire for foreign conquest and the creation of an American empire,” wrote Richard J. Evans in his 2021 essay “Why Trump Isn’t a Fascist.”
It’s striking how much the arguments that Trump is not a fascist have suffered in just the first few days of this year, in which we’ve plunged to new depths of national madness."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/resistance-libs-trump-fascism.html
"Its effects occur at the cellular and neurochemical level...
It is possible to become addicted to power — particularly for certain character structures. Individuals with pronounced narcissistic, paranoid or psychopathic tendencies are especially vulnerable. For them, power does not merely enable action; it regulates inner states that would otherwise feel unmanageable.
Donald Trump is an extreme illustration of this dynamic. From a psychoanalytic perspective, his narcissism is malignant in the sense that it is organized around a profound inner emptiness.
Malignant narcissism is a combination of narcissism and psychopathology. Because there is little internal capacity for self-soothing or self-valuation, he requires continuous external affirmation to feel real and intact. Power supplies that affirmation. Visibility, dominance and constant stimulation temporarily fill the void."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opinion/trump-presidential-power-addiction.html
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