Oh brother, this spells trouble. Actually, it already has.

[Mac1958]

We’ve accepted that Trump has no morality.

As has MAGA. They just don't want to say it.

They've sold their soul, and they've sold out their religion, for this.

 

[BackAgain]

As has MAGA. They just don't want to say it.

They've sold their soul, and they've sold out their religion, for this.

Two twerps agreeing with each other’s banal stupidity.

Boring.

 

[toobfreak]

Two twerps agreeing with each other’s banal stupidity.

Don't ya get it, BA? You've sold your soul.

Get with the program.

 

[kyzr]

Once again the MAGA mantra, truth is relative.

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." ―The Liar-in-Chief, 2018

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”​

― George Orwell, 1984

Your "mantra" about "crime" doesn't make it a crime. Put up specifics, not lies.

 

[Darlo kittu]

Looks like the left has another outrage of the hour

 

[konradv]

Two twerps agreeing with each other’s banal stupidity.

Vance and Miller?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’​

President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.

Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

“I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”

When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States.

Mr. Trump’s assessment of his own freedom to use any instrument of military, economic or political power to cement American supremacy was the most blunt acknowledgment yet of his worldview. At its core is the concept that national strength, rather than laws, treaties and conventions, should be the deciding factor as powers collide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html

This would be shocking even if trump were not immoral. It gives some revealing insight in to how he views the world and his place in it. It hate the term "permission structure," though if ever it fit in describing a construct by which trump is completely unrestrained by laws, treaties and conventions, this is it.

"My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

There are a number of words to describe that. Megalomania, malignant narcissist, grandiose delusion. Here are a few more. Dangerous, deranged, perilous, deluded.

Someone who thinks like that is the last person in the world who should be in control of the most powerful military force on the planet. Made worse because the normal constraints placed on any prez by Congress and the SC are almost entirely absent thanks to R's abdication of their responsibility to the citizenry and the Constitution.

And Trump doesn't have any morality.

So, he's trying to be ******* HITLER.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Looks like the left has another outrage of the hour

Ah, the sort of answer given by people who can't talk about the topic at hand.

Wait, you didn't write TDS? Maybe in your next post. Or how about "fake news", that one isn't used so much these days, as "TDS" has been the hit of the year with thick *****.

 

[frigidweirdo]

What O, dubya, and corn pop did in office was exponentially worse than anything orange man has done. Not even close.

I disagree.


Trump is pushing the country to somewhere else, somewhere more dangerous. Look at some bad leaders, like in Cambodia or China, and see how those leaders rose to the top. They took out their opposition, lied, cheated and got what they wanted, total control.

Trump is moving the US towards that. And I don't think Trump will get what he's pushing for. I don't even think he's thinking about the consequences. But another leader might come along and exploit everything Trump's done, and the US will be FUCKED.

 

[BackAgain]

Don't ya get it, BA? You've sold your soul.

Get with the program.

Oh yeah.

 

[BackAgain]

Vance and Miller?

No. You and Mac.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

I disagree.


Trump is pushing the country to somewhere else, somewhere more dangerous. Look at some bad leaders, like in Cambodia or China, and see how those leaders rose to the top. They took out their opposition, lied, cheated and got what they wanted, total control.

Trump is moving the US towards that. And I don't think Trump will get what he's pushing for. I don't even think he's thinking about the consequences. But another leader might come along and exploit everything Trump's done, and the US will be FUCKED.

No, this is way deeper than drugs or oil. This is a direct shot and squeeze on three nations, russia, china, and iran. This ain't what you're referring to. They aren't coming in to this hemisphere.

 

[jknowgood]

Like bombing helpless survivors of a boat which was already bombed.

You mean drug runners?

 

[jknowgood]

They cheer the ugliest things he says, posts and does. Then they'll tell you he's moral.

Since they'll say that, congressional Republicans have to stay in line and say the same thing.

Enablers.

He calls you loons out, the only Republican president to do it. You loons can't take it, I mean not be able to get away with your lies and all.

 

[frigidweirdo]

No, this is way deeper than drugs or oil. This is a direct shot and squeeze on three nations, russia, china, and iran. This ain't what you're referring to. They aren't coming in to this hemisphere.

Does Trump care about that? Not based on his actions in the Ukraine War.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Does Trump care about that? Not based on his actions in the Ukraine War.

He understands enough to know that russia, china, and iran have been extracting oil right out of the western hemisphere and has put the stop to that. My problem with his reponse to xi in reference to taiwan is that he basically just told them that they can do whatever they want. That has major implications on this AI technology movement. I even doubt seriously that trump even understands the deeper stuff even beyond the oil................

 

[frigidweirdo]

He understands enough to know that russia, china, and iran have been extracting oil right out of the western hemisphere and has put the stop to that. My problem with his reponse to xi in reference to taiwan is that he basically just told them that they can do whatever they want. That has major implications on this AI technology movement. I even doubt seriously that trump even understands the deeper stuff even beyond the oil................

Does Trump care about Taiwan? Nope.

Trump only cares about making money. Taiwan is not beneficial for the US, except for chips, which his supposed "America First" policy would have the chips moved to the US.

Maybe he doesn't want China getting the technology, but that's probably as far as it goes.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Does Trump care about Taiwan? Nope.

Trump only cares about making money. Taiwan is not beneficial for the US, except for chips, which his supposed "America First" policy would have the chips moved to the US.

Maybe he doesn't want China getting the technology, but that's probably as far as it goes.

I have to agree with you on the china/taiwan thing.

 

[fncceo]

What "international law" are you referring to?

If you think someone is breaking International Law … call an International Cop.

 

[fncceo]

Trump only cares about making money.

You gotta respect that.