What’s so eye-opening…yet discouraging in all this…is when people don’t even recognize their own hypocrisy.
While I think that Trump is about as Christian as Osama Bin Laden was…and is about as Conservative as AOC…@treco is right…I can’t (and won’t) try to judge the man’s heart. However; I can look back on his Life and see how he carries himself now and judge him as a President…
Absolutely, and without any doubt, Trump’s greatest weakness as president is his pathological (and dangerous) paranoid narcissism, that he exhibits each and every day, whether via tweets are one of his self-aggrandizing rallies. .
Trumps all-consuming self-love has crippled him in almost all of his endeavors. He thinks he knows everything which prevents him from learning anything. (Has anyone ever known the man to ever be “wrong”? I haven’t).
If his followers can’t (or won’t) see that his “Christianity” and his “Conservatism” is all a dog and pony show and a means to an end; I am totally out of the “proving” game it they can’t see it for themselves.
As I’ve said many times before…who we really are deep down eventually catches up to us all, whether we are the school janitor or sit in the highest and most powerful Political office in the World.
Let’s just hope…and yes, pray…that Trump doesn’t take a lot of good people down with him.
They were praying for a wall to keep out the brown people and a Muslim Ban to keep out the heathens (who they also see as brown people).
They also thought he would keep those trouble making feminists in line as well as push the gays back into the closet. They see MAGA as meaning returning to a time of white Christian (their brand of Christianity) superiority. They are descended, if not literally then ideologically, from the same people who derailed the Reconstruction.
Not only that, but a key point continually overlooked is that while bribery, extortion, etc., are immoral (as are attempts to accomplish it even if they don’t succeed), bribery and extortion using money that doesn’t belong to you constitutes another independent immoral act.
Trump wasn’t dangling his own money in front of the Ukrainians to get a personal favor - he was dangling money that belonged to the taxpayer. That’s misappropriation, a kind of theft.
This is a brilliant piece of journalism. A couple of years ago this would have been a The Onion article.
As we sped uptown, he spoke in monologue about the scandal he co-created, weaving one made-up talking point into another and another. He said former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, whom he calls Santa Maria Yovanovitch, is “controlled” by George Soros. “He put all four ambassadors there. And he’s employing the FBI agents.” I told him he sounded crazy, but he insisted he wasn’t.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” he said. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”
In the grand tradition of Soros conspiracy theorists, Giuliani believes the media is doing the billionaire’s bidding by printing lies about him, yet he often bungles his own attempts to discredit the media’s reporting. While attempting to argue that, despite what has been written, “I have no business interests in Ukraine,” he told me about his business interests in Ukraine.
“The one that I really wanted to do,” Giuliani said, was a lawsuit on behalf of the Ukrainian government against a large financial institution he claims laundered $7 billion for Viktor Yanukovych, the former president. “It would’ve had nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with Burisma, nothing to do with Biden,” he said. He then explained that the reason why he “really wanted” to take on the case was to learn about Ukrainian money laundering, “so I could figure out they utilize the same money-laundering system for Hunter Biden.”
Couldn’t get past the first tweet. It’s strange to me that Trump would have an easy fix to homelessness (lol), yet refuse to share it with the 2nd largest population of Trump voters unless “they call and politely ask for help.”
Is this the same mouthbreather who said “Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated?”
Fun fact: It’s part of his process. There’s an entire aspect of his book in which he explains why it’s so much better to add humiliation and power moves to getting what you want from people.
What he meant there was grovel.
I’m still flabbergasted on how I’d be expected to interpret his tweet as a CA Trump voter that isn’t telling me to go fuck myself.
Speaking at an anti-abortion rally today; Trump reiterated the fact that in the past he called himself “very pro-choice,”…but since becoming president has identified as “pro-life” and pushed policies that support efforts to limit abortion.
There is a special place in Hell for Trump’s brand of hypocrisy…
