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The Antifascist Formerly Known As Keith
@trailrunners.net

Mocking a disabled reporter – OK Grabbing women by the pussy – OK Calling a pandemic a hoax – OK Attacking the capitol – OK Abducting people – OK Destroying public property – OK Pardoning political allies - OK Murdering people at sea – OK Pedophilia – must be OK!

Cathy
@leadahorse.bsky.social

Stealing classified documents, some of which were so sensitive he couldn’t be charged with their theft because not a single judge or attorney could ever have high enough security clearance to view them. To me that was the worst. Risking our demise (still very possible) for his personal benefit.

A Bompstable Cat
@bomstable.bsky.social

Ever since Trump first came to power, the quote that keeps swimming around in my mind about him and his appeal to his base is from Samuel Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." Say:"everyone's like that! " you never have to feel bad about your own awfulness.

Mel
@mel-33.bsky.social

This is exactly what many folks with narcissism think, that everyone thinks the way they do. It preserves their self image, and it’s a way of absolving yourself from guilt.

Suzen
@rebel-librarian.bsky.social

100% accurate. This is who he is. Everyone knows Trump cheats at golf. But he expected his partners to cheat too. He thought they were “stupid” not to. “He cheats like a mafia accountant. He cheats crazy. He cheats whether you're watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not."

Larry Seff
@lseff.bsky.social

That is why it behooves us and we must lock all these scumbags up for as long as possible. And have the harshest sentences that are available on the books and then come up with new sentences for these fox, and what they're doing that are even harsher.

g.h. kirsch
@gh-kirsch.bsky.social

It's astonishing, all the people who took an oath to the constitution, looking on, excusing their inaction. Some surround and protect the most corrupt man ever elected. Trump's got the Proud Boys. Why is the Secret Service helping them?

Cathy
@leadahorse.bsky.social

My mother fell for “locker room talk”. I asked “do your grandsons and husband say that in the locker room?” She said NO. Then it’s locker room talk for men of no character, respect or values. Like Trump.

Carousel Rider
@literata1.bsky.social

Neither my father, my husband, my son-in-laws nor my brothers cheated on their wives and partner. They all treasured children, acting as surrogate fathers in two cases . They paid their taxes and gave lots of money to charities when they could ill afford it. They were all kind.

Nerdy Pete
@nerdypete.bsky.social

The problem with his argument is that it's basically demanding violence from anyone who actually cares about right and wrong. Reminds me of what JFK said: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Matt
@laughandargue.bsky.social

It should be career-ending to write an article like that in which you throw up your hands and say "But we just don't know whether Trump actually participated in the abuse" without mentioning Katie Johnson.

PinkTweets
@pinktweets.bsky.social

Tell that to Julie K. Brown, who won a George Polk award for Justice Reporting for her work on the Epstein case. As she said, she spent a lot of time on it but there wasn't much to say because KJ/JD wasn't talking, the lawyers weren't talking. So what was there to report? Just that the three

PinkTweets
@pinktweets.bsky.social

lawsuits had been filed but that there was no way to verify any of it. I suspect that had the press conference not been cancelled, there would have been massive coverage. Prior to that time, several publications (none of them major U.S.-based pubs) did cover it, though most if not all focused

Stan (Sol)
@solman06.bsky.social

More than everyone does it, when I listen to Donald, I think he is saying that sexual assault is "normal." Not everyone does it, the wealthy and people who wield power like him do it.

rekati.bsky.social
@rekati.bsky.social

That is the essential conservative talking point. It's behind the smear of virtue signaling, the distrust of charities, the invective against climate campaigners, and just wait for what they manage to come with for the clergy who protest. Conservatives truly believe the world is a filthy place.

ReadingWarrior
@readingwarrior.bsky.social

Very consistent. As he viewed the war dead in Europe, he asked what's in it for them, who he later described as losers and suckers. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY AND IT IS ONE REASON WHY PEOPLE VOTED FOR HIM. Critical thinking is non-existent. If he feels this way about everyone, how about you?

TedEJr528647
@tedejr52.bsky.social

AKA the Two Wrongs Fallacy. My neighbor robbed a bank, so it is okay for me to rob one. Which ignores the fact that each person is judged by their own behaviour, not the behaviour of others. And that is probably why that line of argument is a Fallacy, isn't it? 😁

Kim
@kim65.bsky.social

Remember how smug we were catching maga in their hypocrisies? Ooooh, gotcha! It never occurred to me how hypocrisy is a demonstration of power, same for blatant lies.

Debby33 ❌ 👑
@debby33.bsky.social

💯 This is their new line of defense. Megyn Kelly: There's a difference between a 5-yr-old and a 15-yr-old. Alan Dershowitz: Epstein slept with a 17-yr-10-month-old, he wasn't a pedophile. Call me a crazy optimist, but I think this is gonna hold up about as well as the Lions o-line did last night.

Huck Mucus
@huckmucus.bsky.social

If we had a "POTUS in absentia", the way Trump was during the Biden years, the Saudis could be told not to do this, or else. All this shit should be undone, and penalties imposed to make it not worth it.