“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
-John Stuart Mill
So let us count the ways of most Dems, if you look at parking all of this at the doorstep of Repubs.
The Dem leadership (Schumer and Jeffries, among others…):
did not fight for a War Powers vote;
have not BOTHERED in a public SIGNED statement to invite however many Repubs they need at the moment for an impeachment; and
have not BOTHERED to draft legislation to limit the number of pardons per term (never mind whether it will pass in this session!)
Schumer is now doing more to put Israelis at risk with cluster munitions in Israel than if he had at least TRIED to stop enabling Netanyahoo and Trump from doing further damage in Iran.
So I agree Mr.Romano; I am finding all this behavior by Trump AND most in Congress to be somewhat spooky, supernatural, and Evil.
By the way, I notice a new shtick they are staging, to compensate for all the boos Trump is getting nowadays. Trump tells a troll ““joke””, and a handful of some grifter-shills loudly guffaw on cue at the moment he tells it (they having been coached when to do it beforehand…)
The “He didn’t put his hand on the bible” thing? MAYBE he was being cute; maybe he was just being his typical disrespectful and lazy self. But we’ll take it! How often have his grifters made damaging unverified claims towards others?
The stock response of a grifter will be: “HE’S JOKING! SHEEZ!! CAN’T YOU CATHOLICS TAKE A JOKE?!”
Classic malevolent trolling by Commander Shitzinpants. I can hardly wait until he does an image involving Allah! Don’t think that will happen? OK, enjoy taking that gamble! I guess we’’ll also be picking up the damage from that one after the midterms…
A lot of people are struggling with the WHY of him having done this (including you, Cenk…) They are chalking it off as just dementia.
No, it’s calculated: he felt on shaky ground having a dispute with a world religious leader. So how to one-up that religious leader and claim he has the winning argument? Say you are a higher authority than the pope! Yes, incredibly INFANTILE logic -but that’s Trump!
He can’t walk it back now. Wait for him to possibly do a picture of Allah. And for those who think he wouldn’t: given that it is a media taboo, he might just do that to try and prove he’s bigger than any taboo.
Why do pedos do what they do? For many wealthy ones, it’s about stating your power, being able to commit such a taboo without having to suffer any consequences.
His followup post of AI slop with Jesus (as opposed to cosplaying Jesus) will not work now, where in the past it might have. Given the tastelessness of his most recent post, it’s patently clear to all but an incredibly tiny minority of cult members that he is dissembling and ham-handedly trying to change the subject from his tawdry attempt to get a leg up on Pope Leo by engaging in calculated blasphemy…
