I look forward to the day when this collection of loathsome and putrescent organisms can be expunged from our day-to-day lives, remembered only as an eradicated scourge, like smallpox. That would be their most effective punishment.
Now I almost want to see the 60 minutes interview. Only almost though. I think it would enrage me to watch Ross Douthat, and Donald Trump’s voice is Ike nails on a chalkboard to me these days. I’m grateful Adam gave me the salient pieces of the interview so I don’t have to subject myself to it. They both send me to a dark place, and I am embracing the light as much as I can.
It was like asking the Grinch if he could ever forgive Cindy-Lou Who, who was no more than two. What a ridiculous set up. Don't think much of Douthat even on a good day.
I’m not sure it’s that he couldn’t give the easy answer. I also doubt it was a rare moment of total honesty. I think he’s still playing to his base. It’s an answer for the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers, to make them think he’s their idea of a “real man.” Which is even worse than what you thought. It’s proof there’s no there there: he has no soul.
I have always thought exactly that! There’s no “there” there in Trump: no soul, conscience or inner life. Nothing but rapacious greed and unearned self-importance.
How tragic it is when a person becomes so consumed by hatred that revenge replaces reason, cruelty replaces compassion, and retribution replaces any capacity to lead. Such a person may spend a lifetime trying to make others suffer, believing that this is a demonstration of strength. But the ultimate tragedy is that they impoverish their own humanity. For a life without kindness, without genuine empathy, and without the capacity to forgive is not a life of power. It is a life of profound emptiness. This is a shell of a human.
Bingo, Ida! My sister often reminds me of this quote about forgiveness: “Refusing to forgive someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.” I think that pretty well sums it up! I would say, if you want to do something good for yourself, forgive someone over whom you’ve held a grudge!
Eloquently said. His own need of power has consumed any ability to empathize. Like all autocrats, people only exist to serve him. He has nothing to give, only hate.
No surprise here...and my heart and mind are always clear because I forgive people while still on earth...I cannot IMAGINE holding all of that poison inside of me 24/7...perhaps that explains all we need to know about this man.
Very wise Adam. Thanks for the reminder that it is better to forgive than to hang onto hate. Trump's thoughts on the afterlife don't interest me at all. Nor Charlie Kirk's - it's a lot of playacting "Christianity."
Trump is a man who, despite his mostly ill-gotten wealth, lives a life of extreme poverty and has always done so. His own son, when young, was supposed to have told him: "You don't love us. You don't even love yourself. You just love your money." What greater failure is there in life than that? As much as I despise him, I also pity him, undeserving of it though he may be (and he'd have nothing but contempt for it anyway). He is an example of someone we'd never want our children or grandchildren to emulate. Nobody truly wants him and, if he doesn't see his way to some repentence before he dies, God might not want him, either. What a tragic excuse for a human being.
Thank you for the article, Adam. Trump was not truthful about his interview on sixty minutes. He is just an angry man waiting to throw Congress in jail. He is a total mental case.
Accountability isn't retribution nor grievance. We have to be able to hold accountable the zealots that have chosen the Faustian bargain for the elixir of power and corruption.
My faith says we all must be contrite in our own iniquities and to be able to also come together in humility of or own ego to support and defend the least of these for our basic rights written into our Constitutional law. His grievance is always about anyone trying to bridle his unbridled greed, egotistic narcissism, and absolute want to control others through loyalty - even if it costs others their own dignity and essence of self.
Every year in the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we Jews are specifically required to go to each person we believe we hurt and ask for their forgiveness. Trump isn't Jewish, but if he tried at any time of the year, he couldn't do it.
Our nation's greatest leaders, Washington and Lincoln, and others, set the example for forgiveness, especially Lincoln. That Trump likes to compare himself to them is a joke.
We've always known who he his...he is just admitting it and reminding us.
I look forward to the day when this collection of loathsome and putrescent organisms can be expunged from our day-to-day lives, remembered only as an eradicated scourge, like smallpox. That would be their most effective punishment.
Now I almost want to see the 60 minutes interview. Only almost though. I think it would enrage me to watch Ross Douthat, and Donald Trump’s voice is Ike nails on a chalkboard to me these days. I’m grateful Adam gave me the salient pieces of the interview so I don’t have to subject myself to it. They both send me to a dark place, and I am embracing the light as much as I can.
Cannot stand that sing-song, whinybitchy, raspy, self-pitying Baby Huey voice. One FOUL man.
The Grinch and Scrooge saw the error of their ways but this villain still has not had his consciousness raised. I guess he is afraid of being “woke”.
It was like asking the Grinch if he could ever forgive Cindy-Lou Who, who was no more than two. What a ridiculous set up. Don't think much of Douthat even on a good day.
Not surprising at all. He is about as religious a man as my cat .
Not fair to Cats (Pets) and the Rainbow bridge.
Well, she doesn’t have religion as far as I know, but she is the queen of the house for sure.
Your kitty is innately more in touch with her creator than that piece of dreck ever will be.
absolutely. Animals don't have to be religious. They are the embodiment of creation and knowing exactly who and what they are.
You used the word dreck. You must be Wordle solver!!! 🙂
I'm not a wordle person and I know what dreck is, but I am also 62 with "old english" vocabulary.
"Dreck" has been around way, way longer than Wordle.
I’m not sure it’s that he couldn’t give the easy answer. I also doubt it was a rare moment of total honesty. I think he’s still playing to his base. It’s an answer for the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers, to make them think he’s their idea of a “real man.” Which is even worse than what you thought. It’s proof there’s no there there: he has no soul.
I have always thought exactly that! There’s no “there” there in Trump: no soul, conscience or inner life. Nothing but rapacious greed and unearned self-importance.
How tragic it is when a person becomes so consumed by hatred that revenge replaces reason, cruelty replaces compassion, and retribution replaces any capacity to lead. Such a person may spend a lifetime trying to make others suffer, believing that this is a demonstration of strength. But the ultimate tragedy is that they impoverish their own humanity. For a life without kindness, without genuine empathy, and without the capacity to forgive is not a life of power. It is a life of profound emptiness. This is a shell of a human.
Spot-on Ida.
Bingo, Ida! My sister often reminds me of this quote about forgiveness: “Refusing to forgive someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.” I think that pretty well sums it up! I would say, if you want to do something good for yourself, forgive someone over whom you’ve held a grudge!
Eloquently said. His own need of power has consumed any ability to empathize. Like all autocrats, people only exist to serve him. He has nothing to give, only hate.
No surprise here...and my heart and mind are always clear because I forgive people while still on earth...I cannot IMAGINE holding all of that poison inside of me 24/7...perhaps that explains all we need to know about this man.
Proof positive that he is an evil man with a black and rotting heart. He lost his soul long ago.
Very wise Adam. Thanks for the reminder that it is better to forgive than to hang onto hate. Trump's thoughts on the afterlife don't interest me at all. Nor Charlie Kirk's - it's a lot of playacting "Christianity."
Trump is a man who, despite his mostly ill-gotten wealth, lives a life of extreme poverty and has always done so. His own son, when young, was supposed to have told him: "You don't love us. You don't even love yourself. You just love your money." What greater failure is there in life than that? As much as I despise him, I also pity him, undeserving of it though he may be (and he'd have nothing but contempt for it anyway). He is an example of someone we'd never want our children or grandchildren to emulate. Nobody truly wants him and, if he doesn't see his way to some repentence before he dies, God might not want him, either. What a tragic excuse for a human being.
Go Blue Poems
America is walking out on Trump's shit show
Sick of the stench, it's time for Trump to go
Investigations will finally uncover all the facts
The new Congress will end all of Trump's bad acts
This Congress didn't do its job. It only caused frustration
America deserves answers from this administration
No more hiding the truth or the telling of lies
Their arrogance no longer works as a disguise
Pete Hegseth may be gone by the end of the year
Republicans who lost their jobs have nothing to fear
They have already said they plan to investigate
If they do, Trump will seal Pete Hegseth's fate
Todd Blanche is still acting like Donald's personal lawyer
He must be reminded that America is his only employer
Congress has the power and will use all its remedies
To stop the political prosecution of Trump's enemies
We will demand that DOJ release the Epstein files
No matter who is on the list or who it riles
Donald's circle of enablers is rapidly shrinking
No more hiding the truth or Republicans winking
America wants an end to all of Trump's corruptions
Don't lose focus with Steve Miller's disruptions
Investigate ICE crimes and release the evidence
No more protecting the guilty with cruel confidence
Congress must investigate the private prisons
Put an end to their funding are righteous decisions
Congress must do what it can to bring our costs down
Trump's reason for the tariffs was never sound
Corporations passed the higher costs onto us
Trump gave them a rebate and stuck it to us
His act is old and his policies have all gone wrong
We are angry of the vanity projects that don't belong
If we could we would destroy everything he touches
And tear loose all the gold from Trump's clutches
LOVE this!!!❤️
Thank you for the article, Adam. Trump was not truthful about his interview on sixty minutes. He is just an angry man waiting to throw Congress in jail. He is a total mental case.
Accountability isn't retribution nor grievance. We have to be able to hold accountable the zealots that have chosen the Faustian bargain for the elixir of power and corruption.
My faith says we all must be contrite in our own iniquities and to be able to also come together in humility of or own ego to support and defend the least of these for our basic rights written into our Constitutional law. His grievance is always about anyone trying to bridle his unbridled greed, egotistic narcissism, and absolute want to control others through loyalty - even if it costs others their own dignity and essence of self.
Thank you, Adam, your wise words leave us much to ponder if we wish to move forward into a place beyond blame and hate
Every year in the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we Jews are specifically required to go to each person we believe we hurt and ask for their forgiveness. Trump isn't Jewish, but if he tried at any time of the year, he couldn't do it.
Our nation's greatest leaders, Washington and Lincoln, and others, set the example for forgiveness, especially Lincoln. That Trump likes to compare himself to them is a joke.