"No other president, with the possible exception of Lincoln, was Washington’s equal. … Washington set the standard. Presidents had to at least appear to be better than they were, offering the tribute that vice pays to virtue. ...
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It's for articles like this I subscribe to the Atlantic. Thank you.
aug 14, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
🙄🙄here we are again, in the liberal phase of writing nerdish articles about American history trying to convince illiterate righties to correct their course.
aug 14, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
He wore dentures made from his slaves teeth.
aug 14, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Precisely, this regime has normalized, incivility, lies, grift, pettiness, and overreach. Personal integrity is lacking in the entire orange regime!
aug 14, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
The corruption IS spreading. It didn’t begin with Trump, it was just given freedom. I see it daily. Making integrity admirable requires a strong moral foundation. Faith in a higher power is the easiest path. Commitment to a set of morals is the next. Start modeling the behavior individually.
aug 14, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Faith is wonderful if you have it, but it’s not a necessity to having integrity and morals. I have faith but I don’t require it in those I admire. Integrity reigns supreme.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
lotsaluck...
aug 14, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Sadly we don't reward virtue.
aug 14, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
agree but if we maintain the logic , then should we not back california redrawing congressional lines in retaliation?
aug 14, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
That speaks to the depravity of our society. What % of the people have to support a criminal in office to call us a sick culture? 38%? 28%? 10%? Deviant behavior should be relegated to the 3 sigma territory. We are either a very depraved society or a delusional one.
aug 14, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
How about both? From my interactions with maga I would say there are those that are all in on the crimes and those that completely deny it all and say Trump is a victim.
aug 14, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
How about just promoting 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 for now and working on excellence later? 🤷
aug 14, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
In the US, integrity has gone the way of irony and dinosaurs.
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Trumps buddy is Putin, a war criminal. Did We expect anything else from Trump but corruption? The man has literally no good qualities. We really fucked up letting anyone with ties to Russia run for president. It’s like Putin’s in the WH attacking America.
aug 14, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Excellent article. I grew up among WWII and Depression survivors. Integrity, personal virtue, and being a gentle-man was built in. This time of ugliness and cruelty has been a shock to my sensibilities.
aug 15, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The lack of integrity and decency goes right to the heart of the rot that rose up and gave us Trump.
aug 14, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
My clock starts with Eisenhower. From there on, gets a little foggy.
aug 14, 2025, 12:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The essence of the culture wars is fascist propaganda dominating the organic evolution of society.
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
"No more. Donald Trump’s corruption is borderless, in ways we’ve never quite seen before. But what’s also precedent-shattering is that he doesn’t try to hide it. His depravity is all in the open."
aug 14, 2025, 11:42 am • 1,179 206 • view
You know what else is precedent-shattering? The absolute craven willingness of elected republicans and donors to support this madness.
aug 14, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 1 • view
What's even more fucked up is that people are constantly being distracted from or either aren't capable of processing that this isn't NEW with trump but this is how this mfer has ALWAYS been and now he has the presidency to back it up! All of the shit about this mfer was TRUE back in 2016!
aug 14, 2025, 2:06 pm • 3 1 • view
All of the stuff that the candidates during the 2016 primaries said about him were actually true even though trump went into his schtick of denying it and throwing it back at whoever said it and a LOT of Americans fell for it along with his "Make America Great Again" b.s.!
aug 14, 2025, 2:15 pm • 2 1 • view
Because Congress and his party don’t hold him accountable. No consequences. He’s not the first to be lifted up this way but it is way out of control.
aug 14, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 1 • view
If he keep up his destruction of history there going to be A BIG STAND! OFF. Tuskegee Airmen Miss parks people of color. If he even thinks of the Martin Luther King monument is going to be all (( HELL ))))
aug 14, 2025, 12:14 pm • 2 2 • view
SCOTUS basically giving him 'Kingship' has Really allowed him to flaunt his corruption or shall I say be the blatant conduit for the Project 2025 creators. Bottomline: 45/47 is the Useful Idiot at play here. Period.💯
aug 14, 2025, 12:38 pm • 6 1 • view
Agree!!! This is the work of Leonard Leo, Opus Dei and the Federalist Society. They want a king because they believe the king will enrich them. They just picked the wrong king.
aug 14, 2025, 12:43 pm • 3 1 • view
Donald Trump’s corruption is enabled by the duplicitous Republican Party.
aug 14, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 1 • view
Build the guillotines. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
aug 14, 2025, 11:43 am • 12 2 • view
aug 14, 2025, 2:02 pm • 4 1 • view
A corrupt legal system and spineless GOP members have completed the trifecta.
aug 14, 2025, 11:48 am • 1 1 • view
He doesn’t even try to hide the corruption. He wears it like a badge of honor. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!
aug 14, 2025, 12:29 pm • 4 1 • view
Because his supporters never hear him challenged by those that enable him, like Fox News. And when he is challenged in a way it’s hard to dispute, he, his administration, his enablers, Republicans in Congress, and his supporters claim endless victimhood, instead of concentrating on the story itself.
aug 14, 2025, 12:03 pm • 2 1 • view
Its borderless, because his party turns a blind eye to it. If a democrat was doing the same things he was doing, both republicans and democrats would be screaming bloody murder.
aug 14, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 1 • view
That IS the secret. It's all out there. Shamelessness becomes a defense. It's like George in Seinfeld: "It's Not a Lie if You Believe It"
aug 14, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Which is a reason it’s so incredibly frustrating. People can see exactly what he’s doing and are still ok with it. Boggles the mind to vote against your best interests and then do nothing when those interests are squashed.
aug 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
You think? m.youtube.com/shorts/1ue3c...
aug 14, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I blame the GOP for allowing this, standing by as he runs amok and ceding their power. I also blame the Dems for standing around, wringing their hands and moaning without even trying to fight back. Sure, there are a few Dems who've been pushing back, but not enough have grabbed torches & pitchforks.
aug 14, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 12:08 pm • 2 1 • view
That’s because people are so stupid they think if what Trump is doing is illegal he would be hiding it.
aug 15, 2025, 6:18 am • 0 0 • view
But we know that there is still presidential power limitation. He can illegally declare tariffs, arrests and deports without due process, sends military toward city, tries to rig elections but he has no power to release the Epstein files.
aug 14, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 3 • view
Don’t get me wrong as President Trump still have the power to have the Epstein’s accomplice release from jail until he used his power to pardon her but not releasing the Epstein’s file. Those files must contain such a bomb to prevent the POTUS to release them while he could release a nuclear one.
aug 14, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Because the gOP allows it. Sad!
aug 14, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Because there are no consequences.
aug 14, 2025, 11:47 am • 46 1 • view
Absolutely correct . . . the spoiled child problem.
aug 14, 2025, 11:49 am • 20 1 • view
The argument his niece @maryltrump.bsky.social has been making - with insider intel.
aug 14, 2025, 11:51 am • 11 1 • view
Leadership in this country is spineless. All of them.
aug 14, 2025, 11:46 am • 7 0 • view
His fascism is all out in the open. He's so emboldened. Hope someday soon the mighty falls.
aug 14, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 1 • view
“Once, every village had an idiot. Somehow, they got together and elected one of their own as President". Author unknown
aug 14, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 1 • view
We should all go back and listen to The Big Steal podcast investigative series on Putin’s rise to power and that he looted 40% of the Russia’s wealth. That is what he has on Trump, the play book to take power and steal money.
aug 14, 2025, 2:15 pm • 4 2 • view
Unfortunately, so is depravity of both his WH/Cabinet... and his supporters: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...; bsky.app/profile/foof...; bsky.app/profile/foof...; bsky.app/profile/foof...; bsky.app/profile/did:.... bsky.app/profile/craz.... Sic Semper Gos Org Prest Tyrannis☢️☠️. 8647🍖☣️. ASAP🤢
aug 14, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, a lot of it is in the open. We haven't seen the peepee tapes yet.
aug 14, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 1 • view
Tim Apple giving him a gold ingot was on TV 😁
aug 14, 2025, 11:53 am • 2 1 • view
Donald Trump’s corruption may be borderless in our time, but history has seen it many times: Benito Mussolini (Italy) Adolf Hitler (Germany) Francisco Franco (Spain) Ante Pavelić (Croatia) Ion Antonescu (Romania) . . . to name a few.
aug 14, 2025, 12:06 pm • 3 1 • view
At this point I am no longer interested in Donald Trump's character. My only concern is what are we going to do to stop him And how do we get our country back?
aug 14, 2025, 11:50 am • 29 1 • view
Well said! 🎯
aug 14, 2025, 11:51 am • 2 0 • view
Absolutely Agreed. Though not everyone has paid enough attention to recognize what an absolute train wreck of a human being Trumpo is. Hard to believe, but is the case. Its repetitive, but he has a bully pulpit. Of course, you know this already.
aug 14, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The US needs a military takeover to put a proper government in place and get rid of the Trump circus!
aug 14, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
That may be the dumbest remedy I have ever heard.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
First: No Second: Where would that order come from? Hegseth? Many of the military leaders have been replaced by 45/47.
aug 14, 2025, 12:59 pm • 2 1 • view
He's not the problem anymore it's the people that won't stand up to him for example why don't we all just make sure there's billboards all over the state of Texas with the Republicans face on it and with the words I hate America written under it when is the anger going to actually turn into action
aug 14, 2025, 11:56 am • 2 1 • view
Then let's put signs of everybody up in DC right now that won't stand up to him with this words I hate America under their faces
aug 14, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 1 • view
cause no one stopped him after his 1st crime spree. Hell, even Jaun Merchan didn’t sentence Trump after a jury convicted him. & It’s not only Trump, Trumps too stupid to do anything on his own, it’s the authors of project 2025,the Heritage Foundation,R congressman & judges, they’re all to blame!
aug 14, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 1 • view
Yes 😩😱😩
aug 14, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
And Pedophile enabler Rep Elise Stefanik supports it. I wonder what she is getting for her support.
aug 14, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 1 • view
And yet here we are, nobody is stopping him, not the complicit Congress or SCOTUS
aug 14, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 1 • view
And the depravity of Republican bad actors too! Vote them out! Kick them politically to the curb!
aug 14, 2025, 12:47 pm • 1 1 • view
What's really disturbing is that the MAGA base seems to be all in on the corruption of our current government. When the social safety nets fall for these mobster fan boys, I hope they regret what they have done to those who have sacrificed to keep the United States a democracy.
aug 14, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 1 • view
…and the entire gop is enabling and complicit‼️
aug 14, 2025, 1:44 pm • 2 1 • view
They don't report on any of it in our MSM. Especially Fox. My family are still die-hard Fox watchers and believe every fucking thing they say. It's a cult we have to do something about now!
aug 14, 2025, 11:51 am • 5 1 • view
It always has been. And the gullible believe his lies so he knows no bounds.
aug 15, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
The first convicted felon to run for president. The first president to petition the judiciary for immunity. Unprecedented to say the least, George.
aug 14, 2025, 11:56 am • 3 1 • view
What's precedent-shattering is that most people seem to be okay with this.
aug 14, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Because his worshippers keep giving him immunity & gold bars.
aug 14, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
So much blame to go around for this depravity …. ……but if I gave three of the top reasons, they’d be right wing talk radio, social media, and Fox News
aug 14, 2025, 1:32 pm • 3 2 • view
It is a failure of our institutions of checks and balances and of our media. There was no unequivocal rejection of his behavior. All entities and parties looked to their own profit.
aug 14, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 1 • view
Why don't you people with the podium start calling what tRump and the Republicans are doing with redistricting and the militarization of the D.C. law enforcement in terms that average people might be able to understand. This is "a HOSTILE TAKEOVER" of the United States!
aug 14, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
All true with one very big exception. The Epstein files. They will swim with the fishes if he can distract, deny, threaten, even bribe his own political party. This particular depravity/criminal illegality will never see the light of day-he will go to unimaginable lengths to make sure this happens.
aug 14, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Even the word “depraved” is slowly being robbed of meaning by his limitless corruption.
aug 14, 2025, 11:49 am • 11 1 • view
We’ve always known he is a corrupt, lying, grifting piece of shit. What is really despicable is all of the republicans that are sitting back letting him kill our democracy or actually fully participating in the dismantling.
aug 14, 2025, 12:12 pm • 8 1 • view
“in ways we’ve never quite seen before.” You should patent that phrase! 😉
aug 14, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 1 • view
His corruption is the only thing he's honest about
aug 14, 2025, 11:55 am • 2 1 • view
Unfortunately, integrity is no longer a virtue. See that more and more in everyday events.
aug 14, 2025, 11:51 am • 3 0 • view
This is the sad part. Integrity was gone from the business world long before Trump showed up.
aug 14, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s losing his inhibitions due to worsening dementia
aug 14, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view