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14. NYT editorial by a republican provides satisfying condemnation. And as usual the comments

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:16 AM

Dec 17

are astute and creative....I recommend reading many.

Like the article in OP, blunt assessment of TSF is welcome and about damn time. Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/trump-reiner-death-post-truth-social.html

Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Trump’s personality — what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.

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Right now, in every grotesque social media post; in every cabinet meeting devoted, North Korea-like, to adulating him; in every executive-order-signing ceremony intended to make him appear like a Chinese emperor; in every fawning reference to all the peace he’s supposedly brought the world; in every Neronic enlargement of the White House’s East Wing; in every classless dig at his predecessor; in every shady deal his family is striking to enrich itself; in every White House gathering of tech billionaires paying him court (in the literal senses of both “pay” and “court”); in every visiting foreign leader who learns to abase himself to avoid some capricious tariff or other punishment — in all this and more, our standards as a nation are being debased, our manners barbarized.

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Trump's inferno of hate is intensifying [View all] sheshe2 Dec 16 OP

Yes, We've noticed.. Cha Dec 16 #1

He is frightening and he is evil. sheshe2 Dec 16 #3

Jack Smith testifies tomorrow & eps file release deadline is 12/19 SheltieLover Dec 16 #2

I didn't know he was testifying tomorrow. sheshe2 Dec 16 #4

No cameras allowed. H2O Man Dec 16 #5

Thanks. sheshe2 Dec 16 #6

Rotten pricks SheltieLover Dec 17 #10

So they can get away with lying about what he said, that's their motivation. Smith wanted to speak to Congress Rhiannon12866 Dec 17 #15

I've heard that H2O Man Dec 17 #17

Exactly. Special Counsel Jack Smith has all the goods on the felon-in-chief so they don't want it publicly released Rhiannon12866 Dec 17 #20

There are some H2O Man Dec 17 #24

Oh, I sure agree! Jamie Raskin has weathered so much, but he not only keeps going and is a constitutional scholar Rhiannon12866 Dec 17 #26

Jamie Raskin kwolf68 Dec 17 #29

Yes. sheshe2 Dec 17 #19

I'm willing to bet that Jack Smith will find a way to get the truth of his investigation out there Rhiannon12866 Dec 17 #21

Smith and the Democrats that will be there, sheshe2 Dec 17 #23

Closed door. Because fuck you taxpayers. SheltieLover Dec 17 #8

Figures. sheshe2 Dec 17 #9

Of course. It's the United States of Extortion. SheltieLover Dec 17 #11

Always the way in the United States of Extortion SheltieLover Dec 17 #12

I guess that's why he's addressing the nation tomorrow, he wants his war with Venezuela--pronto! C Moon Dec 17 #16

Whatever distracts from Jack Smith's closed testimony SheltieLover Dec 17 #18

And Wehner is a REAL Republican! NM Grins Dec 16 #7

Donald Trump is the personification of evil. dalton99a Dec 17 #13

NYT editorial by a republican provides satisfying condemnation. And as usual the comments wiggs Dec 17 #14

Well that is spot on, from a Republican no less. sheshe2 Dec 17 #22

True that. All of that. Every single word of that. oasis Dec 17 #25

The most dangerous time for an mercuryblues Dec 17 #27

The orange convict is a reflection of his voters. It's not him alone. Hotler Dec 17 #28

Can it finally consume him yet? Blue Owl Dec 17 #30

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