Thursday, December 04, 2025

George Will: A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration

In the Before Times, George Will was the dean of conservative letters, so attention ought to be paid to his latest column ...

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"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement." The latest from George F. Will:

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-- Washington Post Opinions (@postopinions.bsky.social) Dec 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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MAGATS are soul-less ghouls

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-03 02:41 PM

"... a sickening moral slum of an administration"

What happens when you have the most Billionaires ever in your Cabinet.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 02:56 PM

What's sad is that this is what about 33% of population want.

What does that say about how trashy and immoral they are?

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-03 03:28 PM

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Throughout my life, I have been through many many rural towns that are run down as hell. Rebel flags flying, MAGA signs, etc..in front of very nasty homes occupied by folks who couldn't care less what it looks like.

I've been in urban areas afflicted with some horrible blight. No desire to clean anything up, or show any pride in where they live. Absolutely dismal and hopeless.

Trashy and immoral are pretty good descriptions of it all.

But what I'm seeing isn't based on a vote they cast...but rather a compilation of dozens and dozens of very bad life decisions.

Now, I realize you're focused on a group of folks based entirely on who they voted for....and calling them trashy and immoral for a vote.

I see trashy and immoral differently........it's not a label based on a single vote that I disagree with....but rather on a lifetime spent on very bad choices.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 03:57 PM

#4 Which, in the case of certain MAGAts that you identified, a lifetime spent on very bad choices continues unabated with their choice to support of Trump.

#5 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-03 04:09 PM

Rwing Populists and Lwing Populists mostly agree way more than half of the time on what are most of the country's problems, and most often who's to blame for them, the Elites.

What they disagree on is how to fix them.

www.google.com

www.idea.int

Real problem is that both have already had their vote countered by the Elites who have purchased the People's politicians to write laws such as CU, and many others now, for them.

Libs want Laws that constrain the Elite, rwingers (not conservatives any longer) listen to the Elite/Media when told the problems are really mostly outsiders, foreigners, other countries, but not the Elite.

Which is not believable at this point

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 04:27 PM

"the People's politicians to write laws such as CU"

really?

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-03 04:48 PM

CU allowed the writing of laws paid for in bribes, er, donations from Elitists, which is why I said many other (laws).

Rogers doesn't require you to post when you add nothing to the conversation.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 05:16 PM

@8

"Poets, priests, and politicians
have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one's jamming their transmission"

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-03 05:37 PM

-CU allowed the writing of laws paid for in bribes, er, donations from Elitists, which is why I said many other (laws).

What laws? What laws (meaning legislation) were passed after the CU decision?

Didn't CU open the floodgates all by itself?

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 10:17 AM

#10

It overturned parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 and the 2002 Supreme Court ruling in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which had banned corporations and unions from using their own money for independent political expenditures.

This decision allows corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on political ads and other communications.

Which allowed the Elite to fund media ads for politicians who would then write laws that benefit the Elite. I would spell this out for you in Braille if I thought it would help.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 04:57 PM

George Will? That is a name I have not heard in a long time. A long time.

Good to see he's still opining on politics.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-04 05:09 PM

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Hard to believe you have the courage to keep showing your ignorance.

You truly don't know jack ---- about this.

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-04 05:53 PM

#13

A generalized description lacking any argument at all... must be Eberly; or Visitor or THEBULL.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-04 06:29 PM

... so attention ought to be paid to his latest column ... ...

For what may be a couple of reasons.

1) Mr Bezos allowed this OpEd column to appear, even though he was reported to have deflected overt criticism of the Trump admin from the WaPo OpEd pages?

Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit (February 2025)
www.npr.org
...The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel.

Post Opinions Editor David Shipley, whom Bezos recruited from Bloomberg Opinions in 2022, chose to resign rather than stay to oversee the paper's revamped sections.

"We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," Bezos wrote in a memo to staffers announcing the changes. "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." ...



2) Is Mr Will wrong?


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-04 06:49 PM

Capitalism and democracy are not partners, they are opponents, and sooner or later great wealth accumulates into fewer and fewer greedy palms, and one person, one vote democracy is replaced with one dollar, one vote capitalistic pretend democracy. Musk bought the WH for Trump, pure and simple.

#16 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-05 07:48 AM

"You truly don't know jack ---- about this."

The irony is appalling.

LOL!

#17 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-05 08:45 AM

But what I'm seeing isn't based on a vote they cast...but rather a compilation of dozens and dozens of very bad life decisions.

And there you have it.

Republicans don't believe systems could have anything to do with poverty. Even as medical bills remain the leading cause if bankruptcy.

That's not a system. That "a compilation of dozens and dozens of very bad life decisions."

Government has no responsibility to those it governs, is the message.

You're On Your Own, Americans!
--Republicans

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-05 08:59 AM

Meanwhile back at the ranch: [Sickening immoral scum from the obama administration]

Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel
www.zerohedge.com

#19 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-12-06 09:48 AM

---- off imbecile.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-06 11:01 AM

@#19

More from that article ...

... A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama administration - and who still holds a security clearance -- was indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) -- which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in February of this year. ...

Why hasn't Pres Trump had the security clearance revoked? Or does he plan to pardon him, as he did with fmr Pres of Honduras Hernandez who, btw, was convicted of trafficking over 400 tons of cocaine into the US.

He paved a cocaine superhighway': ex-Honduran president convicted in New York trafficking tria (March 2024)
www.theguardian.com


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-06 02:01 PM

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