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Monday, August 25, 2025

In the past eight months we have seen what is tantamount to a wrecking ball smashing the meaning of the Statue of Liberty, many components of our Constitution rendered null and void and two branches of our government -- the legislative and judicial -- neutered.

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America is Becoming Morally and Ethically Bankrupt

The ---------------------- stinking up the White House is a prime example.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-25 09:23 PM | Reply

"The Distortion of Reality

On a recent video, a couple of friends of the channel were talking about how it seems that we are not living in reality anymore. Things are just so strange, and the news headlines we see are just so absurd, we have to ask, "Is this really happening?"

www.youtube.com

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-25 09:32 PM | Reply

In example:

"Trump again calls for FCC to revoke ABC and NBC licenses"

www.npr.org

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-25 10:15 PM | Reply

Putin couldn't be happier.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-25 10:24 PM | Reply

America is Becoming Morally and Ethically Bankrupt
- FTA

Isn't that what Lumpers want?

Going all the way back in allowing porn to infiltrate the youth. Monica Lewinsky having sex in the oval office.

To drag and naked paraders in the streets during pride week.

I can't enumerate one thing where Lumpers were conservative about anything morally or ethically.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-25 10:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 3 | Newsworthy 1

Yuh think?

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-25 10:26 PM | Reply

It always amuses me when people start catching up to where I was months ago.

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-25 10:27 PM | Reply

Once again, let me explain.

The American electorate is morally bankrupt

They chose a known felon, obvious conman, sexual predator, insurrectionist over a normal human being middle of the road politician.

America CHOSE this.

The rot is not in the White House, that is just the obvious manifestation of the rot at the heart of America

It is morally reprehensible to vote a rapist for POTUS.

America knew what he was

America watched January 6 happen with all it's lies

America witnessed the 34 guilty verdicts to felonies

America heard him say, in his own words "Grab em by the -----"

America watched him get caught stealing classified documents and refusing to return them

America heard endless factual tales of his business failures, his bankruptcies, his theft of cancer charity funds

They chose him anyway

That is a failure of the most basic morality.

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-25 10:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 10

#7

perhaps 50 years ago....

In other news... the sun will come up tomorrow... and

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#9 | Posted by South_American at 2025-08-25 10:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

c.tenor.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-25 10:41 PM | Reply

"America is Becoming Morally and Ethically Bankrupt"

Hate to be an Eberly here, but America being morally and ethically bankrupt is nothing new.
What's happened, in more of a historical sense, is we did a hard reverse on forward progress on equality, once trans women started publicly existing.

But, to the point of the headline:
All the above is true, we're going backwards on Civil Rights, and not just for the queers, but:
It's America Becoming Financially Bankrupt that has people on edge.

Republicans can't figure out, or don't care, their xenophobia is destroying the tourism economy.
Republicans can't figure out, or don't care their xenophobia will destroy the FREE MONEY that is the World Cup and the Olympics.
Major European postal services stop shipment of goods to the United States in the past few days, citing the uncertainty of tariffs.
Trump is destroying the economy before our eyes, and the only ones who can stop it went on vacation so they wouldn't have to release the Epstein Files.

It's Joever.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 11:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

"What's happened, in more of a historical sense, is we did a hard reverse on forward progress on equality,"

I hate when I editorialize on my own posts, but,

It's the gay (and now, a generation later, trans) children that really set them off.

The existence of their own gay (and now, a generation later, trans) trans children. It infuriates them. It could not possibly be accepted, it must be someone's fault -- and certainly not their own, or their G-d!

Trump offered them a future without trans people, brown people, women in positions of power, and the stampeded for it.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 11:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Reminds me of most women

#13 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-08-26 06:17 AM | Reply

Becoming? America, built on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, has always been amoral.

We made some progress in the latter half of the last century but we're backsliding.

#14 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-26 08:45 AM | Reply

Amoral, but also immoral.
Immoral is when you know it's wrong and you do it anyway, like how most of us look at rape or slavery.
Amoral is when you can't understand the concept of morals, meaning you're a psychopath who cannot experience empathy.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-26 09:37 AM | Reply

#8 Wow, talk about uninformed. The really scary thing about this country is there are people who are really this dumb who are able to vote. Did you know that every case brought against Trump in the law fare of the left has been overturned on appeal except the Carol case, which you claim was rape when it wasn't. And the case was a he said she said where she didn't know when it happened, claimed that she was raped after she told Anderson Cooper that she wasn't raped. And supposedly it happened in a changing room next to the cash register with a line of customers. Amazing that no one heard her screams.

#16 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-08-26 10:29 AM | Reply

#8 Wow, talk about uninformed. The really scary thing about this country is there are people who are really this dumb who are able to vote. Did you know that every case brought against Trump in the law fare of the left has been overturned on appeal

Wrong.

Speaking about uniformed. Clean yourself up.

#17 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-26 10:33 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If you are a liberal and read this and think this is good, you have problems. When a Rep writes a cookie-cutter article just like this one (which happens every time a Dem gets POTUS just like this guy is doing), and Reps read it and think it is good, they have problems. Very little in this article is not bias spin. I'll give one example even though I know it won't help the DR lib kids on here who have no ability to be objective.

"What happened to the proud proclamation that America is this great melting pot, where there is opportunity to build a better life for anyone who dares to seize it?"

What happened to the melting pot is an easy answer. First, you have to understand what it actually meant when it was coined. It meant that no matter where you come from, in America you would reform into the American culture and America would enable this for you, and your inclusion would make America a more tolerant country for different cultures. Our laws and freedoms allow you to join this country and become part of it. So, where did that start going wrong? Well, the Jim Crow era caused a lot of changing of opinions but didn't necessarily destroy the meaning of melting pot. It wasn't until cancel culture became a thing, 100ish years after the term "melting pot" was coined, where it changed the very dynamic of what melting pot means in America. Liberals no longer consider America a melting pot but refuse to accept what they have turned America into (which I'm not saying is bad or good in any way, it's just a change). Liberals don't want migrants or even Americans with any kind of identity other than European to meld into an "American culture". What they want is for every culture to be individualized, recognized, and unimpaired. Nothing wrong with that but that's not what a melting pot is. A melting pot means everything melts together into a new, inclusive entity. Liberals are VERY against that ideal. They want cultures to stay independent and be recognized as not being American. For a couple years, it got to a point where extreme liberals were actually demonizing people who cooked tacos or other ethnic food. Liberals started shouting cultural appropriation as a bad thing for every little thing so that people are scared to enjoy other cultures and bring them into one American culture. That isn't a melting pot. That is a bunch of people living around each other for convenience (meaning they want a better life so don't stay in their country but migrate to America). Now, if America hadn't lost its ability to compromise, this wouldn't be a bad thing. All those cultures could work together to shape America into a better place. But that isn't what is happening. All that's happening is cultures trying to stay as independent from America as possible and liberals helping them do it. Again, not a bad thing if that is your ideology. But don't complain about losing our melting pot and the great ideals of what a melting pot can be when your actions are directly contradictory to being a melting pot.

#18 | Posted by humtake at 2025-08-26 11:40 AM | Reply

Re 18

You should save your sprawling manifestos til AFTER your mass shooting spree. Then folks might actually read them out of curiosity.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-26 11:43 AM | Reply

HUMMER nobody cares what you think.

#20 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-08-26 12:10 PM | Reply

Hate to be an Eberly here, but America being morally and ethically bankrupt is nothing new.

The United States was founded on the backs of slavery of kidnapped African men and women who were chained in the bowels of a ship where they would if given a chance jump overboard to certain death by drowning and upon arriving in the US were sold, seperated, whipped and murdered.

Even after a war was fought to free them, they were still routinely murdered, raped, beaten, denied the right vote or even exist, terrorized with flaming crosses and lynchings.

It still goes on today.

Tell me how any nation that allows that is either moral or ethical.

#21 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-26 02:12 PM | Reply

#21 | Posted by Nixon

Boaz should be along at some point to explain it to you...

#22 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-08-26 03:11 PM | Reply

OMG please stop with the fake outrage.

There are two demonstrably effective aphrodisiacs.

Power and money.

You all think this exchange between powerful and rich men, and women looking for favors is something new.

It's an exchange as old as our species.

Probably older :)

Y'all clowns are sad and stupid.

#23 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-08-26 09:33 PM | Reply

"and women looking for favors"

Yeah them 13yo runaways out there, looking for favors from Donald Trump.

Anyway, you're completely correct, and what you describe is why USA is a top destination for sex trafficking.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-26 09:41 PM | Reply

... In the past eight months we have seen what is tantamount to a wrecking ball smashing the meaning of the Statue of Liberty, many components of our Constitution rendered null and void and two branches of our government -- the legislative and judicial -- neutered. ...

Well, yeah.

How dense does one need to be in order not to see that?

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 09:43 PM | Reply

@#25

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#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 09:44 PM | Reply

'Is becomming" LOL - When have you been during the biden years???

#27 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-08-27 11:51 AM | Reply

'Is becomming" LOL - When have you been during the biden years???

#27 | POSTED BY MSGT

You mean "where" have we been?

Paying attention. Something you should have done.

Your ignorance is showing again.

You voted for a known criminal with absolutely no morals.

Biden was a career public servant and actually had ethics and morals you facist traitor.

Biden still attends catholic church regularly.

You voted for a criminal knowing Trumpy a criminal. Maybe it's because YOU also have no morals.

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-27 12:11 PM | Reply

"Military patrols in U.S. cities. Police raids on homes of government critics. Mass detentions without due process. Government taking control of private companies. Supply shortages and price increases due to government attacks on free commercial exchange. The government imposing huge fines on media corporations for First Amendment protected speech that displeased the president. Enormous tax increases imposed on Americans without any vote by Congress. Violent convicted criminals released onto the streets because they directed their violence against persons the president targeted as his personal enemies."
"And all of it done by " and enthusiastically supported by " people who use the language of liberty to justify acts of arbitrary power and economic predation."

~ David Frum ~

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-27 12:41 PM | Reply

We can easily fix this by electing people who aren't morally corrupt.

#30 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-27 01:25 PM | Reply

Like who?

Seriously..who?

#31 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-27 01:31 PM | Reply

Seriously..who?

#31 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER

Gimme a break.

#32 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-27 01:44 PM | Reply

www.azquotes.com

#33 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-27 01:54 PM | Reply

#33 Bernie Sanders is old but acceptable.

Gavin Newsom had Juice and is a good contender.

AOC is young but Acceptable.

I just named three off the top of my head.

You got any?

#34 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-27 02:46 PM | Reply

I meant #32.

#35 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-27 02:47 PM | Reply

I'll bet none of those people are even on your ballot. So why bring them up?

Because you missed the point.

And you know, blaming other people while failing to take one's own responsibility is a big no-no in any moral society.

You should work on that.

#36 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-27 05:06 PM | Reply

I can't enumerate one thing where Lumpers were conservative about anything morally or ethically.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut

Why would a liberal think conservative = moral and ethical?

Oh...right...

STFU idiot.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-27 05:19 PM | Reply

'Is becomming" LOL - When have you been during the biden years???

#27 | Posted by MSgt

LOL this s*&^heap supports the most corrupt, brazenly unAmerican administration of our lifetimes and still has nothing but "duhhhhhhh BiDeN" as a response.

Eat s*&^, dumbf(*&. If I have to fund your retirement you could at least STFU and not project what a waste of money that is.

#38 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-27 05:20 PM | Reply

This round of immorality started in the 80's when Reagan and Falwell Sr. made a deal with the devil. Reagan got the evangelical vote and the Falwell's Moral Majority gained political clout.

They agreed to a deal that blemished Christianity and sent the Democratic Party down a new path that may be its demise.

Until that time the evangelical vote supported Carter because he was a "born again Christian".

Democrats have never been the same since.

The center didn't hold.

#39 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-27 06:59 PM | Reply

This round of immorality started in the 80's when Reagan and Falwell Sr. made a deal with the devil. Reagan got the evangelical vote and the Falwell's Moral Majority gained political clout.

#39 | Posted by BillJohnson

And you choose to vote with the devil.

#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-27 07:09 PM | Reply

Speak,

"You keep preaching how others should live while backing a leader who's the opposite of everything you say."

You still don't get it. My vote is political. My morals are personal.

Observing today's collapsing moral standards isn't me telling people how to live. You just think it is.

Don't believe everything you think.

And yes, I voted for Reagan. Carter botched the hostage rescue, and as a Christian, I got pulled into the same current.

Then I realized how much I felt betrayed and voted Democratic until Trump.

#41 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-27 07:32 PM | Reply


And you choose to vote with the devil.
#40 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

You have to ask yourself why millions of Americans chose what you claim is the "devil".
Then you realize, this is really just an opinion.
First he's a NAZI, now he's the DEVIL.

What I don't understand, why they don't understand, is if it's so obvious that he is the X.
Why don't Lumpers just offer the average people solutions to their problems, like crime, like wage erosion due to illegal immigration.
Should be easy right I mean he's the DEVIL.

Stop making the choice so difficult for the people.

#42 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-27 07:43 PM | Reply

You still don't get it. My vote is political. My morals are personal.

Observing today's collapsing moral standards isn't me telling people how to live. You just think it is.

Don't believe everything you think.

And yes, I voted for Reagan. Carter botched the hostage rescue, and as a Christian, I got pulled into the same current.

Then I realized how much I felt betrayed and voted Democratic until Trump.

#41 | Posted by BillJohnson

You voted democratic until you had to choose between a lifelong con artist who bragged about sexual assault, and a woman with icky girl parts that are a total turn off.

Your vote IS your morals. And you have none. A moral person doesn't vote for the most immoral president we've ever had. You're the most ------ in the head member of this whole forum.

#43 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-27 07:46 PM | Reply

Speak,

Your "icky girl parts" has earned you a time out.

You and Snoofy can enjoy yourselves without me.

#44 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-27 07:56 PM | Reply

One,

Who is your Nazi?

I don't use that word?

#45 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-27 07:59 PM | Reply

"Carter botched the hostage rescue"

I guess Reagan trading arms for hostages is better.

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-27 08:04 PM | Reply

"Observing today's collapsing moral standards isn't me telling people how to live."

Do you observe today's collapsing moral standards in the White House, right now?

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-27 08:05 PM | Reply

Speak,

Your "icky girl parts" has earned you a time out.

You and Snoofy can enjoy yourselves without me.

#44 | Posted by BillJohnson

Oh good I always love the part where you run out of defenses for your indefensible actions and run away pretending to be above it all.

#48 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-27 08:08 PM | Reply

One,

Who is your Nazi?

I don't use that word?

#45 | Posted by BillJohnson

No you just vote for them and pretend they're not coming for you next.

#49 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-27 08:09 PM | Reply

No you just vote for them and pretend they're not coming for you next.
#49 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

BullJohnson has already proven to the cult he's willing to do anything to be one of them. Even if it means denying who he is.

As long as he keeps hiding the fact he loves dick and keeps swearing allegiance to Trump, he'll be fine.

Boaz on the other hand, will have to remove his skin.

#50 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-27 08:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Clown,

"Even if it means denying who he is."

Aaahhh...you don't understand.

I am living as the "real" me.

I pursued a life that coincided with my "values" and who I loved.

My life is the authentic real me. When I die I'll be able to say I pursued what I value.

Living your values and being true to yourself is what brings inner peace.

#51 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-27 09:50 PM | Reply

Man, if only you could apply that same principle to transgenders, you might actually get it.

#52 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-27 10:01 PM | Reply

Clown,

Being the real me doesn't require other people to do anything.

#53 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-27 10:37 PM | Reply

What do transgenders require of you?

#54 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-27 10:52 PM | Reply

One, Who is your Nazi?

I don't have a Nazi.

Chinese people are under constant surveillance, yet we have a higher trust society than here in the US.

The Lumpers here think having criminals (even non-citizens) roaming the streets oppressing people is FREEDOM.
They don't think about the poor, that can't defend themselves. YET claim they are the party of the people.
In China, we don't tolerate this, and its much higher trust amongst us.

Pick your poison. I prefer government oppression rather than the oppression of criminals. Crime creates poverty because no one will invest.
Governments can't let a majority of the people be poor or it will be overthrown. I fear this will happen in the US before China.

#55 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-27 11:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1


No you just vote for them and pretend they're not coming for you next.

#49 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Again you don't seem to understand, which isn't surprising because you only have one argument; but the people like the NAZI more than the Democrats.

So who are you really? Probably not a champion of the people.

#56 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-27 11:11 PM | Reply


Do you observe today's collapsing moral standards in the White House, right now?
#47 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Did you observe the collapse under Clinton?

Why would you expect more from them than you expect from yourself?

#57 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-27 11:12 PM | Reply

I saw and hated the Moral collapse under Clinton.

Clinton led to Baby Bush and Trump. With a dash of "feel yer pain" on the side.

He forged new paths of Successful Corruption.

Trump is just the late Stage of a terminal chronic disease.

America is Too Stupid to Survive.

#58 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-28 12:04 AM | Reply

The decomposing------------------- lowered the bar by stealing from children's cancer charities.

#59 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-28 12:08 AM | Reply

In China, we don't tolerate this
#55 | POSTED BY ONECONFUSEDNUT

You're living in China?

Your story changes depending which thread you're posting on and who you're responding to.

Are you even a human being, or simply a malfunctioning AI bot?

What an idiot.

#60 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-28 01:49 AM | Reply

Re #55
Prefering oppression by the government vs oppression by criminals? In America we don't have to chose, we get both at the same time.

#61 | Posted by Charliecharles at 2025-08-28 03:50 AM | Reply

Being the real me doesn't require other people to do anything.

#53 | Posted by BillJohnson

Being the real you would mean you weren't married to a woman.

#62 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-28 12:45 PM | Reply

Again you don't seem to understand, which isn't surprising because you only have one argument; but the people like the NAZI more than the Democrats.

So who are you really? Probably not a champion of the people.

#56 | Posted by oneironaut

You've confused "the people" with "the fascists and racists that you hang out with". I have no doubt those morons have been brainwashed to prefer nazis to democrats, just like you have.

When was it exactly you stopped pretending to be a democrat under this username?

#63 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-28 12:47 PM | Reply

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