- YOU are normalizing it.

I 'member that! Little kids saying, "Nu-uh! You did it, not me!".

It's not actually any kind of argument, though.

#105

Me neither, actually... his articles are more history than news, but it seems to be a good mix; his Orwellian point about DJT trying to control the past along with the present and the future stood out.

"Submitted for your approval".
(best Rod Serling voice)

#103

Well, let's brewminate on that:

"I am focusing on a comparison between Lyndon B. Johnson and Donald Trump precisely because the comparison is instructive, not because it is forgiving.

Both men faced credible accusations of exploiting public office for private advantage and both blurred ethical boundaries in ways that troubled contemporaries and later historians.

But the similarities end quickly once scale, intent, and consequence are examined with care."

"History does not judge power by asking whether it was abused at all. It asks how often, how openly, and to what end. Lyndon Johnson exploited his position for personal advantage, and that exploitation deserves scrutiny and condemnation. But it occurred within a presidency that also produced enduring public goods and accepted, however imperfectly, the idea that ethical boundaries existed. Johnson's failures strained democratic norms. They did not redefine them.

"Donald Trump's presidency operates in a different moral register. Personal enrichment is not an aberration or a temptation resisted poorly. It is woven into the fabric of governance itself.

The office is a tool for self-promotion, institutional capture, and financial gain on a scale and with a visibility unmatched in modern American history.

This difference is not one of tone or temperament but instead a difference of category. When enrichment becomes principle rather than deviation, the damage extends beyond any single administration.

This is why historical literacy matters now. Comparisons that collapse distinction into cynicism do not clarify the past; they erase it.

To say that "everyone does it" is to abandon the moral vocabulary necessary for democratic judgment.

History records patterns, precedents, and consequences. It recognizes that abuses accumulate differently depending on how they are practiced and normalized.

Degrees matter because they determine whether corruption is survivable or systemic."

more

He's like one of DJT's WH bimbos... on coke.

#45 Corky

"Pres Historians rank Nixon low at around 14th, and DJT dead last or near it; some of the conservatives put him in the bottom 5."

"Can't any objective answers to that. If you get anything resembling objectivity.....people will just lose their minds.
Trump is too big and Nixon is too dead.
#52 | Posted by eberly"

Bev, always helping to normalize the Republican Cult Leader no matter what it takes!

Visitor still living in his imaginary Trump Twilight Zone where evil Dems planted those records in DJT's pool house!

#49

True, but he never got close to Trump numbers, and not in the name of personal greed.

Pres Historians rank Nixon low at around 14th, and DJT dead last or near it; some of the conservatives put him in the bottom 5.

Personally, having lived (so far) through both, and as bad as Nixon was a Crook, Warmonger, traitor to the People, and all round low life... he was never as purely evil a POS as is the Gangster Trump, who has completely sold out the country and our allies for his personal gain and his enormous ego.

Tricky Dick was bad enough, but he never slaughtered 100's of thousands of children, mostly by starvation... so he could give himself and his oligarch owners tax cuts.

"... a campaign to suppress, criminalize, and silence political opponents."

Interesting how history (and definitions) are rhyming with this more recent rwing authoritarian white nationalist party.

"Why, Kenny Paxton, you look like someone just walked over your grave."

"Really?"

Yes, really. And he would have done it for much less... a night alone with Vlad and he would nuked Ukraine himself.

Oh, good... now Mavis is going to supply the proof that Evidence was planted.

Or not, right?

Blacklisting and intimidation just before an Election... how very Hitlerian of DJT.

Thread has gone t_ts up

"The live stream execution of the Fort Hood shooter is apparently fully supported by Robert Jeffress, who is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church, Dallas.

Jeff is also a huge fan of the Trump administration."

DJT killed 100's of thousands of children when he suddenly took away their food and medicine in order to give himself and his pals tax cuts.

And Trumpers were as fine with that as they are with Gaza.

They don't care what he says as long as he's protecting them from the reality of their lives with his air of superiority... fake as that is.

"Energy analysts are skeptical the additional diesel will meaningfully lower prices.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the deal "not fair and not honest," telling Axios it amounted to a gift to Putin.

Trump called Saturday for Ukraine to replace Zelensky with a leader willing to reach a deal with Russia.

The big picture: Fitzpatrick is the latest Republican lawmaker to break with Trump in a high-profile way, as the party fights to keep control of Congress amid mounting disapproval of the president.

Zoom out: Fitzpatrick is turning to a tactic lawmakers have increasingly used to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.): a discharge petition, which requires 218 signatures to bring legislation up for a vote without House leadership's approval.

Fitzpatrick and Bacon forced a House vote on Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions earlier this year; it passed the House but stalled in the Senate.

Reality check: Fitzpatrick has little time to pass the bill before this Congress ends in January."

DOJ = Dept of Juveniles

"The attacks come as fighting intensified in Yemen, with forces loyal to the country's internationally recognised government fighting the Iran-backed Houthis for control of the country.

Saudi Arabia has waged an air campaign in support of the Yemeni government's ground war and claimed hundreds of strikes on Houthi-held territory, including the Yemeni capital, Sanaa."

Zelenskyy popularity poll rating in Ukraine?

67 percent!

1Nitwit's Perfect Reverse Barometer poll rating?

100 percent!

#94

Exclusively on a Trump Media channel!

- been poorly educated seemingly by design.

Definitely by design; poorly edumacated people are the Republicans best voters, and they go to great extents to make sure they stay poorly edumacated.

This is Payback for Ukraine reasonably pointing out that funding Vlad's War with diesel purchases from Russia is bad for democracy in Ukraine.

Of course, DJT prefers Kings and Czars anyway.