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‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
(www.theguardian.com)
What morality?
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Exactly.
his “own morality”.
From a pedophile rapist and convicted felon.
“I’m not looking to hurt people.”
"Why do you make me hit you, baby?"
What morality?
Precisely.
This is the guy MAGA wanted. They project their personal power fantasies and approve of him acting on his own hatreds, whims and impulses the way they dream of.
He's above American law, why international law would restrict him?
FYI, the technical term for a mind like his is "crackpot". Why anyone cares what he says is beyond me.
Because he's probably the single most powerful man in the world right now. He can send the US military anywhere in the world on a whim.
And there is nobody willing to stop him.
It so damn stupid. This is the same problem we humans have had to deal with over and over again all through history, and we walked right into it AGAIN. American apathy gets a lot of the blame, of course. but so do other country's governments for continuing to treat the US government as civilized and legitimate when it clearly isn't.
Huh.
Sounds like how kings work.
He's right. Without the Constitution, there's nothing holding him back.
That's the entire problem, our government has ignored the Constitution for so long, they can't suddenly decide that it's now relevant and should be adhered to. They made it into a joke decades ago.
The only thing stopping Trump is a no longer relevant piece of paper.
Die Völker haben die Regierungen, die sie verdienen.
Los pueblos tienen los gobiernos que se merecen.
TIL that Pedophile morality is between nuclear war and destruction of humanity and peace.
L'etat, c'est moi.
“My own morality” says the child raping baby killer that Epstein called the worst person he’s ever met
Imagine the devil calling you evil
And it not being a compliment
Well... that's not reassuring.
I'll take "Things a dictator says" for 800, Alex.
Considering he has no morality, I guess that means "unbridled powahhhhh!!!"
His what?
I’m not looking to hurt people
Yeah, that's a lie. You do and you're loving it. You can't be a mass murderer and say that you don't want to hurt people
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What's crazy isn't the headline, it's his rationale. "Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success." You are going to begin a conflict with allies (every day less so, but still) because of Trump's personal feelings and psychological needs. Only a dictator and those that enable dictators would be ok with this.
The fact that he thinks this way isn't the truly bad part - it's that nobody in the government is willing to oppose his mad whims, no matter how dangerous and stupid.
Point, although they are opposing, but they are opposing by the same rule of law that he is both ignoring and rewriting at the same time. I wonder when they are going to realize they are being stringed along into a manner of opposition that is much easier for the Trump administration to deal with than any actually effective opposition.
I should amend that to "Nobody in the government with the power to do so."
I mean based on what I’m seeing daily he’s not wrong.
Unfortunately this is the most right he has been
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Back in the real world, Trump has very little morality to constrain himself, but other social factors surprisingly do still constrain him, even if he’d never admit it.
The human race is so fucked
I misread that as mortality and got excited for a second
His power is also constrained by that.
Any day now. I hope he dies slowly of explosive diherea.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder with Narcissistic traits.
Jesus fuck. We have the worst kind of mental illness in a dude with power, drunk on that power.
Says a lot about those who voted for him too.
Basically no restraints, eh.
"It’s the only thing that can stop me,”
Famously the type of phrase said by the protagonist in the movies and not the villains.
Can someone please take care of the diapered, dementia-ridden orange shitsack please? Also, rescue that cat he's got stapled to his head. It's starting to look mangy...
Then everything is fucked unless someone does something about the orange turd because that child rapist has no morality. None whatsoever.
Jesus christ, how much blackmail does this asshole have? is he blackmailing half the worlds billionaires? How many names are really in the epstien files?
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Wait, drumpf has morals now? He must have gotten them between the rape, I guess?
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