"The thing about MAGA, though, is that the policies and rights and wrongs — intervening abroad or not, pardoning violent criminals or not, sexually abusing children or not — don’t actually matter. Ideology does not matter. Morals do not matter.
What matters: Domination. Subjugation. Abusing the less powerful simply because it feels good."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #abuse
/18
throughline.news/p/the-plundering-imperial-presidency
"It’s all about Trump’s self-aggrandizing delusions. And it will accomplish nothing except to make America look even less trustworthy and weaker than it did before."
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #RealityTV
/17
"The thing about MAGA, though, is that the policies and rights and wrongs — intervening abroad or not, pardoning violent criminals or not, sexually abusing children or not — don’t actually matter. Ideology does not matter. Morals do not matter.
What matters: Domination. Subjugation. Abusing the less powerful simply because it feels good."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #abuse
/18
throughline.news/p/the-plundering-imperial-presidency
"The U.S. president just went to war with another country and now will apparently occupy it for essentially no reason, with no warning and with public opinion overwhelming against all of it. Someone quipped on BlueSky last night that Trump hadn’t even taken the proper constitutional steps to lie the country into this war."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/19
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/first-thoughts-on-trumps-excellent-venezuela-adventure
