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barbtries

(31,289 posts)
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 01:40 PM Dec 2025

it's not just the crimes.

it's not just the murdering of people on manufactured pretexts. It's the delight they take in doing so.

it's not just the random and gratuitous brutality they engage in. it's that they enjoy it.

psychopathy is on full display. they celebrate it.

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it's not just the crimes. (Original Post) barbtries Dec 2025 OP
Jan 6th gleeful delight pfitz59 Dec 2025 #1
top of the DU home page right now: barbtries Dec 2025 #3
Recommended. H2O Man Dec 2025 #2
They want their gullible magats to feel like "Hannibal Lecter" Justice matters. Dec 2025 #4
It is also wrong that they are giving unlawful orders to service members Redleg Dec 2025 #5
i believe barbtries Dec 2025 #6
And it will take courage for them to resist Redleg Dec 2025 #9
Come on. It's the Fog of War Crimes! leftstreet Dec 2025 #7
the fog of not a war, barbtries Dec 2025 #11
The only "fog" is their constant lies. GoodRaisin Dec 2025 #18
He's fucked up the economy Warpy Dec 2025 #8
i don't think he'll ever resign. barbtries Dec 2025 #10
One would think Cirsium Dec 2025 #12
on what evidence? barbtries Dec 2025 #13
Oh, I heartily agree with you Cirsium Dec 2025 #17
When you put it that way you have put it the best way. Good on you. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #14
Its called sadism... and the fact that when they slightlv Dec 2025 #15
shit happens when u elect a criminal nazi. pansypoo53219 Dec 2025 #16
yup Skittles Dec 2025 #19
So true malaise Dec 2025 #20

pfitz59

(12,615 posts)
1. Jan 6th gleeful delight
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:44 PM
Dec 2025

reports said Trump was glued to the coverage and couldn't be moved. Also, modern command centers have real time satelite and drone imaging. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump was in an easy chair, sporting a toothpick, while it all went down.

barbtries

(31,289 posts)
3. top of the DU home page right now:
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 02:54 PM
Dec 2025

"'I watched it live', Hegseth told Fox the day after September strike where shipwreck survivors were killed"

it's not even credible that the order to murder the survivors did not come from him. he said it, then he leaned in eagerly to watch two humans die horribly.

Justice matters.

(9,690 posts)
4. They want their gullible magats to feel like "Hannibal Lecter"
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:24 PM
Dec 2025

was the only one campaign promise they held.

Redleg

(6,904 posts)
5. It is also wrong that they are giving unlawful orders to service members
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:31 PM
Dec 2025

In essence expecting service members to violate their oath of office or enlistment

barbtries

(31,289 posts)
6. i believe
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:34 PM
Dec 2025

it's likely that many of the service members are so in the tank for krasnov they don't think what they're doing is a crime. that they've soaked up the psychopathy and are brainwashed or were always that way.

for the rest, I feel for them and hope they can summon the courage to refuse unlawful orders.

GoodRaisin

(10,860 posts)
18. The only "fog" is their constant lies.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:03 AM
Dec 2025

Some of the country is starting to see through their fake fog and notice the murder. The Secretary of Murders is starting to feel the heat.

Warpy

(114,550 posts)
8. He's fucked up the economy
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:40 PM
Dec 2025

and you can bet spending will be down this retail season because people are afraid of what's coming. Next year will be worse as his stupid tariffs continue to bite hard and I have a feeling he'll resign to enjoy his pension some time after the midterms when Congress is no longer a simple rubber stamp and begins to revisit some of the outrages contained in his Bloated Bill for Billionaires. He is really, really not going to like dealing with an equal branch of government.

barbtries

(31,289 posts)
10. i don't think he'll ever resign.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:48 PM
Dec 2025

i think he'll leave the white house on a gurney. sooner the better.

i'm loathe to spend as usual this holiday season. though i'm on SS and medicare, my costs are still going to be prohibitive health care wise and every other normal bill i pay monthly. I work but only part time and I'm just economically more scared than I've been in about 20 years.

Cirsium

(3,815 posts)
12. One would think
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 03:52 PM
Dec 2025

One would think that there would be consensus here about the "murdering of people on manufactured pretexts." Yet I just read a post calling it "legal" and "appropriate."

barbtries

(31,289 posts)
13. on what evidence?
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:06 PM
Dec 2025

if they can justify it legally in my world that will not make it right. but i am not at all convinced that they can.

what they say is their pretext does not pass the smell test. If this "had" to happen, they would have had to present the case to Congress to make it legal, I believe. Like Iraq, which they lied their asses off to get that abomination to happen.

twodogsbarking

(18,412 posts)
14. When you put it that way you have put it the best way. Good on you.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:11 PM
Dec 2025

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
―Frank Zappa

slightlv

(7,729 posts)
15. Its called sadism... and the fact that when they
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:21 PM
Dec 2025

promote any religion whatsoever, it's always the Old Testament, proves it. The OT of the Bible is full of sadistic behaviors and that's really the only part of the bible they profess. And they will always end up turning to it in the end... because it's the last refuge of the stranded man.

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