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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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jamellebouie.net
among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
He is obviously evil, yes, but he is crucially also the biggest mark of all time. He once thought Vince McMahon was dead because he saw his limousine explode on Monday Night Raw.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 8
Trump: "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless."
July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer
July 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
The Pope met with JD Vance and then he killed himself.
April 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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yayroger.bsky.social
Garfunkel looks good.
Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon
February 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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efisherwx.bsky.social
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake just off the coast of Portsmouth/York. A lot of people felt this one!
January 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
boomjs.bsky.social
@billbarnwell.com made me feel old to see Hurts take a Stafford there.
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM