There’s Ivanka.
That is unfair. “Amoral” is not the right word to use for either of these men. I am fairly confident that what they are trying to do is across the ugly side of neutral.
I’m not sure where Trump fits in the “love - lust” continuum there.
Is the man even capable of love? That requires empathy, sympathy, selflessness, being a normal human.
ETA - going way, way off topic here. I will refrain.
Agreed. They know what they are doing is wrong, but that they had the power to do it anyway and they wanted to, so they did; immoral, not amoral.
Immorality can probably transform into amorality over a period of repetition, as the person’s moral judgment turns progressively insensate, but I think that would tend to be more the case where it is the same action being repeated, rather than the person continually trying new ways to screw people over.
You’re right of course, error by a non native speaker. I meant immoral.
To me, “immoral” means you know right from wrong and choose to do wrong. “Amoral” is you have no awareness there is such a thing as right or wrong; there’s merely “I want” and you’re doing that. Because “why not?”
In my view trump has been amoral since birth and rudy learned to be amoral somewhere along the way, probably pre- his connection with trump.
Or in fantasy terms:
The Fey are amoral - they do not understand the difference between right and wrong.
Demons and devils ar immoral - they know the difference between right and wrong, but don’t give a flying fuck.
Panel 6 of this cartoon may explain a lot.
Back on topic: yes, I’m feeling the schadenfreude in Rudy and Donald going head to head. At this point I want somebody to get some goddamn accountability for their corrupt actions, and if it could be both of them at the same time that would be great.
Given that we all know Rudy is just swimming in money, this shouldn’t hurt him At. All.
“Icarus ignored Daedalus’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, “fly too close to the sun.””
Giuliani, OTOH, drank too much and flew too close to Donald Trump. Same ending, though.
We did see him melt that one time.
It’s darn hard to fly when covered in shit.
Conscious, as I am, of how you made your living, that statement – uh – carries some weight.
Rudy is less “flying covered in shit” and more “shit covered in flies”.
“If I Did It”
Mobster talk. They are not even hiding it anymore.
Well, let’s not forget that Ukraine released the audio of Rudy’s attempt to blackmail them:
It’s adorable t hat they still think there was a “Biden file.”
How deluded are these people?
When we’re talking specifically about Rudy? Let me just check the meter…
Dad must be so proud.
What a world.
Having read the Noelle Dunphy case, I’m not sure “failed to flush a public toilet” even moves the “common decency” needle at all in comparison.
(I mean - yes, do flush, but it’s a trivial nonsense in this context.)