Absolute Power...

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." -- Lord Acton

 Origin -- The Full Story

Absolute monarchies are those in which all power is given to or, as is more often the case, taken by, the monarch.  Examples of absolute power having a corrupting influence are Roman emperors (who declared themselves gods) and Napoleon Bonaparte (who declared himself an emperor).

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" arose as part of a quotation by the expansively named John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834 - 1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise know as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Great men are almost always bad men."

 

This is how little Donny Drumpf sees her, er, HIMself.


Vanity thy name is Donald J. Trump.

Number 45 and His Twitter Behavior – Not the least bit “Presidential”

It’s like caustic, explosive diarrhea every single morning.  Apparently He really, truly wants people, ALL people, to like Him.  What He doesn’t get about that, or simply refuses to recognize is that those “people”, the rest of us, have a moral compass inside that guides us and our outward behaviors.   

That compass tells us that His behaviors are wrong, hateful, spiteful, arrogant, pompous, patronizing, xenophobic, racist, and on and on.  Pretty much any and ALL negative things you can imagine.  

And yet, again/still, He wants people to like Him.  That would mean accepting and just generally being okay with his negative behaviors, including His hate speech and verbiage.  Dude, NO ONE, is okay with that stuff.

So, yes, it is perfectly safe to infer from this that He simply doesn’t care about your feelings or thoughts.  He has no reason(s) to change because, as He regularly points out, “I’m President, aren’t I? ‘People’ love the job I’m doing.” 

Let me shine a little light on that last part: ‘People’, as He refers to them, which would be His ever-dwindling base of supporters.  Yes, they elected Him into office, but not without much Russian interference, phony, personalized anti-Clinton ad campaigns on social media, and so on.  Basically, yes, He needed help to get where He is today.  That’s NOT “fake news”, those are the FACTS.

He talks a tough game, “They hit me, I hit them back 10 times harder!” Yeah, right. Real, “tough guy” talk… on social media.  He should be doing more of this:

And if you’re not clear what “more of this” actually is, let me help you out – Taking questions from reporters, ANY and ALL reporters, in front of television cameras.  That would be tough guy talk, not cowering behind His Twitter account.

Now, on the other hand, if you check His Twitter feed, you’ll notice it is rarely His official POTUS account, and primarily His @realDonaldTrump account.

And, you know, at the end of the day, wouldn’t this be a shame? – 

It has gotten to the point now, in August 2018, that Special Council Robert Mueller is methodically, deliberately digging through Number 45’s Twitter feed in order to find examples of potential corruption, obstruction of justice, and yes even collusion.

Carry on, Mr. Mueller.