morally bankrupt
past the point of no return
unhinged entirely
I asked ChatGPT to give me words that describe someone who has finally gone too far, gone past the limit.
ChatGPT responded!
Here are words and phrases that capture the idea of someone who’s finally crossed the line / gone past the limit, grouped by tone and nuance:
Blunt / Strong
Unhinged
Out of control
Over the edge
Beyond saving
Past the point of no return
Too far gone
Irredeemable
Psychological / Emotional
Unraveled
Broken
Fractured
Unstable
Snapped
Lost
Unmoored
Moral / Ethical
Corrupted
Depraved
Debased
Morally bankrupt
Tainted
Fallen
Poetic / Dramatic
Crossed the Rubicon
Burned the last bridge
Stepped into the abyss
Past the brink
Overreached
Damned
Claimed by the dark
Colloquial / Modern
Off the rails
Went feral
Lost the plot
Unchecked
Unhinged entirely
Quiet but Heavy
There’s no coming back
Something in them broke
They chose the wrong side
They crossed a line they can’t uncross
I ask you, which of these terms has NOT been used in a headline at sometime, somewhere in the last year to describe some action by the current person in office and his administration?
Then, I ask you, when will enough be enough?
Famously, Senator Joseph McCarthy also met this grading scale and most of these terms were used to describe his actions and his list of 205, 57, no 81, to finally, 1 known communist in the State Department is 1 too many.
According to Wikipedia:
While he never produced a verified list of communists, his investigations had significant consequences:
> 500+ people were called to testify before his subcommittee.
> Over 2,000 government employees lost their jobs as a result of his investigations and the general climate of the “Red Scare”.
> Zero of the individuals he publicly named were ever convicted of subversion or espionage.
The Senator kept at it until finally, in the famous televised Army-McCarthy hearings (televised by the way, because network newcomer ABC had such a weak afternoon programming schedule they could afford to broadcast the hearings live), Joseph Welch, the defense attorney appearing for the US Army looked at the Senator and on live TV asked, “At long last, have you no decency?”
If you have ever seen the movie, Anatomy of a Murder, set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Joseph Welch was hired by the director Otto Preminger as a legal consultant and Preminger ended up casting Mr. Welch as the mild mannered Judge in the movie.
This quiet, unassuming man, looked at Joe McCarthy and said in his quiet, unassuming voice, “At long last, have you no decency?”
And he held up a mirror to the country and the country said, BLEEECHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, where did this McCarthy guy come from?
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you …
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