• Billiam
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    49 months ago

    He only wants to be a dictator for a day because he’s incapable of thinking more than one day at a time.

  • @[email protected]
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    19 months ago

    What if… this guy is just trying really hard to throw the election now but [🎶 suspenseful music 🎶] it doesn’t work?

    Sigh.

  • @[email protected]
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    Trump wants to have a Purge so badly.

    But he doesn’t want to participate, and I think he wouldn’t even really watch it from a bunker. Would probably find the violence grotesque and boring.

    However, imagine the TV ratings of such an event that he made happen! That’s what really gets this guy hard.

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      Not a Purge, a Kristallnacht. But with a wider range of victims than the original. The difference is, in a Kristallnacht, the police aren’t just standing down, or even rampaging as individuals, they’re specifically instructed to attack the chosen victim groups.

    • @[email protected]
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      119 months ago

      Yeah “I only want to be a dictator until everyone who ever called me or will call me a dictator is killed and then I’m just president and commander in chief and supreme justice and speaker of the house and chairman, and general secretary and…”

  • Optional
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    19 months ago

    Fortunately, we’re well prepared to deal with dictators.

    Do it, you demented rapist clown. Put on the military uniform and suspend the Constitution. Do it. Hell, do it now, you know your idiot followers don’t need no steenking election.

    • sqozenode
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      29 months ago

      In a dark little corner of my imagination, I kinda want to see how many of his remaining base would actually try it. J6 scooped up a ton of radical nut-bars. How many more could there be?

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        He’s gaining ground with incels - angry young men, many armed with guns, who grew up in a toxic political landscape and think they have nothing to lose.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    I guess you could say the GOP is a threat to our democracy. I think it is time for us to remove the electoral college and grant DC statehood. A Republican will never hold the White House again until they appeal to the majority of Americans.

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    9 months ago

    I say we give him a chance. It’ll be like all those people that take one hit of meth and set the pipe down and say ‘ya, this isn’t really hitting the spot for me’.

    /s if I didn’t slather it on hard enough

    • @[email protected]
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      69 months ago

      Historically, dictators go hand in hand with peaceful transfers of power after their term is done!

    • @[email protected]
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      189 months ago

      I do wonder, though, what they’d do when

      crops are left rotting in fields and houses and buildings aren’t rebuilt after disasters because all undocumented immigrants have been reported;

      after LGBT+ folks hide themselves and “fit in” for safety like it’s the 1950s;

      when there are masses of unemployed young people born after abortion and contraception are outlawed living in a nation unequipped to handle them;

      after the education and environmental protection systems cease to exist and the country falls behind in every metric of a developed nation from an absence of knowledge pools and poison in everything.

      What will they do after creating an environment that fosters stability, innovation, and a thriving society like we saw in the mid-2010’s Middle East. It sure sounds like a great and prosperous future, doesn’t it. Right?..

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        It’s pretty hilarious that Republicans want to get rid of undocumented immigrants when our food and shelter are literally dependent on them. Apparently food and shelter are not that important.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        In order:

        Use prisoners to do the labor

        Crackdowns, secret police, and full on lavender scare shit

        Drive them to crime then imprison them to use for labor

        Why would they care? They’re planning to be in charge

        Fascists do nothing but destroy their homes and neighbors. They will make everyone miserable and their plans will suck, but so long as they can stay angry, indignant, and targeting someone they don’t care that they just got their country turned to rubble.

  • Kalkaline
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    1119 months ago

    1776-2016 the US fought against that crap and then we just decided it was all ok because of meme culture or some nonsense.

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      I mean, we at least said we were against it. Slavery, the trail of tears, the Chinese exclusion act, and internment camps, as well as meddling in other countries’ elections, drone strikes, and border camps aren’t exactly pro-democracy, let alone gerrymandering and voter suppression that have been prevalent in poor and minority communities since they were first allowed to vote. I wish we’d been democratic from the start, but I think MAGAers are just continuing an American pastime.

  • @[email protected]
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    1709 months ago

    You only need one day to be a dictator. After that, you are automatically a dictator.

    This is probably what he is projecting, when he is talking about ‘the last election we ever have’.

    • @[email protected]
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      159 months ago

      he literally tried it once already, we don’t really need to speculate if he’d go for it

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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        379 months ago

        He also needs to stay in the White House to stay out of the big house (prison). The grifting he can do while he sells the US for parts is just a bonus for him.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          He’s never going to prison. If it actually ever comes to that, he’ll flee the country to Russia or Saudi Arabia.

          • sqozenode
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            39 months ago

            I want him to live to be 150. Muttering to himself in a crappy nursing home, his grandkids never come visit, rotting in obscurity.

    • @[email protected]
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      449 months ago

      Let’s say he was dictator for one day only, just as a fun thought experiment.

      That is also awful

      Imagine someone walking into your house and saying, “I’m only going to ignore the law for 15 minutes while I’m here tonight.” Sorry, what the absolute fuck. Even if they kept their word that’s a monstrous thing to say, what the fuck are you going to do for those 15 minutes?!

      That’s when you kick that fucker out of your house. So America, let’s kick that fucker out of this house.

  • @[email protected]
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    329 months ago

    I want to be a dictator for one day.

    I want to be a dictator tomorrow too.

    I also want to be a dictator the day after tomorrow.

    I supposed these statements may be true every day.

      • @[email protected]
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        329 months ago

        Because republicans are traitors to this country. They wish to overthrow democracy and install a Christian dictatorship that enforces their will on everyone.

      • sqozenode
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        49 months ago

        His base doesn’t actually care what he says. Somehow, he convinced them he’s a damn genius when he can’t string a sentence together.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Mixed in-between the word vomit, he validates their hate. Unfortunately their lives are so miserable and empty, being told it’s okay to hate, is more important to them than anything else.

  • @[email protected]
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    149 months ago

    Conservatism is a plague of oppression. It always has been. This plague is long overdue for a cure.

    Voting is a good start, but real action will be needed to rid ourselves of this infestation.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
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    49 months ago

    After he loses, in the yugest way possible, let’s give him a participation ‘trophy’ in the form of a lengthy ‘shady vacation’ in a nice secure place away from responsibilities.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      That is some serious optimism.

      When polls show the Democrats way ahead we still lose. Polls are practically tied and we’re even losing ground in important places because of our literal obsession with giving Bloodthirsty Bibi whatever the fuck he wants unconditionally…

      That’s not even to mention the ratfucking planned to occur in some swing states to make the vote counting stop until SCOTUS pulls another Bush v Gore… The smaller red counties are done earlier since they are smaller they get done first, Trump shows a lead, then they “find irregularities” with the larger majority Democrat districts and drag that out by hand counting until the SCOTUS says “pencils down, the election is over you need to stop now!”

      I’m generally a pessimistic person but I feel like this is almost a guaranteed Trump win… Still vote of course, just be ready to either storm the supreme court or get used to the idea that we’re going to learn what it’s like to be in a dictatorship.