• Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      But Maxwell said that she never saw Trump act in an inappropriate manner.

      She said that shortly after requesting a pardon and then being moved to a less secure prison.

      Buuut that’s totally unrelated, right?

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        After congratulating Trump on his “historic victory” and expressing her admiration for him at the start of it. The ass-kissing was so obvious it was embarrassing.

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          Gym Jordan bought it. Maybe because if he can sell pedophilia to others, that black cloud will stop hanging over his head.

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          The thing is that Trump doesn’t understand subtlety, and public displays of fealty are what really get him off.

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        Of course, this all depends on her definition of “inappropriate”. Because I can guarantee her definition does not match mine.

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        I forget, is there a “miss manners” kind of thing for appropriate behavior on a child rape island? Because I’m thinking she might consider it inappropriate to not rape the children.

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      The difference is a lot of people ARE saying him raping kids was bad. Aside from him, I don’t think anyone else has said they want him to be dictator

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        Plenty of bootlickers are. Guarantee Stephen Miller is one of them. But those that are saying it are thinking about who they want next after this clown show.

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    “Mr President, lots of people are saying that dictators end up in a noose like Saddam Hussein, or with a knife up their ass like Ghadafy, or in front of a firing squad like Ceausescu, or gunned down by their own bodyguards like Indira Ghandi, or beaten to death by a mob like Musollini, or killing themselves like Hitler. What death do you imagine the American Working Mob has in store for you?”

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      Sadly, plenty of dictators that lived perfectly fine (mostly because they were smart and didn’t fuck with the world beyond their borders too much). Antonio Salazar comes to mind, Franco, Lukashenko is STILL in power.

      Of course, many of these regimes were watered by oceans of blood and fear.

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      “Wow, you’re saying I’m like those swell fellas? That’s great!”

      “No Mr. Presi- wait you think that’s a good thing?!”

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        Different Ghandi

        As prime minister, [Indira] Gandhi was known for her uncompromising political stances and centralization of power within the executive branch.… Responding to separatist tendencies and a call for revolution, she instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977, during which she ruled by decree and basic civil liberties were suspended. More than 100,000 political opponents, journalists and dissenters were imprisoned. She faced the growing Sikh separatism movement throughout her fourth premiership; in response, she ordered Operation Blue Star, which involved military action in the Golden Temple and killed hundreds of Sikhs. On 31 October 1984, she was assassinated by two of her bodyguards, both of whom were Sikh nationalists seeking retribution for the events at the temple.

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    A lot of people also say “tax the rich to oblivion” and “housing food and water is a human right!”. Will you do that too?

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      It is liberals saying that and as we all know they are not people according to this administration. Hell anyome left of Goebbels or with a skin tone darker than bleached flour might not be people.

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          Unfortunately with how messed up our country is, and with how ignorant MAGAts are, when they say “Liberals” they mean Neolibs, and Progressives and leftists…

          When they say anything left of Goebbels they meant it literally.

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    For the first time in history, after even a triumphant Washington refused to be treated as a king, all the power of the US government was handed to a single individual …

    … and he’s a fucking idiot who can barely read. Great job patriots 👍

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      Idiot, yes but at least he’s not a child rapist who was best friends with a convicted human trafficking paedo for about 2 decades. And who had many, so so maaaaany failed businesses. Who was a reality TV star in a real shitty TV show. And has over 30 recent felony convictions plus numerous fines for numerous cons over the years. And was judged to have raped E Jean Carroll. Who also tried to spearhead an insurrection whilst simultaneously stealing top secret documents to sell to hostile countries or give to his boss putin!!

      Because yhe 'murican population would never vote that type of person in, TWICE, would they?
      Oh, wait…

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      Seriously at least make it a smart fascist. I get that he is just a set up for vance, but even vance is such an unbelievable pussy. Hitler and Mussolini did some time using the military. Stalin and Sadam at least acted as violent thugs for their party and did a bunch of actual crimes before taking over. Vance feels like just a guy this orange dipshit picked.

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          No no. They’ve got a point. Just because it’s not all Americans, doesn’t mean it’s not indicative of the majority of voting Americans.

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          I think we kinda deserve it right now. Want the insults to stop? Maybe we should take a note from other countries that have had dictators and do something about it. Fast.

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      I agree they should relase them (they never will) but this is not (just) a distraction from that. This is announcing what he is planning on doing in the future.

      We would be wise to take this seriously and be vigilant.

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        Everyone should take all of his threats (aka campaign promises) very seriously.

        Always.

        Also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.

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    And are those people in the room with us, right now?

    Because I highly doubt he speaks to anyone aside from the sycophants he surrounds himself with.

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    And Americans are rolling over and allowing this. My childhood and all those Hollywood movies actually made me believe Americans would fight. Instead they whimpered quietly.

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      “But people will die if we fight, we should just let them enslave the population in death labor camps instead!”

      ^ A summerization of a discussion I had on Lemmy yesterday

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          I live in Europe, Always have. Chances are, with what I’ve written on social media the last 10 years about Trump, I wouldn’t even get into your country. Would either be turned around in the airport or arrested.

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      Maybe as a Christmas tree ornament? You can have dozens of MAGATs hanging from the branches, with their eyes 'X’ed out.

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      Its incredible when he talks about law and order when the guy is a career conman and a criminal. If he wasn’t born into relative wealth, he would have been a small time conman and actually gone to prison for fraud or killed by someone for tricking them.

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    I’m just going to say it…

    Did anyone not expect this? Like… Of the people on Lemmy, is anyone here surprised that he is pushing to be a dictator?

    Oh, also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. Donald Trump raped children.

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      Well there were a bunch of people saying that he’s the better choice over Harris because of the whole genocide thing. Which, last I checked, still hasn’t stopped, but when I point that out, people make new accounts to tell me I’m a genocide denier and should get genocided myself. Methinks those users are actually Trump fans.

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        Yeah, I pointed out how the Dems weren’t as bad as Trump and they say I’m promoting genocide.

        Idiots or bots? I don’t know. If they’re being earnest, I get that the corporate dems are in Israel’s pocket and stuff. No denying that, but like you said … the Republicans haven’t stopped it as far as I can tell either.

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      I doubt he can get his butt in one. Definitely can’t get back out on his own.