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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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    “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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        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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    “the voices in my head that tell me I’m a big stronk boy who totally doesn’t has a teeny tiny peepee tell me that I should be dick-tator”

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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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      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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      You know, now that you mention it, that is something I may want… Imagine being in the audience - how happy everyone would be! What a thing to be a part of that moment in history.

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      IIRC they played footbal with Mussolini’s head after it fell off from the continuous beating his hanging body (deservedly) underwent.

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    Trump: ‘A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We’d Like a Dictator

    That would be only your “advisors”

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    Hey. It wouldn’t be all bad. We could legally hunt a US dictator.

    If he stays in office for one day unelected it is open season.

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    Dictators and kings… I say we should go full traditional on these two kind of people.

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    In his view “a lot of people” are the few that hover around him looking for scraps like so many Renfields

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      I feel like a lot of people needed to see this (and whatever comes next) happen in order to realise what they could have avoided. In some ways fascism needs to rear its head every so often to remind the public what the result of apathy in politics is.

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        It’s what the degradation of education brings… It’s brainwashing of religious views that seek to undermine a person’s free will of choice… It’s making people hate to be part of the in-crowd when, in reality, the only crowd that matters to these people is the money crowd…

        When one side seeks to destroy personal freedoms, and the other is complicit because of greed…

        The whole thing is fucked… and the people who thought they were on the right side are finding out they are not… but its okay as long as someone suffers more than them…

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      Anyone remember in 2020 when the people elected the Dems to hold the republicans accountable for their many crimes committed out in the open and they dragged their feet until “oh no, well it’s too late now”

      If the Democratic Party can’t deliver things that voters want then the voters stay at home and the democrats are shocked like pikachu.

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        I won’t even consider voting for any Dem candidates that doesn’t expressly state that they intend to destroy MAGA, punish the traitors and criminals, roll back ALL MAGA initiatives, restore America properly, and prohibit MAGA from existing.

        I want a candidate who says that they intend to arrest Trump and his henchman on minute one of their administration, and MEAN IT.

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          I wonder whether the sane and experienced bureaucrats who were fired from their government jobs by musk et al will even want to come back once this is over… they’ll have mentally moved on and found another job by then.

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          I won’t even consider voting for any Dem candidates that doesn’t expressly state [thing].

          This is in part- how we got trump.

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            Nope, we got Trump the second time because the Dems were not committed to destroying MAGA when they had the chance, even with the people fully behind them. They let us down so badly, that they need to redeem themselves almost as much as conservatives do.

            And the way to do that is to obey their oaths, and defend us from a serious domestic enemy, the worst national security threat since the Civil War.

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              ROFL…

              MAGA doesn’t get “destroyed” dude. That’s not how it works. I’m debating within the confines of reality. You’re willfully sacrificing entire minorities by wishful thinking.

              I don’t play what-if scenarios. Especially with people that caused the current one to be what it is.