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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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        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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      “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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    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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      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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    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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      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 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.

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                No, when this is over, MAGA needs to be designated a Terrorist Hate group like the KKK, and prohibited. They have embraced Treason, Corruption, Rape, Pedophilia, and more, and there is no forgiveness, redemption, or mercy for them. They need to be driven back under a rock, and stomped on HARD whenever they try to emerge again.

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                  when this is over, MAGA needs to be designated a Terrorist Hate group like the KKK,

                  And we all know that the KKK doesn’t exist anymore…

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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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      We tried.

      They stole this democracy from us. Trump has stated it out loud more than once from Oval Office.

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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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        some ways fascism needs to rear its head every so often to remind the public what the result of apathy in politics is.

        I mean, it really really really doesn’t. Education was all that was needed for me.

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    I’m sure there are some out there. The thing is, they don’t full understand the implications of what that transition would entail has how disastrous it would be, not only to the US itself, but the global balance as well. These are people who never bothered to learn history or to think beyond the rim of their MAGA cap.

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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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      He raped children, I am in no way, shape, or form disputing this.

      But this is not a distraction. It was in Project 2025, he has talked about it for years. He wants to be a dictator. He isn’t trying to distract from being a pedo, but treating his authoritarian statements as a distraction serves only to distract from any action we have left to stop it.

      He can be both, a pedo and a dictator. And we should act accordingly

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      He did, and that’s not something to disregard, but that is their distraction from everything else his handlers have been getting away with. You’re focused on Trump, that’s entirely what they’re banking on and it’s working.

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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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      Would it surprise you if a good fraction of republican filth were to support this plan? It sure as shit wouldn’t surprise me.

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          Just go on the Nextdoor app. There certainly are people still rooting for everything he’s doing and salivating at the thought of ICE coming to “save” our blue state. It’s always been weird to me that while we have total freedom to move anywhere within the country, these fuckers choose to live in a blue state and just complain about it constantly.

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      He’s been using the line “lots of people are saying” for a long time to say how great he is. Check out this old Barbara Walters interview: https://youtu.be/mW1NPLeTf_c

      Trump: The plaza is a very valuable property. Everybody told me, Oh, you paid too much. You paid too much. Now they’re all saying what a great deal he made.

      Barbara: No they’re not.

      I love the look on his face when she says that. Today he’d probably pivot into saying how unfair that is, and maybe mention her vagina being dirty or something. Back then, he had to sit and take the fact that his bullshit was called out and he’s has nothing.

      This was in 1990. He bought the New York Plaza hotel in 1988 for $390M. By 1992, it was $550M in debt and was in bankruptcy.

      Source: a young Senator in 2016 who is definitely going places

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        I want to hear them say it. I want them to publicly come out and clearly, concisely say, "I want Donald Trump to be the Dictator in charge of the United States of America. " I bet these chicken shit fascists will continue to hide behind executive orders and the resemblance of democracy.

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          Oh, pretty soon his morons will be chanting it in the streets, while waving their guns, backed up by ICE goons.

          Remember when he joked about running for President in the first place, then soon it was, “a lot of people say I should” and…???.. PROFIT!!!

          For him, that is. Like every petty tyrant he doesn’t give a shit about bankrupting the casino country, as long as he can grift millions of the carcass.

          Dollar Store Hitler.

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      I have unfortunately been hearing a lot of my peers say we need to abandon democracy, on both the left and the right.