Just make it so normal that people accept it.

And for others they can say “he’s joking, like he was always joking”

114 points

Pretty much.

Anyone with half a brain cell knows that he is a pathological liar. And even worse than being a pathological liar, he’s a pathological “truth bender”. At no point is he lying, and at no point is he ever telling the truth. This gives him a method to worm his way out of any verbal snafu he found himself in. He learned it by emulating his sociopathic father, and he taught his children the same trick.

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Are you sure trump isn’t also a sociopath? He doesn’t care if his actions kill people, or hurt others, really unless it hurts him personally, he doesn’t give a shit about anything else.

That sounds like textbook sociopath to me.

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We could spend all day talking about Trump being a sociopath. I’ve only got so much time on this Earth.

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Same, maybe we should do something else useful with our time. He spent 4 years living in my head, I don’t want him taking up any more real-estate

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He’s definitely a narcissist, but I’m betting he also has an unattachment disorder (which is pretty common in serial killers)

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75 points

One day is all it takes for a dictator to destroy a democracy…

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In that case, let’s hope he’s an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he’s gone people all agree that this wasn’t a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.

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That’s definitely a nice thought, but you’d have better odds of winning the lottery.

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I mean, it worked at least in Austria, Germany and Spain

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When has the death of a dictator by old age ever defaulted back to democracy? There’s a lot of people helping him, I’m sure more than a handful are eager to step into his shoes.

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Franco in Spain. Not saying that’s a good plan to go with, but it has happened.

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He doesn’t need to normalize it. Anyone demented enough to still support him wants him to be a dictator. The only difference is whether they can admit that to themselves or not.

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Seriously. He’ll absolutely use this as an excuse to boot. He’ll continue doing dictator things because his shitheel people will react so positively…

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I feel like saying you’ll only be a dictator on day one is just saying that a dictator doesn’t abdicate power, and a dictator on day one is always a dictator until death.

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Not always, but whenever we did the “lets put the dictator on a remote island” or similar thing, they came back, with a vengeance.

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It depends on the island. Napoleon died on a remote island. It took a few tries though.

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and burned down half of Europe in the process

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Any citizen of the US that votes for this bozo should forfeit their citizenship.

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they already forfeited their brain and morals, what’s a peice of paper to them

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