Listen to him. He is not lying on this one. Make sure you vote or there will be no more democracy, even this extremely flawed one is better than a dictatorship.
The lie is usually accompanied by a truth.
In this case the lie is that he’ll give up the power.
The people who support him sure as hell are listening. They absolutely want a Sulla figure to take full control and purge who they consider as undesirable.
Because that worked out so well…
Less than 10 years after Sulla was dead the republic was run by bleeding Crassus and Pompey.
There’s no downside for Republicans. If he succeeds they get to be close to the throne. If he fails they won’t be held accountable. It’s a win win for them because we don’t hold politicians accountable.
He’s also pretty much guaranteed to be dead in less than ten years, so all those narcissistic Republican assholes assume it will be them personally that takes the throne when it happens. So of course they support him.
He’ll be replaced by one of his idiot children. It’ll be the dumbest monarchy in history, and that’s saying something.
The lying bit is where he claims that he’ll only be a dictator for one day. How many dictators have given themselves ultimate power and then gave it up willingly after a single day?
If Trump regains office, he’ll assert dictatorial powers. Maybe we can survive this via a mass uprising, but it’s unlikely. It would be like needing to survive open heart surgery, chemotherapy, and five organ transplants all at once. Could a patient survive this? Maybe, but the prognosis wouldn’t be good and even if they did, they’d be in horrible shape for quite a long time.
The best way of surviving Trump is to make sure he never gets close to the White House (or any other position of power) ever again. And, while we’re at it, vote against any Republican who kisses up to Trump. (So, basically, all of them.)
No, we should actually put millions of vulnerable people at risk to preserve our very important ideological purity and my ego-driven stance that the US is irredeemably wicked ok? Also, I am definitely not a troll trying to get Donald Trump elected by pretending to be a leftist, so don’t at me or whatever.
If Trump is reelected, he will immediately replace everyone he can with Red-hat toadies, and then sign a barrage of dictatorial, overreaching executive orders, most of which would likely be unconstitutional. Lawsuits would naturally follow immediately with the courts placing those orders on hold until they can be adjudicated. Trump’s toadies, however, will go ahead and act on those orders regardless of the court’s decisions. Some of the toadies will subsequently be arrested, of course, for any actions that are illegal. Trump will then pardon those toadies which will embolden all the rest of his Red-hats since they will now believe, rightly or wrongly, that they will be pardoned too. Trump will then keep signing even more orders as Democracy dies burning.
If Trump is reelected, he will immediately replace everyone he can with Red-hat toadies
This isn’t a conspiracy. This is a fact: Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation
Although the system appeared to be sufficient for the nation’s first century, progressive intellectuals and activists demanded a more professionalized, scientific, and politically neutral Administration. Progressives designed a merit system to promote expertise and shield bureaucrats from partisan political pressure, but it soon began to insulate civil servants from accountability. The modern merit system increasingly made it almost impossible to fire all but the most incompetent civil servants. Complying with arcane rules regarding recruiting, rating, hiring, and firing simply replaced the goal of cultivating competence and expertise
Such a reliance on holdovers and bureaucrats led to a lack of agency control and the absolute refusal of the Acting Attorney General from the Obama Administration to obey a direct order from the President.
Congress should also consider whether public-sector unions are appropriate in the first place.
Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy
During their terms, the three Republican commissioners have demonstrated with their votes and their public statements that they believe the FEC should not overregulate political activity and act beyond its statutory authority, construe ambiguous and confusing provisions against candidates and the public instead of the government, and infringe on protected First Amendment activity
Leeja Miller - The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country (you need to know about this)
Clicked on “Department of Education” and this is the first sentence:
Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.
The second paragraph praises Milton Friedman, someone who should be up there with Kissinger in terms of what a disgusting piece of shit he and his followers are. If anyone wants to know what’s about to happen to the US, read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine to see how it’s gone when we’ve had our “free market capitalist” hands in other countries’ business. It makes me physically ill. I hope all the gEnOcIdE jOE people understand what this place, and several other countries, will look like with trump in office.
I think it’s important to remember that he could care less if nothing works so when say replace, what he might actually do is just remove.
He could cripple the federal government and just not replace people.
Eventually, they will get replaced but he could do a ton of damage by removing any politically appointed officials, auctioning off those positions to business interests, and having them fire everyone they can (or will, really, becuase I think you’d be going to court over this).
The disgraced former president, who is currently facing more than 90 felony charges in four separate jurisdictions and is scheduled to go on trial in March for attempting a coup to keep himself in office after losing the 2020 election, promised to spend his first day of a second term ruling as an autocrat during a town hall broadcast on Fox News ahead of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.
god damn
Oh, so he only wanted to be a dictator for the FIRST day. Got it, sir.
That anyone supports this fetid fecal stain is beyond my comprehension.
He revealed that significant Americans are also fecal stains. Anyone who supports Trump at this point is dead to me.
If you had told me ten years ago that a double digit percent of the US population would actively cheer for ending democracy in favor of monarchy I’d have thought you were nuts.
It’s been very disappointing in my fellow citizens.
100%. It’s not political anymore, it’s moral.
I’ve been on the outs with my dad since 18 (36 now) but over covid didn’t block him when he sent a friend request on fb. I ended up blocking him due to a comment he left on a post and my aunt bitched me out for blocking him over “politics.” The comment? “those protesters wouldn’t be a problem if we just gunned them down.”
Last time I saw my best friend from high school, he called me a libtard for describing my one stop shop healthcare at the VA and mentioning I’d like everyone to have that simple experience of - See doctor, run tests, get meds, go home.
These are people I just don’t fucking want in my life. Everyone screeches about cancel culture, no you’re just a tedious asshole. Like with the comedians, crying about cancel culture to sold out stadiums. No you’re not being canceled, there’s just only so many ways you can make the #OneJoke of “trans women are men LULULULUL” before it gets old.
And yet the trolls or naive people here are saying that they won’t vote for Biden because he hasn’t flown over the Israel and slapped Netanyahu. Yes it sucks what’s happening in Gaza, but not voting, or voting for Trump will be oh so much worse.
Biden may not be as bad as Trump by far, but he’s not a good candidate. If Trump wins, it’ll be in large part because the Democratic elite once again put forward a bad candidate with bad baggage instead of finding someone that would energize those outside the core.
It’s incredibly depressing we need to be energized in order to stop such an incredibly clear and obvious threat to democracy. Biden isn’t my first choice by any means but the idea that I’d have to be convinced at this point on how to vote is insane. Yes the Democrats should be doing more and messaging better. Yes we need better candidates. But the Republican party is now an existential threat, we have to avoid giving them power at all costs. That has to be priority because that’s the only way forward.
This is so dangerous. Why can’t US citizens see that?
Decades of systematically undermining our education system by the party benefiting from the dumb-as-dirt electorate who will gleefully vote for a dictator. Now they’re banning controversial books, such as ‘The Dictionary.’
Most of us do, and have been screaming it for years.
But the main issue here is that some of us are just catastrophically stupid.
About 1/3rd of the country realizes he’s dangerous, 1/3rd are apparently fine with it and actually think a dictatorship will solve all their problems, and the other 1/3rd are apathetic and will probably ‘both sides’ themselves into letting Trump plunge the country into third-world status and letting Russia/China/autocrats run roughshod over the rest of the world. It’s absolutely ridiculous that we’ve gotten here in the short span of four years, as if people have already forgotten how shitty 2016-2020 was and all the felony crimes Trump is currently on trial for.
That last third is basically going “well he made gas prices go down”. They don’t, or can’t, grok the bigger issues that Trump had, and instead really only focus on what he’s done for THEIR LITTLE CORNER. They don’t care about his crimes, or whatever else he’s been dealing with, what they care about is that under Trump, things mostly seemed economically stable, and 2020 was just a blip that “nobody could’ve navigated better” (a lie propped up by a lot of GOP lawmakers, and sadly even a lot of Democrats who didn’t want to challenge Trump too hard).
