• Ancalagon@lemmy.world
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    Man literally complaining of Democrats giving money to illegal immigrants in the USA, after giving 20b to a foreign country.

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    Yeah its more than time to kick this deranged “leader” to the curb. Thats dictatorships 101 hes pulling. If you are afraid to lose something just know that you’ve already lost it.

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      This is by design as people get more desperate they have less time to engage in politics and a disconnected populace is the best friend of an authoritarian leader

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    My theory on convening all the generals and admirals was that a select key few of them were taken to a more secluded location, shown certain videos, and told “you wouldn’t want this to get out, do you?”. The videos might not have been real - doesn’t matter.

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      These guys aren’t that smart.

      Fredo Corleone could have figured out that all Trump had to do was make one phone call to the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2017 and he’d have had $50 billion in Swiss francs by July 4, 2017.

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        I agree with the other commenters that he’s just not that smart. I legitimately cannot see an administration of, basically, bullies trying to blackmail anyone into anything, because it doesn’t fit their MO. They don’t go for emotional blackmail, it’s all threats because that’s what they’re best at. Kidnap and implicitly threaten the kids or the wife so the guy you’re trying to deport comes out. Threaten the reporters or the onlookers with implied violent force. Threaten the people being mean to you on social media with that same violent force. It’s all they know how to do, and they know it works very well so long as you have what they’ve had most or all of their lives: privilege and power to back it up.

        Trump was right in that he could’ve shot someone in broad daylight and gotten off. Any of these rich fascist fucks could - RFK Jr might have, allegedly. Not because they have millions of adoring fans, but because they’re bullies and can monetarily and violently threaten people into silence pretty easily with the wealth, access, and privilege that they have.