• bender223@lemmy.today
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    I hope his IV treatments hurt. The bruising on his hand means it may sometimes be hard to get the vein.

    To require the IV version of diarhetics means his congestive heart failure must be really bad. Most ppl can just take the pill version.

    All that swelling can also mean he’s near kidney failure. Would not be surprised if he needs dialysis soon.

    I hope he suffers a lot of pain and we can hear him cry about it.

    Also, release 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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    I’m just going to say it…

    Did anyone not expect this? Like… Of the people on Lemmy, is anyone here surprised that he is pushing to be a dictator?

    Oh, also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. Donald Trump raped children.

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      Well there were a bunch of people saying that he’s the better choice over Harris because of the whole genocide thing. Which, last I checked, still hasn’t stopped, but when I point that out, people make new accounts to tell me I’m a genocide denier and should get genocided myself. Methinks those users are actually Trump fans.

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        Yeah, I pointed out how the Dems weren’t as bad as Trump and they say I’m promoting genocide.

        Idiots or bots? I don’t know. If they’re being earnest, I get that the corporate dems are in Israel’s pocket and stuff. No denying that, but like you said … the Republicans haven’t stopped it as far as I can tell either.

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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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          The thing is that Trump doesn’t understand subtlety, and public displays of fealty are what really get him off.

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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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        Of course, this all depends on her definition of “inappropriate”. Because I can guarantee her definition does not match mine.

      • 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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      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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    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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      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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    “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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      “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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        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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      I’m not convinced the sudden surge in posts from otherwise left-leaning people encourage gun ownership aren’t at least partially perpetuated by an astroturfing campaign on behalf of gun manufacturers

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        If you haven’t seen leftists and left leaning people advocating for gun ownership then you haven’t been looking. Groups like the SRA, JBGC, and Pink Pistols have been around for at least a decade and are rapidly growing in size.

        If you go far enough left, you get your guns back.

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          My gut feeling is just that discourse shifted rapidly regarding left leaning gun owners over the last year or so, and I can’t help but suspect it’s not partially driven by the gun industry trying to get more people interested in buying guns.

          But yeah I’ve known about several left-leaning organizations directly supporting gun ownership for quite a while now

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        Hahaha the left have guns. We just don’t wave them around in public like children.

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        No more than yours could be an astroturf by forces attempting to deter civil unrest. Lotta tinfoil to be found in supposin’.

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          I’m just jaded and struggle to not assume that everything online telling people to buy something isn’t a marketing campaign of some sort

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        There are many types of power that people should have, martial among them. Without force, it isn’t possible to hold leaders to account if they decide to forego the interests of the people they lead.

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    And Americans are rolling over and allowing this. My childhood and all those Hollywood movies actually made me believe Americans would fight. Instead they whimpered quietly.

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      “But people will die if we fight, we should just let them enslave the population in death labor camps instead!”

      ^ A summerization of a discussion I had on Lemmy yesterday

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          I live in Europe, Always have. Chances are, with what I’ve written on social media the last 10 years about Trump, I wouldn’t even get into your country. Would either be turned around in the airport or arrested.