Trump: 'A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We'd Like a Dictator'
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A lot of people are saying Trump going to Epstein's island dozens of times to rape kids was bad
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?
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.
Gym Jordan bought it. Maybe because if he can sell pedophilia to others, that black cloud will stop hanging over his head.
The thing is that Trump doesn't understand subtlety, and public displays of fealty are what really get him off.
Of course, this all depends on her definition of "inappropriate". Because I can guarantee her definition does not match mine.
I mean she just seems to be dripping head to toe in honesty. I totally believe it. /s
A convicted felon's personal attorney interviewed another convicted felon, and they all agreed that neither convicted felon did anything wrong.
News at 11.
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.
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
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.
The only good fascist is a very dead fascist.
IIRC they played footbal with Mussolini's head after it fell off from the continuous beating his hanging body (deservedly) underwent.
God, the catharsis must have been next level
You know, now that you mention it, that is something I may want... Imagine being in the audience - how happy everyone would be! What a thing to be a part of that moment in history.
"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?"
Or driven away to exile so decades later his son can run for the presidency and win.
I'm still amazed that Marcos' kid won.
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.
Was Gandhi a dictator?
Different Ghandi
Jesus Hindu Christ you even linked to an article where his/her name was spelled correctly.
Her
I think the his/her here isn't due to not knowing their gender, but because the ghandi everyone knows is male, and the one in this article is female, so it is both
Have you played Civ Rev?
Lol death by fellatio.
“Wow, you’re saying I’m like those swell fellas? That’s great!”
“No Mr. Presi- wait you think that’s a good thing?!”
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 👍
Thats what makes him so relatable
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...
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.
If you asked me what I thought of Americans, he’s the perfect example.
There was a time when i would take offense to that
No no. They've got a point. Just because it's not all Americans, doesn't mean it's not indicative of the majority of voting Americans.
I think we kinda deserve it right now. Want the insults to stop? Maybe we should take a note from other countries that have had dictators and do something about it. Fast.
The pedophile, rapist and felon is revealing some of the orders from his Moscow handlers.
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.
Donald, are the "lots of people" in the room with us right now?
I mean, most likely, yes. They're the people telling him it's a good idea. See Curtis Yarvin.
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?
Sounds like communism, so no. /s
A dictatorship... of the proletariat?
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.
Not just what american call "liberals" saying those things
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.
Do you mean deciding between this disgusting human being or a black woman?
yEaH bUt ShE wAnTeD tO gEnOcIdE!!!
Yeah but Trump wants to do the same thing but also build a hotel in prime Gaza Beach front property...
You don’t understand! If I can’t get everything I want I’ll just not vote!!! 😝
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.
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.
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.
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.
And we all know that the KKK doesn't exist anymore...
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.
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.
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...
I mean, it really really really doesn't. Education was all that was needed for me.
We tried.
They stole this democracy from us. Trump has stated it out loud more than once from Oval Office.
A lot of people are saying he raped children.
Instead of Time's Man of the Year Award he should get Time's Pedo of the Year Award.
Donald Trump raped children.
I've heard a lot of people say that, you know.
All the best people are saying it too
There's very fine people on both sides of the child rape.
I've heard people saying that
yes, because he fucked children
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.
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.
Everyone should take all of his threats (aka campaign promises) very seriously.
Always.
Also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.
He raped children.
this is a bullshit attempt at distraction
With violence?
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.
I'd like a dictator...to hang from a light post.
Maybe as a Christmas tree ornament? You can have dozens of MAGATs hanging from the branches, with their eyes 'X'ed out.
Ok. Then name one. Name just one person that said that.
No surprise at all, but I want to know who said it, so I can make them repeat it publicly.
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.
They are stupid. That's why.
Easy. Donald John Trump
That's on me. I set the bar too low.
No mean feat, when you are talking about Trump.
A lot of me are saying this.
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
All I think of is when someone says that on Wikipedia and then they just add a superscript after saying “how many?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
John Barron
Quite honestly there are millions of hardcore MAGA people that are on board.
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.
They exist. Jordan Klepper has gotten some on camera.
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
casinocountry, as long as he can grift millions of the carcass.Dollar Store Hitler.
Probably confused between the words director and dictator
Probably rather a lot of people in his inner circle.
he has experience in defenestrating people, his wife "fell" down the stairs.
I have unfortunately been hearing a lot of my peers say we need to abandon democracy, on both the left and the right.
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.
"But people will die if we fight, we should just let them enslave the population in
deathlabor camps instead!"^ A summerization of a discussion I had on Lemmy yesterday
You're not fighting , are you? Sure is easy to tell other people to die, isn't it?
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.
It's so pathetic, frogs in boiling water...
There's a reason our national anthem ends with a question mark and not a period.
Speed running back the "good old days" where whites could say what they want without being called out.
I call people out but I'm also a white guy so I feel somewhat obliged to counteract all the cunts waving confederate flags and being racist bastards.
Always remember you are on the right side of this seemingly losing battle. keep it up.
Rolling over and allowing him to make a statement that is no way an action? Seems reasonable to me.
I mean. He's not wrong. That's why he's in power.
And are those people in the room with us, right now?
Because I highly doubt he speaks to anyone aside from the sycophants he surrounds himself with.
Doubtful. Putin gives him his orders by phone.
Can God just lightning strike this traitorous sack of human shit already? The man objectively deserves to die.
He won't, Trump is a test to see how much shit we'll take before we stand up for ourselves, and we're failing. Miserably.
It's what the voices in his head are saying
There's a whole documentary on fox news about this phrase.
A lot of people are saying Trump is a pedophile too.
Child rapist dictator. Is america great yet?
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.
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.
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.
Someone I knew believed to be a Hollywood film star of the 1950s late, late in his life.
As far as I know, at least he hadn't access to nukes.
Dementia is a bitch, so is the pedophile orange.
Trump's been a Mussolini Guy since the 1980s. This isn't dementia speaking. It's a core conviction he's had for his entire adult life.
Little bit of column a, little bit of column b
Sic semper tyrannis.
See you this Friday under the Brooklyn Bridge, comrade.
With a mortar launcher
Good thing that's just its own sentence.
A lot of people are saying release the Epstein files.
I'd venture a great deal more people, actually.
A lot of people are saying that I should have a free ferrari, tons of people!!!!
I doubt he can get his butt in one. Definitely can't get back out on his own.
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.
Reading this made my heart sing. Bless you, sir/madam.
Let’s hope he has a long life of this. Also, release the files…
Hey. It wouldn't be all bad. We could legally hunt a US dictator.
If he stays in office for one day unelected it is open season.
Already no one is allowed in the White House, and DC is under National Guard control. They're setting this one up well in advance, friend. Still not sure what to do about it.
Anybody calling for a gen strike yet? I wish I had a labor union to tell me when it's time.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
Looks like the site was made in 2022, and after three years it has 373,718 people "committed" out of a necessary 10,626,282.
I've been watching the numbers for a while and there was a large bump up a few months ago when the protests started. Many people are looking for an organizing voice but without unions who will be heard?
I was recently toying with taping the URL to the back of my car...
What reality do you live in, and how can I transfer to it?
"I don't waaant to be a dictator... but a lot of people waaant me to be a dictator... so maybe I'll be a dictator."
I'd like to see ours hanging from a lamp post.
From the white house balcony would be a better image in the history books though.
I wonder who that dictator might be? Theres just an incontinent 80 year old with dementia there.
Is emo eyeliner Vance going to be that dictator?
Best I can do is AOC, hardened by years of civil war, made merciless by witnessing innumerable horrors and the loss of loved ones.
That or the cyborg Burn-hard Sandblaster
The new 40k lore drop is sick.
If NK can have a necrocracy, he can run a senilocracy -especially since he's basically just a figurehead for oligarchs and fascists anyway that repeats whatever the most recent person told him.
Buy guns, stockpile ammunition, learn to shoot.
Enough of this bullshit.
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
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.
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
No more than yours could be an astroturf by forces attempting to deter civil unrest. Lotta tinfoil to be found in supposin'.
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
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.
Hahaha the left have guns. We just don't wave them around in public like children.
We are witnessing the downfall of American democracy. Hopefully Europe holds.
Europe is already falling. This was part of a coordinated effort. The right did stupid shit to erode the US, hostile foreign powers hijacked the Republican Party using Trump once they had weakened the US enough, and this destabilized the entire western world due to their reliance on the US.
The republicans dumbly did exactly what their enemies wanted. And they still don’t even realize they are being used yet.
Not saying Europe is in the best shape but you have a President threatening war to stay in power, accepting Qatari bribes, saying he wants to be treated like kim jon un, etc.
It's not even close.
And what is Europe doing “for the children” lately?
Nothing at all. No law proposal has happened yet, nothing official.
I really doubt something like Chat Control will ever pass.
Exactly how is Europe falling?
You can’t say anything negative about Israel. You can’t access porn without telling your government and the provider who you are first. They keep trying to kill encryption and will eventually succeed. They are moving on requiring identification to use a VPN now.
Increased surveillance has literally never made people safer. It’s made them vulnerable.
Most of these is just the UK. Yes there are some EU attempts to stifle free speech and anonymity online but those aren't in place yet and people are fighting it. (Tell your MEPs to oppose Chat Control!) and yes, Germany is very zionist.
But here in The Netherlands the protest against Israel and for Palestine (the red line protest) was one of the biggest in 20 years time. (100 000 to 150 000 protesters), I don't have to hand over my passport to watch porn, I'm still free to use a VPN.
Could be better. Racism is really rn
I wonder why it’s so rampant. Mass immigration? Refugees?
Same thing that led to the surge of racism in the US. Lyndon B. Johnson said it best:
Nope. Migration news stories, nothing else,
A lot of people are saying my penis is not small, in fact they are saying it's a totally normal penis, FAKE. NEWS. Sometimes after my IV treatment it ALMOST sticks out past the pubes I said MELANIA, I said would you look at THIS but she wouldn't unlock the bathroom door FAAAAKE NEWS!
A lot of people are saying that trump had an intimate relationship with a sexual predator that trafficked children and was involved in the same or similar pedophilic behavior. A lot of people are saying this.
Die into oblivion already, Donald. And go to hell.
“A lot of people are saying” is Trumps version of Christians saying “God says I’m right.” With Christians, they are the only ones who get to speak for God, who agrees with them on everything, and anyone saying otherwise is lying. With Trump, the “lot of people” are never people you can directly question or challenge. He’s making it up, saying he has a consensus but cant prove it.
A lot of people are saying Luigi Mangione did a horrible thing for the best fucking reason and was totally justified in doing so.
A lot of people want a dictator….yea, not quite as believable.
I don’t know about now but I know his first term multiple coworkers who said this and who also said his kids should take over for him when he dies- especially Ivanka and Kushner or Baron when he’s old enough. And they were dead serious.
Did he change his name? It is now, "A lot of people J. Trump?"
Perhaps only MAGA is saying that.
10 people isn’t a lot.
I’d ask for a list of who says this but we know how that turned out.
The dementia demons in your head don’t count as people. No one wants the turd reich.
A lot of people are saying that, but those are people willing to do anything for him and Elon. It's not an accurate description of what the average American citizen thinks. I think the average American just wants a stable economy and freedom to live how we want to and he's not giving us that. I'd also argue that the average American would want to own a house that they could afford to pass down and be able to afford raising a family, and don't want to be pushed into a rental market for the rest of their lives. You know, the American dream.
The fact that you care about the "average" rather than just "a lot of people" means you value democracy. He doesn't. A "lot" of people doesn't need to be a majority or even a plurality. It just needs to be the right people.
The people who call themselves patriots and put the flags in the bio, mindlessly nod and clap.
Dictators and kings… I say we should go full traditional on these two kind of people.
But a lot more of other people are saying things that would get the secret service asking them pointed questions if it got out.
I think he thinks they mean "Dick Tater". I mean, he certainly fits the bill.
Nah Dick Taker... For Putin....
I have been saying for awhile that a lot of straight men are saying maybe theyd like to suck dick.
In his view "a lot of people" are the few that hover around him looking for scraps like so many Renfields
got me so pissed to here him state a lot of people in chicago are asking for the military to be sent in. There is no broom handle splintery enough for him.
Yepyep
That would be only your "advisors"
And at that point. I get my gun and I disappear.
Is he the one saying this? His ego is certainly big enough to count as " a lot of people" .
For every N persons he can lie about saying this, I have seen N+1 persons saying they'd like him to get the hamberder from heaven.
if he really wants to be putin, he would have to start defenestrating people like musk, thiel, goldman sachs people, his own cabinet.
the dictator from Sacha Baron Cohen
Are those people the voices you hear inside your own head?
Dick Tater?
We are not saying that.
A lot of people like what he’s saying, for now.
We are in a civil war
"the voices in my head that tell me I'm a big stronk boy who totally doesn't has a teeny tiny peepee tell me that I should be dick-tator"
Trump is the furthest thing from "benevolent". I do agree that a benevolent dictator would set us on the right path again. Until then it's money, power, and hate that seem to be the driving force in the world, both today and in the past. The showiest thing that american power does is to change hats from time to time when an election is held.
You get those words the hell out of your mouth.
Who leads shouldnt be a competition every 4 years. I'm more inclined to take Chinas lead on this one.
This is why Reddit is packed with China propaganda--to soften the resistance against dictatorships.
China has elections though, the average term length for president is like 5 years, they're just unlikely to replace a leader if things are going well and the leader is perceived as responsive.
If they reelected Hu Jintao while corruption festered and capitalism seemed to escape its cage, how many of the national congress would have been seen the next one?
Had no idea they have elections, thanks for sharing!
Communist countries tend to be more democratic than capitalist countries, but even if every member of the party above the lowest level has to be elected both within the party and in a general election, it can be questionable how much the resulting government institutions actually represent the people.
If you want an example of such a system working well or at least less openly corrupt and distainful of the average person, ask some Cubans (not gusanos) about their experiences with representation. If you want an example where the average person feels pretty disconnected from the party and like their voice is completely drowned out by moneyed interests and nepotism, talk to some Vietnamese.