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Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term
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What the fuck is supposed to be cryptic about this? He's making it perfectly clear that he wants to overthrow democracy in the US. And everybody who votes for him is OK with that.
People asked the question before. It went something like:
"You do realize that he'll be a dictator, right?"
" We don't care. He'll be our dictator and that's all that matters."
And then they'll say they do it for freedom and democracy.
There's another angle to the dictator thing-
A lot of people essentially think the president already is a dictator. That's why even people on the left say things like, "why doesn't Biden raise the minimum wage?!" when that requires an act of congress.
Where did you get any indication from what I said that I thought it was okay? I'm talking about why people aren't more concerned about it like they should be.
So many people are so het up, they come sprinting in, gagging to fight someone.
They need to just deep breathe twice and think a little, please.
Trump's always been banking on everybody giving him the benefit of the doubt, and they do, but he thinks it's because he's so very clever that he's tricking his opponents with his thinly veiled veneer of plausible deniability. In actuality they just do it because he's rich.
To be fair, if they are doing it because he is rich, then he is indeed tricking them. Even with all the reasons why he should be rich; owning a bunch of buildings, rarely paying anyone that does anything for him, being born rich... he actually still isn't. He's so bad with money that despite all that, he's overall in the hole most of the time. Which is why he so vehemently defends any financial info coming out about him. It's a point of pride to him that people think he is rich.