• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    brazenly

    Why is the press continuously using wording that makes this pig sound like an anti hero of some sorts?

    Call him for what he is now, a dictator

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    9 days ago

    A democracy officially becomes a dictatorship when the executive starts disobeying the legislative branch.

    The US is on the knife’s edge, and starting to fall on the wrong side of history.

    And the price of eggs still hasn’t come down…

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        Visited the gulf earlier this year, literally reeks of death- has never recovered from BP’s monumental ‘oopsie’ deepwater horizon in 2010. For this reason alone, I think the rebrand kinda fits.

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    9 days ago

    The way i’m reading this - Trump is unable to do so because the US is now weak and feeble.

    Clinton, Obama, Biden, maintained our geopolitical strength and would have exercised it.

    (this ignores the fact that none of the prior presidents were nazis)

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      They were Nazis too, or at least Nazi adjacent. They were just smart and competent and playing the long game which would have landed us here in 20-50 years without any domestic resistance.

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        I’d say that 20-50 years is generous. Maybe if they’d won every election, but that’s now how US politics goes. When one side stages a coup, and history shows they’re going to win an election again within the next cycle or two, not throwing the leaders of the coup in Gitmo by January 21, 2021, at the latest, sure seems like enabling fascism.