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Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day
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You clearly don’t know how dictators work.
You ever see Vladimir Putin get stuck on an elevator? No he’d have tha footage scrubbed and everyone who saw it shot.
You have to maintain a certain image if you want to be king.
Buddy open your eyes. You literally brought up the busted escalator that very clearly did not bring down Trump. Neither have his myriad of other on-air disasters and the party obssessed with screaming about child abuse has done nothing about his obvious attachement to Epstein.
We have loads of pictures on the internet of Putin in his stupid high-heels because he’s insecure about his height. I wouldn’t go around waving that shit around in the Red Square, obviously, but it’s not like they’re going around shooting everyone who might have seen a meme.
The evidence is right their in front of your eyes. You ignoring it is not a gotcha.
Buddy open your eyes!
Trump has been struggling as much as can to be a king. He’s been trying since day one!
Despite his mind controlled cult member following him blindly…. He still can’t make it happen. He keeps hitting roadblocks from us.
Yes, he’s making more progress than we’d like but you are a damn fool if you think things like the broken escalator aren’t hurting him. You’re a fool to not see he lost a lot of people already over Epstein.
You are a fool if you don’t see how someone like trump looks like a silly little baby compared to Putin or any other strong man dictator.
Looking foolish even for a moment hurts him very badly. It slows him down considerably.
The book “power broker”. The most powerful man in all of New York City (probably ever) was taken down by some moms standing in a park and blocking his bulldozer. That mother fucker battle sitting presidents and won, that guy walked all over mayors and governors, he wiped out entire neighborhoods and permentally blocked beach access to most of New York. He was a titan! He was defeated by looking foolish. He was destroyed by moms in a park. YOU CLEARLY DONT UNDERSTAND HOW DICTATORSHIPS WORK!
Sorry I can’t snap my fingers and make the world perfect for you. We are fighting against tyranny. It’s a long slow battle. Don’t discredit our wins as an attempt to stop us. We don’t buy what you’re selling.
Speed bumps, maybe, but they keep on being able to do stuff without consequence. People are still disappearing, there’s some tepid resistance from a couple centrist governors, and your economy is doing terribly yet he’s still very free to fuck around and post AI shit-bomb videos.
The only thing keeping him from anything is his own disastrous health and the “elite”, the real kings in the US are still allowed to do whatever the hell they want without any major pushback.
Let’s not get too far from the comment I replied to which was about something small being what brings it all down despite that not at all being the case. People aren’t afraid Trump, they’re afraid of the goons armed with guns that will do whatever the fuck he says and don’t give a shit that he’s a child rapist so long as they get a paycheck to go hurt people. We can post all the memes we want but at some point something has to happen about it.
Ya’ll’re acting so frickin’ tough for people that are generally regarded these days as being largely spineless. Farmers in France dumped shit on the roads when they were pissed, it doesn’t have to be violent but you better start causing problems.
I’ll leave you with the words of the group “immortal technique “ in their song “4th branch”
“Turn off the news and read nigga. READ. Read.”