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‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election
(www.commondreams.org)
Sometimes a country needs a political assassination.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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He had two attempts and both were fools. Seriously, the first guy got too damn close and... used iron sights and cheap target ammo? Also his motive was random violence. He wanted to go on a rampage and start by killing the closest political figure He could find... who just so happened to be Trump who was having a rally nearby. No fucking joke, that was the reason.
Why are assassins often the most unstable nutcase who win through sheer luck instead of actual planning?
Man that shit was fake anyway. I remember the day it happened my “moderate republican” buddy said. “He’s going to win the election now for sure”
That assassination attempt was just a planned part of the campaign rally.
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A Democrat president would be killed for saying this shit
Sometimes you need a dictator.
Yeah, for target practice.
Target practice? No, my friend, that is the target.
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Some of us said this would happen. You called us "gloom-and-doomers."
I'm particularly fond of the "alarmist" accusations, implying we shouldn't be wholly and completely alarmed.
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sometimes you need to aim an inch more to the right.
Can we go back in time and trade Charlie Kuck's shooter for the noob that missed Trump?
Sometimes you need to buy a cheap optic.
Sometimes you need a massive stroke
-the world says
👐people say, I need a stroke, a tremendous beautiful stroke, like you’ve never seen before 👀 in the history of people, with a shovel .
The biggest stroke! The stroke to end all strokes! The likes of which have never been seen! 🫲🍊🫱
So this is when the revolt happens right? Surely this is the last straw, right America?
Or is he just joking again? Because words don't matter and he tweets his policy notes.
I'll sit and wait for the spineless Americans to rise up against tyranny, 2a and all the other self-aggrandizing bullshit you bootlickers spew.
The 2A Americans were only interested in rising up if it was a democrat who wanted to give them free Healthcare and school lunches. Not people would hire them as death camp guards.
Nailed it.
We actually don't need a dictator in the United states. Seriously!
Can you imagine how different the world would have been if trump didn't move his head a ¼ of a second earlier
I see no reason you'd ever want a dictator, but I admit that sometimes, I wish I could unilaterally amend the US Constitution. I'd be able to fix campaign finance, voting methods, gerrymandering, looting the government by the rich, and a whole bunch of other crap all at once.
The mythos of Cincinnatus, the idea of a temporary dictator who acts benevolently and then gladly cedes power, has a strong presence in the founding of the US. Washington was regarded as one (his contemporaries were quite surprised when he willingly stepped down, it was felt that after his success in the war of independence he could have easily claimed power). That civic virtue is eminent enough to be the namesake of one of their cities. Pity it's in Ohio, of all places. I probably can't blame Ohio for the decline in American civic virtue, but I wish I could.
As an American, honestly I feel like anticommunism was a huge factor in the decline of our civic virtue. When you start praising and empowering wealth over mutual benefit you weed the ethical and the dutiful from the leadership pool, both politically and culturally. Many left wing movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in America prioritized civic duty separate from the state (left wing) or through it (liberal).
I think the other big damage to it was the American civic religion. The country went from a huge machine we each had to play a part in, built on philosophies that everyone was supposed to understand, to a golden calf. The constitution went from the foundational rules meant to steward us towards the goals stated in the preamble it became a holy text thats name is cited, but its goals are not cherished. People often don't actually think about how what they want fits in to a reasonable interpretation of say, the 4th-8th amendments.
Idk, sometimes I feel massively outnumbered here as someone who takes her civil duties seriously.
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Hey I know it's just a funny Internet meme to shit on Ohio, but any time someone does (especially in the current times where we need to find allies more than ever) I feel obligated to remind them that Ohio is actually not a hell hole, it just has backward rednecks in the rural areas, just like any other state with rural areas. Cincinnati is a beautiful city, Ohio is a beautiful state, and a huge chunk of the ~12 million people that live here are in fact not shit people.
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Dictators are more efficient and agile than democratic governments. That’s why the Romans originally had them. In the early Roman republic dictators were appointed to fix a specific problem and given significant power to do specifically and only that. So for example you could have a “fix gerrymandering dictator” that would be able to sidestep normal processes to fix gerrymandering, and then disappear.
There's A Robert A. Heinlein book about how and why to be involved in politics called Take Back Your Government. At one point he talks about sharing his concerns that fascism was in fact more efficient than democracy with a person who had escaped Hitler's Germany. The friend asserts that fascism is less efficient, because under fascism, everyone is afraid of the boss, so no one wants to admit when anything isn't going according to plan, so problems pile up. Democracy, on the other hand, expects and encourages constant complaint, so the problems tend to get discovered and fixed sooner than under fascism.
You can see this process taking place right now: everyone is afraid of displeasing boss Trump, and as a result you've got all these clearly fucked up decisions being made while nobody is being honest about how bad of an effect they are going to have. In a functional democracy, representatives would be afraid of the consequences and do something to stem the damage to avoid being tossed out in the next election. In our current reality... we'll see, I guess?
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All I could think about while watching Carney’s speech, aside from how much I’d forgotten what a real leader sounded like, was what kind of bullshit word salad the orange asshole would belch out of his McDonalds hole.
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And sometimes you always don’t.
What are the odds that he tries to invade Iceland as well just because he can't admit that he got the name wrong?
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Sometimes you need a guy on a grassy knoll.
Perhaps America needs a Purge.
That seems to be happening and the democrats voted to give trump’s domestic terrorist group more money today
Nobody EVER needs a dictator. That rotten orange shit pile refuses to see that.
...I mean, normal people would just use a targeting circle or a bulls-eye or something, but sure, a dictator works just as well in that case
Even if that were true, you're not it, Donald.
Trump will totally try to ignore the midterm elections.
A dictator can try to bury his Epstein crimes.
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