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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Ok. Then name one. Name just one person that said that.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Would it surprise you if a good fraction of republican filth were to support this plan? It sure as shit wouldn’t surprise me.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No surprise at all, but I want to know who said it, so I can make them repeat it publicly.

[–] rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A lot of me are saying this.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Quite honestly there are millions of hardcore MAGA people that are on board.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

They exist. Jordan Klepper has gotten some on camera.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

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 ~~casino~~ country, as long as he can grift millions of the carcass.

Dollar Store Hitler.

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Probably confused between the words director and dictator

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably rather a lot of people in his inner circle.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

he has experience in defenestrating people, his wife "fell" down the stairs.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago

I have unfortunately been hearing a lot of my peers say we need to abandon democracy, on both the left and the right.