The dictator in chief likes to kill people.

[milestogo]

He was too cowardly to serve in the military... but he is "brave" enough to kill civilians in boats. Brave enough to take food away from families. Brave enough to terrorize brown people. Brave enough to cut off all aid to foreign countries whose people depended on it. Brave enough to threaten our allies.

He likes to talk tough about Democrats. Looks to me like he's just getting warmed up.

[Walleye]

1. I've never heard him say a bad word about Putin either.

Putin is the one really trying to dismantle our country and he’s just using Trump as a tool, which he is

[live love laugh]

2. He definitely wants to kill Democrats.

[gab13by13]

4. He wants to kill unwashed Americans, including Magats

He doesn't need their votes. AI will take care of the billionaires.

[Jilly_in_VA]

33. He said so

He said he hates us.

[homegirl]

16. And so pissed that Pence

got away!

Newly uncovered notes from Mike Pence reveal Trump pressured him to overturn Biden’s win calling him a “wimp” for refusing.

“You're not protecting our country… you're supposed to support and defend our country,” Trump told him.
Pence reminded him: they swore an oath to the Constitution, not to Trump.

Trump tried to bully Pence into rejecting the certification, then sat and watched as a violent mob stormed the Capitol screaming “HANG MIKE PENCE.”

He never called in the National Guard.
He watched it happen.

All because his ego couldn’t handle losing.

If he didn’t care whether his own Vice President lived or died… why would he ever care about the American people?

[Ocelot II]

3. He likes the *power* to kill people - to decide whether and whom.

Hardly anybody in the world has that kind of power and he enjoys it.

[BOSSHOG]

5. He MURDERS PEOPLE

But doesn’t get his hands dirty. He epitomizes respect for life as shown by the likes of coward Mike Johnson who cares not of what he does in the name of America. Johnson and others of his ilk are spineless and believe there is never ending serendipity in their current plight in life. Sick, evil. Describes the gop. No talent in leadership and governance. Massed together as a single blob of hateful humanity. All in the name of trump, their god of no responsibility.

[Ocelot II]

6. Yup. Because he can. It's as close to being God as he thinks he can get.

[chowder66]

19. I think he relates more to being like a mob boss that has hitmen do the killing for him. I think a lot of his goons do.

Makes one wonder if he ever had anyone "offed" before he was elected.

[WmChris]

35. And yet

Little Mikey claims to be a Christian while defileing every thing Christ and a majority of other deities have expounded down through the ages.

[slightlv]

30. This falls right in line with his God-complex...

the power over life and death... who lives, who dies, and who just wishes they were dead. He's doing the same thing to us with this "3rd term" talk. IF somehow he's still alive and we completely throw away the constitution once and for all, and he gets that "3rd term" he will never leave office. Which is why he's building his Epstein Memorial Ballroom. Read where Bannon said they already have a plan for capturing that 3rd term, but he's not saying anything more at the moment. It's also why he'll demolish the rest of the WH one section at a time until there is nothing left of the "People's House" any longer... only a palace fit for a king and god. I just can't get Herbert's book title out of my mind... "Dune, God Emperor" not that I'm comparing trump to Paul Atreides, only that he believes he is the anointed god-emperor of the world. trump is Hitler on steroids. Never content with just one country, because he, like his billionaires, doesn't "belong" to any one country. They want to take over the world, and their working hard on it.

We may have to figure out how to *successfully* implement our own Project Valkyrie in order to save the country and the world.

[LT Barclay]

37. The best way in my opinion and others have mentioned similar plans is to build a shadow government.

The republicans would be too afraid of completely losing power to ignore it and Trump’s Potemkin village could be left to rot without any power.

[slightlv]

42. Interesting idea! Especially since this is exactly what I believe he did

after losing the election to Biden. I mean, who in the hell receives heads of state at a golf hotel?! NO ONE is suppose to do anything like that other than the President, and there can only be one of those at a time. But just like everything else, trump ignored that law as being too restrictive. He sent out envoys and received heads of state. He should have been stopped so many times on so many things, it's just too anger inducing for me to think hard about it. But setting up a Shadow Government from scratch... not transitioning it from an active presidency to a shadow of what it was... I'd like to know more about how that could happen. Sure sounds like something I could get behind in a heartbeat!

[LT Barclay]

47. I think it would have to start with a coalition of former presidents, senators, military flag officers and state

governors who also believe the current system can no longer be patched back together with the damage Trump and the SCOTUS have done. I think they need a rewrite of the Constitution which would include things like corporations are not people and money is not speech in a definitions section similar to what the CFR has. Include the Declaration of Independence as a legal document. Codify voting and privacy as rights, revisit FDR's second bill of rights. Then set up elections to fill the seats in the new congress. Again any opposition would be stymied by the stampede to be included to ensure that they weren't left out of the new power structure. I'm not sure of the details. If it were me, campaign contributions of any type would be banned. I would go set a mission statement for the country, decide on tasks to fulfill the missions, assign tasks to agencies, set up every federal agency as a semi-independent entity like the post-office with a set budget. They could provide documentation to congress to appeal for adjustments but the annual budget drama would be gone. Congress and the executive branch would have joint oversight over the agencies and consequences if they didn't fulfill their charter. Central control and micromanagement needs to end. If they don't trust someone to do their job, get rid of them, but congress simply isn't smart enough and doesn't have the time to learn enough to micromanage say the USFWS. So they get a complaint from a rich landowner in Wyoming and then want to rework (or work over) the USFWS to appease a campaign contributor.
It is a high-risk operation, but I don't see any realistic option anymore. Somewhere here on DU the guy who dresses as a woman went through 4 possible outcomes as a democracy becomes authoritarian. We won't make it to the 1 good one, we are too polarized.

[slightlv]

48. You've gotten far into the weeds! I congratulate you on your thought processes.

It's this kind of thinking that's going to get us out of this mess and into a better world. I also applaud you for remembering FDR's Second Bill of Rights. I'm not sure how all of what you mentioned would work out, but it's a beginning of a process, at least!

One thing I think needs to be insisted upon in any constitutional rewrite is to rewrite it in plain, modern language. No more of the thee's, and thou's. Unless an appendix is added which delineates exactly what those words mean when they show up. No more arguing over whether "will do" is the same as "shall do" for example. We've gotten so screwed over the decades because of semantics.

[dlilafae]

7. Guess what

Presidents don't just get to randomly kill people. Tribunal, cowards.

[milestogo]

8. ??

Are you denying that this president is randomly killing people?

Who are you calling cowards?

[LT Barclay]

38. I think the person is confirming that presidents don't have that power and those around Trump are cowards for not

shipping him to The Hague.

[Ocelot II]

9. Guess what. This one apparently does,

at least if they're in small boats.

[Hekate]

18. This is as unclear as a Trump statement. It's word salad.

[SWBTATTReg]

34. Yes, and I still haven't figured it out. I'm just ignoring it for now, it's not worth it or my time.

[usonian]

10. HE doesn't kill. His FLUNKIES kill. He's the Mafia Boss, except mafia bosses dress well, not baggy thrift store suits.

And drag chute ties.

[DFW]

12. There you go.

He'd chicken out at puling the trigger himself. But he gets his real jollies at seeing others do it for him.

[RazorbackExpat]

41. Like Dubya Bush

[DFW]

43. Dubya couldn't find his left leg if his right leg had been amputated

That was all Cheney.

[RazorbackExpat]

45. Dubya signed the death warrants of 150+ prisoners in Texas

and smirked whenever he talked about them

[DFW]

46. Even mental midgets get excited over their playtoys. n/t

[kentuck]

11. Indeed he does...

He is a cruel, sadistic person.

[PatSeg]

13. Yes, I think he is just getting warmed up

He has blood-lust and that can become addictive. I'm quite sure he will get worse.

His fantasy world must be very disturbing.

[relayerbob]

14. If we ever see the real Kompromat files, we'll see

This isn’t a recent acquired taste by Trump.

[mvd]

15. Well said

All about holding political leverage over his perceived enemies. Evil. The food stamp one is a crisis for me. I get a lot because my mom and I don’t have much income. I never want to ask for money here again but might have to because of Dump.

[Hope22]

17. Makes me wonder what his name is on in the Epstein files

Pretty sure he participated or knows about the kids killed in it. It’s hard to be hopeful with this monster lurking!

[slightlv]

31. Because I believe he was partners with Epstein in the business,

and probably took over once Epstein "suicided", it makes me every more angry and wanting answers to what happened to all those children in his first term that were detained on "immigration" and then marched out undercover of darkness and put on planes to where? Were any of them ever found again? Did any of them ever make it back to their families? Why isn't anyone asking these types of questions from his damned first term... maybe if we'd made a huge stink then we might not be in the situation we are now.

[Hope22]

36. I'm right there with you.

Yanked from their parents arms without so much as a registry of their families. May Betsy could drag her boney butt in there and explain it to us! Tears for the children always!💗🙏🏼

[Justice matters.]

20. King pedo the felon is jealous of vlad and kim jung un

he thinks they're great at giving orders to kill their own people (and foreigners for putin).

And he scoffs when asked about it by the "press" like a sick sadist in B movies.

[Fil1957]

21. Not only is he "brave" enough to kill civilians in boats, he likes to brag about it too. He is a very

sick puppy.

[barbtries]

22. miller and hegseth.

i don't think krasnov is ordering this out of his own twisted brain. miller, along with vought, is the de facto president right now. evil, psychopathic fucks.

krasnov is by no means blameless. he's an evil psychopath too

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[slightlv]

32. I've just had to tell myself the entire Federal Government...

at least, the heads of the departments and other higher-ups are all psychopaths. We are a country governed and ruled by freaking psychopaths! Is it any wonder we're losing our minds?! Pavlovian conditioning, anyone?

[MineralMan]

23. I'm reminded of Arlo Guthrie, singing "Alice's Restaurant"

In front of the draft board's psychiatrist, Arlo goes for the crazy excuse by saying, "I want to kill! Kill! Kill!"

Didn't work, but Trump is trying it a different way, I guess.

[Emile]

24. He and the idiots who voted for him are sick sob's!

[Blue Full Moon]

25. Serial killer?

Too many accidents and suicide deaths surround him to be coincidence. CEOs profile as serial killers.

[bmichaelh]

26. COVID deaths

Some experts believe 40% of COVID deaths during Trump's first term could have been avoided.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy

But he will never take responsibility for it.

Not to mention that the COVID pandemic would have been much worse if he was successful in repealing the ACA three years before the COVID pandemic.

[duhneece]

27. It's never been more clear that he is a psychopath. Nt

[twodogsbarking]

28. I cannot understand people with such a disregard for life, human or other. Enjoying that others have died is sick,

'cept when Trump goes then we can all party.

[IronLionZion]

29. His supporters cheer it on social media

they don't need any evidence or criminal charges or identities of who is being killed. They just love the powerful feeling of killing.

[thought crime]

39. Feeds the Maga horde.

The killing assures his supporters that he is fighting for them. They're much more comfortable knowing he will kill for them.

[yellow dahlia]

40. When he talks of death or harm or injury, he does so with a sadistic undertone of glee.

Even when he is supposed to be objecting to the abstract of the harm to others, he lacks a genuine deference to their harm. He enjoys telling detailed gory stories.

[GoodRaisin]

44. Yep. He loves murder.