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Trump: "If I want to take down that power plant, that very big powerful power plant, they can't do a thing about it. It's like, 'take me.' That's all they can do."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-24T18:50:58.651Z
I particularly agreed with this reply on Bluesky:
How can anyone hear this and not get that this is exactly how a rapist speaks of women or a pedophile speaks of children, and not know exactly who he is.
leftstreet
(40,521 posts)dalton99a
(94,085 posts)ColoringFool
(670 posts)Amaryllis
(11,255 posts)dalton99a
(94,085 posts)malaise
(295,798 posts)Oh wait,
GiqueCee
(4,179 posts)... but, as bad as he is, it's the lower life forms that still support him that will really need watching once he's taken down, which can't happen soon enough, if America is to survive.
Initech
(108,677 posts)Eat shit, Donny.
usonian
(25,112 posts)It's exactly what he said he wanted.
It's not like he is jumping obstacles on his way to dictatorship.
Cronies are blasting holes in the obstacles for him.
He couldn't punch his way through a wet paper bag.
Without "a little help from his fiends"
Will his zombie army hold to their former sacred beliefs?



What changed?

Oh.
niyad
(132,215 posts)calimary
(89,931 posts)Americanme
(483 posts)niyad
(132,215 posts)Sadly, however, it is we who will pay the price of your rapist fantasies.
LymphocyteLover
(9,813 posts)0rganism
(25,627 posts)Just one banger after another from these jolly fellows.
BidenRocks
(3,231 posts)Now I can say I am fucking ashamed to be an American!
Owens
(597 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,856 posts)Besides the obvious reasons, but because it will give him free reign to enact restrictions on what's left of our freedom.
He'll just blame it on Biden for inviting terrorists into the country so they can vote and blow up shopping malls. Meanwhile, he'll be seen as a savior of the Great American Way.
Doubt it? Remember what GW did after 9/11?
NSA surveillance, Taking off shoes for TSA, and a new branch called Homeland Security. Trump will try to leverage an attack into absolute rule. Sometimes I wonder if that was the plan all along.
Passages
(4,093 posts)He's enjoying the carnage.
SunImp
(2,700 posts)You can skirt by the rules all you like, but eventually karma will hit your like a freight train.