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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
(40,503 posts)dalton99a
(94,071 posts)ColoringFool
(664 posts)Amaryllis
(11,255 posts)dalton99a
(94,071 posts)malaise
(295,779 posts)Oh wait,
GiqueCee
(4,177 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
(108,674 posts)Eat shit, Donny.
usonian
(25,102 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
(132,205 posts)calimary
(89,921 posts)Americanme
(481 posts)niyad
(132,205 posts)Sadly, however, it is we who will pay the price of your rapist fantasies.
LymphocyteLover
(9,812 posts)0rganism
(25,624 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
(20,855 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
(4,091 posts)He's enjoying the carnage.
SunImp
(2,699 posts)You can skirt by the rules all you like, but eventually karma will hit your like a freight train.