Just make it so normal that people accept it.

And for others they can say “he’s joking, like he was always joking”

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    Pretty much.

    Anyone with half a brain cell knows that he is a pathological liar. And even worse than being a pathological liar, he’s a pathological “truth bender”. At no point is he lying, and at no point is he ever telling the truth. This gives him a method to worm his way out of any verbal snafu he found himself in. He learned it by emulating his sociopathic father, and he taught his children the same trick.

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      Are you sure trump isn’t also a sociopath? He doesn’t care if his actions kill people, or hurt others, really unless it hurts him personally, he doesn’t give a shit about anything else.

      That sounds like textbook sociopath to me.

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      The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.

      In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements, but the truth within ourselves. To bend another’s truth, your own spirit must be unbendable, or you will be corrupted and destroyed.

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    He doesn’t need to normalize it. Anyone demented enough to still support him wants him to be a dictator. The only difference is whether they can admit that to themselves or not.

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      Seriously. He’ll absolutely use this as an excuse to boot. He’ll continue doing dictator things because his shitheel people will react so positively…

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    Any citizen of the US that votes for this bozo should forfeit their citizenship.

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    Well no, you misunderstood.

    He’s only a dictator on day one.

    On day two and thereafter, he’s the Supreme Leader.

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    I feel like saying you’ll only be a dictator on day one is just saying that a dictator doesn’t abdicate power, and a dictator on day one is always a dictator until death.

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    Did he actually say that shit? Please tell me he said that shit… He’s hosed next year if he said that.

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      Basically he’s been publicly accused of being a fascist (he is) and a wannabe dictator (he is) so many times in the media, that it’s starting to lose all meaning. He knows that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the new truth, so he’s just word salading his way through to next November. None of his supporters care, and nobody who has been anti-Trump is surprised.

      Sean Hannity: “You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?”

      Donald Trump: " No, no no, other than day 1."

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      He’s hosed next year if he said that

      I honestly wish it was as hands down as that. What he said appeals to exactly the kind of people it was directed at…and there are so SO many of those people out there. Majority? I don’t know; and that in itself is a problem…it should be absolutely obvious that a significant majority of people aren’t aligned with him. But its not.

      I’ll betcha this ends up working to his advantage somehow.

      fucking depressed myself with my own comment. I’m going to go take an Ace Ventura style shower

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      He’s hosed next year if he said that

      I mean no offense but, how old are you? I’m trying to figure out how one could still have that much faith in the US voting population.

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      Did he actually say that shit?

      Search your feelings, you know it to be true!

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      Yes, and the strategy is basically: the courts/activists/army didn’t let me do what I needed to do, so I’ll have to extend my dictatorship until it’s sorted. Then it never gets sorted.

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    It’s only a coup for one day while we establish the dictatorship. After that it will just be the new normal

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    I bet Putin joked that he would throw an opponent out the window once. I think it went well… for him

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    Biden doesn’t need to say it, because he’s already a puppet dictator. #CTIL-Files