Originally published at: King Trump plans to jail lawyers, donors, and other opponents at "levels never seen before" - Boing Boing
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WaPo and LATimes:
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Once again:
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WaPo statement actually says it believes in “character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects” - and yet it won’t condemn Trump.
Guess Bezos needs another mega yacht paid from government funds.
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Gessen’s Rule No. 1 – “Believe the autocrat.” He means what he says.
A bit counter-intuitive when talking about a serial liar, but true of statements like this.
Also, don’t think that the donors he’s discussing will be limited to big-money ones. His thugs will be targetting the ones who gave $20 for harassment as well.
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The really hurtful part is that not only are we about to watch the US become a dictatorship, but that we’re about to get the stupidest dictatorship, run by the stupidest dictator.
It’s like watching an avoidable train wreck, except that every car on the train looks like the fur-covered van from “Dumb and Dumber”, and they’re all filled with clowns wearing Hitler Youth uniforms.
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NYTimes:
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He even capitalizes like a German Dictator. What’s with every Noun getting its own capital Letter?
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Lawyers, donors, political opponents, journalists, immigrants, people descended from non-white immigrants. I’m sure LGBTQ people, handicapped people, Jews. But so far no mention of billionaires, not the good ones who hand him bribes. So the late stage capitalists imagine him as a “good dictator” like Pinochet, the kind business can work with, and vomit their obscene money on the scales accordingly. 
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Lord Dampnut does not tolerate dissension, & we can expect no mercy from the flabby flatulent fuckwit. Or his scheming sphincter osculator of a veep.
If worse comes to worst…:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough.
And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago
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I don’t think they get the memo. He may showers them with favors for their money at the beginning but what would prevent him from just seizing their assets on some bogus charge and show them the windows. They should look at what happened with Russia’s oligarchies. Defenestration will enter public’s consciousness soon enough.
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I am not sure how many billionaires look ahead beyond a quarter. I am certain most have no comprehension how much their position is an artifact of the rule of law…and honestly, recent events have led me to believe a significant number may simply have no comprehension of reality in general.
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How is it legal to be a candidate while promising to destroy the country? Asking for a friend.
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It’s is not over yet. The election has not happened yet, and it’s not clear that he’ll win. A lot of this are desperate right wingers throwing everything they have at this election to ensure they get the out come they want. We don’t have to fucking let them.
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He isn’t promising to destroy the whole country, just the parts of the country that aren’t quite white.
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When I read that C&D blather, I thought “Bullshit. He didn’t write this himself. Someone else wrote that for him.”
Punctuation? Coherent sentences? Words like “Skullduggery” and beginning a sentence with “Therefore”? Not enough use of “and”?
The clincher for me was use of the word “Please.”
However, I believe the evil intent behind, and clearly within, those words.
I hope America doesn’t choose to elect him as President.
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It reminds me more of eighteenth century English.
Mr TRUMP wishes to be Remembered as the Greatest President of these United States. He therefore strives to surpass all his Predecessors in Feats of Capitalization.
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I doubt he could even pronounce Skullduggery off a teleprompter.
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I hope there are creators making deepfakes of Trump admitting defeat and calling for support for Harris to flood media after the elections.
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My point is that the election isn’t over, and he has not won, and it’s up to us to ensure he doesn’t win. This defeatist shit I replied to isn’t helpful.
And no, we don’t need deepfake shit, even if it’s in support of Harris.
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