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Definitely not a dictator(ule) (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 6 months ago (4 children)

In 50 years this quote will be in textbooks and students will wonder how people nowadays could not see the signs

[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well it'll either be in the chapter:

How Trump Saved America, The South Has Risen

Democracy Survived, How America Repelled a Fascist

[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or possibly: The Fall of the American Empire

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

The fall of the American republic...the fall of the empire comes a bit later

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Well, there's Hitler who did exactly the same: publish a book, try not one but several coups, still get named chancelier legally. In France we like them too: we have 2 Napoléon who did the same thing. It almost happened another time in 1958, but the man they put in power was reasonable for once.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

"I just wanted fiscal responsibility!1!" says man that wasted money on Trump merch.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

It might be, but he has so many quotes that you could say this about.