Just make it so normal that people won’t care as much.
And for others they can say “he’s joking, like he was always joking”
One day is all it takes for a dictator to destroy a democracy...
Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it.
Submitted 11 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Bonehead@kbin.social 11 months ago
squaresinger@feddit.de 11 months ago
In that case, let’s hope he’s an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he’s gone people all agree that this wasn’t a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s definitely a nice thought, but you’d have better odds of winning the lottery.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When has the death of a dictator by old age ever defaulted back to democracy? There’s a lot of people helping him, I’m sure more than a handful are eager to step into his shoes.
Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
According to ordinary things it takes hours.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 11 months ago
He doesn’t need to normalize it. Anyone’s demented enough to still support him_wants_ him to be a dictator. The only difference is whether they can admit that to themselves of not.
lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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…
Rusticus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Any citizen of the US that votes for this bozo should forfeit their citizenship.
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 11 months ago
they already forfeited their brain and morals, what’s a peice of paper to them
foggy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Endorkend@kbin.social 11 months ago
Not always, but whenever we did the "lets put the dictator on a remote island" or similar thing, they came back, with a vengeance.
chaogomu@kbin.social 11 months ago
It depends on the island. Napoleon died on a remote island. It took a few tries though.
kromem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well no, you misunderstood.
He’s only a dictator on day one.
On day two and thereafter, he’s the Supreme Leader.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From day two onwards he’s just a dicktator.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And now you’ve gone and reminded me that we’ve got on good authority that he’s got a dick like a tater tot.
aelwero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did he actually say that shit? Please tell me he said that shit… He’s hosed next year if he said that.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He did, and his poll numbers didn’t drop.
aelwero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Polls are crap anyway… Lol
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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."
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like a real life Futurama Nixon?
forty2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
aelwero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol, elections don’t get decided by straight ticket states, they get decided by a handful of states (with occasional exceptions) that sit on the fence, and shit like calling yourself a dictator is exactly the sort of nudge that’ll put em off.
Trump might be appealing to the states that would have voted for him anyway, but there’s no actual gains there to be had… Ya know?
capital@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
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.
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Did he actually say that shit?
Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 11 months ago
everyone jokes that Idiocracy is coming to life, fuck that, you guys got the Purge to deal with
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s only a coup for one day while we establish the dictatorship. After that it will just be the new normal
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 months ago
“No no it’s just the tip.”
Aatube@kbin.social 11 months ago
not a typical showerthought but sure
ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Remember the Rittenhouse defense when push comes to shove.
JayK117@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I bet Putin joked that he would throw an opponent out the window once. I think it went well… for him
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah dude… Same playbook for 8 years now?
rebul@kbin.social 11 months ago
Trump shouldn't say things like this. Useful idiots on the spectrum can't discern when he is joking. Everyone else should watch the video and see if they honestly think he was being serious. If you do, then you probably also agree with Joe Scarborough on MSNBC that Trump will execute his opponents if elected. TDS is real.
owlinsight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have watched the video and if you think he wasn’t being honest, you probably are one of those people you mentioned that fall on the spectrum.
He might’ve has the tone of a joke, but he’s been saying for a while now how he plans to “get back at those who wronged him”. Hell, he even said that the GOP is impeaching Biden only because “they did it to him first”.
I am shocked people like you think he’s not being serious: he’s literally telling you.
katMann390@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What is the definition of derangement?
ByteWizard@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Biden doesn’t need to say it, because he’s already a puppet dictator. #CTIL-Files
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
We could spend all day talking about Trump being a sociopath. I’ve only got so much time on this Earth.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s definitely a narcissist, but I’m betting he also has an unattachment disorder (which is pretty common in serial killers)
jasondj@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
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."