After weeks of authoritarian threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can’t prove their citizenship, Trump on Wednesday told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that “sometimes you need a dictator.”
The offhanded comment came in the middle of a rambling speech at the reception dinner for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, in which Trump congratulated himself on a different rambling speech he’d given earlier that day at the summit.
“We had a good speech, we got great reviews. I can’t believe it, we got good reviews on that speech,” Trump said of the widely mocked address in which he continued to demand the US take over Greenland (which he repeatedly referred to as “Iceland”) and made new tariff threats against Canada and Europe if they resist the annexation.
A Democrat president would be killed for saying this shit
Edit: just saw this. So fucking embarrassing…
he continued to demand the US take over Greenland (which he repeatedly referred to as “Iceland”)
Can’t even get the name right of the country he’s been convinced he needs to invade
Sometimes a country needs a political assassination.
He had two attempts and both were fools. Seriously, the first guy got too damn close and… used iron sights and cheap target ammo? Also his motive was random violence. He wanted to go on a rampage and start by killing the closest political figure He could find… who just so happened to be Trump who was having a rally nearby. No fucking joke, that was the reason.
Why are assassins often the most unstable nutcase who win through sheer luck instead of actual planning?
*This is my attempt at writing a small short story depicting only a moment or two in real time. The author I am emulating is James Thurber. He was a master of the short story/essay. He had very dry sense of wit and was funny as fuck. I do a hope he would approve of my theft of inspiration. Here is my attempt at a modern version of his style.
January in Dayton is not preferable for very many people. The reasons are varied yet common. It truly sucks. Occasionally a wandering soul seeks more like minded individuals that aren’t part of the fundamentalist evangelical type community that dominate local cultural scope . This crowd is often difficult to intentionally avoid. Something something (mumbling sounds) *Checks notes, lowers reader glasses slamming down a stack of documents that provided the incentive. The patron was relaxed but owned a dash of anxiety while holding court at the local dive bar. That was until a small pour of Pappy Van Winkle with a single cube was thrown back & then gleefully announced that “Third time is a charm. Provided the good lord willin’ & the creek don’t rise. Can I get an Amen?” Someone nearby asked the bartender to change the channel to see if the game was on. Not half a second later there was some breaking news flashing across the screen The patron looked up at the television & smiled. “No fucking way, third time really is a charm”.
Man that shit was fake anyway. I remember the day it happened my “moderate republican” buddy said. “He’s going to win the election now for sure”
That assassination attempt was just a planned part of the campaign rally.
That’s exactly how I felt that too.
I thought it was common knowledge at this point that he faked his own assassination and then swept that shit under the rug so quickly that no evidence would be found
Oh, I wouldn’t know, I’m not from the US. I certainly wouldn’t put it past him.
“It’s just crazy enough to work!”
Sadly, it did.
First, you’re assuming that most successful assassins are the unstable nutcases. It could just be that it’s more memorable when the motivation is “make jodi foster love me” than “stop an expansionist imperialist who’s destroying the lives of the common man”.
You’re also more likely to be a lone assassin if you don’t conform to social norms because social norms say not to kill people.
The most prolific assassins are just common soldiers whose names we don’t even record.
Because someone who isn’t a nutcase likely doesn’t wanna spend the rest of their life in prison???
Why have an election if you’re going to lose it?
The only fair election are ones he wins.
Sometimes you need a dictator.
Yeah, for target practice.
Target practice? No, my friend, that is the target.
Who shot Mr Burns?
I confess, it was me. Seriously it was.
Trump will totally try to ignore the midterm elections.
Can you imagine how different the world would have been if trump didn’t move his head a ¼ of a second earlier
And sometimes you always don’t.
sometimes you need to aim an inch more to the right.
Can we go back in time and trade Charlie Kuck’s shooter for the noob that missed Trump?
Sometimes you need to buy a cheap optic.
We actually don’t need a dictator in the United states. Seriously!
Some of us said this would happen. You called us “gloom-and-doomers.”
I’m particularly fond of the “alarmist” accusations, implying we shouldn’t be wholly and completely alarmed.
At this point, you should be wholly and completely armed.
…I mean, normal people would just use a targeting circle or a bulls-eye or something, but sure, a dictator works just as well in that case
Perhaps America needs a Purge.
That seems to be happening and the democrats voted to give trump’s domestic terrorist group more money today
A dictator can try to bury his Epstein crimes.
Sometimes you need a guy on a grassy knoll.
So this is when the revolt happens right? Surely this is the last straw, right America?
Or is he just joking again? Because words don’t matter and he tweets his policy notes.
I’ll sit and wait for the spineless Americans to rise up against tyranny, 2a and all the other self-aggrandizing bullshit you bootlickers spew.
The 2A Americans were only interested in rising up if it was a democrat who wanted to give them free Healthcare and school lunches. Not people would hire them as death camp guards.
Nailed it.
