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Trump: "If I want to take down that power plant, that very big powerful power plant, they can't do a thing about it. It's like, 'take me.' That's all they can do."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-24T18:50:58.651Z
I particularly agreed with this reply on Bluesky:
How can anyone hear this and not get that this is exactly how a rapist speaks of women or a pedophile speaks of children, and not know exactly who he is.
leftstreet
(40,582 posts)ColoringFool
(688 posts)Amaryllis
(11,263 posts)dalton99a
(94,095 posts)malaise
(295,916 posts)Oh wait,
GiqueCee
(4,204 posts)... but, as bad as he is, it's the lower life forms that still support him that will really need watching once he's taken down, which can't happen soon enough, if America is to survive.
Initech
(108,711 posts)Eat shit, Donny.
usonian
(25,170 posts)It's exactly what he said he wanted.
It's not like he is jumping obstacles on his way to dictatorship.
Cronies are blasting holes in the obstacles for him.
He couldn't punch his way through a wet paper bag.
Without "a little help from his fiends"
Will his zombie army hold to their former sacred beliefs?



What changed?

Oh.
niyad
(132,282 posts)calimary
(89,959 posts)Americanme
(489 posts)niyad
(132,282 posts)Sadly, however, it is we who will pay the price of your rapist fantasies.
LymphocyteLover
(9,825 posts)0rganism
(25,635 posts)Just one banger after another from these jolly fellows.
BidenRocks
(3,242 posts)Now I can say I am fucking ashamed to be an American!
Owens
(597 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,863 posts)Besides the obvious reasons, but because it will give him free reign to enact restrictions on what's left of our freedom.
He'll just blame it on Biden for inviting terrorists into the country so they can vote and blow up shopping malls. Meanwhile, he'll be seen as a savior of the Great American Way.
Doubt it? Remember what GW did after 9/11?
NSA surveillance, Taking off shoes for TSA, and a new branch called Homeland Security. Trump will try to leverage an attack into absolute rule. Sometimes I wonder if that was the plan all along.
Passages
(4,140 posts)He's enjoying the carnage.
SunImp
(2,701 posts)You can skirt by the rules all you like, but eventually karma will hit your like a freight train.