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.
I think he should have advised people to read Machiavelli’s The Prince.
If he would know what that is.
Makes sense since he is so absorbed in his own shit.
Sometimes you need a massive stroke
-the world says
“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.
Iceland is probably the next country to get taken over due to it’s stategically important position for the control of the arctic sea.
NRA, remember about rising against dictators?
I don’t think the NRA cares of Dems or repubs buy their guns, hell if we all start to shoot each other well all buy more guns and bullets!
They can sell the guns, just asking to sell them to depose a dictator, not to support him.
Unfortunately, arms sellers have no ideology or morals.
Wasn’t the NRA Russia funded or something?
The masks are already off. The bastard sees he’s in a position bigger than WWE.
I heard that the sheer volume of shitty ideas that come out of his mouth means he never even has to poop.
Sometimes you need a leader with a uncoked asshole.
I see no reason you’d ever want a dictator, but I admit that sometimes, I wish I could unilaterally amend the US Constitution. I’d be able to fix campaign finance, voting methods, gerrymandering, looting the government by the rich, and a whole bunch of other crap all at once.
Dictators are more efficient and agile than democratic governments. That’s why the Romans originally had them. In the early Roman republic dictators were appointed to fix a specific problem and given significant power to do specifically and only that. So for example you could have a “fix gerrymandering dictator” that would be able to sidestep normal processes to fix gerrymandering, and then disappear.
The mythos of Cincinnatus, the idea of a temporary dictator who acts benevolently and then gladly cedes power, has a strong presence in the founding of the US. Washington was regarded as one (his contemporaries were quite surprised when he willingly stepped down, it was felt that after his success in the war of independence he could have easily claimed power). That civic virtue is eminent enough to be the namesake of one of their cities. Pity it’s in Ohio, of all places. I probably can’t blame Ohio for the decline in American civic virtue, but I wish I could.
Also James K Polk, Republican of the stump – promised to be a 1 term pres and stuck to it.
I think you might be onto something blaming ohio actually.
It’s a land that God forgot, and it belongs on no map.
You know what? He’s right. We needed a dictator who wouldn’t care about political appearances and would have thrown his demented ass into prison like he fucking deserves.
Instead we got Malarkey Joe and the coward of the century Merrick Garland as AG. :/
The problem with leadership is that the ones who most deserve it never seek it, and the ones who most seek it never deserve it
Coward of the century
All I could think about while watching Carney’s speech, aside from how much I’d forgotten what a real leader sounded like, was what kind of bullshit word salad the orange asshole would belch out of his McDonalds hole.
It was a joke and the cover up even worse!
To water the tree of liberty with?
I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (So help me God)."
I would like to conduct a poll of the US military to determine exactly how many believe anything Trump has done has ever been constitutional, and at what point they feel they would need to defend the Constitution from him, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like the answer.
Would he say that if Kamala won?
