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    well hitler was also briefly in jail and got out early before his second, successful coup attempt. so pls stay on your toes USA. be vigilant

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      I came to say this.

      Hitler went to jail for a failed coup attempt less than a decade before coming to power.

      Everything about this guy is Hitler.

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        Damn I am fucking ignorant as fuck on WWII I had no idea. I really don’t remember them teaching it in school to even this extent.

        And this is why they attack our schools and libraries and books. They want the voting public ignorant as possible so we are blind and easily manipulated. Those in power now (aka with wealth) won’t have their kids and grandkids impacted, and that’s about as far away from themselves they can care about.

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                  If you’re into physics or chemistry at all, The Making of the Atomic Bomb has a ton of WW1 and WW2 history in it and a surprising amount of info on Hitler. It’s really long but it’s on Audible as well.

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          Damn I am fucking ignorant as fuck on WWII I had no idea. I really don’t remember them teaching it in school to even this extent.

          Nobody can guess why Trump loves the poorly educated…

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        Everything about this guy is Hitler.

        Except he’s twenty years older than old Adolf was when he took the cyanide.

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          Very good point. Hitler also didn’t fake bone spurs to get out of military service.

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    My god, he is such a dipshit.

    And people are actually voting for him? We are living in the movie Idiocracy. I want out.

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      It’s entirely probable that both Canada and USA will be ruled by right-wing morons come the next set of elections. It’s a very scary time.

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        I wonder how long Trump would retain power if he gets back in.

        …when his term is served, will a General or an operative attempt to end his third term in office by killing him… And then will that individual retain any sort of power, or will they die soon after.

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          I updated my post to clarify what I meant, but did you not see who is going to win the next Canadian election?

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        Can Trump be a martyr too? Like any time soon?

        MLK’s words resonate because they meant something. Trump’s popularity will drop as soon as he isn’t around to stir the pot with his random word salad said in a way that gets people emotional.

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          He eats nothing but mcdonalds and well done steak. His diet is likely to make him a martyr sooner than we all think.

          Eat your veggies, kids.

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        A month ago, but apparently it was a gubernatorial endorsement, not himself:

        https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-compares-north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-martin-luther-king-rcna141523

        GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump likened North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to Martin Luther King Jr. in an endorsement Saturday, despite the gubernatorial candidate’s long history of controversial comments about homosexuality, religion and victims of sexual abuse.

        “This is Martin Luther King on steroids,” Trump said of Robinson at a pre-Super Tuesday rally in North Carolina.

        “I told that to Mark. I said, I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two,” he continued as he offered Robinson his endorsement in the Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.

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          Sorry, he has said so many moronic things it is hard for me to keep track of the specifics anymore 🙃

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    To really be like Mandela, he needs to be brutalized by South African cops, right? I’ll donate real money to bring over 4-6 South African police to beat the fuck out of DJT for a good half hour in the name of authenticity.

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    Three weeks later…the former president is in his third consecutive chicken mcnugget diet protest. We have secrete tape showing followers sneaking in packets of sweet & sour as well as a variety of other things such at ketchup and jalapenos sauce.

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    Two days without his orange makeup and combover kit and he’d probably lose it.

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    Oh man I hope so much that he gets he gets this “great honor”, going to jail I mean, and also that he gets what he’s wishing for, a black African skin like Mandela, so he’d finally understand what it means to be Black in the US, and especially in a jail.

    Man I’d bring him oranges just to stare silently at him for a hour while he squirms like the worm he really is.

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    This sounds like Reflexive Control. They’re testing the waters to set the groundwork for him being locked up. He wants it to not shock his supporters back into sanity.

    In other words, he thinks he might actually end up in prison.

    …finally