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US, Once Tacitly Pro-Dictator, Now Explicitly Pro-Dictator

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by wgbgator, Aug 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM.

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  1. Aug 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM #1
    wgbgator

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    If you are our guy, you can do whatever you want, we wont even put you on some kind of list and say "not cool dude" (but please keep those markets open and commies dead). Now its an affirmative thumbs up.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/world/el-salvador-eliminating-presidential-term-limits-intl-latam

     
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  2. Aug 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM #2
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  3. Aug 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM #3
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    Trump envies the ability of Putin and the likely ability of Bukele to end the limitation on presidential terms in their countries. He certainly wishes the he could he do the same in the US.
     
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  4. Aug 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM #4
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    Meanwhile, Mamdamy the commie wants to take education/school choice, that 150,000 New York kids enjoy, away from them. Yay, Leftists' communism. But Trump is the dictator? Lol... yeah, sure.
     
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  5. Aug 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM #5
    wgbgator

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    Thanks for reading the article
     
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  6. Aug 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM #6
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    Lets not forget that Desantis took away the right for parents to decide what books kids can read in school and what topics they can learn such as climate change because of a few snowflakes
     
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  7. Aug 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM #7
    Gatorrick22

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    He deserves to be "dictator" of that crap-hole. He's the only one that can keep the killers in prisons. I would call him Sovereign For Life... NOT a dictator.

    Now... back to our real dictator wannabes. Mamdamy the commie.
     
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  8. Aug 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM #8
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    Thanks for illustrating US foreign policy 1945-present so succinctly, dictators are ok unless they are commies
     
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  9. Aug 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM #9
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    Don't you mean Dump Trump....
     
  10. Aug 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM #10
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    The way you guys manage to deflect, spin and justify everything but THEE THING currently occupying the White House is incredible.

    At this point I really just come on Too Hot to gauge what degree of pretzel the MAGA folks are currently set at.
     
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  11. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM #11
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    Just wow. He even realizes that all he is doing is reclassifying dictators in his mind to make them more palatable to himself. And he just keeps on doing it. The ground work has worked.

    I guess giving the country's government over to MS-13 is one way to stop MS-13 from fighting the government...
     
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  12. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM #12
    wgbgator

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    'Sovereign for Life' sounds a lot worse TBH haha - that's a king! I would have gone with "Permanent Temporary Emergency Powers Super Citizen" but thats a little clunky. Need to workshop it a little.
     
  13. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM #13
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    He's jailing criminals... winning.
     
  14. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM #14
    wgbgator

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    None of them have been charged with anything to my knowledge or given sentences, they are just warehousing men with tattoos 18-40 the government has deemed terrorists. People they cant send to ordinary prison because they didnt actually commit a crime to send them to prison for. Authoritarians like you love that sort of thing. Laws, rights, democracy ... all obstacles to people who are scared of their own shadow and the idea of freedom.
     
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  15. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM #15
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    Tell us some examples of what you're talking about. That president of El Salvador has to manage the most violent gang in this hemisphere. If he can be president for life I would call him Sovereign of El Salvador.
     
  16. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM #16
    wgbgator

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    The US government? So what's new for any Latin American government? He seems to be managing them in the vein of Duvalier or Pinochet.
     
  17. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM #17
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    "Manage" is a heck of a euphemism for "taking money from the leadership to allow them to operate with impunity in the country."
     
  18. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM #18
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    He's locking them up... unlike some of the other clown leaders in Central America.
     
  19. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM #19
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    He's locking up the US government? Seems like he's giving them photo ops in his concentration camp.
     
  20. Aug 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM #20
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    Lol... mistaking a clean prison for a concentration camp is just dishonest.
     
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