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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Facing criticism over his hardline actions in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump pushed back, saying, "A lot of people are saying, 'Maybe we like a dictator.'"

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Donald Trump has been ruling like an authoritarian since retaking office. Today, he appeared to tease the notion of the United States becoming a full-fledged dictatorship while signing executive orders in the Oval Office. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol ...

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-- Rolling Stone (@rollingstone.com) Aug 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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"A lot of people are saying, 'Maybe we like a dictator.'"

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 05:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

More from the article ...

... President Trump was speaking to reporters as he signed new executive orders related to crime Monday morning, before taking questions from reporters.

Despite the backlash to his crackdown in D.C., Trump insisted his approach is popular. He compared it to debates over transgender athletes, another divisive issue he harnessed during last year's election.

"This is another 'men in women's sports' things," he said.

"I think the Democrats better get smart," Trump said. "Politically, I hope they don't, but actually, in terms of love for the country, I hope they do, because it would be good to work together."

Vice President JD Vance slammed Democratic governors who've criticized the Trump administration for using National Guard troops to fight crime in big cities, saying, "We want people to welcome us, to ask us" for sending in the military. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-25 05:30 PM | Reply

"We want people to welcome us, to ask us for sending in the military."

^
I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 05:32 PM | Reply

The Pres of S Korea trolled Trump in person in the WH today... he said he looked forward to seeing the Trump Hotel in N. Korea and Trump playing golf with Kim.

Or maybe it was just prescient.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-25 05:35 PM | Reply

Trump will make the trains run om time!

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-25 05:57 PM | Reply

The beta cucks on the right love their dictator because he hates on the same people they hate on.

That is all that is important to them.

Go ask Iowa and Nebraska how their dictator is helping them.

www.rawstory.com

Farmers 'running out of cash' under crisis' brought on by Trump

American farmers are struggling under a "crisis" brought on by President Donald Trump's trade war, wrote Bloomberg reporters Steven Church and Ilena Peng on Wednesday, one that has left a number of small farmers on the brink of bankruptcy.

"Now we are seeing farmers run out of liquid cash after trying to just make it to next year' several years in a row," said Ryan Loy, assistant professor at the University of Arkansas and agricultural economist, speaking with Bloomberg.

According to data analyzed by Bloomberg, 173 small farms have filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a more than 63% increase when compared to small farm bankruptcies in 2024, and the highest number since 2020.

Good job stinky.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-26 09:08 AM | Reply

@#6 ... The beta cucks on the right love their dictator because he hates on the same people they hate on.

That is all that is important to them. ...

That looks to be a big part if it.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 12:10 PM | Reply

Dictators should be shot.

Any argument?

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-26 04:38 PM | Reply

Sure are a lot of Republicans weighing in on:

"A lot of people are saying, 'Maybe we like a dictator.'"

Gonna hit the 500 post limit any second now!

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-26 04:44 PM | Reply

This is Trump preparing his base for the possibility that he could attempt to eliminate the 2028 Presidential election.
Republicans need to push back and push back hard. Silence is compliance.

#10 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-08-26 04:59 PM | Reply

John Kelly comes out swinging against Trump, says he fits 'fascist' definition (October 2024)
abcnews.go.com

... "And I think this issue of using the military on -- to go after -- American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing -- even to say it for political purposes to get elected -- I think it's a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it," Kelly said.

The former general held nothing back, arguing that Trump could fit the bill of a "fascist."

"Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It's a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy," he told The Times. ...

[emphasis mine]

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 05:45 PM | Reply

OpEd: America Tips Into Fascism
www.doomsdayscenario.co

... The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world's leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it's clear that the line itself has been crossed.

I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from "democracy" to "authoritarianism."

Instead, this is exactly how it happens -- a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged.

Then you wake up one morning and our country is different. ...


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 05:48 PM | Reply

It is true. Some people do like dictators. Especially among the ignorant, the uneducated AND the super-wealthy. Believe me, I saw this phenomena play out again and again when I lived in South America for five years. Some people do like the authoritarian hand of dictators. Not people any reasonable person would want to be like. But real people nonetheless.

#13 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-08-26 05:49 PM | Reply

Trump's plan to create Guard units to quell civil unrest alarms experts
abcnews.go.com

... One retired Guard vice chief calls the president's move 'extremely disturbing.'

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the Pentagon to create National Guard units in Washington, D.C., and across the country that would be designated to tamp down civil protests and ensure public safety -- a job that historically and legally has belonged to civilian law enforcement.

Critics called Trump's desire to build a kind of rapid "reaction force" for civil unrest alarming, insisting his order pushes legal boundaries for the National Guard, an auxiliary force whose mission is to help fight foreign enemies abroad or aid Americans in times of extraordinary crisis like hurricanes and floods.

In an executive order signed Monday, Trump called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to designate Army and Air National Guard members in each state who could rapidly deploy to help federal, state and local law enforcement "in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under the law." ...


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 06:10 PM | Reply

@#14

When will Pres Trump declare Martial Law and rule that elections cannot be held?

That seems to be the path he is going along ....



#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 06:12 PM | Reply

" Trump's plan to create Guard units"

History had a different G-word for a dictator's personal enforcement unit.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-26 06:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

History had a different G-word for a dictator's personal enforcement unit.

Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-26 06:15 PM | Reply

Gazpacho??

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-26 06:39 PM | Reply

@#16 ... History had a different G-word for a dictator's personal enforcement unit....

Gestapo?
en.wikipedia.org

... The Geheime Staatspolizei (['ham' tatspolitsa] ", lit.''Secret State Police''), abbreviated Gestapo (['stapo] "),[3] was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

The force was created by Hermann Gring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead of being exclusively a Prussian state agency, the Gestapo became a national one as a sub-office of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo; Security Police). From 27 September 1939, it was administered by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). It became known as Amt (Dept) 4 of the RSHA and was considered a sister organisation to the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service).

The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents ...



#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:42 AM | Reply

@#18

OK, now do ICE ...

@#3 ... Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers ...

www.axios.com

... The images of masked, heavily armed immigration agents snatching people off the streets and taking them away in unmarked cars have shocked many Americans -- and led to a simple question: Is all of this legal?

- - - It is -- at least for now.

Why it matters: Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created after the 9/11 attacks, its agents have operated with vastly more enforcement power, less transparency and fewer guardrails than local police.

- - - ICE's rules were designed largely to give the agency broad leeway in helping the FBI identify and arrest domestic terror suspects.

- - - Now the Trump administration is using that power to go after unauthorized immigrants potentially millions of them with a frequency and aggressiveness that has sent ripples through communities nationwide.

Zoom in: Under Trump, critics say, ICE has become the closest thing the U.S. has to a secret police force.

- - - ICE agents aren't required to wear body cameras, can cover their faces, don't have to provide badge numbers or identify themselves, can arrive in unmarked cars and don't need a warrant from a judge to detain someone.

- - - Like those with other federal enforcement agencies, they can ignore rules that govern local police departments, particularly those local agencies with histories of abuse or that operate under court-imposed restrictions on racial profiling.

- - - In some cases, ICE agents can even arrest U.S. citizens but they aren't supposed to place them in immigration detention units. Even so, a few U.S. citizens have been detained in recent ICE raids because of agents' mistakes or negligence. ...


#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:46 AM | Reply

Right wingers like dictators when it's their guy

#20 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-27 04:57 AM | Reply

Wow. Now this is indicative of liberals listening and reading comprehension and logic being so terrible that it hurts our country. He is saying that liberals are saying that Reps like a dictator and that's why so many are supporting him.

If you can't understand that, please do a Billy Madison and go back through all of your grade school years again. Which is surprising since so many DR libs are either still in grade school or just graduated (based on the comments I read on here).

I'm actually shocked at how much propaganda you liberal kids are willing to accept as long as it matches your narrative. I didn't think I could be shocked anymore on this forum but damn, good job! For any liberal on here who knowingly supports this kind of article, all of the absurd, stupid propaganda you see coming from Reps is the exact same thing you are seeing here.

#21 | Posted by humtake at 2025-08-27 12:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Trump is already a dictator, HUMTAKE. He's still a weak one but hoping to change that.

You do your part to make that weak bastard stronger.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-27 12:32 PM | Reply

"I have the right to do anything I want"
-- Pres Trump, Aug. 26, 2025


#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-27 12:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

21: Gumby would be flabbergasted over your ability to bend that tripe into a positive.

#24 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2025-08-27 01:43 PM | Reply

Humtake, we don't have time for your "both sides" crap. America has never experienced anything even close to what Trump is doing. He's clearly fascist, disregarding all laws and norms of behavior for an American president. And for two days in a row, he used the word "dictator" in reference to himself.

It's obvious he's testing reaction to that word. To pretend otherwise is moronic.

#25 | Posted by cbob at 2025-08-27 11:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Wow. Now this is indicative of liberals listening and reading comprehension and logic being so terrible that it hurts our country"

Bla bla bla OK Pedo.

Where are the Epstein files?

No one cares about your random r*tarded musings. Just admit you want to kill us all, take our underage daughters, and be done with it.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#26 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-08-28 12:12 AM | Reply

Trump Says 'Maybe' People Like Dictators

Over criminals... hell yeah who wouldn't.

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-28 12:23 AM | Reply

"Trump Says 'Maybe' People Like Dictators
Over criminals... hell yeah who wouldn't."

False dichotomy fake Chinese Russian Pedo.

#28 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-08-28 12:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump is a dictator and a criminal many times over. That's why pieces of $#!+ like OneIdiot love him

#29 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-28 04:54 AM | Reply

Silence is compliance.

#10 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

We could have stopped him peacefully at any time.

Silence is violence Kyle.

x.com

#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-28 11:36 AM | Reply

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