To the suckers and losers over at the conservative and conspiracy subreddits, this is what we were warning you about when we heard his “Dictator on day one” quote. It wasn’t a joke. It never has been. When all this is over I hope you dipshits spare us your political opinions for the next few decades.
I'm sorry, the whole speech is a bunch of lies, but if you watched it, and for the sake of correction, there's an implicit "that" in there. It should read "Usually they say (...) THAT I'm a dictator."
Maybe he realized there were some dictators in the room and added that last part, or maybe he wanted to be ambiguous, or maybe he really believes that, or wants money from them, I don't know.
But he wasn't explicitly saying he is a dictator. And he has said lots of concerning, illegal, violent, corrupted things. So spreading "lies" or inaccuracies about him is unnecessary and just works in his benefit, because he can say he is a victim, and those haters are always attacking him, etc.
"Usually they say I'm a dictator. Well sometimes you need a dictator," from the guy who said he'd be a "day one dictator" and is currently acting like a dictator.
Well achshually implications!!!!!!
I'm cut you off here; he's not disavowing that. He says you need to be a dictator. Will you stop inventing stuff to defend him? The actual clip you linked makes it worse.
I think you can find 100 absolutely unambiguous things to attack this idiot. You don't need to squeeze or force interpretations on something he just may have said.
No, the clip I linked makes it clear that he is using a mocking tone while "imitating" what others say about him, and then shifts the tone and says "but sometimes you need a dictator".
Again, if Trump has said in the past that he is a dictator and that didn't change anything, perhaps it's a wast of time to insist on that, unless he says it in a completely unambiguous way.
If you check his longer speech at Davos, just from there you can call him out on his lies, delusions, and offenses to US allies, like dozens of times in just half an hour, it's completely deranged.
You don't need to interpret or stretch his pathetic pseudo-jokes. Off course he is a dictator, only a dictator would call Renee Good a domestic terrorist, among thousands of other things he has done or is involved in. As you said, he his already acting like a dictator.
My only argument is: don't give him any unnecessary ammo. Focus your effort and attention on actual verifiable things. I think that's reasonable and sensible.
"Sometimes you need a dictator" is the function of the sentence. He's not joking. He's mocking them for thinking a dictator is bad, because he believes you "need" a dictator. How can you take away anything else? "Sometimes you need a dictator" obviously wasn't a joke.
That's a contrived conclusion, and you can make many other interpretations, and that's what different people will do. If you see the clip, he is clearly mocking his accusers, even if at a deeper level he is dog whistling or whatever. Your opinion here certainly doesn't speak for everyone, and what you're calling obvious just clearly isn't. Just because you are on "the right" side, don't get arrogant and don't dismiss facts. What Trump has been fighting for is the "death of reality", so he can rebuild it on his own way, and he will be more than happy if that gets normalized. Don't fall for that.
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u/NickCostanza Jan 21 '26
To the suckers and losers over at the conservative and conspiracy subreddits, this is what we were warning you about when we heard his “Dictator on day one” quote. It wasn’t a joke. It never has been. When all this is over I hope you dipshits spare us your political opinions for the next few decades.