trump praises Putin and Xi at Pennsylvania rally

[Auld Phart]

That was Trump's way of saying Thank You. I'm happy you got the documents I promised but I'm sorry I didn't include the original folders.

Got proof?

 

[tyroneweaver]

Trump compliments 'fierce' and 'smart' Putin and applauds Xi Jinping for ruling China with an 'iron fist'

Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

www.businessinsider.com

This is the Leader of the repub party praising two Dictators. We know who he is.

then why is your boy biden making them rich again.
the ruble is more valuable than ever
and the bidens have gotten filthy rich off the chinese.
the chinese and russians were afraid of trump

 

[EvilCat Breath]

[Partnering? Get your facts straight.]

The flow of fentanyl into the United States in 2019 is more diverse compared to the start of the fentanyl crisis in 2014, with new source countries and new transit countries emerging as significant trafficking nodes. This is exacerbating the already multi-faceted fentanyl crisis by introducing additional source countries into the global supply chain of fentanyl, fentanyl-related substances, and fentanyl precursors. Further, this complicates law enforcement operations and policy efforts to stem the flow of fentanyl into the United States. While Mexico and China are the primary source countries for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked directly into the United States, India is emerging as a source for finished fentanyl powder and fentanyl precursor chemicals.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

Enemy democrats keep the border open and attack the border patrol for doing its job. It's part of the democrat plan to kill off Americans whom they believe are enemies of democrat one party rule and they are right.

 

[Moonglow]

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I see no tattoo or farm brand to make that a Bod assssssssss.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Trump has always been a Dictator wannabe.
Nothing has changed from his candidacy to today.

and of course you have some sorta imperial evidence of this

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Got proof?

They don't need proof. They make it up as they go along and swear to one another's stories. In this case, it's part of the cover up to hide Hunter Biden's influence peddling racket.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Can you point to all the dictatorial thing he did while President? I don’t particularly like Trump but the “he’s a dictator” narrative doesnt fit his actions in office

[Continue not to care and play the Trump is a great, honest man, All American guy. He was already showing signs of using the Dictator's playbook during the Presidential candidacy ]

[ Below are all the things Trump did do before the 2016 election which ended up being the same things he continued to do after he became President and continues to do after leaving office]

[ Deny and walk around or over all of what has happened and continues to happen]

Rule 1: Wink at violent supporters to intimidate the opposition​

Here's Donald Trump on February 1, exhorting his supporters at a rally in Iowa to physically attack protesters:

If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ‘em would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.

In subsequent weeks, Trump has said that protesters are a "problem" that he implies or outright says his supporters should solve by physically attacking them. When a demonstrator interrupted a Michigan event, Trump instructed the crowd to "get him out," before sneering, "Try not to hurt him too much."

Trump then told the audience that a protester had been "swinging and punching" at a rally in New Hampshire, and that it was "amazing to watch" as the crowd "took him out."

And on March 13, Trump tweeted what seemed pretty clearly intended as a threat that his supporters would violently disrupt events held by Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders:

Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren't told to go to my events. Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2016

Dictators such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe would find this approach very familiar. For example, just a few weeks ago, six vans full of stone-throwing thugs who were believed to be supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party attacked an opposition rally, breaking up the event and sending at least one person to the hospital.

For people like Mugabe, the point of this strategy is to consolidate his own power by undermining opposition support. It reminds people that dissent is dangerous, making it difficult for opposition leaders to organize public events.

Rule 2: Tell your supporters that your political opponents are enemies of the state​

At a Missouri event, Trump escalated his anti-protester rhetoric, saying that the failure to rough up protesters was an example of the kind of "political correctness" that is hurting the country.

"Protesters, they realize there are no consequences to protesting anymore," he said, suggesting maybe there should be some consequences. "These people are so bad for our country, you have no idea."

Trump has also been a prominent voice of the "birther" movement, which claims that President Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore an untrustworthy foreigner whose claim to the presidency is illegitimate.

Rule 3: Intimidate or co-opt journalists to ensure positive coverage​

On March 8, Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly assaulted Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, grabbing her arm and pulling her away from Trump with such force that she was left with multiple bruises.

Rule 4: Use strict libel and sedition laws as weapons​

"I've never said this before. I’m going to open up our libel laws so when [journalists] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles we can sue them and win lots of money."

Rule 5: Hint that if the election doesn’t go your way, your supporters will respond violently​

Trump has to be aware of speculation that GOP leaders might try to nominate another candidate at the national convention in July, and he's putting out warnings about what will happen if they do.

"I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. But I can tell you, if we didn’t and If we‘re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short, and we’re at 1,100 and someone else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody ... I think you’d have riots," he said on CNN.

When the dictator's playbook doesn't work in America​

But in the long term, this playbook will only take Trump so far. Even if he wanted to be America's own Putin or Sisi, there's no reason to expect that he will be, and we can already see the playbook proving less effective here in America than it might be elsewhere.

For example, Trump can only accomplish so much by urging protesters to violence, because the American legal system is strong enough to enforce rule of law no matter how wild Trump's rhetoric gets.

John McGraw, a Trump supporter who sucker-punched a protester at a rally in North Carolina, has been arrested and charged with assault and battery. Trump can't actually shield someone like McGraw from legal consequences (though he did offer to pay McGraw's legal fees). Whereas in an actual dictatorship angry mobs can feel comfortable in the assurance that they won't face punishment for doing their leaders' bidding, because the courts are more easily co-opted or cowed by an angry leader, in the US things are different.

Similarly, there's no indication that Trump's bullying of journalists has actually silenced negative coverage. On the contrary, it's led to even harsher criticism of Trump in both the mainstream and conservative media. His threats to "open up" libel and defamation law is empty: Such laws are limited by the First Amendment, which means that Trump would need to change the Constitution, which he can't do on his own.

This is not to say that we should sit back and relax, content that this country's institutions and traditions will protect our freedoms and values. As Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan pointed out on Twitter, Trump's candidacy itself is a symptom of institutions not being as strong as they ought to have been.



(full article online)

Donald Trump’s tactics are disturbingly similar to those of actual dictators

Is Trump competing in The Apprentice: Dictator Edition?

www.vox.com

 

[sartre play]

Never get me to support a dictator, Putin one of the richest people in the world. While the Russian people struggle, they now watch there sons and husbands come home in body bags, in Putin's quest for power.

 

[Penelope]

Trump compliments 'fierce' and 'smart' Putin and applauds Xi Jinping for ruling China with an 'iron fist'

Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

www.businessinsider.com

This is the Leader of the repub party praising two Dictators. We know who he is.

He is an "enemy of the state." of the US.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Trump compliments 'fierce' and 'smart' Putin and applauds Xi Jinping for ruling China with an 'iron fist'

Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

www.businessinsider.com

This is the Leader of the repub party praising two Dictators. We know who he is.

There is a way to speak the truth of foreign adversaries winning against the West while not also being too complimentary. Sometimes Trumps misses the mark with this and it will only hurt any political ambitions.

Yes, leaders are outsmarting the West. The damage has primarily been self inflicted but with a covert nudge I'm sure by adversarial states. He should speak about how HE would be different as president, otherwise it sounds as if he wants to emulate the alt-left desire for full control.

 

[Couchpotato]

[Continue not to care and play the Trump is a great, honest man, All American guy. He was already showing signs of using the Dictator's playbook during the Presidential candidacy ]

[ Below are all the things Trump did do before the 2016 election which ended up being the same things he continued to do after he became President and continues to do after leaving office]

[ Deny and walk around or over all of what has happened and continues to happen]

Rule 1: Wink at violent supporters to intimidate the opposition​

Here's Donald Trump on February 1, exhorting his supporters at a rally in Iowa to physically attack protesters:



In subsequent weeks, Trump has said that protesters are a "problem" that he implies or outright says his supporters should solve by physically attacking them. When a demonstrator interrupted a Michigan event, Trump instructed the crowd to "get him out," before sneering, "Try not to hurt him too much."

Trump then told the audience that a protester had been "swinging and punching" at a rally in New Hampshire, and that it was "amazing to watch" as the crowd "took him out."

And on March 13, Trump tweeted what seemed pretty clearly intended as a threat that his supporters would violently disrupt events held by Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders:




Dictators such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe would find this approach very familiar. For example, just a few weeks ago, six vans full of stone-throwing thugs who were believed to be supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party attacked an opposition rally, breaking up the event and sending at least one person to the hospital.

For people like Mugabe, the point of this strategy is to consolidate his own power by undermining opposition support. It reminds people that dissent is dangerous, making it difficult for opposition leaders to organize public events.

Rule 2: Tell your supporters that your political opponents are enemies of the state​

At a Missouri event, Trump escalated his anti-protester rhetoric, saying that the failure to rough up protesters was an example of the kind of "political correctness" that is hurting the country.

"Protesters, they realize there are no consequences to protesting anymore," he said, suggesting maybe there should be some consequences. "These people are so bad for our country, you have no idea."

Trump has also been a prominent voice of the "birther" movement, which claims that President Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore an untrustworthy foreigner whose claim to the presidency is illegitimate.

Rule 3: Intimidate or co-opt journalists to ensure positive coverage​

On March 8, Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly assaulted Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, grabbing her arm and pulling her away from Trump with such force that she was left with multiple bruises.

Rule 4: Use strict libel and sedition laws as weapons​

"I've never said this before. I’m going to open up our libel laws so when [journalists] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles we can sue them and win lots of money."

Rule 5: Hint that if the election doesn’t go your way, your supporters will respond violently​

Trump has to be aware of speculation that GOP leaders might try to nominate another candidate at the national convention in July, and he's putting out warnings about what will happen if they do.

"I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. But I can tell you, if we didn’t and If we‘re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short, and we’re at 1,100 and someone else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody ... I think you’d have riots," he said on CNN.

When the dictator's playbook doesn't work in America​

But in the long term, this playbook will only take Trump so far. Even if he wanted to be America's own Putin or Sisi, there's no reason to expect that he will be, and we can already see the playbook proving less effective here in America than it might be elsewhere.

For example, Trump can only accomplish so much by urging protesters to violence, because the American legal system is strong enough to enforce rule of law no matter how wild Trump's rhetoric gets.

John McGraw, a Trump supporter who sucker-punched a protester at a rally in North Carolina, has been arrested and charged with assault and battery. Trump can't actually shield someone like McGraw from legal consequences (though he did offer to pay McGraw's legal fees). Whereas in an actual dictatorship angry mobs can feel comfortable in the assurance that they won't face punishment for doing their leaders' bidding, because the courts are more easily co-opted or cowed by an angry leader, in the US things are different.

Similarly, there's no indication that Trump's bullying of journalists has actually silenced negative coverage. On the contrary, it's led to even harsher criticism of Trump in both the mainstream and conservative media. His threats to "open up" libel and defamation law is empty: Such laws are limited by the First Amendment, which means that Trump would need to change the Constitution, which he can't do on his own.

This is not to say that we should sit back and relax, content that this country's institutions and traditions will protect our freedoms and values. As Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan pointed out on Twitter, Trump's candidacy itself is a symptom of institutions not being as strong as they ought to have been.



(full article online)

Donald Trump’s tactics are disturbingly similar to those of actual dictators

Is Trump competing in The Apprentice: Dictator Edition?

www.vox.com

Do I really need to list the ways both sides of the aisle follow that playbook?

 

[skews13]

You don't know the first thing about business OR politics.

 

[jknowgood]

Because BOTH are better leaders than the enemy democrats trying to destroy us from within. Biden is helping China kill Americans by partnering with drug cartels to distribute fentanyl. Trump didn't do that. Biden did.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Enemy democrats keep the border open and attack the border patrol for doing its job. It's part of the democrat plan to kill off Americans whom they believe are enemies of democrat one party rule and they are right.

Get off your drugs. You are not helping with the drug problem in the country.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Do I really need to list the ways both sides of the aisle follow that playbook?

Follow football and other sports, that is what you seem to do better.

 

[Auld Phart]

[Continue not to care and play the Trump is a great, honest man, All American guy. He was already showing signs of using the Dictator's playbook during the Presidential candidacy ]

[ Below are all the things Trump did do before the 2016 election which ended up being the same things he continued to do after he became President and continues to do after leaving office]

[ Deny and walk around or over all of what has happened and continues to happen]

Rule 1: Wink at violent supporters to intimidate the opposition​

Here's Donald Trump on February 1, exhorting his supporters at a rally in Iowa to physically attack protesters:



In subsequent weeks, Trump has said that protesters are a "problem" that he implies or outright says his supporters should solve by physically attacking them. When a demonstrator interrupted a Michigan event, Trump instructed the crowd to "get him out," before sneering, "Try not to hurt him too much."

Trump then told the audience that a protester had been "swinging and punching" at a rally in New Hampshire, and that it was "amazing to watch" as the crowd "took him out."

And on March 13, Trump tweeted what seemed pretty clearly intended as a threat that his supporters would violently disrupt events held by Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders:




Dictators such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe would find this approach very familiar. For example, just a few weeks ago, six vans full of stone-throwing thugs who were believed to be supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party attacked an opposition rally, breaking up the event and sending at least one person to the hospital.

For people like Mugabe, the point of this strategy is to consolidate his own power by undermining opposition support. It reminds people that dissent is dangerous, making it difficult for opposition leaders to organize public events.

Rule 2: Tell your supporters that your political opponents are enemies of the state​

At a Missouri event, Trump escalated his anti-protester rhetoric, saying that the failure to rough up protesters was an example of the kind of "political correctness" that is hurting the country.

"Protesters, they realize there are no consequences to protesting anymore," he said, suggesting maybe there should be some consequences. "These people are so bad for our country, you have no idea."

Trump has also been a prominent voice of the "birther" movement, which claims that President Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore an untrustworthy foreigner whose claim to the presidency is illegitimate.

Rule 3: Intimidate or co-opt journalists to ensure positive coverage​

On March 8, Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly assaulted Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, grabbing her arm and pulling her away from Trump with such force that she was left with multiple bruises.

Rule 4: Use strict libel and sedition laws as weapons​

"I've never said this before. I’m going to open up our libel laws so when [journalists] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles we can sue them and win lots of money."

Rule 5: Hint that if the election doesn’t go your way, your supporters will respond violently​

Trump has to be aware of speculation that GOP leaders might try to nominate another candidate at the national convention in July, and he's putting out warnings about what will happen if they do.

"I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. But I can tell you, if we didn’t and If we‘re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short, and we’re at 1,100 and someone else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody ... I think you’d have riots," he said on CNN.

When the dictator's playbook doesn't work in America​

But in the long term, this playbook will only take Trump so far. Even if he wanted to be America's own Putin or Sisi, there's no reason to expect that he will be, and we can already see the playbook proving less effective here in America than it might be elsewhere.

For example, Trump can only accomplish so much by urging protesters to violence, because the American legal system is strong enough to enforce rule of law no matter how wild Trump's rhetoric gets.

John McGraw, a Trump supporter who sucker-punched a protester at a rally in North Carolina, has been arrested and charged with assault and battery. Trump can't actually shield someone like McGraw from legal consequences (though he did offer to pay McGraw's legal fees). Whereas in an actual dictatorship angry mobs can feel comfortable in the assurance that they won't face punishment for doing their leaders' bidding, because the courts are more easily co-opted or cowed by an angry leader, in the US things are different.

Similarly, there's no indication that Trump's bullying of journalists has actually silenced negative coverage. On the contrary, it's led to even harsher criticism of Trump in both the mainstream and conservative media. His threats to "open up" libel and defamation law is empty: Such laws are limited by the First Amendment, which means that Trump would need to change the Constitution, which he can't do on his own.

This is not to say that we should sit back and relax, content that this country's institutions and traditions will protect our freedoms and values. As Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan pointed out on Twitter, Trump's candidacy itself is a symptom of institutions not being as strong as they ought to have been.



(full article online)

Donald Trump’s tactics are disturbingly similar to those of actual dictators

Is Trump competing in The Apprentice: Dictator Edition?

www.vox.com

Rule 1: Wink at violent supporters to intimidate the opposition

he intimidated opponents by winkling at his supporters?

Rule 2: Tell your supporters that your political opponents are enemies of the state

Like Hillary calling half of her opponents Deplorables, or Biden calling them fascists?

Rule 3: Intimidate or co-opt journalists to ensure positive coverage

right, Dems have NEVER done that.


the rest, not worth responding to

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Get off your drugs. You are not helping with the drug problem in the country.

Typical enemy democrat response to a truthful and accurate statement.

 

[Auld Phart]

He is an "enemy of the state." of the US.

He is an "enemy of the state." of the US.

No

just an enemy of the Democrats

 

[okfine]

Whenever some Trumper claims that Biden is in bed with China, remember all the times that Trump has praised him, and other dictators.

No idea why anyone would be in denial. Trump bank account. Ivanka the sweatshop princess with trademarks.
And Trump Chinese ties. Not just the ones a man would wear.

How Trump Is Tied to China, Literally - The Globalist

Clothes making can provide deep insights into both the character of global leaders and commercial realities.

www.theglobalist.com

 

[bripat9643]

Trump compliments 'fierce' and 'smart' Putin and applauds Xi Jinping for ruling China with an 'iron fist'

Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

www.businessinsider.com

This is the Leader of the repub party praising two Dictators. We know who he is.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/23/watch-biden-in-2001-praises-putin-for-embracing-the-west-compares-him-to-peter-the-great/​

“I’m close to amazed by how far Putin seems to have come in making – throwing – his lot in with the West,” Biden said as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “He seems to have – out of all the briefings I’ve gotten – actually stiff-armed his military and stiff-armed some of the browns and reds in his government and out of government.”​

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“And made a very – I don’t think anybody since Peter the Great has made such a significant – at least an initial move to the West,” Biden claimed:​