I recall hearing this before, but it was in a different venue. What that tells me is that Donald Trump has thought a lot about this, like he does his “Sir” stories. Trump doesn’t want to be the leader of a democratic republic, a constitutional democracy, no he wants to be a dictator. It’s not new information but it is something to hear it out of his own mouth. Again.

The tweet ends, “the comment’s intent—joking or serious—this doesn’t affect the video’s genuineness.” He’s not joking and if he was joking, it would be in extremely poor taste. Trump loves the razzle dazzle of a parade. He lives for packed rallies and adulation. He’s an empty shell of a man that must fill himself up with attention from others. If nobody’s there and the camera is off, Trump is a void with a bad combover and prosthetic devices (including his hair) that help him get around.

That’s the difference between North Korea and here. We have a choice. For now. We can choose to show up and idolize a dictator or we can choose to stay home from the dictator’s festivities and show up en masse in protests. That is democracy.

The weekend was a flop. Trump is now in the Canadian rockies for the G7 summit and it remains to be seen how he’ll botch that up.

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  1. To PZ’s conservative lurkers, please pass along to Trumpt, your Turd-God Wannabe Master of the Universe the following: Hey you big, fat (leaking) asswipe…We aren’t YOUR people! We are the AMERICAN people! A little over half of us didn’t vote for you. Even of the just barely enough to win who did, a whole bunch didn’t for FOR you, but against someone who was a woman, or black or both! And, lots of them are now regretting having done so!

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