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wiggs

(8,524 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 01:55 PM Saturday

'No Kings' is fine and easy. But...doesn't capture it for me. He's not a benevolent, smart autocrat. He couldn't [View all]

care less about America, except that it has proved vulnerable enough to capture for his own purposes.

He's disordered, narcissistic, limited, sociopathic, greedy, small. A con man. A grifter. Mad. Diminished. Ignorant except when it comes to sensing vulnerability in and leverage over opponents. He probably likes being considered a king. He probably tells kings and autocrats around the world that 'some people' like him being king.

Fine to generally protest a king in this country. We shouldn't even have to. But this is a different kettle of fish entirely.

Headed out to a large, local protest

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