• @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    To really be like Mandela, he needs to be brutalized by South African cops, right? I’ll donate real money to bring over 4-6 South African police to beat the fuck out of DJT for a good half hour in the name of authenticity.

  • Chainweasel
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    He’s obviously trying to bait the judge into something.
    Fines are also on the table, how big of one can the judge throw at him?

      • @snooggums@midwest.social
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        181 year ago

        Can Trump be a martyr too? Like any time soon?

        MLK’s words resonate because they meant something. Trump’s popularity will drop as soon as he isn’t around to stir the pot with his random word salad said in a way that gets people emotional.

        • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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          He eats nothing but mcdonalds and well done steak. His diet is likely to make him a martyr sooner than we all think.

          Eat your veggies, kids.

      • @tal@lemmy.today
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        A month ago, but apparently it was a gubernatorial endorsement, not himself:

        https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-compares-north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-martin-luther-king-rcna141523

        GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump likened North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to Martin Luther King Jr. in an endorsement Saturday, despite the gubernatorial candidate’s long history of controversial comments about homosexuality, religion and victims of sexual abuse.

        “This is Martin Luther King on steroids,” Trump said of Robinson at a pre-Super Tuesday rally in North Carolina.

        “I told that to Mark. I said, I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two,” he continued as he offered Robinson his endorsement in the Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.

  • @DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    compares himself to Mandela

    At least I can now finally understand why Don has been applying his makeup like black face

      • gregorum
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        361 year ago

        “They” wouldn’t be letting anything go unless he won a fight.

        But that also depends on how you define “fight”, and those who oppose Trump have really struggled with that in trying to defeat him.

        Look: fascism is soooo effective in undermining functional democracy because it, like, breaks democracy. Like, if democracy were a rules and bureaucracy machine that did good government (ideally), fascism works by identifying and exploiting its weak points in a systematic fashion. Mass media, systemic bureaucratics, advanced administration, logistics— all of this is ripe for disruption and takeover. And, unlike democracy, which functions on strict rules and ethics and is, thusly, slow to respond to attacks, fasism (esp neo- and ur-fascism) attacks from the outside at weak points rapidly with great agility, following few rules that encumber it.

        It’s really explained better in this video:

        The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low

      • @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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        Yes, he has appealed his gag order in multiple cases on multiple occasions, because as you know he has 91 criminal charges pending and also several civil cases.

      • @0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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        No he hasn’t, he just whines like a toddler on his social media site. Not to mention the “punishment” has been something dumb like a $5k fine.

  • Phoenixz
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    Geez, a narcissist compares himself to Mandela and Jesus Christ? Who would have thought.

    I know a guy like Trump in real life. Also goes on message rants at 3 in the morning, is incapable of saying a name -any name- without adding “the great” or “the terrible”, has called himself a god on many an occasion and continuously claims everyone loves him because he’s so great and so nicr. He makes everyone’s life miserable, including his children who literally states that they stay with him because they’re afraid that if they don’t, he will ruin their lives.

    • @pastabatman@lemmy.world
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      He also said he was better than Washington and Lincoln. It was in the same video that he announced his NFT collection.

  • Phoenixz
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    Yeah no he wouldn’t. This is just pandering to his base, as per usual. He’s terrified of any real consequence.

  • lurch (he/him)
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    well hitler was also briefly in jail and got out early before his second, successful coup attempt. so pls stay on your toes USA. be vigilant

    • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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      I came to say this.

      Hitler went to jail for a failed coup attempt less than a decade before coming to power.

      Everything about this guy is Hitler.

      • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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        Everything about this guy is Hitler.

        Except he’s twenty years older than old Adolf was when he took the cyanide.

        • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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          Very good point. Hitler also didn’t fake bone spurs to get out of military service.

      • Damn I am fucking ignorant as fuck on WWII I had no idea. I really don’t remember them teaching it in school to even this extent.

        And this is why they attack our schools and libraries and books. They want the voting public ignorant as possible so we are blind and easily manipulated. Those in power now (aka with wealth) won’t have their kids and grandkids impacted, and that’s about as far away from themselves they can care about.

                • andrew
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                  If you’re into physics or chemistry at all, The Making of the Atomic Bomb has a ton of WW1 and WW2 history in it and a surprising amount of info on Hitler. It’s really long but it’s on Audible as well.

        • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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          Damn I am fucking ignorant as fuck on WWII I had no idea. I really don’t remember them teaching it in school to even this extent.

          Nobody can guess why Trump loves the poorly educated…