• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    I’ve speculated (without direct evidence) that the Putin regime is giving trump and his team guidance on what to do.

    Trump wants to be like putin in terms of power and wealth. They like the authoritarian oligarchical structure, again for power and wealth. Hegseth, musk and the rest will be part of it all. More power, wealth and unrestricted freedom to do anything they want without regulation.

    Freeing Andrew tate, the nazi salutes, freeing the Jan 6ers… Tactics to give bullies power to feel free to bully. The worst of the worst. Other bullies see this and feel encouraged to do the same, and then they’re protected and pardoned. Anyone against the trump cult see this, and righteously have more fear of fighting back. They want to make us like Russia.

    I still hold hope in our country, but its faint. Very pessimistic and cynical. It will have to get way worse before even the maga cultists start to question what’s happening.

    Trump, Vance, Musk, Hegseth and the rest should be executed for treason. I want them fucking executed.

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    Well I, for one, am shocked that our Russian-controlled puppet government is acting like a Russian-controlled puppet government.

    It probably was incredibly expensive to buy Trump’s victory, but you can’t argue that Vladdy Poot Poot isn’t getting value for his money.

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      Probably not that expensive. We’re talking about guy who bankrupted a casino. He’s endorsed Trump steaks. He might have endorsed more things than Shaq even if none were as large as Shaqueronni Pixza. How much did it cost to get Trump to do a cameo in Home Alone 2? He probably had to pay them.

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        I’m not just talking about Trump. Nearly the entire Republican party is compromised as well. Also, there’s Elon Musk and who knows how many other wealthy, high power individuals. Obviously, they weren’t all bought with cash, but even collecting compromising secrets on them is time consuming and expensive. You kind of have to respect the hustle, even though the end result is the complete destruction of the last vestiges of our democracy.

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        His cameo in Home Alone 2 was free. He was the owner of the Plaza Hotel at the time and he insisted on the cameo as part of the payment for using the hotel for filming.