“We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers, where each dealer is responsible for the death, during their lives, of 500 people or more,” he said.

"Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp … and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly.

“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”

“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city, so that it is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. But rather it will become the most beautiful capital anywhere in the world,” Trump said.

“Right now, if you leave Florida, ‘Oh, let’s go, darling, let’s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let’s look at the Washington Monument, let’s go and look at some of the beautiful scenes,’ and you end up getting shot, mugged, raped,” he warned, promising that he’d run the city “tough and smart.”

Watch Here:

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1810853096609694084

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1810842300961956147

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in hosp … and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming

He suddenly remembered that he is against UHC.

“We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers

Meanwhile in Russia:

(Among people who said death penalty should be unbanned) “As a punushment for what crimes do you find death penalty to be acceptable?”, multiple answers

Drugs / drug dealing: 3%

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This will surely get the same 24/7 coverage for the next three weeks that Biden got for standing there being “low energy”, right?

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I think it’s less about Biden’s ‘energy,’ and more about him actively sundowning on the national stage

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The country basically ran itself while Bush and Trump played make believe. It’s fine.

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If it’s all fine - Idk why you’re concerned with defending Biden’s gaffs.

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When is he going to step aside for a more coherent Republican replacement? He is not fit for the office at such an age!

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I can see what people are trying to do, but it doesn’t work. The right wing talking points about the less-right wing don’t work when flipped, because his followers don’t care. They lap it up.

They’re tootling around in mobility scooters covered with Trump flags and stickers. Their homes have been shrines to him since 2016. He could physically shit himself on stage and these people would still vote for him, no questions asked. Trump makes them feel good about their hatred they’ve been told is wrong for the last few decades. Their MAGA is an all-white suburb as far as the eye can see.

The only thing that will stop them is his death. A large chunk of the movement will die with him. Those followers don’t really seem to care for the republican party. That’s the only upside.

Fascism has the whole propaganda thing nailed down. It’s just too hard to get people excited about a mediocre amount of progressivism. The Nazis got this and have been the model for it ever since.

I honestly don’t know what the solution is.

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The solution would be to beat them at their own game. Build a radical left propaganda machine - like Star Trek or Doctor Who on steroids.

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trump WISHES he was duterte

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Heyy a casual mention of the Expanse series pit of nowhere 😃

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While I would love this to be a reference to The Expanse, they’re probably talking about the former president of the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte had a policy of basically legalized vigilante murder for suspected drug dealers.

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OMG sorry for being ignorant, the comparison to Winston Duarte was too similar.

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