So, are ALL dictators goofball weirdos? I’m asking because I’ve noticed how weird 47 is. For instance, when he wants to look important, he physically puffs out his chest and gets a kind of silly look on his face – the kind babies get when they’re filling their diapers – as though important people have to adopt a specific physical demeanor to reflect their importance. You know who else used to do that, try to show how important they probably were by puffing up with a silly face? Benito Mussolini.

Both the Drumpfster and Mussolini adopt attitudes that, I guess, are supposed to project power, but somehow, it always looks to me like these are kids playing games and they have no idea how to do what they’re trying to do. They’re poseurs, hoping nobody notices. It’s a common characteristic among dictators.

Don’t get me wrong, I know they’re actually very dangerous guys. But everything about their body language suggests, to me, that they KNOW they’re out of their depth. That’s because they didn’t get there on their own. In each case of a new dictator, there’s a team of evil people behind the public face. What, you think Donald Trump is crafting all of those evil Executive Orders he’s signing at a furious pace? When, between the 8th and 9th holes?

If our judicial system hadn’t been so effectively corrupted during Donny’s first term, there wouldn’t BE a second term. You don’t think Donny, himself, knew which judges to focus on first, do you? No, that came from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative stink tank working to overthrow America one rule at a time. They’re a team, and they work together. So, one group works on corrupting laws, one group works on corrupting judges, the next group might work on corrupting the economy, that kind of thing. Good old-fashioned teamwork.

Buying Congress probably exceeded even the Heritage Foundation’s budget, though. That meant several billionaires banding together and putting their money to work – for them. They didn’t have to buy ALL 535 members, thank the gods. THAT would have been very pricey. But they had to buy enough of the cons AND enough of the Democrats to keep things going their way.

What, you think the Democrats lose because they’re incompetent? Please, these are national politicians. They know how to play these games. They know the rules as well as the cons. It’s their job to lose. They have to look like they’re putting up a fight, but they have to lose, so lose they do.

So you can see, Donny is surrounded by a team of evil enablers, it’s not just him. And it wasn’t just Mussolini. It wasn’t just Hitler. It isn’t just Erdoğan in Turkey or Kim in North Korea. It isn’t even El Salvador’s Bukele, who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” a pretty low bar when one considers the others. Dictators have teams. But all of the front men? Weirdos. Poseurs. Freaks and Geeks. I wonder why that should be so.

The reason I mention it is this: when the time comes, we’re going to need several guillotines, not just the one…

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I’m really having fun with these. Gavin Newsom has been copying the social media posting style of Jeffrey Epstein’s very good friend and possible co-conspirator, Donald Trump. Here are a couple more posts from Gavin Newsom’s office. This was during Newsom’s countdown to gerrymandering to offset MAGA cheating in Texas.

47, himself, couldn’t have written it better. I’m pretty sure this next one is just trolling, but it’s so spot-on. The press office has captured the style so perfectly, the all-caps, the rambling blather, the nonsensical grammar, even the self-important blowhard stuff, that I find myself wondering if they’re AI generated or just the work of some brilliant people. I hope it’s the latter…

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Okay, did you know there’s a company out there called ‘Crowds On Demand?’ It’s CEO is a guy named Adam Swart and he insists that he supplies paid protestors for events. Curiously, this information is being reported in MAGA media but not so much in center or left-leaning media. I think stories like this are why the right believes 47 when he dismisses protests as paid events.

The thing is, Swart makes claims that are a little weird. Swart claims he sends paid protestors to protests for either side, left or right. Fair enough. But then he says all of the protestors he sends to an event are “sincere advocates for the cause at hand.” Why? You’re essentially hiring actors. Actors don’t need to be sympathetic to the characters they play.

What, do you think Robert Englund, they guy who played Freddie Krueger, is actually haunting people’s dreams and murdering them? Spoiler alert: he’s an actor, playing role. He doesn’t have to actually “support” murder to play Krueger. So, why would it be important that I actually support the No Kings Day protests if I’m being paid to go there and hold a sign that says I support the No Kings Day protest? Is it at all possible that a claim that paid people are actual supporters is made to cover for the fact that reporters can never find anyone who says, “I’m just being paid to be here?”

It’s important to note that Swart refused to disclose which protests his company has been asked to participate in. During a back and forth with ‘Fox and Fiends’ co-host Lawrence Jones, he suggested his professional protestors had participated in the Tea Party protests. Jones was having none of it. He rejected, outright, any notion that a conservative protest might need or want paid protestors. In his (conservative, myopic) eyes, protestors are ONLY paid to protest at liberal events.

But that’s my next question. Why in hell would anyone have to pay protestors to come out for No Kings Day? Americans are angry about the ravages of Donny’s foolhardy regime and we don’t NEED no stinkin’ paid protestors. Crucially, not only does Swart dodge the question of which protests he has sent people to, he refuses to say WHO pays him, from either side.

So, in summary, Swart is a guy who claims he sends paid protestors to events but only if they already agree with the event they’re being sent to. He refuses to say which events he has been engaged to augment, and he refuses to identify who, exactly, is footing the bill for the paid protestors who already agree with the protest they’re in. Essentially, that’s a claim with no evidence. That means it’s exactly the kind of story MAGA will buy – every single time…