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Trump’s moves to tighten power and punish enemies draw comparisons to places where democracy faded
The Associated Press ^
| September 27, 2025
| BY NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Posted on 09/28/2025 8:24:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Of course socialism never creates authoritarian hell holes. Just rule of law and Constitutional freedoms.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:26:46 AM PDT
by
Track9
(Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:26:49 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:26:53 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:26:54 AM PDT
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goodnesswins
(Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never mind the use of state actors by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump. Apparently everything is in the interest of democracy if Democrats at like tyrants.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never mind the use of state actors by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump. Apparently everything is in the interest of democracy if Democrats at like tyrants.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never mind the use of state actors by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump. Apparently everything is in the interest of democracy if Democrats at like tyrants.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They are out to create a civil war in a attempt to destroy the nation. This has been their plan for years now and they are getting desperate...stock up.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:27:42 AM PDT
by
Wpin
("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
To: goodnesswins
Ok...I only hit post ONCE...something going on here
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:27:47 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We are headed into an authoritarian government because half the population is deranged or communist, so there is no middle ground. We aren’t going back to the 80s. So my choice is a heavy handed government that doesn’t hate me or America…. or one that would shoot me in a ditch on the edge of town if they could get away with it.
Not fun, but there it is.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:30:57 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We are headed into an authoritarian government because half the population is deranged or communist, so there is no middle ground. We aren’t going back to the 80s. So my choice is a heavy handed government that doesn’t hate me or America…. or one that would shoot me in a ditch on the edge of town if they could get away with it.
Not fun, but there it is.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:31:00 AM PDT
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DesertRhino
(When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Trump’s remaking of the federal government into an instrument of his personal will"
What does the AP think Obama did? He fired half the people in federal government and replaced them with far-left socialists.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Associated Press biased reporting draw comparisons to Pravda.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:36:40 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(They don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.--CFW)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Vegetarianism draws comparison to Hitler. OP
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:38:03 AM PDT
by
the_daug
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To: All
Guess they shouldn’t have a) arrested him and b) tried to kill him
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:40:37 AM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I stopped reading at “AP.”
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:47:13 AM PDT
by
KevinB
(I don’t really care, Margaret.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nothing screams ‘democracy’ more than a liberal government storming into a former president’s home and searching for suspected evidence, for the sole purpose of indicting him and prosecuting him to prevent him from seeking elected office ever again.
That’s democracy the democrat party’s way, and the AP’s way.
The democrat party needs to have the word, ‘democrat’ or ‘democratic’ stripped from its title.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:48:33 AM PDT
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adorno
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They forgot to mention "democracy" faded a long time ago before Trump.
Tally-Ho Mister President.
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posted on
09/28/2025 8:54:00 AM PDT
by
Salman
(It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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