The Autocrat
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October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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yeah i mean come on. if you're remodeling a bathroom in 2025 and you're not adding a bidet, are you even an autocrat?
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Autocrat chic. Tsarcore.
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Is it worth the hassle of having democracy when there's an autocrat in office? The media's just not sure
In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.
November 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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He could have commented on the dangers of a president vowing to punish an entire city because he doesn’t like the democratically-elected Mayor, or asked Mamdani to do so. Instead, he took these threats for granted and asked whether voters should decide to be swayed by the rhetoric of an autocrat.
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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You’d think the media would be all over “aspiring autocrat throws Great Gatsby themed party for billionaire friends while taking food benefits away from 42 million Americans,” even if just for the clicks. But probably you’d need at least one big outlet that isn’t totally on board with it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A sensible autocrat never lets this be seen. Ever. And above all, *never* when about to immiserate one in nine of your population.
It’s not just bad politics (and already picked up as such), it makes people have to see - and that’s not something you want them to do.
It’s not just bad politics (and already picked up as such), it makes people have to see - and that’s not something you want them to do.
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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It is 34 BC. A client state in the east gives royal regalia to an autocrat pushing against the imperial metropole's traditional republicanism.
It is AD 2025. A client state in the east gives royal regalia to an autocrat pushing against the imperial metropole's traditional republicanism.
It is AD 2025. A client state in the east gives royal regalia to an autocrat pushing against the imperial metropole's traditional republicanism.
South Korea to award Trump its highest medal, gift him a golden crown reut.rs/4hxKWpL
South Korea to award Trump its highest medal, gift him a golden crown
South Korea will welcome U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a replica gold crown and award him with the "Grand Order of Mugunghwa", the country's highest decoration, the presidential office said.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Russia invades its neighbor? Ukraine is the aggressor. Autocrat dismantling the rule of law? Tread on me harder, daddy. Handcuffing children, deporting American citizens, and blowing up civilian boats in violation of international law? Fuck, yeah! Feed the hungry? Get outta here with that woke shit.
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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“At what point must a senior officer refuse to obey an order that, while issued by the command, is in fact illegal — or that would serve the interests of an aspiring autocrat rather than the Constitution and the Republic it protects — a moment when the armed forces may be our last line of defense?”
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Bathroom of autocrat, not bathroom of President that works for his citizens...
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Like everything else the autocrat does, this simply removes from view "undesirable" unhoused folks. Not a solution.
Oh, & individual rights? Don't be silly!
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Oh, & individual rights? Don't be silly!
Gifted article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Cuomo does not care about any of the problems we face in NYC right now nor does he care about any of the good parts of NYC. He is a joyless soul-sucking power-hungry autocrat who would be an indescribibly bad mayor. Let's make sure this future doesn't come to be.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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When the histories are written, Pettyman Smallcock will come off as the pettiest, most childish autocrat ever to appear on film/video.
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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America has various tacky subcultures, but the "Middle East autocrat" style Trump gravitates to is not common at all.
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Me, a new Democrat, to JohnFetterman:
-Trump IS an autocrat.
-Republicans control the ENTIRE federal government. It’s their shutdown.
-Accept ANY sincere help on crime.
-ALWAYS stand with Israel against Islamism.
-Mamdani reflects our party every bit as much as you or I do. No “big tent” for you?
-Trump IS an autocrat.
-Republicans control the ENTIRE federal government. It’s their shutdown.
-Accept ANY sincere help on crime.
-ALWAYS stand with Israel against Islamism.
-Mamdani reflects our party every bit as much as you or I do. No “big tent” for you?
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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How to topple an elected autocrat. Hungary is working on the answer. fridainsight.substack.com/p/how-to-top...
How to Topple an Elected Authoritarian
All eyes on the opposition's game plan against PM Viktor Orban
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October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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So, would-be autocrat with a proclivity for marketing and a desire to disrupt – you've got a choice.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Ann Appelbaum said that ordinary people are the most likely to work against an autocrat because they have so much less to lose. If you don't own a billion dollar corporation planning to merge, it's so much easier not to be a coward.
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Hi. Thought experiment. Let’s say you’re a would-be autocrat with a desire to interfere with elections in LA, Orange, and Riverside; recurring difficulties actually executing on promises; but a strange gift for marketing and a giant megaphone.
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Countries need to stop bowing and apologizing to the autocrat. Start creating alliances that lock the US out. It will pay off in the long term instead of tying yourself perpetually to this declining, unstable, unpredictable country and its authoritarian regime.
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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There has to be a better word to describe him than an autocrat because is sounds too sanitary. How about despot, or tyrant, or chiseler, or murderer, or sexual predator, or 34X, or just plain Sick Weasel McFuckface.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I think an autocrat declaring that being against him is probably illegal is kind of a bigger deal than whether the autocrat is manly or a wuss. It's not really about him. It's about all of us with years of public commentary opposing him.
“Seth Meyers is 100% anti-Trump, which is probably illegal.”
Donald Trump is the biggest crybaby, the biggest whiner, in all of human history. It just cracks me up that any guy actually thinks Trump is some “man’s man.” Trump is a big fucking wussie.👇
Donald Trump is the biggest crybaby, the biggest whiner, in all of human history. It just cracks me up that any guy actually thinks Trump is some “man’s man.” Trump is a big fucking wussie.👇
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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You mean, like Trump did? We already have one autocrat in office, we don't need them on the left, too.
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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what happened to his fear about not getting into heaven?
I guess it turned into autocrat palace obsession
I guess it turned into autocrat palace obsession
President Trump unveiled another White House design project: an overhaul of the Lincoln Bathroom, sharing images that highlight his choice of marble accented with golden handles on the bathtub, shower and toilet.
Trump touts Lincoln Bathroom overhaul featuring marble, gold fixtures
The president unveiled the renovation project on his way to spend the weekend at his club in Mar-a-Lago as pressure mounts to reopen the government.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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