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Hekate

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1. I have to say this: modern kings answer to parliaments and constitutions that limit their scope
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 12:01 AM
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Trump, otoh, admits to no limits. He’s patterning himself after Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Josef Stalin, people like that, or dare I even say, Vladimir Putin.

They all like gold gewgaws, they all have really bad taste in their opulence, they’ve never seen a constitution that didn’t make them double up laughing, and they all have the sensibilities of a band of raving, drunken, Cossacks, or possibly Hells Angels on motorcycles. In other words, thugs.

No, Trump is not aspiring to kingship— he’s aspiring to dictatorship.

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