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Dem4life1970

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3. Mockery is becoming more important than ever...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:16 PM
Aug 28

...as he tries to come off as an authoritarian Strongman like Putin, or Kim Jung Un, we need to make fun of him even more. Not in a way that normalizes or humanizes him, but in a way that
mocks him, like Newsom is doing. The monstrosity of what he is doing is disgusting from an historical perspective, so it must be met with all of the tools that combat what wannabe tyrants have employed since the beginning of time (he is not novel-he is just following a well-worn playbook-we just never thought we would see it used in the United States).

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