this really needs more circulation because too goddamn many people still believe his PR

You love to see it

underrated gif here, this is exactly the situation, Trump and his ilk belong to the ideology that power can and should be seized and that the people who seize it must deserve it, the only rules they live by are the ones they think will benefit themselves

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