Americans do not fathom what a “dictator” [FN1] is or what is “absolute” power. [FN2] Examples from ancient times include Roman Emperor Caligula who ordered his horse be made a member of the Senate. [FN3] In more recent examples, a quality to consider is cowardice. 1/11

Dictators rarely kill people themselves, but issue orders to minions in, or over, the trenches & corpses are covered w/quicklime [FN4] before the trench is filled w/dirt. A few who engage in hands-on homicide usually have done so before/on the way to, taking power. 2/11

Theirs is a higher morality: “Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, [or] 500, or [] 1000. And to have seen this through, and [] to have remained decent has made us hard.” [FN5] Dictators get stressed ordering mass murder and seek amusement. [FN6] 3/11

Absolute power is unfettered. To question Pres Biden’s pardons is silly. Dictator trump need only say “Nyet!” & the pardons disappear. For that matter, trump can declare “These fine people on Jan 6 were right, 2020 was stolen & I declare all of Biden’s acts void.” 4/11

For trump, cowardice was relevant, until the Roberts Court [FN7] handed him immunity for all he does as POTUS. Now trump’s boast “"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" [FN8] is quite real. Democrats? 5/11

missed a chance to stop a dictatorship. trump’s not the worst. The photo of eldest daughter behind Putin’s desk makes one ask: For kompromat, what did she do on or under that desk? And do we wait to ask about the creepy kid, who like he’s from “The Omen”? If these questions 6/11

seem in bad taste, the reality is that we have a dictatorship. Who cares about decorum in the line leading to the showers? I approve of the content of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 7/11

Footnotes:
FN1. “Government by a ruler who has complete power; authoritarian rule or despotic control [] Also termed monocracy. [] A country that is ruled by one person who has complete power.” Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th ed., 2014, p. 549. 8/11

Footnotes:
FN2. “Unrestrained in the exercise of governmental power.” Id,
FN3. Sheldon, Natasha, “Caligula, the Infamous Roman Emperor Who Made His Horse a Senator” History Collection, 10/23/18, accessed 01/21/25. 9/11

Footnotes:
FN4. Traditionally been used for the burial of dead bodies in open graves to eliminate the odor of decomposition that attracts flies and insects. sciencestruck, accessed 01/22/25.
FN5. Reischsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, speech to SS officers, 10/4/43, Poznan, Poland. 10/11

Footnotes:
FN6. Benson, Bill, “Khrushchev: ‘When Stalin says dance, a wise man dances,’” South Platte Sentinel, 5/16/19, accessed 1/21/25.
FN7. The best SCOTUS majority of six that $$$ can lease or buy. 11/11