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What's Trump's Word?

What's Trump's Word?

"tha god" is somebody else

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Putin has a weak chin. His name is like a family word for an intimate body part ("Be sure to wash your putin, Pudd'n"). Yet friend and foe regard him as a "Strong Man." Why? because anyone who displeases him gets killed. In this country, we haven't reached that point yet. Our dissidents just get primaried. Or fired, investigated, defunded, thrown to the lawyers.

Which makes Trump an "authoritarian."

At least that is the term that tends to be used, in reputable media, to betoken his bullying tendencies. But it doesn't work. Doesn't sound repellent enough. Too close to "authority," "authorize," "authoritative," "authentic," even (for what it is worth) "author."

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