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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:06 PM Feb 2015

Rep. Gohmert: Apathetic Americans Let Obama Turn US Into 'Totalitarian, Dictatorial Type Country'

Gohmert: Apathetic Americans Letting Obama Turn US Into 'Totalitarian, Dictatorial Type Country' Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told WorldNetDaily’s Radio America this weekend that he’s heard people in America say that “maybe we just need a good, caring dictator,” and that it’s this kind of apathetic attitude that’s allowing President Obama to turn the country into “a totalitarian, dictatorial type country” through things like his executive actions on immigration. “Unfortunately, when you have 50 percent of the American people who are saying, ‘Hey, we’re okay with not having checks and balances in our government,’ it’s a way you lose a country,” he warned. “If we allow the president to continue this kind of lawlessness, there will not be a republic, we’ll be morphing over into more of a totalitarian, dictatorial type country,” he added. “And that’s what normally happens when you have a representative form of government, people get apathetic and forget to notice the things that kept it representative, and people start saying what I’ve heard people in America say: ‘Well, maybe we just need a good, caring dictator to clean things up and then we can go back to a democracy.’” - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gohmert-apathetic-americans-letting-obama-turn-us-totalitarian-dictatorial-type-country#sthash.QUkBJwK6.dpuf

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Rep. Gohmert: Apathetic Americans Let Obama Turn US Into 'Totalitarian, Dictatorial Type Country' (Original Post) big_dog Feb 2015 OP
Apathetic Americans let whackos like you gain power. muntrv Feb 2015 #1
Ah, Newest Reality Feb 2015 #2
If we took the best suggestions of Gohmert we would be in trouble. Thinkingabout Feb 2015 #3
yes, we are living under a North Korea type repressive regime. salin Feb 2015 #4
And apoplectic Congressmen edhopper Feb 2015 #5
If Gohmert was correct, he would have been rounded up and executed. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #6
uh onethatcares Feb 2015 #7
'Totalitarian, Dictatorial Type Country'? left-of-center2012 Feb 2015 #8
But this is brilliant if Glenn Greenwald says it nt geek tragedy Feb 2015 #9
Gomer can't find those terrorist babies. Archae Feb 2015 #10
hate on gohmert. p.s., your racist ass is showing. spanone Feb 2015 #11
Speaking as a "Texan", having lived here for 7wo7rees Feb 2015 #12

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. Ah,
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:10 PM
Feb 2015

There's that shadow speaking again. Conflate much? Taking too many anecdotal laxatives again?

Are we all onto this now? The film in the "projector" is not that hard to hide, but the movie is a distraction.

Onward corporate warriors, marching off for wealth. Man the bullshit cannons and, ready, set, spew.

salin

(48,955 posts)
4. yes, we are living under a North Korea type repressive regime.
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:14 PM
Feb 2015

:eyeroll: Gohmert, do you know what those words mean? Reportedly, you are a well educated man. Your hyperbolic, lying, throw red meat to the base, lines suggest that you are either dumber than a doornail (did you pay someone to do your college work for you?), or a cynical, dishonest, powerhungry, greedy politician who feeds fear and fundraises wildly off of the publicity.

Which is it?

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
6. If Gohmert was correct, he would have been rounded up and executed.
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:15 PM
Feb 2015

OOPS! I guess Gohmert is full of shit!

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
8. 'Totalitarian, Dictatorial Type Country'?
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:49 PM
Feb 2015

If Obama's a dictator, how have the Republicans in Congress been able to block him every inch of the way since Obama's election in 2008?

7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)
12. Speaking as a "Texan", having lived here for
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 02:56 PM
Feb 2015

48 years, Louie G is a G'Damned embarrassment to the state. An idiot. So sorry he is a representative for tbis state. Just sad, I apologize to the nation.

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