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How do dictators take over?
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RE: How do dictators take over?
(February 18, 2017 at 3:40 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Hitler won an election.

Dewey lost one.

Ortega even managed to lose an election.

My favourite anecdote of the Dewey-Truman election:

On election night of 1948, with all indicators showing in his favour, Thomas Dewey asked his wife "Say, Frances, how does it feel to be sleeping with the next president of the United States?"

She replied, "It's a great honour and frankly, I'm looking forward to it!"

Next morning, over a particularly quiet breakfast, she asked "Well, Tom, am I going to Washington or is Frank coming here?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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How do dictators take over? - by TaraJo - February 18, 2017 at 2:34 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Edwardo Piet - February 18, 2017 at 2:48 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Anomalocaris - February 18, 2017 at 2:54 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Edwardo Piet - February 18, 2017 at 2:56 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Anomalocaris - February 18, 2017 at 2:57 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Edwardo Piet - February 18, 2017 at 3:03 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by The Industrial Atheist - February 18, 2017 at 2:55 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Anomalocaris - February 18, 2017 at 3:05 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Aoi Magi - February 18, 2017 at 2:59 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Pat Mustard - February 18, 2017 at 3:00 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Jesster - February 18, 2017 at 3:05 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by The Industrial Atheist - February 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by vorlon13 - February 18, 2017 at 3:40 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Anomalocaris - February 18, 2017 at 5:12 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by dyresand - February 18, 2017 at 5:45 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Cyberman - February 18, 2017 at 8:00 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by The Industrial Atheist - February 20, 2017 at 1:54 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Anomalocaris - February 20, 2017 at 2:43 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Pat Mustard - February 20, 2017 at 3:41 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by The Industrial Atheist - February 20, 2017 at 3:06 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by The Valkyrie - February 20, 2017 at 3:39 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 20, 2017 at 3:58 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by CapnAwesome - February 26, 2017 at 7:49 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 26, 2017 at 9:31 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by CapnAwesome - February 28, 2017 at 2:00 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 28, 2017 at 4:09 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by abaris - February 28, 2017 at 4:12 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 28, 2017 at 8:14 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by abaris - March 1, 2017 at 5:09 am
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Pat Mustard - March 1, 2017 at 6:48 am
RE: How do dictators take over? - by abaris - March 1, 2017 at 6:51 am
RE: How do dictators take over? - by abaris - February 28, 2017 at 2:43 pm
RE: How do dictators take over? - by Thumpalumpacus - March 1, 2017 at 6:19 am
RE: How do dictators take over? - by abaris - March 1, 2017 at 6:26 am

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