Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November

Bill Barr has claimed Donald Trump often suggested executing his political rivals during heated moments of his four-year tenure in the White House.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin told The View back in December that Mr Trump once called for a staff member to be put to death for leaking a story about the then-president going down to a bunker during Black Lives Matter protests in summer 2020.

Former Trump administration attorney general Mr Barr was asked about the claims during an interview on CNN last week.

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        or you can hope it doesn’t happen until it does and then you’re standing there with your pants down. the entire future of every living thing on this planet may come down to whether we have the balls to do the right thing or not. the path to utopia may not be pretty, but when hell on earth is a possibility, you kinda don’t have a choice.

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              Except the end result has historically always been the same; Hate begets hate.

              “I swear, our needless violence won’t result in needless violence, this isn’t like all the others, our needless violence is special and kind!”

              What do they say about the ‘definition of insanity’ again? “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

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                Insanity is doing nothing while you watch sociopaths ruin the world for all living creatures for the foreseeable future.

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                    nonviolent resistance worked in the 20th century because there were still plenty of people who cared or at least pretended to care. the 21st century is basically sociopaths, dissociative personality types, and pacifists. there’s no good people left with a spine and you’re about to see what that world breeds. it may already be too late.

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          That’s got to be a Farside comic or something: Thag standing there with his pants down while the asteroid destroys Dinotopia.

          Or Dr Strangelove or something, yeah the end of the world coming, let’s make it happen

          Doomsday cult preaching the Rapture so opening the portal to Chthulu to rain down terror and insanity

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        man, you gotta get the idea out of your head that only evil people murder. we killed plenty of nazis and the world is better for it. pacifists never win.

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          I’m not a pacifist. People kill other people for a lot of reasons all the time. Some of them good. What makes you think only <insertStrongLeaderHere> can judge who deserves to be “purged” en masse?

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                we can do anything we set our minds to. we have the technology to allow one half of america to coordinate something that the other half has no clue about.

                i honestly want to know how we can make it to the end of this century with half of the population perpetuating a culture of cruelty. how long will you deprive future generations of the utopia that we could be enjoying NOW if only the obstacles to that path were removed? how many innocent creatures will suffer and die before we do something?

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                  Anything?!?!? Like, changing the world without killing millions of the most vulnerable among us?

                  And yes, millions are dying now anyway, but that won’t stop if just start killing more people faster.

                  Russia are the bad guys because they invaded another country. That is unacceptable violence. Ukraine are the good guys because they’re defending themselves. That is acceptable violence. If Ukraine had preemptively attacked Russia, they wouldn’t be the good guys. Hamas are the bad guys because they targeted civilians. If they had only attacked military targets, I don’t think things in Gaza would have gone so bad so fast. The Israeli government and military are also the bad guys, and in fact they probably think they’re doing exactly what you’re advocating for. Kill the bad guys before they do anything bad to make the world better/safer for everyone else. That’s the problem when your only solution is killing.

                  You seem to arguing that the only solution to 1/2 the world being cruel is for the other 1/2 to be cruel, too…we can’t end suffering by inflicting suffering…even if went perfectly we’d still have a world where 1/2 the people were cruel, it’d just be a different 1/2.

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                    okay. tell me how you realistically think we’re going to avoid the coming dystopia then. show me a practical path that creates change for the better in time to stop our destructive path.