From Hitler to Gaddafi, tyranny has a shelf life. This list will crush any belief that today’s strongmen are invincible. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Add Vidkun Quisling … after Germany was resoundingly defeated, Norway 🇳🇴 arrested Quisling and put him on trial. He was executed by firing squad.
jul 9, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, it usually doesn’t end well for tyrants. But it’s the damage they cause along the way.
jul 9, 2025, 9:29 pm • 15 0 • view
And, unfortunately....that comes with the territory.
jul 9, 2025, 9:30 pm • 5 0 • view
And each day the news gets progressively worse. Keep up the fight!
jul 9, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I was living in Germany and watched this on live tv - ‘Shameful but necessary’: How the Romanian rulers who starved their people met their end On Christmas Day 1989, after a tumultuous year, Romanian leader Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad against a toilet block.
jul 9, 2025, 9:31 pm • 8 0 • view
Poor toilet block
jul 9, 2025, 9:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Have a closer look at Gaddafi
jul 9, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 12, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I just hope yam tits stays alive long enough to enjoy his cell in solitary.
jul 10, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
The Olympic games was run by a fascist. General Franco's 'minister of Sport',Juan Antonio Samaranch, was head of the IOC up until 2001 and quit just after the Sydney games.
jul 10, 2025, 7:14 am • 1 0 • view
I think you need to update the info on Bashar al-Assad, he is no longer in power.
jul 9, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course no authoritarian regime lasts forever. Can there be some subsections to this list noting how many innocent people had to die before they were out of power? Because I feel like it’s ignoring the elephant in the room to simply list how their regimes ended without also noting the…
jul 10, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
…horrific human rights violations they committed, sometimes for decades, before they either died in office or were overthrown.
jul 10, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
The behavior is unsustainable. They always fall. Usually hard, too.
jul 9, 2025, 9:29 pm • 6 0 • view
the harder the better imho
jul 10, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
thank you. Now I shall subscribe
jul 10, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Is this the negotiation stage or acceptance?
jul 9, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
1/2🧵 Neither. This is the stage where we stop pretending fatalism is wisdom. You call it “acceptance”...but what you’re really describing is passive surrender dressed up as insight. History doesn’t reward the resigned. It rewards the relentless.
jul 9, 2025, 9:29 pm • 37 12 • view
2/2 We’re not negotiating with reality...we’re confronting it. With fire. With facts. And with the receipts that prove: tyrants fall when people stop acting like it’s already over.
jul 9, 2025, 9:29 pm • 15 2 • view
I send you well wishes and best of fortune in your fight. —> This Canadian 💪🏾🇨🇦 (Because I’m scared of you guys and your leader TBH)
jul 9, 2025, 9:31 pm • 6 0 • view
I get the leader part...and the most radical MAGA followers. However, believe me...there are 100 million PLUS...from whom you have nothing to fear.
jul 9, 2025, 9:33 pm • 20 1 • view
The problem being we can't tell you apart, and so many we need to fear work at border crossings. ->Another Canadian.
jul 9, 2025, 9:39 pm • 19 2 • view
That is a dilemma that I hate exists for you. Truly.
jul 9, 2025, 11:11 pm • 18 1 • view
The dilemma is $$$, both ways.🤷♂️ US tourism is getting killed by many Canadians not wanting to cross the border. US retail must be suffering from cross border shopping. Wife and I used to go at least 2x per year. Now... "nope"!🚫
jul 9, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1 0 • view
We have a weekend property we’re trying to offload. We spent GOBS of money in the US until 🍊 🤡 was re-elected. Now, I haven’t been back since.
jul 9, 2025, 11:46 pm • 2 0 • view
And we used to spend way more than duty... um sometimes.🙄
jul 9, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I need a F*** T**** shirt... BTW, can California secede and join Canada yet??
jul 9, 2025, 10:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Mexico gets first dibs
jul 9, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Bashar al-Assad is living somewhere in Moscow's suburbs. Unfortunately the world keeps growing new tyrants and dictators Putler, Orban, N.Korean dynasty of dictators, Orban, and then some of the names escape me, but Turkmenistan and a bunch of new Idi Amins in Africa are multiplying fast.
jul 9, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
A must read
jul 10, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
26 years and counting that Putin has ruled Russia in some capacity.
jul 9, 2025, 9:21 pm • 7 0 • view
Well, for at least 1,000 years, Russia has had the most dreadful, repressive, and murderous rulers.
jul 9, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Every rule has an exception I guess. Trumps reign will get cut short due to his age hopefully.
jul 9, 2025, 9:24 pm • 3 0 • view
And right now...too many people are focused on pretending Trump is an exception. Men far more intelligent than he (That's mostly all of them) lost their power.
jul 9, 2025, 9:27 pm • 54 8 • view
I still don't get how one who is so stupid got to be President? Years ago my brother said something about George Bush II being a "C" student and how awful that we went from Clinton a Rhodes Scholar to George Bush. Trump is hands down winner in the unintelligent contest.
jul 9, 2025, 9:42 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m with you Jack I keep waiting for Trump to do that one thing that will cause the cult to turn on him. Also agree, he’s not intelligent, he’s all lizard brain.
jul 9, 2025, 9:32 pm • 6 0 • view
You spoke a powerful truth!
jul 9, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump is the carnival barker being paid to create a distraction from the real inner workings of the people behind the curtain!! His narcissistic sociopathic behavior and personality let him think he is in charge, there is a whole group of evil people pulling the strings and making the decisions.
jul 9, 2025, 10:54 pm • 2 0 • view
His time will come.
jul 10, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view
Assad family in Syria: decades. Nth Korea: decades.
jul 10, 2025, 7:51 am • 1 0 • view
They still lose it eventually.
jul 10, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
Not soon enough. Meanwhile, they are enabled by the USA, Russia, and increasingly, Corporations. And that's where the problem should be stopped before it even gets going...
jul 10, 2025, 8:35 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you - I’ve been saying this for years. I remember watching Ceaucescu’s bewildered face when his people turned on him - it will absolutely happen to Trump too. And even fake billionaires have to die in the end. I admire your fury about people giving up and I’m not American.
jul 10, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
How many Trump vermin will end up living in the WH before it’s over though 🫣. The thought of the possibility is frightening.
jul 9, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Let’s get really angry instead. Bullies like Trump wither and die faced with people who fight back.
jul 9, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Franco ruled Spain for 36 years. Tito ruled Yugoslavia for 35 years. Suharto ruled Indonesia for 31 years. Ceaușescu ruled Romania for 24 years. Knowing that a strongman won't last forever doesn't undo the harm that they do. As always with diseases, prevention is much better than cure.
jul 9, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump's a lot older. Then JD is president. I just don't see him holding it all together.
jul 10, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
The question is always how long and how painful will it be before the regime falls.
jul 10, 2025, 7:28 am • 1 0 • view
DAMN these ignorant fuckchops who are fucking up our lives. WE only have one.
jul 10, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
So what we seem to be saying is that this is all going to eventually be ok. Several million of us might die horribly, but hey, it’ll all be good eventually. If we really want peace, we should at least be prepared for the alternative The bully thinks twice when he knows he’s gonna get punched back
jul 10, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
There's not much that can be done legally, unless y'all just hit the streets with your 2nd amendment!
jul 10, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
He will fall, after all, of all the strongman he’s definitely not the brightest of the bunch. It won’t be long
jul 9, 2025, 10:47 pm • 1 0 • view
This goes for the demise of his ass kissers.
jul 9, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Point in case: Victor Orban, the darling of the American right is facing what could be insurmountable obstacles to his continued rule. His position is the weakest it’s been since he assumed power the 2nd time. Trump is a paper tiger and a coward. He is going down.
jul 9, 2025, 9:43 pm • 3 1 • view
Next????
jul 9, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
So can we predict when these horrible men will fall? It better be soon! 1) TRUMP 2) PUTIN 3) NETANYAHU 4) KIM JONG UN 5) ORBAN 6) XI JINPING Make it be soon!!!!!!
jul 9, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Orban's been in power for 15 years with no sign of him going away anytime soon.
jul 9, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
But there have been more and more protests against his regime, including the thousands who marched in a Pride Parade that he had banned.
jul 9, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you for this. We must #resist
jul 9, 2025, 9:51 pm • 1 0 • view
They all fall eventually.
jul 10, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view
They do seem to overstay their 15 minutes of fame, however.
jul 9, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Assad is now gone too, 2024.
jul 10, 2025, 8:01 am • 0 0 • view
I appreciate you Jack. Thank you.
jul 9, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Except Russia and China whose peoples have had ruthless dictatorships for many centuries.
jul 11, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
A reminder of the genocide #Serbia launched upon its neighbours. The #Serbian Minister For Propaganda at that time is the current leader of the #Serbs: Aleksandar Vučić #BosniaAndHerzegovina #Kosovo #Croatia & #Slovenia have not forgotten. Neither should you. #gaza #eu bsky.app/profile/theg...
jul 10, 2025, 7:48 am • 1 0 • view
This is where the rubber hits the road. While this administration won't be long-lived, it will give us enough to be tied up for decades trying to undo what they've done. When I looked up fascistic regimes a few months ago, the longest was Franco, at about 30 years. Most are more brief, though.
jul 9, 2025, 10:20 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 9, 2025, 9:46 pm • 2 0 • view
They didn't have AI. Do you think we're getting a Meullertime 2?
jul 9, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view