What the fuck is wrong with this country. After his first term, after watching this shambling fucking skeleton of hate and vitriol decompose in front of us for the next four years. What the fuck is wrong with this country
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Misogynists and racists either didn't vote or voted for the white man, even if they didn't like him.
It's always someone else's fault and never the person that abandoned, ignored and smeared huge chunks of their voter base.
Gotta find a scapegoat. The copium satiates
Voters wanted a candidate on the left, as usual. They weren't given an option, so they didn't vote. Same thing happens with Clinton. It isn't rocket science.
If the left want someone to represent them they need to actually show up and vote. Politicians keep tacking right because those are the people who vote and may switch sides.
do you have a source for lower voter turnout?
Fucking stupid disinformation posts like this one across all platforms. When people don’t vote, their voices aren’t heard and this is what you get. If the Democrats had actually won across the board, it would have been the perfect time to force a shift left from within the party.
Fucking morons in this country.
Yeah, it only voters were smart like the Harris campaign, who ran the exact same strategy Hillary ran in 2016 and lost by even more. That was the smart move, right?
Such an indictment of the U.S. educational system.
Don't worry, we'll be getting rid of it.
In related news:
- Trump wants to shut down the Department of Education. Here’s what that could mean (cnn.com, Sept. 2024)
“We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing,” Trump said.
*Edit: typo
Electoral system *
Its not a democracy when you have 0 candidates on the left at the debates
No it's not. This is a popular meme but it's true. The US media environment is the root cause and nobody is ready for that conversation or it's implications.
Group projects suck.
Just took another four years for his insurrection to be successful. Look forward to having him run for another term.
At least next time you hear a kid saying they want to be president you can say: "Sure kiddo. Literally anyone can!"
You're a liar, a thief, you've committed genocide, would you like to be president?
kid. your grades are way to good to ever become president!
Around 52% of the eligible voting age population voted. And over 15 million less people voted this election cycle compared to last.
This is what people chose this election cycle and they will reap what they sow
Thr amount of faces eaten by leopards will be outstanding.
You think he’ll finally shut up about the 2020 election being rigged? Is anyone that voted for him finally going to realize he’s been lying the whole time about it?
Just with a bit of estimation of the remaining 12% of votes uncounted, Trump is going to beat his 2020 vote record by a couple million, 81 million on the high end and maybe closer to 77 million on the low end. Unlikely, but possible he beats the 2020 all time record set by Biden. Definitely beats his 2020 numbers.
Kamala recently pulled ahead of Hillary’s 65 million and Obama’s 66 million, she’s gonna end up around 71-74 million.
Kamala lost the Popular Vote. In fact she won some blue states by smaller margins then she lost some ‘swing’ states. Nevada might not even be tight enough to qualify as a swing state this election(needs to be 5% or less, Trump’s currently winning by 5.2% meaning it wasn’t a swing state), meanwhile Minnesota was won by 3, New Jersey by 4, New Hampshire by 4 and a half, and Maine might be lost we’ll see, but those 4 were all swing states as the margin was less than 5%. New Mexico and Virginia came very close(and New Mexico would have been under 5 without RFK Jr dragging Trump down a point).
This also suggests the Electoral College no longer favors Republicans, and is somewhere between neutral and actually favoring Democrats again. 2028 a tight election with a Democrat win could see them lose the PV and win the EC.
I had a ton of 2004 vibes from the start and it looks like that was correct. He is coming back to serve a second term, and YES, this time he won the national electiiion
(Also you can’t blame third parties this time, they did horribly nationwide. At worst maybe they tightened up Virginia a bit just through how uniquely bad for Democrats it was there, but on the other hand RFK Jr is the only reason New Mexico didn’t crack a sub 5 margin and go into Swing State territory again(Harris won by 5.2 there and RFK got 1 point. No third party means that crosses the 5 point threshold)