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[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 hours ago

Cool, doesn't matter

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 hours ago

Therefore it would be technically impossible to hack voting machines since the paper trail would not match up. Wishful thinking though."

Yeah if you ask for a recount. The one the DNC never bothered with.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure nothing can or will be done about it.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

In this case, unfortunately, the past is indeed indicative of the future. Oh and by the way, fuck you Merrick Garland you useless quisling and coward.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 33 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The one thing I know in my heart and in my soul is these guys will fuck something up so badly that their own base will demand they be torn to shreds before these 4 years are up.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As he said, many years ago now, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

These people do not care about rules, they do not care about law, they do not care what is good for them and those they care about. They care about owning the dems.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

IDK man. Itallians eventually took care of Mussolini

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Maybe if he actually imposes his stupid ass tariffs and collapses our dollar, people will wake up. Who knows.

[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The base will never turn against trump, never

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Whatever Trump fucks up, they'll just blame it on democrats

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It had worked for the GOPers every time so far. So why not now?

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

How many of them will survive the next preventable pandemic?

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 55 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.

Except that Elon actually doesn't know shit about computers. Trump is just rambling delusionally like usual.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Elon dazzels Trump with tales of setting the correct time on all sorts of video players.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I wish people would stop conceding even that about Elon. The guy is not some technical whiz at anything that I can discern.

Does he even have a real degree?

Virtually all of the self-created myth about Elon seems to be complete bullshit.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Elon musk is great at buying companies that could be promising and getting them to massively grow. It's likely mostly about being able to secure funding, but it's something I guess.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Or repeating Elons bs bragging

[–] bier@feddit.nl 4 points 5 hours ago

You don't understand they guy is an absolute genius, he's on the factory floor every day, with a welding machine and soldering iron building all theses Tesla's. He also wrote all the software himself so we have full self driving cars since 2015, they never crash! I just took a robo taxi this morning, it was kind of big and there where other people in it, but I didn't have to drive or do anything, all thanks to Elon.

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[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 92 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It doesn't fucking matter. He can splatter an infant against a tree like an old testament god and nothing will ever happen then either.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

None of this defeatist bullshit. It matters.

https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack

Keep track. Or don't keep track and keep it out of your head for your health.

Just no defeatist bullshit.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh come on... Maybe in 2020 you could get away with this blind positivity but at this point you're just denying reality.

Keep track has existed pretty much since Trump first showed up, "we've" accomplished fuck-all. We did however elect a feckless piece of shit who picked another feckless piece of shit to run the DOJ and together they also accomplished fuck-all.

Trump is going to get away with literally everything, as he already has, save for some state level civil b.s he can't use the DOJ to make go away.

Defeatist or blind positivity, none of it matters. We have no control. You can, as I have, and many others, shout from the rooftops of all the shit we've kept track of, but as long as fox news exists, as long as Elon keeps buying social media to control, we will have next to 0 impact getting people to realize.

Honestly keeping with what I've just said, even this means nothing and has no real purpose. I think "keep track" just triggered me. It's all useless.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

Maybe it's worth keeping track of so when the dust all settles and it's all over, someone has a real-time record of it.

I basically agree with everything else you said though.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry, we can't prosecute a sitting president. It's tradition.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

It's a tradition we're starting just now, but a tradition nonetheless!

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Lee Harvey Oswald had entered the chat...

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 118 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Here we go again. Even when he's literally found guilty, it makes no difference because there's just not the will to make it stick.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 63 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Get the message: the system will not save us from Trump.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 48 points 14 hours ago

We need a Luigi.

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's only day 1. I can't wrap my head around 4 more years of this shit.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It didn't help it's already been 8 years of this shit. Even losing he never shut the fuck up. Ever.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I hope I live long enough to read his obituary

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Honestly, I could see spontaneous celebrations breaking out when he passes.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 169 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

He can confess to multiple murders and show the bodies on stage and nothing will happen. The US "justice" system only applies to poor people.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And Democrats. You're going to see the DOJ move at light speed now. Moved at glacial pace with the previous administration but now that vindictive retaliation is on the menu they're going to give Sonic a run for his money.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Maybe, or maybe we'll get a lot of firey talk, sternly worded letters, terse lunches, and frustrated phone calls from both sides.

And then they'll all meet on the green at 2pm and have a leisurely game of golf before going home to their mansions in their gated communities.

And the media will jingle the next shiny thing for us to look at.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 hours ago

He could rape and murder kids on stage and nothing would happen, and his supporters would dismiss it by saying that the kids deserved it. He's a narcissistic psychopath, and he holds the nuclear codes.

Good luck, America.

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