to be very clear obama wins by 7 points in 2008 gop: no mandate obama wins by 4 points in 2012 gop: no mandate biden wins by almost 5 points in 2020 gop: no mandate trump wins by 1.5 points last year gop: the most sweeping mandate in american history - ThreadSky

owillis.bsky.social • 4 days ago

to be very clear

obama wins by 7 points in 2008
gop: no mandate

obama wins by 4 points in 2012
gop: no mandate

biden wins by almost 5 points in 2020
gop: no mandate

trump wins by 1.5 points last year
gop: the most sweeping mandate in american history

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saganleft2soon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hey, if you can get your ass kicked in 2020 and claim you actually won, i suppose you can win by 1 percent and claim you have a mandate. Has anyone asked this administration what qualifies as a mandate? Is it a margin of 1.5%? 5%? Is it having big crowds at campaign events? Just asking.

dkxkee.bsky.social•4 days ago

They're so unaccustomed to winning the popular vote, it's blown their minds.

buddyblu8.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

dustinheron.bsky.social•4 days ago

7 points *and a supermajority*

arendtfan.bsky.social•4 days ago

How dare you do that “Compare & Contrast” thing @owillis.bsky.social!

texaskrusty.bsky.social•4 days ago

George Bush doesn’t win in 2000
GOP; biggest mandate in history.

pamballard3.bsky.social•4 days ago

All in his little brain. He can not accept he won by so little.

johncastiglione.bsky.social•4 days ago

Honestly I respect this.

cannabispriss.bsky.social•4 days ago

He didn’t even win by a whole percent it was like .98 or something

jennifereolin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes! 💀💙

pretefunkera.bsky.social•4 days ago

He won with a plurality not a majority of the vote, more voted for NOT Trump.

He LOST seats in the house

Smallest margin since Nixon

Mandate my ass

joef-3.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don’t forget, W claimed a mandate in 04 with a similarly small margin, 2.4%. Tried to ride it into privatizing Social Security. Nancy Pelosi’s biggest accomplishment standing up democrats in the house against it.

warrenrb.bsky.social•4 days ago

MAGA math: 50% + 1 vote = sweeping mandate
Democratic math: House + 30 votes and filibuster-proof Senate = "we can't govern without bipartisanship"

maya-18.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

mwalkerkane.bsky.social•4 days ago

You expect this from the GOP. But it's also much of the media as well.

pretefunkera.bsky.social•4 days ago

Media parrots the repubs. If Dems (and lefties online) hammered it every day with ruthless repetition, media might pick that up.

Most media are lazy and just take the pulse of SM replies from RW propagandists and RW talking heads as gospel because of ruthless repetition

Everyone needs to be louder