The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.
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I was making the distinction that Democrats are tied to their donors, and the GOP has given up any pretence of holding the strings that they’ve handed over to the oligarchs.
Do the right thing?
Like get off your butt and go vote?
The non voters, registered but not "motivated' enough.
"They didn't speak directly to me" crowd.
We'd have qualified Cabinet members who believe in proper governance; we'd be strengthening NATO and supporting Ukraine ... I don't know what the Harris administration would be doing diplomatically re Israel, but I know it wouldn't be boasting about turning Gaza into Genocide Vegas.
It’s not about abandoning Libs in Red States. It’s about each side being able to live according to their principles (or lack thereof). Red States feel it is a fate worse than death to have to allow non-White heterosexual Christian males to vote, get an education, be paid a fair wage, etc.
We also failed to prevent disenfranchisement, voter suppression, & foreign interference. The LEAST we could have done was hand recount audits in the swing states.
You are singing my song. So devastating. I have made clear to a few that if your partner didn’t vote for her you are not welcome at my table. Beyond a broken compass. This election was about preventing a fire. Now we are on fire so go eat somewhere else.
It’s been a long time in the making. Lots of gop dark money spent influencing media, getting right wingers in the right schools/law schools. It was indolent but persistent and by the time we saw it coming the masses were conned.
I agree the evidence was as plain as news on anyone’s face and yet a vast majority of the American electorate either voted for this piece of shit or said nah, think I’m just gonna sit this one out
Problem being no matter what the voter's intent a corrupt gerrymandered system is never going to give true representation to the people. Until America gives up the electoral college, or outlaw's gerrymandering, nothing will change...public be damned...long live the King
I was in America in 2015 and all the news channels, the talk show hosts, the GOP that we interviewed and the newspapers all laughed, insulted and derided trump and said he'd never be president. Some of those people now treat him like God and have sold their souls!
I blame the corporate media which spent 9 years fluffing Trump and belittling every single Dem accomplishment.
But even more do I blame the Americans who saw with their own eyes COVID, J6 and the invasion of Ukraine. They knew he was incompetent as well as evil.
Media here is already flooding the commercial space with CONservative attacks on Mark Carney & and election hasn't even been called. They apparently have tonnes of $$, so starting early. Pluto & CBC, every commercial break!
Here’s an interesting article that dives deeper on how the media landscape has shifted to misinform so many politically disengaged voters. Republicans won mostly due to first-time voters getting news from unreliable sources.
We have to attack this, HEAD ON. Faux News and their fellow travelers have poisoned the public discourse and driven a third of Americans straight into a cult. Enough already 😡😡😡😡
In the 6 states that flipped Kamala Harris lost the most ground to Trump with high school or less educated women earning between $25k-$50k in their household per year.
That was the biggest reason Trump won. Democrats lost too much ground with one of their supposed constituencies.
Changing this trend is the single most important thing the opposition must do now. We need to invest in progressive media, including programs that appear non-political. Hungary lost its fight for freedom because of the Nazi government’s incredibly well-organized propaganda operation.
I thought progressives filled most jobs in media and entertainment? This shouldn’t be hard! But I think we are still too bound by some sense of morality or something? The morality needs to shift to by any means necessary
AM radio stations in the 80’s were struggling to survive FM. Political talk radio format was offered to them nrly free if they accepted the natl ads that came with it.
AM reached deep into the country and kept people company while they worked; for 30 years now,shaping attitudes.
Long term strategy
The building efforts for “business friendly” media ramped fast after Powell memo (70s)
By the 80’s they had production ability, talent, and a talent pipeline ready. Congress nixes fairness doctrine in 87, Rush Limbaugh debuts across the country in 88 without restrictions.
Same with cable TV in 90s
Also the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed right-wing media conglomerates (especially Clear Channel/iHeartMedia) to buy up the local radio stations. Making it even easier to air right wing talk radio at scale.
We had a lovely family friend that just adored Rush Limbaugh. She was a well educated, upper middle class professional. And she loved that guy. I could never understand it.
Especially with the trucker community. AM radio has a much farther reach, which enabled truckers to listen to Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity/Mark Levin every day without interruption. Brainwashing, conveniently on the dial.
I was listening to @msnbc.com on satellite radio while driving yesterday and during a commercial break switched to @cnn.com.
I believe it was Kaitlan Collins.
She had Jim Jordan on who was spewing ignorant nonsense about the judge ruling against Trump.
Her response: “hm. Thank you congressman.”
An absolutely, utter and total failure by national mainstream legacy news media and really even local doesn’t do a great job balancing nonsense with fact.
Just universal “ok so that’s what they said. Moving on.”
And the uninformed think “oh, I guess that’s what is true fact, I didn’t realize.”
YES. THIS! And it is incidentally why I moved to Germany. I can no longer recognize what America has become. Watching the country self destruct is very dis heartening.
Trump did not cheat. Americans voted for a rapist felon over an honorable smart black woman.
America most definitely did fail and now we all get to pay.
Yes he did. And i won't stop saying it. No election has ever been called as early as this one was. Trump wasn't the least bit worried. And no, he didn't win all 7 swing states.
I’m not typically into conspiracies I can’t prove, but when Musk told a MAGA interviewer that they “better win”, or else he’d be going to jail for what he’s done.
this kind of sounds similar to the 2020 claims against smartmatic. I’m not saying i disagree, but it just sort of makes us look like loony conspiracy theorists so people don’t take us seriously.
It makes us look really stupid when we know Harris had sold out arenas, Trump had people walking out. Trump didn't set up campaign offices. Harris got votes from all three parties. Trump did not. Not in amounts she did.
Even if that’s true I’m sure we know a lot of Trump supporters. They couldn’t cheat if it wasn’t close to begin with. If our country was healthy he would have lost by 25 points.
Agreed. GOP had one thing in mind, get Trump over the electoral math, nothing else mattered.
By any metric, election was a squeaker, & Trump could barely beat a woman of color, so I can only spit whenever I hear him claim his mandate. He got what he needed to stay out of jail, period.
No, no I'm not.
Vote counting is watched by both parties in all precincts.
It's as close to impossible as you can get to cheat.
The Whole Country moved right. The whole thing. By close to the same margin.
That's bullshit. We have not moved Right. Maybe you and your friends have, but no one I know has. Until this election, I would have agreed with you, but Trump lost 2020. Putin, Musk, and others weren't going to let that happen again.
Trump won in 2016 against a somewhat unpopular woman.
Trump lost to a white man.
Trump won with a larger margin against a black woman.
That's it, that's the whole of the lesson.
Go to an Applebees in the sticks and look around and tell me I'm wrong.
36% were core MAGA cult members. 13% either a) couldn’t vote for a woman, b) couldn’t vote for a black person, c) convinced against all facts Biden caused a weak economy. I blame the non-brainwashed 13% for being misogynistic, racist, ill informed and misdirected. Many now are having buyers remorse.
He did say this, but he says a lot of things, and 99% of them are batshit. In any case, I don’t want to be a reverse Mike Lindell, running around waving documents and screeching about how “. . . if we can just get this before the Supreme Court . . . !”
For good or ill, that ship has sailed😒
Well, without actual evidence (which was long gone the minute the election was over) there isn't much to work off of. His team will simply claim he was lying...just like everything else that spews forth from his cakehole.
Even if there was evidence...his track record shows it doesn't matter.
1. Yes we failed the test. However, we are not unique in that regard. Not it means is not remediable. There are a lot of bad people out there. And as strange as it sounds, my beef is not with them. My beef is with the black folks that didn’t vote. The Hispanics and LGBT folks that voted for Trump
2. because the price of eggs or gas was high. The white women that criticize identity politics but can’t bring themselves to vote for another qualified woman or a person of color. And the most disgusting and disgraceful, the under 30 crowd that gamble their future away out of spite.
3. If our democracy dies those are the folks that will be most affected. That will carry a burden for years. That will never see the American dream. Out of spite and apathy.
Yep and a few days after the election a starlink satellite blew up. Also, elon tweeted that anything can be hacked. Then 4hrs before the election was officially called, he announced that Trump had won.
The biggest by far reason Kamala lost is because middle aged white people didn't want a black woman in charge.
Elon didn't cheat anything, he's far too stupid to get away with it.
THEY CHEATED
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
THEY CHEATED & BRAGGED ABOUT IT
YOU OF ALL PEOPLE CAN'T POSSIBLY THINK OTHERWISE
IT'S A FACT THAT THEY CHEATED AND STOLE THE ELECTION
I think fElon has aspirations to do more than run doge for tRump. fElon takes more power to himself every day. fElon and Putin also have phone calls. I wonder if they are plotting to replace tRump once he has totally destroyed the U.S. Putin would love to see a foreigner running the U.S.
Once trump has fulfilled his obligations to Putin he will be irrelevant and unnecessary as Musk will take over. DOGE will see his emoluments as something to get the chopping block. IMO
Trump is an idiot who'll believe anything as long as someone flatters him. Musk is no computer genius, but may well have told Trump he was rigging the election. He definitely rigged the *electorate* by turning Twitter into Putin's disinformation machine.
The swing in vote share from dem to gop was similar across all 50 states. They would have had to hack every state, including the ones they lost. No way that happens without someone noticing. If you *know how things actually work*, you will know this type of hacking is impossible.
You can’t trust anything Trump says. Did Elon tell Trump he stole the election by hacking vote tabulators? Probably! Trump is dumb enough to believe that, and it’s an easy way to gain more control over him. There’s no way they hacked Massachusetts, NY, California, etc without anyone knowing.
Ask anyone who actually practices in cybersecurity, if anyone could pull that off. They will tell you it’s nonsense. But if you don’t know how these things actually work it’s easy to be taken in by idiotic social media driven narratives that spread b/c views and likes and follows.
I am a software developer. The changes described in the video are easy to implement. Musk has a group of young developers working for doge and hacking states' computers.
The voting machine's data was transferred via starlink.
The ballots outcome looks different. They took another path to be counted
So you think it is normal that the swing States were won by Democratic Senators and by trump at the same time?
It is not. The video shows what the numbers looked like in previous elections, and what it looks like now.
Actually the swing was even more in non-swing states. Some of the biggest D losses of vote share were places like NY. People saying that it was rigged sound no better than maga screaming about 2020.
Except MAGA have repeatedly demonstrated the willingness to act outside of the law on a large scale. The election being hacked or manipulated in some way would not surprise me.
I think this underestimates the anger and frustration many felt over the lie that Joe Biden was willing or able to run a vigorous campaign. And the apathy shown by the Admin., Congress in the 1/6 aftermath hardly conveyed to less engaged voters what was at stake.
I bet for about five years of your life, you were loudly crowing about how MAGA’s claim that the elections were rigged was just a crazy conspiracy theory by insane people
Well I bet youre stupid enough to think #TraitorTrump won the election fair & square huh?
Pull your head out & help yourself to a nice cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP
because IT WAS RIGGED
dvscorp08!
#stopthesteal was a #PSYOP to discourage any actual investigation into #ElectionFraud by #GOP & #SissySpaceX
I agree when we had a choice to do right the country walked away from it. All because eggs just cost to much. They never thought they might cost their lives.
This will sound a bit off, but some small part of my brain hopes the election was in fact rigged as the implications would be somewhat less dire than the knowledge of being surrounded by 77 million devotees of authoritarianism.
Conspiracy theories aside, I DO want to believe it was hacked too. Putin has succeeded hacking elections elsewhere in the world. The alternative is thinking the worst of fellow Americans.
Check out https://electiontruthalliance.org and https://smartelections.us - independent groups analyzing the voting data to show how it was manipulated. It might help ease your mind, but I’m kinda hoping it might also make you a little angry…
I hope so but I gotta say I'm worried.
I don't know why people would still vote for Poilievre after seeing him in action for the past twenty years.
He would be the end of Canada as we know it.
He never accomplished ONE THING in all his time sucking off the teats of Canadian tax payers. NOT ONE SINGLE THING!! And still costs them multi-millions+ of dollars a year to accomplish ZERO!! Hard to to understand the MapleMagats mindset. But,what happened in the U.S.....happened!!
When you compare Pollievre’s CV with that of Mark Carney….omg. Pollievre was a paperboy before he become a lifetime politician. Carney has a Ph.D. In economics from Oxford. Duh!!!!
We should signal Canadian PM Mark Carney & all of Canada 🇨🇦 that we are in solidarity with them by bringing Canadian flags to all protests and town halls. Let's show the world that we oppose Musk/Trump and will fight alongside our neighbor and ally to the North in fighting this fascist regime.
Please be mindful that there's a lot of us in the United States that don't believe that Trump won by legitimate means, but perhaps the election was fixed by Russian sabotage, by known Russian assets, as has been documented. And you have to consider Milei in Argentina.
Canadian elections results can't be manipulated using a line of code, like it's the case in US. What needs to be kept in check is US owned Canadian media (RW, there's a bunch) & fake polls, to avoid electing GOP North (Cons).
Well then JUMP on over to MY SIDE, and consider that musk didn't wait until after the election to engage in doge-e-tation. Donal Trump is on video saying as much.
I just can't figure out why it's being ignored.
Because the democrats spent 4 years saying that our elections could not be rigged. They laughed in the GOPs faces regarding the 2020 election being stolen. The whole reason nothing has been questioned is because of that.
Once again: Trump did not win a majority of the popular vote: more voters voted for Harris or a 3rd-party candidate than voted for Trump. More eligible voters did not vote at all than voted for Trump. Trump was elected by about 30 percent of eligible voters -- not by "the American electorate".
The EC was never meant to be fair, and 2024 proved it. Between the gerrymandering, possible electronic tampering, and years of dark money since the Citizens United ruling, it was a matter of time.
Not a ton hatter but convinced somehow the swing state presidential votes were tampered with. Worried if we don’t figure out how they did it, they’ll do it again in 2026; and yes I’m talking beyond the obvious gerrymandering and voter suppression that we know of. Argh.
ElectionTruthAlliance and SmartElections US. They have pretty much shown that something fucky went on in the swing states and a recount is needed but no one took them seriously in time. I am a Canadian so I can’t help much but I have been talking about how messed up that election was since November
A lot of us international people who aren’t deep into the “American exceptionalism” saw the election with a clearer head and tried to say something…..it was greasy….Trump did not win that fairly.
Trump didn't fix it! Elon did! Trump has came out and actually said so. He was actually alluding to it, during the election itself. Telling people to vote just one last time and they would never have to vote again. It was all going to be fixed. It's on video!
That’s why I lost all hope for next midterms. I see Republicans ignoring the possibility of losing during midterms by their continued rampage, and show on no remorse.
Yes let's face reality. We can look at publicly available voting data and analyze it for statistical anomolies that might indicate vote manipulation. If there are none, we should accept the result.
Thankfully this has been done by multiple groups. Spoiler: there was vote manipulation.
It's a psyop called preemptive narrative inversion: have some nutjob like Alex Jones say something ridiculous like "the 2020 election was rigged". Let the media and 60 court cases debunk the idea. Now you're free to hack the 2024 election without the slightest scrutiny.
I can't wait until it can be definitively shown - maybe ages from now - but all the signs were there and have been delineated, not just including that the man himself told us it was rigged and the 4 year old did too, twice.
And if your evidence consists of the election results counted by a man behind a curtain who then shredded the ballots, then you've already lost. Untrained volunteers watching unsecured computers at a polling location does not make for a secure election.
There is nothing insane about it. It *might* be proven to be circumstantial, but there is more than sufficient evidence to warrant a thorough investigation. I think it's pretty crazy how so many people underestimate what a billionaire paying a few moderately decent hackers can accomplish.
Trump will fix it is similar to fascist italian slogan Mussolini ha sempre ragione -Mussolini is always right. Italian resistance hung him on gas station in Milan.
There was overt voter suppression, no doubt, but the Rs needed covert hacking, too, because they're so unpopular. The data is right there. All 100 counties in NC bumped Trump and dumped Harris, even in heavily Democratic Durham county:
I’m still PO’d at Biden and dems for not sticking to the original “bridge plan”. Biden’s folly cost this country by allowing a felon to be elected. I often also wonder about integrity of the election but I think enough of the electorate were pissed at the democrats and voted FU.
The dems not owning their own BS was a huge factor in 2016 & 2025. The game is rigged. Both parties and the media make way too much money to give a rip about integrity, lawfulness, civility, democracy, and the common good. It goes all the way back to the events leading to Citizens United.
I understand your pessimism but I also think you underestimate the average American. The MAGA cult isn't average America. I firmly believe that the average American, now being forced to confront this shit in real time, will not go quietly.
A potent mix of propaganda, traitors, poor educational systems, exceptionalism mindset, celebrity worship & the purposeful degradation of its own citizens makes a sick cocktail 🍸 🥴
Our country is headed for dark times. But perhaps the dark times will forge us into a better society when people stop listening to rich white men telling them that the poor people need to make sacrifices.
I still do not trust the results of the 2024 election. Too many unusual events & clandestine meetings held in Russia & with other dictators. Election interference in US & other governments makes me suspicious.
The missing middle.. all the people that didn't vote because they'd been gerrymandered, disenfranchised or just couldn't afford or be bothered to vote.
Don’t get me wrong. We certainly make the wrong choice and fuck everything as much as humanly possible first. At our core we are selfish assholes. It’s in our nature.
Exactly!! There are millions in a cult, millions in willful ignorance. When do the rest of us stop wasting our time trying to reach them?? It's been how long now that we have tried?? 10 years?? Isn't it time for a divorce?? We need to face it and start talking about secession!!!
💯. I don’t know how we can educate/reform quickly enough an electorate of which over half read at a sixth grade level or less. Nobody reads anything of substance anymore. It’s all social media shit, mostly driven by the Right. No educated society would have put the Village Idiot in the WH!
And the SCOTUS decision to ban holding him accountable. 7/1/2024
Do you think that SCOTUS will look back on that decision in 10 years and say, “ we’re proud of that”?
The relative peace, prosperity, and mild leftward progress of the Clinton years was too much for the God botherers who insisted the true way to Christ was permanent war, craven moral degeneracy, and fascist political violence.
The Clinton years weren’t so prosperous for those not already privileged in the US or outside of it (NAFTA as an example) and the rightward/pro-corporate movement the of the Dem party that Bill & Co. pushed for was the opposite of “mild leftward progress”.
Tell me you’re a teenager who had no idea what life was like in the 70s and 80s without telling me you’re a teenager who had no idea what life was like in the 70s and 80s.
Seriously. If I asked ChatGPT to spit out the most inane TikTok inspired history vomit, it would have come up with this cookie cutter blowhard watermelon account take.
Go sit in a corner and read a book. The grown ups are talking.
Elections are almost always won by the one with the most $. Stop the rich from buying the elections. No more donations by lobbyists & cap donation amounts. Also, limit amount that can be spent on campaigns. Term limits for all politicians as well as SCOTUS. No drunks, pedos, 🍇ists, enablers, etc.
Thinking the EXACT same as I read the post. People want "term limits" on Congress. Seriously, smarten the fuck up! Stop electing the SAME FUCKING GOD DAMN PEOPLE!That's TERM LIMITS! I'm really fucking tired of ignorant, lazy, uneducated assholes. Call me an "elitist" liberal and I'll block your ass
I agree. Look how long Mitch McConnell has been as well as a couple of others. Now, I have to figure out my living situation because of two selfish azzholes..
I agree, but that’s not always easy.
In some areas, the party runs only one candidate, no primary, and the opposing party fails to run a candidate, and you wind up with the same candidate over and over.
EVERY candidate needs to be challenged so voters have a choice.
They happens when the district is so heavily gerrymandered that they could run JoJo the Dog-faced Boy and the same party would win. Voters used to choose their politicians. Politicians now choose their voters in most states.
Agreed. This is what I partially meant by lazy. There MUST be challengers! Of course the same rat bastard is going to win if the lazy, dumbass Dems don't put out a challenger. I've been a Democrat my entire life, but UHGGGG! WTF are we doing? Slamming our heads against the wall!!!
💯… but until we address/limit/ban gerrymandering in the state legislatures, we will see ruby red districts that allow people like MTG and Jordan to be reelected and continue to not pass a single bill that helps anyone …
💯 The world can no longer rely on the USA. The rest of the world's democracies must strengthen their own economies and militaries. We have to be united and vigilant.
There were a lot of people, including myself, who saw it was going to get a lot worse. I don't think anyone predicted Trump back then, but they've predicted it pretty much everything else that's happened so far, there was just no face to it yet.
Except that the first time they did not elect W. Never forget they stopped counting the votes. Never forget his own brother was governor of the state in question.
All this is true. But the people who did that aren't the electorate. Voters had a choice to correct that failure, with a lot of evidence that he wasn't a good president, and they didn't.
I think that election left the writing on the wall exactly where this country was going. It was a sign to the powers that be behind the scenes that they could pretty much do whatever they want.
That election was definitely stolen. The Ohio Secretary of State limited how many polling booths were placed in blue districts, especially colleges. In those districts there were long lines of voters waiting to vote when the polls closed.
Meanwhile in red districts there were plenty of polling booths and no lines. Bush won Ohio by 120,000 votes, and without Ohio he would have lost the Electoral College.
I don't know, I kind of felt like that was a flaw in our system, one we still haven't corrected get to correct in my lifetime, that was bound to show up eventually.
That's when you know it's over. Even if he died, resigned, got assassinated, or got imprisoned for murder your people are easily lead, under educated, and greedy.
Im no longer following my sister on FB, but apparently she thanked Trump yesterday for bringing home our astronauts. She doesn’t even know that Biden set this in motion already because Fox didn’t tell her that pesky fact.
If we do not find a way to stop this idiocy very soon our allies and trading partners will lose faith in the U.S. as a world leader. This will leave a vacuum which will be filled, but not by us.
Yes. The use of the fringe unitary executive theory & the fact that the case was not to be used as precedent, which turned the decision into an exception to the law + other consequences: 3 of the justices now on SCOTUS were on Bush's legal team, 1 is now CJ & all hv brought havoc to our legal system
It started in 1980- nobody woke up. They had a choice until Nov. then they did not. They still failed. They watched while our rights and democracy was systematically dismantled and they did nothing. The average American voter is a clown- undignified, undisciplined, uneducated and unqualified to have
I would argue for 2004. In 2000 someone could be just uninformed and naively optimistic about Bush. Sure, he stole the election, but he lost the popular vote. In 2004 there was absolute clarity that he was an imbecile and a warmonger. Yet he won the popular vote.
This!!! The dimpled Chads were enabled back then, through the courts and dogged corruption. That, and Clinton's destructive globalization push in the years preceding, allowed these rednecks to fester untreated for 25 years.
True. I actually voted for Bush in that election. (I know, I know, big mistake) and was genuinely shocked when the Supreme Court stepped in. Lost faith in the process then and it’s declined since.
Yes.
I remember Al Gore not wanting to have the USA election decided by a court.
His respect & honor, outstanding.
But we lost and “they” won.
How many gop watched this? Knew the truth, but kept quiet about the long term goal. Snakes
I believe it was a woman named Harris who word a whole lot of makeup (very red lipstick) who made the decision about the Chads. She may have been the original standard bearer for the current GOP fixation on the glam face look - lashes, lips, extensions, botox.
She was the one who arbitrarily ended the recount while helicopters were chasing the truck containing the ballots along the highway. Even Pat Buchanan said voters were confused by the ‘butterfly ballot.’ Democrats have, to their own detriment, continuously taken the high road—all the way to Hell.
Hanging chads were a result of deliberate tampering with those old voting machines. I'm still shocked that wasn't in the news.
I learned that in Chicago in 99, Aldermanic (city council) race. I dug three pencil leads out of the machines, each of which caused an unknown number of hanging chads.
If you’re looking into the firm and some of the employees that worked on the bush v gore in 2000. You’ll see that many are current republican management in very powerful places.
That’s your response? Republicans stole an election, and your only response is to somehow make it the fault of Democrats? I’m all for valid criticism, but not one word about the makeup of the Republican Party? Have you interrogated this inclination of yours?
I wish this all the time. Life would be so much happier wouldn’t it? It’s exhausting to have a moral compass and care for other people. Especially in 2025.
Crud!
I may be in the ignorant minority, but I am quietly watching her votes.
I know I’ve changed a Lot in 25 years.
It’s so hard now-there is No trust.
Exactly. As Senate President, he had the chance 2 back the Congressional Black Caucus's attempt to derail the SCOTUS-back Florida AG's decree 2 stop hand-counting the ballots w/'hanging chads' by casting the tie-breaking vote, but he didn't, proving he was no leader. Years later, we learned he won.
Yes and no. It proved voters absolutely matter and that the extensive gerrymandering our government partakes in is one of the single most important errors to correct our electorate. And basically nothing was done in gerrymandered districts. In fact many were made worse in the following decade.
I live in the second poorest and most compact area of my city with the majority of my neighborhood being impoverished immigrants and African Americans. In 2000 our district included part of the rich white township to the East.
In the late 2000s it was made into it's own district. After Trump 1.0 it was put back with East County. You can guess which elections my district went red vs blue pretty spot on to our district map adjustments. Had we remained district 5 my city wouldn't have gone red last year. That's key.
I agree with you but with a caveat- I have absolutely no faith in the Electoral College system, and believe voters suppression/vote tampering played a bigger role than we know.
Everything He accuses others of is a confession. Accusations against brushed off or blame others. Never culpable
Blaming the electorate ignores the real reason he won- voter suppression. As long as they can keep throwing out ballots in swing states we"re going to keep losing.
Everyone's too busy blaming voters now, because Senate & Congress refuse to do their duty, but there are more than enough legally cast votes that were (probably still are) tied up in GOP lawsuits, to change the results.
We have never been a moral and intelligent country. Sometimes moral, sometimes intelligent, never both. That's just a myth we feed ourselves. And nothing could be more immoral and unintelligent than elevating that ambulatory sack of pigshit (no offense, pigshit) over a dedicated and qualified woman.
I thought 🍊💩 won 1.5% of the votes over Kamala! And I’m not sure he’d have lost if had not had so much $ & help from his 💩lets and spoiled baby rich pricks.
When we get to the other side of this crisis, and it will get very worse before we get there, we need massive change. Post-WW2 type change, probably bigger.
Americans have put all of us in grave danger because they let all of their institutions deteriorate over time. This can't happen again.
People like you basically fcked Palestinians EVEN MORE, Americans, immigrants, Ukrainians & 1000s dying from end of USAID. You really showed us! Now go make yourself useful & parrot “GENOCIDE TRUMP” all over the internet
Btw, There was only ONE viable candidate calling for a 2SS & cease fire that you idiots willfully ignored. Trump ended Bidens ban on 2000lb bombs & humanitarian aid to Gaza in his first few days in office. You really showed us!
In tens of thousands of leaflets dropped all across Gaza today, Netanyahu announces that Trump's makeover plan will be enforced, and they need to be preparing to move. "Before the implementation of Trump's coercive plan, which will force you to flee, whether you like it or not..."
Trump's elimination of USAID will cost millions of innocent lives over the next few years. The US is now rounding up innocent people who have not been accused of any crime, and torturing them in concentration camps in the US, Cuba, Panama, and El Salvador.
Trump stopped all US aid into Gaza, and he promises to remove all 2 million people living there, so he can claim their land as his own personal property, and then make himself richer by building new Trump-branded resorts on their corpses.
I'm sorry you don't give a shit, Chrissy. I wish you did.
It was a choice of genocide with some hope for change with Harris/Walz, or continued genocide with a psychopathic criminal that loves Bibi so much that he threatens to obliterate Gaza even more and deport Palestinians to Africa!
Is the problem really the process? Or is it how (accurately) informed the electorate is? I think it’s lack of time/access/interest combined with the splintering of news sources into numerous, superficial, partisan reporting. If we don’t agree on FACTS we can’t agree on policy.
Instead we are left with uninformed, confused, disengaged voters who recognize their lives are not satisfactory but have no access to reliable source of information on reasons and solutions. Who has time to research all the issues and come up with a solid conclusion with today’s algorithms?
Americans We CANT FUCK UP -COMING STATE ELECTIONS!
OUR VOTES NEEDED FOR DEMOCRATS —State Supreme Courts, Mayors, Education Reps —Etc.! Democrats In State Gov/Officials Positions Are OUR POWER TO STOP Trump/GOPs/Elons Destruction Of State Economies,Jobs, Infrastructure,Edu, Constitutional Laws!!
True. I have almost no faith left in my fellow man to do the right thing. It’s been like waking up to find you live in an outer limits episode. Very isolating.
Check out Indivisible, they have local groups and if there isn't one, you can start one. Finding like-minded people is an elevating experience, trust me. 😊
Unfortunately this feeling is just another familiar issue for those of us who have been calling for action on the environment, climate, & humans' destructive behaviour towards other species. Living in a world where people carry on with harmful business as usual attitudes is very surreal😞
Very true. The world is on fire and we’re driving the kid’s carpool. But on a personal level, we are limited as to what we can do. That’s part of the surreal.
I encourage everyone to at least shift to a plant-based diet. Not only does this reduce you/your family's individual environmental footprint - it also has a ripple effect with others, opens up the conversation about sustainable lifestyles, show, Govts we're willing and asking for systemic change.💚🌱
Other actions are reducing personal consumerism (no, not living in a cave, lol, but not buying all that stuff we don't really need to live comfortably).
Also, go flight free, to normalise slow travel & to really show the rich up for their lavish lifestyles & environmental footprints - shame them.
But now we’re coming together The whole free world against Trump is coming together to stop him. This is the way to root out the evil I have no idea how long it will take or if we will be successful but uniting and massively protesting is the only way end this nightmare
We are experiencing the same in Europe(Italy here), maybe at a different degree but equally dangerous. Trust is necessary and while we should not underestimate the situation the most progressive thing one can do is never identifying the people of any country with its current leader. Just my opinion.
100% fair & reasonable. The US has become unstable and is in the midst of a Fascist coup. We'll figure it out, but it may be a very long road back. I'd emigrate if I could.
We don’t blame you. It’s bad. It’s really not the majority of voters. I believe there was hacking and several other forms of cheating. Most of us are shocked, mortified & enraged. Be careful because it’s happening everywhere. Don’t let down your guard 🙏
I read somewhere that (roughly) a third voted Rep, a third Dem and a third didn’t vote. Which means that the vast majority either voted for this or stood by and let it happen.
No—I really don’t believe that. I don’t believe he had a third. And I don’t believe a third didn’t vote. Hacking can change lots of numbers and even make some disappear.
Even if you wish to believe the election was stolen, the fact that it was even close really demonstrates how out of touch and horrible at messaging the Democratic party has become.
How can election to bring back the monarchy even be close?
I totally agree that the Dems are out of touch and needs a total left wing transformation. That being said: there is a lot to indicate there was massive fraud in this election that people need to be aware of. Potentially millions of votes for Kamala were thrown out, and multiple swing states
I’m crazy, but I don’t believe it was close. I think this is his (their) 3rd time cheating. He couldn’t believe he lost last time because he cheated—and decided that Dems couldn’t have beat HIS cheating unless THEY cheated.
In a way I hope you’re right. If you are then that is shocking. And if you’re not, and it is true that the vast majority either voted for it or stood by letting it happen, then that is also shocking.
Pretty hard to comprehend either way 🤷♂️
Yup. And also seemingly daunting to overcome or do anything about. Feeling like a hamster on a wheel thinking I actually have the possibility of getting somewhere.
The U.S. has traditionally had horrible voter turnout, even in Presidential elections. Given the election infrastructure across states, widespread fraud is unlikely.
Massive disinformation and voters staying home or some switching to Trump are sadly the reasons Harris lost.
The lines to vote in person were so long. I'd never seen lines that long in my lifetime. And many people voted by mail. The turnout was so great that I was sure Harris would win. We outnumber those mofos! Her loss was such a disappointment.
I would say you watch too many American movies, hacking, OMG LOL. Admit that Americans are not exceptional at anything, not even at being manipulated by fascist megalomaniacs. We already know something about it, Americans are enjoying it for the first time now.
The numbers of the non-voters have been very alike for several election circles so yeah, this is obviously correct. The assholes who didn't bother to vote are even worse than MAGA, imo.
Yeah, they were very few people’s first choices. But we live in the real world where we have to make shitty choices sometimes and a lot of people chose wrong, so now we’re all fucked. Which a third of us knew we would be.
There was a clip of trump last week at his desk saying how he wasn't going to win then they helped him win which was great etc - or something like that, I can't find it now of course!
What people are doing when they cling to these narratives is the exact same thing the other side did in 2020... except it is a fringe thing instead of being pushed by the former president. Still not good and also a way to avoid facing the fact the OP is saying.
What Trump hoped to accomplish with his constant complaints about the 2020 election was that when he cheated in the next one, everyone would be afraid to “sink to his level” by calling him out for doing so. It appears Trump succeeded massively.
I don't see much reason to think that was his goal back then but it would certainly be the kind of 4D chess move that people on the right always want to attribute to every dumb thing he does. Would be insane to risk getting convicted by a more competent DOJ just for that.
He knew he lost. He knew he’d run again. Not 4D, just very easy common sense that even someone of his level of intellect could easily come up with. And somehow a large amount of Democrats, including most the elected members of congress from the left, have completely bought it.
I hear that and I acknowledge it. I believe it’s something more of us believe that not, but it is ultimately unhelpful going forward—except to also find a more effective method to safeguard against cheating. It’s frustrating & I know I’m not alone feeling abandoned by the party.
Trump:"He (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody those vote counting computers." Trump mentions the Olympics,World Cup & states twice that he'll be able to make it because the election was rigged." Madison Square Garden: “I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well"
The UK continuing this whole nonsense of the special relationship and saying what a great partner the US is and fawning over Trump just looks ridiculous. We need to forge a path apart from a US that is pro-fascism and closer to Putin's Russia than Europe.
Kimmel sent a producer to the Florida panhandle to ask randos about Mt. Rushmore. The level of sheer ignorance was staggering. Easy to see how the election turned out the way it did.
We already HAVE the solution to most of these idiots in Congress. RECALL ELECTIONS. You can sign a petition, get them recalled and hold a special election to replace them.
Reagan/Roy Cohn/Murdoch started Fox News as a CIA-organized perception management operation aiming Cold War-style propaganda at the American ppl. I don’t blame the electorate, I blame conservatives for corrupting everything, creating an oligarchy & allowing Murdoch total power over conservatives.
Not to trivialize your feelings but the re-election of George W. Bush was not a picnic. Of course, Orange Julius makes ‘W’ seem like a seer and a genius by comparison.
Thank you for saying that. I have a family member who is an ethical , sweet, intelligent person. The fact that they voted for Trump was misguided and now this person gets it. Thanks again.
I never had faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing but I had held out hope they wouldn't do the obviously and blatantly wrong thing.
This election was the product of 40 years of political manipulation by the wealthy elites. First the Koch brothers with Reagan and loading the Supreme Court which gave us Citizens United ruling. Unlimited money in elections, the tax system for the wealthy. Now Musk, Thiel , buy Trumpf and Vance
Exactly. Given or taken the hacking prospect, it's impossible to deny how decades of undermining the education and critical thinking and promoting individualist greed and arrogance while making empathy a "sin" and create a plutocracy among the bipartisan system are recipes of a broken state like USA
Okay can we agree that this whole deal sucked? We gotta deal with reality. The constant lectures & pearl clutching helped get us here. How do we fix this & stop it from happening again? The game is rigged. Both parties rigged it with the media’s support. All making bank off of it. How do we fix it?
Doing that as I can. Did that pre election too. My point is these influencer types keep telling us how “ashamed” & “appalled” they are of those who voted Trump. I’m tired of it. Over 90 million eligible voters sat this election out. That screams “messaging problem!!” & put us into this mess.
It’s a Camus moment, for sure. We live in a time of political pestilence that may kill more people than the million of US whom Trump killed by his bumbling negligence last time around. And I may well pass away before it does. But I work to see it gone for my kids and their kids.
Too true: They voted for Trump in 2016 when he mocked a disabled voter. And they voted for him in 2020 when he killed maybe a million of US. Then they voted for him again in 2024 after Biden got democracy back on its feet and Harris was ready and able to get it running again. Mindless. Heartless.
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All this crap about the price of eggs. That’s what they say when the cameras are rolling. Behind closed doors, it’s all about the people they hate. That’s what they voted for.
Of course they voted for Tweety Amin. They’re him. That’s who they are. The hate, bigotry, racism, misogyny- all of it.
Also anyone who voted for him. "Conservatives" have lost their way - this guy wants to cut taxes and reduce the government, but also is in with white nationalists and does not respect the legal system or norms. So anyone who did not vote for Harris is responsible for this mess.
Under no circumstances, will I hold back from challenging anyone who I overhear say "I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for THIS".
Yes they did. They had everything Trump did in his first term, everything he promised in his second term, and everything he said in between. No excuses.
I've heard about how the Vietnam War caused rifts in households (and which were artistically captured in the Vietnam Memorial). To date, there's still disagreement, despite ample evidence that our leaders knew it couldn't be won. It's sobering to think there may not be any reconciliation from this.
However, I'm quite confident that I'm clear-headed about my position. Trump was never about a disagreement of ideas. Trump is about a full-on assault of democratic norms and democracy itself. Taking Trump's side is like taking the side of the 9/11 hijackers.
I was totally surprised. I told my kids that my generation had failed them, that we allowed such a poor choice to even be on the ballot. Unfortunately they have to wait two years to vote to put people in congress to check this maddness.
It always bugs me that America has so long taken the view that it can a) be the most powerful country on Earth by a comfortable margin, AND b) not acknowledge the fact that because of this the entire world has a stake in its politics.
Lot of evidence of the same kind of hacking as happened with Romania’s now annulled election, tried but not successful in Germany’s recent election and in a number of other countries elections.
But the US election was but a piece in a much greater campaign against the US and constitutional democracies and rule of law based society and order worldwide.
The same transnational organized crime architects, funders and collaborators are behind Brexit, January 6th, Freedom Convey and interfered with not just our election but seven countries’ elections now in addition to the coordinated hybrid warfare campaigns using troll armies augmented by AI too.
There's no doubt too many people voted for the Nazi, KKK, Billionaire Boys club BUT...It will be proven one day that the bomb scares that shut down precise precincts in ONLY swing states on election day were MuskRat's doing. He & Putin stole the election. Fuck anyone who says I'm no better than MAGA
The bomb scares were likely how they got away tossing thousands of ballots via their election “volunteers” who they recruited & “trained”. They packed the polling places across the country with election deniers so they could ensure “fair elections”
Too much onus on voters/ consumers, not enough- by a longshot- on the producers & distributors of the undigestable bullshit we are left to pick through on our plate.
We expect steak, we get poached possum served flambe'.
The failure was of those who did NOT vote. We all knew the Trump cult was baked in. The cult members are only beginning to wake up now, because 'they' are impacted along with 'the Other' people.
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” @atrupar.com
There was nothing spectacular about the 2024 election. The same third of the country that is eligible to vote, but never does had the expected negative impact.
Our country is incredibly racist, misogynist and deeply uneducated. The majority of people have no idea how the world works or how the complex systems we have in place work together. They can't comprehend the economy let alone look at the data and make decisions. America is a mess run by idiots.
I think so too. I find it completely unbelievable that he won every swing state. That was a bridge too far and you know that moron would’ve insisted he win every single one if he was on board with manipulating votes. 🤦🏻♀️
I’m not entirely sure the Democrats are going to be a part of the mechanism for resolving this particular problem. I think there’s a reason the Constitution begins with “We the People, in order to form a more perfect Union…”
Not that I want to defend that piece of shit, but I think what he was saying is “they rigged the 2020 election” so, now he’s currently president. BUT in saying that, I also think he cheated in the 2020 election, which is why he’s so adamant he won it - because HE rigged it but instead Biden won.
He's said it multiple times and in at least one of them, it was pretty clear he didn't mean 2020. Narcissists can't help but brag, and I think his addled brain doesn't know when to shut up. Then again, this comment is proof the he can talk about it openly without consequence.
In 2020, Trump was screaming about an unfair, rigged election. In 2025, Trump is bragging about a rigged election. He is like a baby. With an ill temper.
We are still a young country. Education in the schools focused on American history and the constitution will instill the love of country in future generations. We have been working on that for many years. This now, is our challenge. I’ve taken the Oath and now, it’s time to fight, together. Faith!
Just another thing Trump will certainly fuck up. At this point I wouldn’t think any foreign country would want to come here. I hope they all boycott this fascist state. Maybe we should help convince them by warning them of their potential arrest in the USA.
Huh. I reached that conclusion about the American electorate in 2000. "Never again any faith." So 2024 didn't surprise or disappoint me. Nation of morons, getting our due.
Do you think it was a free and fair election? No interference from Putin who was losing a war? From Trump facing prison? From musk facing Litigation/prison per his own words?
There was interference in the election by Iran, China and Russia. That was determined in October, 2024 by a Dept of Nat'l Security report. There is no doubt about that. Add gerrymandering and ballots not being accepted, plus whatever Trump's "secret" was... the election results stink badly.
I'm not sure which are worse: the fools who believe in what he says or the cynics who know it is nonsense but voted for him anyway because they thought they would get tax cuts and deregulation.
The cynics are educated & rich. I fault them more for electing a morally depraved person just to get a tax break and because they find "wokeness" annoying.
Yep. DJT et al. had an agenda in 2020...to get Dominion machine source code & password. There's a reason they didn't target ES&S, biggest supplier of voting machines across the US & incidentally, big supporters of the GOP.
Credible election security experts sounded the alarm after the election.👀⬇️
There’s something to be said about manually counting votes. Yes machines are quicker, but they can be hacked. No one will convince me that Musk didn’t hack the election. Dems playing by the rules, got us here. Not demanding recounts got us here.
If someone can find evidence of the voting being manipulated to a degree that it could have affected the outcome in swing states, it is absolutely NOT too late. Now is the perfect time to find evidence.
I can say with 110 % certainty that for this to happen, we need staff because to do this appropriately, we need a second or third pair of eyes( of the opposite parties) to make sure there's no foul play. Unfortunately states and counties are unable/ unwilling to shell out money for staff1/
2/ Plus in some counties in the United States they are paid as little as $15 an hour and this is for an office position, not poll workers. We have to address this issue too
3/ This leads to a revolving door of staff with expertise that we need plus burning out staff that's already burnt. Our public servants deserve better and this is why we're here.
After Jan 6, Ds should’ve investigated election fraud. They could’ve used the GOP’s “stop the steal” slogan to investigate ELECTION fraud rather than voter fraud. That might’ve explained Gore and Clinton and Sen. Nelson in FL where rural counties have more votes than urban ones.
There's a person whose job it is to oversee the election and report on its integrity. She's the head of the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence. They submit a report after the election in which concerns about election integrity are discussed. Biden & Harris received that report. 🤷🏼♀️
I’m seeing fascism in supposedly democratic countries. Outlawing discussion of anti-Zionism. What do people think their governments are, if they can already suppress any speech? If Trump lost, someone else would replace him. Maybe think how bad are dems that people chose fascist Trump instead..
The worst thing is how he was straight up telling you how bad he was going to f&^% america's shit up, and STILL people went along with it.
It's like hooking back up with an ex, who stole, cheated & abused you the first time, and they tell you this time, theyll do that again plus they have stds.
I still am of the belief that he DID NOT Win. No way all 7 swing states. Does not track. Listening to my intuition more these days. It has not steered me wrong, when I listened.
I completely agree. I think a big tell is how he always talks about election fraud. Why would you be so concerned about fraud if you weren’t doing it yourself? He is constantly projecting his lies on others.
And it was all decided by midnight! AND he won the popular vote too, the thing he was so upset about and wanted more than anything. Now the guy who helped him do it is in charge of the government. Hmmm
I’m willing to accept the possibility there was fraud, but that doesn’t explain why Trump did better overall. In many blue states he got more votes than he got in 2020. Of course, he lost those states, but he still got more votes.
I lost my faith years ago when you all stopped masking during the "still" ongoing pandemic. Good luck with your future AIDS, stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.
There’s foul play👆🏻💦Musk’s program for counting the votes-the morons cited their success in PA at a speech/event! They blackmailed/bribed people too! Ask Grok if Musk interfered-it acknowledged it!👇🏻💦 Impeach the entire administration; morons need to all be deported since they love Putin-send ‘em to🇷🇺
Today, Trump’s approval rating is higher than his first term ~48%
They live among us, exuberant to see the doors to hell opening, watching the vulnerable suffer, happy to watch the ‘payback time’
In one year, the liberties of this day will be a distant dream.
It has profoundly changed how I feel about many people. The deliberate entrenchment in ignorance while still trying to believe they have some moral high ground.
Same. It's a challenge to be civilized to these people. They knew what he was and saw the hate. I guess it was the hate that appealed to them. Most will deny that though. They are so ignorant and hateful/racist/xenophobic, or at least adjacent, which makes them exactly that in my mind.
I am right with you. I hold rage at those who voted for the orange menace, but also at the regular blue voters who held off b/c of Gaza, and others just chose to not vote. Insane.
And those who voted for the repeated thorn in our side & election spoiler, Jill Stein. The gal was photographed having lunch with Gen. Flynn & Putin in Moscow. 🤦🏻♀️
True. I had similar feelings. It was a decisive moment in history and it failed spectacularly. The world will never be the same again. A long period of relative peace, friendship and prosperity ended. It is very very sad.
It was very close. That should give hope. Often people need to learn the hard way. My biggest concern is whether we will in fact have free and fair elections, or martial law. We need to influence our military rank and file to defy Trump orders that are against their oaths to the Constitution.
🍑 said ‘you don’t have to vote’ ‘we have all the votes we need’ ‘thanks to EM we won PA bc he knows those computers and voting machines better than anyone’
The funny thing about 🍑 is he always eventually lets the truth slip from his lips. 🤷♂️
In my opinion, the decisive test of our lifetimes was in 2012 when someone walked into a school and murdered five-year-olds and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in US elected officials to do the obviously right thing.
It was heartbreaking this last year when they showed interviews about the kids that should've been graduating. The pain the families & friends had to relive was excruciating. We have to bare witness to the injustice that was done by our elected SOBs that failed us all in that moment
It’s far more complicated than that. First there aren’t 2 sides—there are 8 billion perspectives. And some of those people are addicted to hate and anger. When it comes to our 2 political parties, one is built on oppression and one is built on expanding rights. It’s never as simple as “both sides.”
If you haven't noticed, there are two main sides to this. I'm caught in between both of them, because I refuse to embrace the wrong doings of either. Ignoring it is what the German people did.
Trump before Nov 5 "we already have enough votes", and "we have a little secret". Trump is an idiot, and when he knows something, his ego can't help but let it out. Remember Elon's kid in the oval office telling Trump to shut up? He'd heard others say that a few times!!
Trump was going to jail of ge didn't win. He wasn't going to leave that up to the American people.Ofcourse he tampered with the election. Election Truth Alliance are publishing data that shows trump and musk tampered with the election at the tabulation level. Every swing state.
If Garland did his job correctly, we wouldn’t be in this horrible situation. Trump would be in prison. Garland slow walked everything when it came to Trump, now we all suffer.
There is also some crazy crap going on in this Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Dems are getting mailers that say Election Day is April 11th when it’s April 1st. Fake ads for Susan Crawford made by the Musk team,too. They can’t win unless the cheat.
I haven’t lived in Wisconsin in 23 years, and I’m getting text messages about that race every day. I don’t have a Wisconsin phone number, so it’s a mystery how they found me.
How about the Republican saying he would ban interracial marriage? How did that question even come up?
I believe with all my heart that musk bought trump the presidency. Money is the root of all evil & we’re seeing it right before our eyes. My heart is broken for our democracy & freedoms.
You are SO right.
But we don’t invade buildings and bust up stuff when we suspect the deck was stacked.
But what’s this burning cars thing going around?
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One is a party that is so indebted to rich donors that it’ll pass any law suggested to benefit them
The other is Trump’s team: they aren’t going to bother with legality and are just stealing everything not nailed down. (And most of the stuff that is)
Like get off your butt and go vote?
The non voters, registered but not "motivated' enough.
"They didn't speak directly to me" crowd.
Well now can you hear the message?
Let the Red States go.
What about abolitionists in Confederate states in 1862?
What about Germans resisting the Nazi regime in 1939?
That’s not how it works. The world is not simple, or black/white.
No excuses.
“The American people are too good to elect someone like that president.”
That was the toughest realization. That near 50% of Americans are just horrible human beings.
But even more do I blame the Americans who saw with their own eyes COVID, J6 and the invasion of Ukraine. They knew he was incompetent as well as evil.
And why?
White supremacy, stupid.
https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly
In the 6 states that flipped Kamala Harris lost the most ground to Trump with high school or less educated women earning between $25k-$50k in their household per year.
That was the biggest reason Trump won. Democrats lost too much ground with one of their supposed constituencies.
Democrats did not retain enough support from their base in the 6 states that flipped.
I imagine a lot of these women were in households paying approaching half their income on rent.
@meidastouch.com has *doubled* Joe Rogan's number of downloads
https://www.newsweek.com/meidas-touch-podcast-nearly-doubles-joe-rogan-downloads-2046471
Now Meidas has bumped out Fox News!
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-made-fox-and-murdoch-very
Coincidence that Rogan praising Jon Stewart as "evenhanded"? And Fox acknowledging concern about tanking economy?
AM reached deep into the country and kept people company while they worked; for 30 years now,shaping attitudes.
Long term strategy
By the 80’s they had production ability, talent, and a talent pipeline ready. Congress nixes fairness doctrine in 87, Rush Limbaugh debuts across the country in 88 without restrictions.
Same with cable TV in 90s
I believe it was Kaitlan Collins.
She had Jim Jordan on who was spewing ignorant nonsense about the judge ruling against Trump.
Her response: “hm. Thank you congressman.”
Just universal “ok so that’s what they said. Moving on.”
And the uninformed think “oh, I guess that’s what is true fact, I didn’t realize.”
You had 1 chance to prevent the USA from becoming a mafia state. And you failed.
Now your only option is to chase the fascist government out.
You lost.
Now, plz, be like Poland, not like Hungary.
Poland recovered their democracy in 2023, after 8 years.
Hungary is still INSANELY stupid.
America most definitely did fail and now we all get to pay.
His campaign was 100% positive he was losing.
Fine, keep saying it, but it puts you in the same camp as the stop the steal people, if you're cool with that.
IDK…smoke!! 💨
By any metric, election was a squeaker, & Trump could barely beat a woman of color, so I can only spit whenever I hear him claim his mandate. He got what he needed to stay out of jail, period.
Vote counting is watched by both parties in all precincts.
It's as close to impossible as you can get to cheat.
The Whole Country moved right. The whole thing. By close to the same margin.
Trump lost to a white man.
Trump won with a larger margin against a black woman.
That's it, that's the whole of the lesson.
Go to an Applebees in the sticks and look around and tell me I'm wrong.
For good or ill, that ship has sailed😒
Even if there was evidence...his track record shows it doesn't matter.
I was in a bomb threatened precinct.
No one (literally no one) came in to vote after news of the bomb threats went out at 4 pm.
Not a free and fair election!
Elon didn't cheat anything, he's far too stupid to get away with it.
Dis-United State of Dumberica!
WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
THEY CHEATED & BRAGGED ABOUT IT
YOU OF ALL PEOPLE CAN'T POSSIBLY THINK OTHERWISE
IT'S A FACT THAT THEY CHEATED AND STOLE THE ELECTION
many idiots in this Country; scary!!!
Look up Hitler's Germany and the Holocaust...
Big, big disappointment
This might be why he is scrambling to install Starlink services worldwide.
Proof is in the pudding!!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSWqn7UHYM
The voting machine's data was transferred via starlink.
The ballots outcome looks different. They took another path to be counted
It is not. The video shows what the numbers looked like in previous elections, and what it looks like now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSWqn7UHYM
Pull your head out & help yourself to a nice cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP
because IT WAS RIGGED
dvscorp08!
#stopthesteal was a #PSYOP to discourage any actual investigation into #ElectionFraud by #GOP & #SissySpaceX
-Trump stole an election
-Americans are stupid, entitled babies who are about to learn they had it really good
Enjoy your conspiracy theories, you fucking lunatic.
More likely is that you are a gaslighting bot or AI troll who sucks at their job
That’s some mad boomer energy there, grandpa
That we were making it look like questioning the election was the bad thing when it was really *continuing to do it even after it was looked into*.
So it would hamstring us if Trump tried to cheat.
It was MAGA continuing even after it was investigated and judges saying "we can't find anything" that is the issue.
But Americans don't do nuance so here we are.
We'll see if electorate is bright enough to not elect Cons.
I don't know why people would still vote for Poilievre after seeing him in action for the past twenty years.
He would be the end of Canada as we know it.
I just can't figure out why it's being ignored.
https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2025/02/russian-interference-coming-soon-to-an-election-near-you?lang=en
https://youtube.com/shorts/3V5cOPd0vl0?si=9HN3uydcvniIieB5
FFS
https://smartelections.substack.com/p/did-trump-fix-it
Thankfully this has been done by multiple groups. Spoiler: there was vote manipulation.
Featured briefly in my video 👍
https://youtu.be/cKDw2rlLAs0?si=7Ut3OTFdpNQpL__F
*Always* laying groundwork or covering tracks, by accusing others of what they've done, or intend to do.
I think the fraud is more massive than folks realize, even.
Those campaigns were diametrically,
dumpster fire vs awesome sauce.
And if your evidence consists of the election results counted by a man behind a curtain who then shredded the ballots, then you've already lost. Untrained volunteers watching unsecured computers at a polling location does not make for a secure election.
https://bsky.app/profile/quantum-man.bsky.social/post/3lkowznpph22x
Please prove me right.
Do you think that SCOTUS will look back on that decision in 10 years and say, “ we’re proud of that”?
If someone nudges you, ever so slightly, year after year...you don't realize when the chair finally gets pulled out from under you.
It can make some people mad and retaliatory, others wake up.
Go sit in a corner and read a book. The grown ups are talking.
Look at Jim Jordan. He's been in congress for 18 yrs. What has he done?
We cannot leave people in congress that just sit there like puppets.
Bills sponsored: 17
Bills passed: 0
Speaker of the House nominations: 3
Selected: 0.
Jackets owned: ?
Jackets worn: 0
Fox New appearances: 600+
Gym works hard for those people who keep voting for him for fuck knows why.
In some areas, the party runs only one candidate, no primary, and the opposing party fails to run a candidate, and you wind up with the same candidate over and over.
EVERY candidate needs to be challenged so voters have a choice.
Self-fulfilling prophecy, in some cases, because it could be winnable IF they invested the time/money/effort.
I was such a sweet summer child when I thought that was peak disillusionment, though.
The owner was Big GOP Donor.
#GetBusy 😎🗽🇺🇸
That's not an electoral college problem.
That's an American voter problem.
He didn’t win 2004.
I guess if voting was really that consequential, they wouldn’t let us do it. As it is, they appoint who they want.
I remember Al Gore not wanting to have the USA election decided by a court.
His respect & honor, outstanding.
But we lost and “they” won.
How many gop watched this? Knew the truth, but kept quiet about the long term goal. Snakes
The zeitgeist was of utter disbelief.
I learned that in Chicago in 99, Aldermanic (city council) race. I dug three pencil leads out of the machines, each of which caused an unknown number of hanging chads.
The deviousness of it all.🤢
I wonder if that’s a coincidence.
Dems caved. Just like Schumer just did
Until we can remove Dem cowards we are cooked
Don't even get me started on how Dems allow Corporate Dems to punch harder left than they do right
I may be in the ignorant minority, but I am quietly watching her votes.
I know I’ve changed a Lot in 25 years.
It’s so hard now-there is No trust.
Good God.. Insidious Ugliness.
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-timing-of-al-gores-concession-in-2000/
Everything He accuses others of is a confession. Accusations against brushed off or blame others. Never culpable
colored glasses in 2016.
Was
Fixed.
again
Americans have put all of us in grave danger because they let all of their institutions deteriorate over time. This can't happen again.
https://youtu.be/NcR5hlnN31I
I'm sorry you don't give a shit, Chrissy.
I'm sorry you don't give a shit, Chrissy. I wish you did.
OUR VOTES NEEDED FOR DEMOCRATS —State Supreme Courts, Mayors, Education Reps —Etc.! Democrats In State Gov/Officials Positions Are OUR POWER TO STOP Trump/GOPs/Elons Destruction Of State Economies,Jobs, Infrastructure,Edu, Constitutional Laws!!
Also, go flight free, to normalise slow travel & to really show the rich up for their lavish lifestyles & environmental footprints - shame them.
Their hate and anger is intense and vicious. And these folks are involved in a ministry! They’re also on Facebook constantly, apparently.
The Milgram Experiment is real
How can election to bring back the monarchy even be close?
Politely FTFY.
Dems objectively messaged better than Trump from leftist/centrist POV.
But it's been obvious my whole life Americans are mostly right-wing. We leftists just don't want to deal with it.
Pretty hard to comprehend either way 🤷♂️
Massive disinformation and voters staying home or some switching to Trump are sadly the reasons Harris lost.
Dems can win in ‘28.
https://x.com/mrsbutters/status/1900635337321517497?s=42
manipulating elections worldwide.
1.47% more than those who voted for Harris.
Some voters did shift to Trump in ‘24, but the loss came from those who sat out (or voted third party).
Dems can win in ‘28. Need to get folks to the polls.
It is now "move on" time.
Hello world. It's Canada here.
Looking for a new lover.
Come with stellar reference.
The USA swears on a stack of bibles that we fucked em real good.
We are serial monogamists.
We have a lot to offer to the right partner, but we do say sorry alot. 😘
They’ve been known as planet earth’s D students for decades
You have betrayed yourself. You didn't do the right thing, elect a prosecutor to go after a criminal. You are now a mafia-state.
https://open.substack.com/pub/demodirge/p/is-voting-a-veneer-is-americas-democracy?r=9gmmo&utm_medium=ios
Trump & Putin and maybe Musk are clearly sociopaths. Which is bad.
But most people are just wrong. Not bad.
I gave you follow for that one ! 👍
All this crap about the price of eggs. That’s what they say when the cameras are rolling. Behind closed doors, it’s all about the people they hate. That’s what they voted for.
Of course they voted for Tweety Amin. They’re him. That’s who they are. The hate, bigotry, racism, misogyny- all of it.
Yes they did. They had everything Trump did in his first term, everything he promised in his second term, and everything he said in between. No excuses.
I just don’t understand how so many made that choice.
The world is watching + terrified about what is happening in your country …
Frankly, the majority of your citizens are completely oblivious to the seriousness of the situation …
Tomorrow may be too late, the time to act + fight back is now …
❤️🍁🇨🇦🍁❤️
We are 'taxed', so to speak, but not represented.
Recommend this org’s work—https://electiontruthalliance.org/
Highly recommend watching her concession speech again.
We deserve a democracy that works for us all.
We the people for the people not ruled by the rich for the rich.
I believe she was told not to.
This was one of the biggest Jim Crow elections
Some of us really do hear you
We expect steak, we get poached possum served flambe'.
That's what I did. 😍
Either that was a lie to scare us off from voting or he was telling the truth.
Tell me why we don't hear nothing about the admission by Trump that his election was rigged. (After the FIFA's guy sales pitch.)
There is a common denominator. He brings out the worst in everthing and everybody.
His cult thinks he has been sent by god as a savior. In this atheists opinion. It seems more like Satan and his minions are on a 10 year holiday.
And… we can’t give up on our fellow Americans, even when we’re really pissed.
I keep wondering what would happen if we held another election right now.
If people really knew what he would do… would they still vote for him?!?
If so, I think I give up
I have an easier time believing DJT & Musk et al. cheated. Bigly. And in every way possible. The evidence is there if one chooses to look.
With each passing day of lawlessness, it strains credulity that they didn't.
Credible election security experts sounded the alarm after the election.👀⬇️
https://bsky.app/profile/wirelessben.bsky.social/post/3lkswtx6c6k23
Director of National Intelligence. They submit a report after the election in which concerns about election integrity are discussed. Biden & Harris received that report. 🤷🏼♀️
It's like hooking back up with an ex, who stole, cheated & abused you the first time, and they tell you this time, theyll do that again plus they have stds.
They live among us, exuberant to see the doors to hell opening, watching the vulnerable suffer, happy to watch the ‘payback time’
In one year, the liberties of this day will be a distant dream.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polling-update-2047868
“That includes Newsweek's tracker, which currently shows that Trump's approval rating is 48 percent”
My point is 48% is *higher than his first term approval ratings* MAGA is happier with his behavior now than in 2016.
The funny thing about 🍑 is he always eventually lets the truth slip from his lips. 🤷♂️
This both sides bs is why are where we are.
Trump 2.0 there is not. They are instead embracing his worst elements.
I doubt the electorate would fall for his propaganda after this.
Maybe then I'll let my guard down a little.
How about the Republican saying he would ban interracial marriage? How did that question even come up?
Those dissuasion ads really work. People were convinced Harris had wildly liberal policies b/c of those ads.
But we don’t invade buildings and bust up stuff when we suspect the deck was stacked.
But what’s this burning cars thing going around?