I think in this case it wasn't who voted for trump that matters his numbers are slightly lower than when he went up against Biden in 2020 The question people should be asking is why the couch got so many votes this year.
Might have something to do with a Black woman trying to get Cheney voters.
If you are, like me, and are bewildered how a Christian can support him, this helps explain how we got here. It is lengthy, but well worth the read. Well written by Propublica. Please share! https://projects.propublica.org/christian-nationalism-origins/
This is one of the scariest things I've read in a long time. It is like a cancer that formed and is now spreading into everything. These people are nuts. Thanks for posting but really disturbing.
I think sadly he reflects an America we didn’t realize was so big. Racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia…he fed into all those fears. It turns out that there are tens of millions that hold those values. It is such a distressing realization
I have to hope that Biden and Harris are working hard to ensure he isn’t certified or put him in jail. They have to care as much as We The People do? Biden becomes a war president, resigns and Kamala is our first woman potus anyway…ah, to hope and dream. 🥺
Frankly is time (maybe already too late) for those who oppose him to do a serious and humble effort to understand why people vote for this sociopath. How can such incompetence, meanness and stupidity win an election?
They buy Congresspeople, people who know how to speak in a regional manner to legitimize their agendas. Some of them are openly disdainful of democracy. Some of them have obviously decided that it's time to call in all the chips.
Oh, and Trump's a Russian tool.
The oligarchs have been working ever since to reclaim control of the government. They hire propagandists like Tucker Carlson to prepare his audience by framing reality to match their agendas.
Our 18th century revolution was not a multi-cultural working class revolution. Only property-owning white males over the age of 21 could vote. It was essentially a patriarchal oligarchy. It has largely remained so, with the occasional brief progressive period like the one that started with FDR.
I believe it makes sense if one considers that this country began with the murder and displacement of the indigenous (non-white) population while importing slaves (non-whites) to do the hard work (for room and board.)
They're mad and he gave them a scapegoat. The older generation and those closest to them associate loud with right. It's the same reason televangelists make so much money and no one stops to realize they're everything their religion says to not be. They know what to say to the "underdog".
I will go to my grave that there was fuckery in 2024… and the fact that our team isn’t calling a flag on the play for at least a video review.. I’ll never get it.
I wish I could make it make sense. I can't wrap my head around it. I feel like there have to be pieces that i'm just missing because it's devastating, at least the way I'm deciphering what's about to happen to this country.
He told people what they wanted to hear. Listen to his last speech: paychecks up, safer cleaner streets, will be better than ever before. Golden age. Irresponsible lies, sure. But voters felt they’d been forgotten, left behind. He promised to protect them. When you’re desperate, you believe anything
Most people barely even knew who the candidates were. They chose the name they were familiar with from TV. That's seriously the amount of attention most people pay. All they knew is that they're pissed about prices and not getting raises, and Biden was President, so it must somehow be his fault.
Here you go: massive wealth inequality. politics full of greed and money. people frustrated and angry. politicians not helping. hate develops. “outsider” feeds that hate and, though misplaced, gives it a voice. Politicians still don’t listen. Outsider wins despite also being greedy and hateful.
Solution: get rid of money in politics. Create a platform to help lower and middle income people, and get word out to the people. Tax the rich (A LOT) to pay for programs that help the majority. Create transparency. Recreate faith in a government that is full of greed, lies, and finger pointing.
What did this is a relentless campaign of fear and hate mongering couched in lies and disinformation. Capitalism is amoral at best and immoral at its worst. It doesn’t work for the people without good governance and an informed public.
because there is institutional rot and a desperate need of reform in this country. The Democrats refused to provide actual solutions aside from band-aids and gimmicks. they often pretended the problems didnt exist. That always loses to the one presenting an actual alternative. 1/
One will never understand how Cults form. Plus, we have to understand the dessimation of (or lack of)factual information throughout America. Fox news, particularly in rural areas & Military bases. Russian & other bots impersonation of Americans, spreading disinformation making grievances worse.
There’s a large percentage of Americans that are really that fucking stupid. Watch Idiocracy. What was meant to be parody is more like a documentary of today.
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Might have something to do with a Black woman trying to get Cheney voters.
https://projects.propublica.org/christian-nationalism-origins/
Oh, and Trump's a Russian tool.
💙💙💙🌈🌈🌈💙💙💙
Trump is somehow able to make people believe that "he" will fix things (problems he blew out of proportion).
Trump went from “it’s rigged” to “vote twice” to
“we have a secret” to “we don’t need your votes” to “you won’t need to vote again”. He is a serial liar and cheat.
#recount @marcelias.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVqbuCihAM
https://youtu.be/RJR5uQpweko?si=1CKDt0PguTbh-4vk
It’s not complicated.
I was sure americans can smell and see the evil in him
Not George Carlin