• Sadness Nexus@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Does it matter? Kamala was supposed to have a slam dunk victory in the last presidential election. Every single post made on Reddit and Lemmy and Mastodon and everything said Trump’s numbers are “lowest they’ve ever been” and what not. In the end, Trump won and it wasn’t even close. It doesn’t matter what the polls say. In the end, hatred and stupidity won in the last election and who knows, it might work again.

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    19 hours ago

    That’s cool that some people are (finally) figuring out what a total clown Orange Jesus is, but…did Hitler’s poll numbers really mattered after he seized power?

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    Pretty sure the election was stolen and all those swing states anyway. It’s statistically improbable that he won all seven swing states. Not to mention the election tampering, Starlink, etc.

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      Donald Trump has cheated at literally EVERYTHING in his life: he cheated on every wife, he cheats at golf and wins every tournament at all of his courses, he cheats on his taxes, he uses bankruptcy as a money laundering strategy, etc. He cheats in every aspect of his life, but the Democrats want us to believe that he won “fair & square,” and millions of people in the swing states voted straight Democratic tickets, except with Trump at the top. They’ve never produced a single one of these Democratic Trump voters, which only exist in the swing states, apparently.

      According to Democratic leadership, the one election that he absolutely HAD to win, in order to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison, is the ONLY time that he played it “fair & square,” and didn’t cheat. Does that sound the Trump we’ve all come to know?

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      That’s what all the labeling of groups as terrorists is for, along with the troop deployment to cities. They are going to try to effectively declare war on terrorism in various cities and states and use that war to suspend elections.

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      People have the memory of a goldfish. In 2028, the democratic candidate is going to have some obscure flaw that’ll be pushed to every media station and social network that caters to the party that punishes opponents, and most Americans will forget the past 4 years and focus on this one flaw.

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        18 hours ago

        “Yes Hitler McRacismCEO is a fascist, but Steve NotANazi clears his throat weird. Both sides are the same. Don’t vote.”

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          I had to put my both sides are the same friend on blast the other day when he said that tired bullshit. They very fucking clearly aren’t. You could maybe get away with that in like 1999, but not in the modern era. One side is chock full of fucking cartoon villains.

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    I dont know why this is relevant. Either he prevented from running, in which case this doesnt matter; OR he IS running in violation of the law, in which case this doesnt batter because if he is willing to break an established precent and law then he would not leave his third term open to chance by having free or fair elections.

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      18 hours ago

      … or they just don’t have elections.

      He’s already spoken about it. If there’s a “war” they don’t need elections.

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        The worst part is that there’s no actual law about that anywhere. He’s looking at Ukraine’s suspended elections, but that was only possible because Ukraine’s constitution specifically states that elections can be suspended during war. The US constitution doesn’t have any such clause. But I’m sure he’ll try anyways, and the current SCOTUS will let him.

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      18 hours ago

      Maybe seeing thw winds change can help the chickenshit congress find their spine and make the 25th ammendment happen?

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    The man tried to overthrow the legitimate government of the USA and Americans still elected him into office. Approval rating doesn’t mean shit.

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        Which just means they stood there and watched as 1/3rd elected him into office. Just because they didn’t vote doesn’t mean they aren’t responsible. It’s like three people sitting in a train, one trying to keep it on the tracks, one trying to steer it off the tracks and the third guy just watching like he’s not on the same train as the other two.

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        And the voters have an even shorter term memory. Trending downward is nice, but I doubt the shit we’re dealing with now will be in most people’s mind when they vote in 2026 and 2028.

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          If in March he announces an end to the tariffs and prices have a sudden relief, then the GOP can sail in on the realization of lower prices.

          It’s easier to make things better when you deliberately make them worse first. There’s the lovely strategic thing of the non-election year.