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> Uh....that's more the fault of a president Who so far has been put into office twice by?
by lonelyasacloud 4mo ago
> Uh....that's more the fault of a president
Who so far has been put into office twice by?
- slater 4mo agoGrifty ignoramuses...?
- Terr_ 4mo agoVoters, but a minority of them.* Then kept in office by a minority (43%) of Republican Senate legislators. * Yes, that is the correct term. In each election >50% chose "Not Trump".
- try_the_bass 4mo ago> Yes, that is the correct term. In each election >50% chose "Not Trump". Uhhh... Not voting at all doesn't count as "Not Trump". It counts as "I don't care," which implicitly means "whatever everyone else thinks". This is such a dumb thing to try to play semantic games about. A majority of voters elected the clown, and the population of non-voters is complicit in that.
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- Terr_ 4mo agoYour comment is supercilious and confidently-incorrect. The most-charitable interpretation is that you have been misinformed ever since the last election from some preliminary estimate of incomplete counts. 1. Of all ballots, only 49.7961% were for Trump. [0] 2. Of ballots where someone made a non-blank choice for President, 50.1976% were for candidates who were not-Trump. So when I explicitly wrote about a "minority" of "voters", that really does mean an an actual mathematical minority of the people who actually voted, thankyouverymuchdamnit. [0] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...
- try_the_bass 4mo agoWow, you're pretty obnoxious. Guess you're right, though
- Terr_ 4mo ago> This is such a dumb thing to try to play semantic games about. [...] Wow, you're pretty obnoxious. As the saying goes: "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'."
- pirates 4mo agoYou tried calling them out with a “gotcha” to make yourself look smart and then got told off, but they’re the obnoxious one?
- try_the_bass 4mo agoNo, I called them out on something I thought they were wrong about because they were being super obnoxious in the way they were stating it. Turns out they were right, but instead of losing the attitude, they doubled down on the toxicity. When I admitted they were right, they doubled down again. So yeah, pretty obnoxious, all told.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- grey-area 4mo agoBy your figures, about 50% chose Trump, twice. Enough to condemn the US forever in the eyes of the world. It’s no longer seen as a reliable ally or a desirable destination by the majority around the world.
- Terr_ 4mo agoStrictly speaking, that Presidential race was not enough, since Trump alone would have been far-more survivable. A mere repeat of 2016-2020 would have been shameful and humiliating, but not the same kind of diplomatic self-implosion. What is enough involves the outcomes of other elections/candidates, where almost all the Republican party decided that this time around they were going to go into full-steam ahead with Trump's whims and crimes.
- grey-area 4mo agoHe has, as predicted, destroyed the very idea of America, and all those who voted for him and are collaborating with him deserve the consequences, particularly his followers who he reliably uses then betrays. I feel sorry for the people who didn’t vote for him though, the slide into fascism is beginning and many don’t recognise it yet.
- lonelyasacloud 4mo agoYes, largely the fault of a people's imperfect system that their ancestor's elected representatives largely built and they inherited. There are only one people that have any chance of changing that system though.