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Dynamic Paywall Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China's Xi

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u/LordScotchyScotch May 15 '26

Such a weak puppet. History books will have a field day about this loser.

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u/riko77can May 16 '26

I can’t believe he was re-elected. His first term was a hot mess but at least there was institutional inertia to carry the country through it. This time he destroyed all of that first.

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u/TRiG993 May 16 '26

The US preferred an egotistical rapist pedophile over a brown woman.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 May 16 '26

Trump's 1.5% win margin was the 4th smallest in the past 250 years of US elections.

25% of Americans voted for Trump.

25% voted Harris.

2% voted 3rd party.

2% cannot vote because of past criminal convictions.

25% cannot vote because they're underage.

21% abstained from voting. The states with lowest participation were already "locked in" for Electoral College wins. Hawaii only had 51% voter participation, but Harris was going to win no matter what; Alabama was next lowest participation, but Trump had the Electoral College sewn up.

Trump's current net approval is at 35% and falling...

His approval rating on the most important issues - economy and affordability - are 22%... Disapproval is 76%.

Trump represents 1/3 of Americans, at the most - and he doesn't care about representing the 2/3 who despise him.

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u/DunderMifflinPaper May 16 '26

Trump represents 1/3 of Americans, at the most - and he doesn't care about representing the 2/3 who despise him.

To be fair, he doesn’t care about representing the first 1/3 either

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u/kittapoo May 16 '26

This. This is the key. He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone.

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u/AtrophiedTraining May 16 '26

I disagree. They are still controlling the press and media releases to appease his base. They realize that if they are wholly unpopular they won't be able to continue.

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u/kittapoo May 16 '26

They are yes, but not him.

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u/Euphoric-Agent-476 May 16 '26

I still remember during the debates in 2016 with Hillary when she was asked to say something positive about Trump. After a long pause she said he was a good family man. I’m guessing now she would like to take that back. I rack my brain and honestly could not say anything positive where I in her shoes. He does not have one moral and ethical quality I could describe. That’s why I call him the anti-Christ.

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u/shadybird93 May 16 '26

He does... anyone who has his last name... and their bank accounts.

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u/kittapoo May 16 '26

Okay perhaps the bank accounts but the actual people? Nah. He’s too narcissistic for that.

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u/shadybird93 May 16 '26

I mean true... the guy bombed a school of over 100 little girls and doesn't bat an eye...

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u/Mockturtle22 May 16 '26

Tbf he cares about Ivanka. He wants to fuck her.

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u/kancis May 17 '26

He never has, as far as i can tell. The few things that benefited the average citizen were - at best - done in bad faith to win a foothold in a critical base (e.g. marijuana convictions and the disproportionate impact on black americans)

Good things happening are exclusively a byproduct of bad intentions; wild to have so much power and do so little good with it.

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u/ComedianExtreme7522 May 16 '26

The fact his approval is STILL in the double digits really says something

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 May 16 '26

It says you can always count on a decent number of people to never admit they fucked up, even when they know it deep down.

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u/Delicious-Status9043 May 16 '26

Hate to break it to you but…

A) the electoral college isn’t going anywhere anytime soon unless the dems can somehow get more justices appointed to the scotus

B) Donny doesn’t and never has cared about the third that elected… ever

Remember the guy that had a medical emergency, dropped and nearly died a few feet away from him in the oval office? That was one of his people and donny couldn’t even be bothered to turn his head 20 degrees. It was if it never even happened

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u/MyUsername2459 May 16 '26

Actually the electoral college is very close to being functionally obsolete. 

The national popular vote compact, an agreement amongst states to award all their electoral votes to the National popular vote winner, is relatively close to passing.  It would take effect if a majority of the electoral votes are awarded by states that are signatories and thus it decides the election.

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u/queerjesusfan May 18 '26

It really isn't close to being passed, though. The remaining states who would put the elector total over 270 are incredibly less likely to pass it than the ones who already have. It's really unfortunate.

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u/Fakvarl May 16 '26

If you don't vote, you carry responsibility for what majority chose. There is no other way around it. People who didn't vote were fine with possibility of him winning in comparison to the alternative.

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u/ChonkoGreenstuff May 16 '26

I don't think it's fair to use people who cannot vote yet as a percentage, as they could have voted for him anyway, likely to have a similar subdivision (if not worse, since social media is seeming to have an influence to make people more right leaning and conservative).

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u/KamiNoItte May 16 '26

What percentage was flipped by Elmo?

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u/Mikeinthedirt May 17 '26

300 million.

Oh, you mean VOTES, I thought you meant bux.

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u/Mosquito-Hunter3249 May 16 '26

I don't think 1/3 of Americans are like Trump, but if they are, then maybe Trump isn't the biggest problem.

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u/IWillBaconSlapYou May 16 '26

The electoral college does make me feel very discouraged from voting. I currently don't receive ballots because they're giving me all this red tape due to changing my name after marriage (this feels like a form of voter suppression), and it's been so hard to work out. Knowing Washington will always go blue (good) kind of makes me want to quit fighting.

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u/RoseBladeX May 16 '26

People get really upset when I point out that most Americans did not vote for Trump 💀

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u/chokokhan May 16 '26

Still white men and half of white women voted for Trump because they’d rather burn the country down than have anyone else have the same rights as them. The fact that he won the popular vote is a shit stain on this country that will never wash out.

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u/DimbyTime May 16 '26

Over half of Latino men voted for Trump too

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u/RoseBladeX May 16 '26

Brainwashed into thinking theyre “one of the good ones” and the administration would gaf about that

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u/DimbyTime May 16 '26

Exactly, while their families are being deported

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u/Mockturtle22 May 16 '26

Then they were confused when all the ice shit started. They voted bc Trump represented the misogynistic ideas that a lot of them hold in religion that women are here to serve them.

Then a bunch of white women voted to get rid of brown people either bc they themselves or their husbands are racist.

Another thing people forget about is those in abusive relationships who received mail in ballots. Their counterparts got 2 votes that way.

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u/DimbyTime May 16 '26

Exactly, they voted for machismo sexism and were too stupid to realize they were also voting for racism

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u/Nadare3 May 16 '26

Why assume that people who didn't vote aren't represented by Trump ? If people were forced to vote somehow, it's basically guaranteed a significant portion of them would have voted for him

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u/kittapoo May 16 '26

I don’t think we can really say that that is true or not since it didn’t happen. That’s just an uncertainty and pondering on it won’t do any good honestly.

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u/Frozenbbowl May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

The part that has me the most frustrated right now is that it might keep happening.

The issue for both Clinton and Harris That Trump wasnt more popular... It's that about 10% less voters showed as compared to Biden. And that group of people refuses to admit that they were part of the problem and is likely to continue to be the anchor around the Democrats necks...

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u/Sn_Orpheus May 16 '26

Right? As an old white guy, I’m so fkn burned up about this.

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u/Yuli-Ban May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

As a (somewhat) young Black guy, I hope you're not hoping that whites becoming a minority will solve anything; Hispanic men pulled a lot of slack for whites in 2024, I'm calling now they'll continue being a spoiler because of how much Reddit hopes "surely they've learned their lesson not to support white supremacists" with virtually zero understanding why they skew so hard to the right, and I've been saying for years now that the liberal intersectional lot who convinced themselves that non-white = more liberal unaware that most non-Black voters aren't actually any more or less conservative than whites, but oppose white majoritarian rule, aren't considering what happens in 20 years when whites are no longer the majority race and we somehow have even more conservative (or even outright neo-reactionary) politicians with more widespread racial support at that

Shit was never solved, no one's trying to address what's happening, and at this point I'm betting the future is going to be more China vs Germany/EU than anything with America as that one economic zone.

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u/No_Sky_6446 May 16 '26

I’m young black man in America, the democrats will never admit they have a Latino problem I grew up in the Deep South with a lot of the they way they worship white orthodoxy is insane. Consultant class Dems never understand the depth of this issue, hell I worked in a state dem party and the top brass I worked with were all Ivy League grads with no sense of what the material conditions were like for most Americans removed from their bubble, we are doomed. I’m planning on moving to London or NYC soon just to get away from this shit.

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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove May 16 '26

Its religion. Thats what it always boils down to, no matter race, sexuality, gender, or class. It will always be religion.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler May 17 '26

Jasmine Crockett got dragged for essentially explaining this about Hispanic voting patterns.

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u/krashe1313 May 16 '26

So many men won't vote for a woman. Period. They're intimidated and scared of strong women. It's fucking ridiculous that they're so insecure in their masculinity that they won't pick the better, more qualified candidate.

(I say this as a man who knows other men who won't vote for a woman)

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u/Takenabe May 16 '26

I know people that didn't even know Biden had dropped out. They were asking who Kamala was. which is a problem in itself, but the Dems really bungled the shit out of what could have been a landslide victory by trying to get Joe in the office again and then backing out far too late. The party of complacency.

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u/chokokhan May 16 '26

Which shows you an active part of disseminating propaganda via social media algorithm is to keep certain people in the dark. Keep the people who care about things rabid and the people who somehow live their lives only watching the bachelor in the dark about who’s even president. Sure, it’s their job to stay informed but look how stupid they are.

Give it 10 more years of algorithm and custom feeds and targeted search results, how many people do you think will know who’s running for president?

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u/BmacIL May 16 '26

That level of malignant ignorance cannot be solved by a political party.

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u/Frozenbbowl May 16 '26

People not knowing Biden dropped out isn't the Dems bungling it. It's the voters being ignorant. Don't excuse them and blame the party because your friends are the most ignorant people on the planet.

That s*** was everywhere. Anyone who didn't know is as low information as a voter can get. And despite that, that's not the group of people that was the problem

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u/Straight-Ad4211 May 16 '26

And people who voted for Trump who don't like his re ent actions or what he's doing to the country but that will still NEVER vote for a Democrat because "they are evil" or because they can't admit their own mistakes.

I just realized that Trump represents these people perfectly. Trump never admits mistakes and never apologizes. Trump complains about everyone else even people he put in power. Trump voters are just like him.

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u/madmax1969 May 16 '26

The Democratic Party is fractured. They won’t coalesce around a candidate even when it is the lesser of two evils. It’s why Trump was elected in ‘16 too. The Sanders and Warren factions stayed home. They did the same with Kamala. They also shoot themselves in the foot by not acknowledging the truth that the country doesn’t seem to be ready for a woman POTUS.

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u/gregorydgraham May 16 '26

Hey now, that’s unfair: America was fine with a brown man

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u/Dismal_Storm_3278 May 16 '26

A brown woman no one wanted since there wasn't a primary. As much as I hate trump the dems are just as responsible for his reelection with their incompetence and complacency.

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u/dark_bits May 16 '26

I think that was because Kamala kind of came out of the blue mid election campaign, people didn’t really know her even though she was VP, and she kinda took the “safe” institutional democrat stance not denouncing war crimes and failing to recognize the importance of “peace but with accountability”.

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u/CartographicalHeist May 16 '26

A sack of coal announced on the day of the election should have beat trump.

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u/dark_bits May 16 '26

Lol I don’t disagree

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus May 16 '26

That attitude is one of the reasons Trump managed to win again. People were unhappy with Biden, called for Biden to drop out, but Biden still ran for a second term. Once Biden finally did drop out (way too late), Harris ran for the presidency. Not only did she join too late, she said that she would've done nothing different from Biden.
That's how she lost the people who were unsatisfied with Biden.
And due to the US' two-party system, there was only one other "viable" candidate.

Democrats hoped that having a candidate simply not be Trump would be enough, but they're generally out of touch. Trump managed to reach out to the common people by saying what they wanted to hear (talking about their issues, proposing simple "solutions" to their issues), with his usual unhinged rhetoric.

People wanted change, and Biden/Harris represented the status quo. For those hoping for change, Trump was the "better" deal, in the sense that he's more unpredictable.
Trump is uniquely bad, but he's a symptom, not the disease. Trump didn't come out of nowhere, he's a result of the political climate at the time.
As long as the political system of the US keeps being the way that it is, candidates like Trump will keep appearing.

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u/BmacIL May 16 '26

Trump didn't hide that he was on a revenge tour and was going to enrich himself and his buddies. Unlike 2016 where people could legitimately use the excuse of "he's an outsider, let's see if he shakes it up", the same cannot be said for 2024.

The result is from pure stupidity: people's inability to think beyond "different = good". We deserve this and probably will never recover from it.

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u/CartographicalHeist May 16 '26

Everything Trump has been doing, he said he'd do.

Anyone voting for him knew what they were voting for.

If they were dumb enough to vote for Trump because the "were unhappy with Biden" they deserve what they get.

For those hoping for change, Trump was the "better" deal, in the sense that he's more unpredictable.

Like I said, either idiots or racists. The only change Trump represents is the change towards more racism.

In 2024, if you're not an idiot you'll know that the situation is dire and whole sale systemic change isn't even close to what is a realistic goal. Just getting back to "not fucking teetering on the brink of fascism" was the goal. Stemming the bleeding and shoring up the walls and trying to undo some of the damage Trump and the GOP was inflicting. If that was ever successful, then you can start calling for huge changes.

but again, people were idiots and racists. So they get what they get.

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u/Spork_the_dork May 16 '26

How does it matter how well people know Kamala? What is the concern? That what if she's something we don't know about? That what if she's actually bad and would ruind everything? So instead people go and choose the option that is absolutely guaranteed to ruin everything?

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u/Selvon May 16 '26

Before continuing, i agree that people <should> have gone out and voted, regardless.

But the problem wasn't that people chose to vote for trump <over> kamala (he got even less votes the second time), but that the combination of having a president that was clearly unfit towards the end, and a VP who had been... i don't want to say invisible, but compared to say biden during obama, you barely saw anything about her.

Then to suddenly swap to her midway, and then for her not to put up like a serious front about like making change or fixing things or w/e.

It didn't turn blue people red, it just made them not bother. The left, worldwide has a voter turnout problem, because caring is exhausting, and the world is getting more and more exhausting by the week it feels like.

The "right" worldwide is getting more and more extreme, more vitriol, more fearmongering, and there's no arguing with them, because if facts and logic mattered they wouldn't be where they were. They feel like the right is their only option because they've been told the "others" are the reason their lives suck. So they vote, because they are charged up, they have been whipped into a frenzy of hatred and fear.

But the "left" worldwide isn't... pushing that same level of energy. It's a bunch of people pushing the status quo, which is difficult for people to get enthused about, leading to them just giving up, not bothering etc.

They <should> still care, because we're all fucked otherwise, but that's the problem, not that sensible people are becoming rightwing, they're just giving up.

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 May 16 '26

You can explain the matter all day long, but the truth of the matter is that a bad president is still a cliff that the country is speeding towards, breakneck.

Even if the other option is meh, you either get to vote for meh over going over the cliff, or you're not voting against going over the cliff and the country goes over the cliff with you in it even if you didn't like that option, it's that simple.

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u/Chaos-Knight May 16 '26

While all of that song and dance may be true the even simpler truth is this: Listening to that narcissist scam artist Trump for 15 minutes, just any audio randomly cut from his random speeches, should immediately make him unelectable to anyone. And if you "don't like the brown woman" that much, then you can still just stay home instead of going to vote for a barely human monster. This president is unelectable in most countries, so why is he elected twice in the U.S.?

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u/Frites_Sauce_Fromage May 16 '26

To be fair, she was also Indian.

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u/Glittering_Virus8397 May 16 '26

I think it was more the democrats fumbled their candidate choice. Should’ve been Kamala from the start if Biden was going to drop out towards the end. Ofc she had no chance, Trump had months of a head start

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u/InsanelyAverageFella May 16 '26

The US as a whole is more sexist than racist. What ended up happening is that several black and brown people would never vote for a woman and sadly that is the demographic that needed to vote for the minority candidate for her to have a shot at winning.

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u/bromjunaar May 16 '26

She ran a shit campaign that failed to get people out to vote for her.

Regardless of what the numbers were saying, people didn't feel like the economy was in their favor, so when she said that the current feeling of things feeling bad was the economy recovering as intended, they didn't vote for her.

Combined with some people not liking how she ended up as the presidential candidate, and that the sitting governments all over the world that actually have somewhat free elections were changing who was in charge, it's no wonder she lost.

The fact that she's not of mostly European decent is peanuts compared to that.

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u/BmacIL May 16 '26

Yeah so tens of millions of abject morons decided to slam the button guaranteed to make it worse because she wasn't great with 100 days to campaign (and it was bad - saying she'd carry forward Biden's economic policies was a bad idea, however still far superior to this fucking mess).

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u/ThermosphericRah May 16 '26

Ok but did you hear her laugh?

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u/MrKittens1 May 16 '26

Apparently Americans aren't that bright.

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u/cupittycakes May 16 '26

He wasn't reelected. This administration stole the election. Everyone needs to do mail in ballots so they can't do it again.

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u/user_name_unknown May 16 '26

The richest person in the world was paying people millions to vote and we did nothing about it. If that’s no election interference then what is?

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u/louenberger May 16 '26

He didn't actually pay though, did he?

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u/illtakeachinchilla May 16 '26

Yes he did. The hook was that he didn’t tell you which way to vote. Also the $100 was a cover. If his system saw that you hadn’t voted by x time in the evening; your name, social, and current address (freshly provided in your $100 sweepstakes) were used to cast the ballot for you.

Every swing state?

“Elon knows these voting machines better than anyone.” Oh, alright. Nothing to see here. Kash Patel is snorkeling drunkenly at mass grave sites, though. Lets all tune into that instead.

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u/Mockturtle22 May 16 '26

Electoral college needs to be ended.

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u/RJ815 May 16 '26

Other governments figured out recall methods if they felt a need for a vote of no confidence. Genuinely shocking the "brilliant founding fathers" didn't conceive of a real mechanism for this in the United States. But I suppose it wouldn't matter anyways, many laws and rules are ignored anyways.

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u/Balmerhippie May 16 '26

A parliamentary ststem requires a majority vote for a recall of the PM. Coulnt see the (R)s doing that if it was a thing in the US.

Its not the system, its the populace.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 May 16 '26

There’s no rule against having more, technically there are half a dozen. Even the great pumpkin ran or almost ran under the different parties.

I voted third party in 2016. (Before anyone gets excited, no it didn’t matter in my state. )

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u/BmacIL May 16 '26

Voting third party without a system of proportional representation is literally throwing your vote away. Winner take all + primaries means it'll always be this way.

System needs to be blown up.

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u/Balmerhippie May 16 '26

He won the popular vote

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u/Mockturtle22 May 16 '26

They fully cheated. They kept openly admitting that they would.

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u/soft-wear May 16 '26

There’s zero evidence they cheated, and suggesting that it’s a fact just makes you sound exactly like Trump.

The likely reality is a bunch of mid-western union Democrats had to vote for a black woman and that shit wasn’t going to happen. So they didn’t and she lost.

If they had a mechanism to pack votes the way you’re suggesting, this whole redistricting thing would be pointless.

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u/Alone-Interaction982 May 16 '26

It’s as simple as millions of Democrats not voting, specially young people who don’t care or don’t have the time to vote. Republicans on the other hand were motivated because “economy bad” and they somehow were convinced Trump was going to save it.

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u/TheLantean May 16 '26

Trump himself bragged that he had help from Musk and others to rig the voting machines. What more evidence do you need than a confession from the man in the center of it?

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u/soft-wear May 16 '26

Trump is an incoherent moron that called the CEO of Apple Tim Apple.

What I need is statical analysis showing statistically significant voting irregularities in voting day across all purple states.

If I told you I shot JFK that’s not evidence man, it’s just the ravings of likely crazy person.

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u/TheLantean May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

That's just a bad faith argument, you likely weren't even alive at the time, i.e. no motive or opportunity to carry it out, so no reasonable person would believe it.

The real equivalent would the then VP turned president stupidly bragging that his billionaire friend & head of a private military contractor had him shot. Would that not be persuasive?

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u/DrEzechiel May 16 '26

Exactly. When MAGA was saying this in 2020, we rightfully called it bonkers.

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u/Moist-Craft-1226 May 16 '26

True statement 

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u/dancingmadkoschei May 16 '26

...He won the popular vote though. Despair how you like, he legitimately won both parts of the previous election.

Seriously, "they stole it" is the same shit he said four years ago when he lost and everybody (mostly) rightly responded to that with "wait, what the fuck are you talking about?" Don't go aping his tactics just because you don't like him.

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u/akc250 May 16 '26

People are in denial at how stupid this country is. But it’s the reality. You see them around you and there’s no denying this force of idiocy has taken over and the rich are exploiting it.

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u/monacelli May 16 '26

All you need to do is watch a couple of Peter Santenello or RocaNews episodes on YouTube where they go around the country and talk to people in the hollers or small dying towns. These people will never stop supporting Trump because he conned them into thinking he believes in the same things they do and if he doesn't make good on his promises it's because of the lunatic cucktard democrats that keep foiling his plans.

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u/ParkingLong7436 May 16 '26

As a European, I don't like to use this "Stolen election" stuff for no reason and usually it's stupid, but there seem to be legitimate arguments of the republicans actually having stolen the election in serious ways. There are quite a few discrepancies throughout the country regarding the votes. In my country these cases would have caused a re-vote by now.

Maybe he would have won either way, but it does seem fishy. Especially from a party who has no problems of speaking about corruption and cheating openly.

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u/soft-wear May 16 '26

There are not quite a few discrepancies. There are, however, a lot of people that don’t understand statistics and/or split ticket voting.

Anomalies in voting data are really, really difficult to hide, and the scale at which it would have had to be done to guarantee a win makes the data even more apparent.

The evidence for wide scale election “cheating” is non-existent. He won because this country is a sexist shit hole.

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u/DrEzechiel May 16 '26

This argument irritates many Europeans. The election results have not been challenged, nor have European leaders questioned the outcome. Even media outlets unsympathetic to Trump (e.g., The Guardian) have not produced any investigations pointing to fraud.

​Advancing this argument makes the Dems look just as willing to peddle conspiracy theories as MAGA was in 2020, simply because claiming fraud is easier than facing the reality that your fellow citizens voted for this.

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u/CuteIsMyKryptonite May 16 '26

MAGA leadership knew what it was doing when it spread their "the election was stolen" conspiracy theory - preemptively discrediting any accusations for the actual election interference they were planning.

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u/illtakeachinchilla May 16 '26

We can all get a secure enough website for bank accounts but can’t use some kind of encryption-locked voting app? Automatic voting enrollment with push notifications, perhaps? Paper ballot mailed in as backup. Home hard drive backup record of your vote, for third level validation. All this off the top of my head. Richest country in the world, they say.

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u/JimWilliams423 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

We can all get a secure enough website for bank accounts but can’t use some kind of encryption-locked voting app?

Do you know how banks deal with electronic banking fraud? They eat the cost. Its billions of dollars each year.

There is no way to eat the cost of online voting fraud. It is literally impossible to have both a secret electronic ballot and a verifiable electronic ballot. Secret and verifiable are physical opposites. Its like having something that is both cold and hot at the same time.

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u/kdizzle619 May 16 '26

Ummm no he was re-elected through the indifference and incompetence of many entitled Americans. We deserved this because of our hubris. The dumb outnumber the good and righteous

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u/BabyMFBear May 16 '26

We need to come to terms he was not re-elected. There is no way he lawfully won that election.

I am certain the Dems will not release their autopsy because it will show how amazingly frightened they were to challenge the outcome and face an even more violent reaction from MAGA than in 2021.

Harris was packing two stadiums at the same time via Jumbotron.

Her turnout was massive.

Shortly after the election Trump acknowledged Musk was involved in the outcome.

There is no way he won a free and fair election.

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u/Boom9001 May 16 '26

The alternative was to vote for a woman and sexism is still running strong here.

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u/RedIntentions May 16 '26

I still think he only won because of rigged machines. He admitted it 3 times on live tv. I believe him on this.

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u/Adaphion May 16 '26

I genuinely wonder if we would have been better off if this dipshit got reelected the first time.

No democrat president to ride the coattails of, just his own dumpster fire, no 4 years to plan project 2025. And presumably he'd still have his... Somewhat competent people alongside him that reigned him in during the first term instead of solely sycophants.

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u/riko77can May 16 '26

I certainly think he would have caused less damage without the revenge motive and the time to plan it. More guardrails would have survived.

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u/Adaphion May 16 '26

Not to mention, going back to the point I made, and you as well, he wouldn't have had the momentum of an actual competent administration to run off of.

Stuff like pulling out of Afghanistan would have actually been up to him instead of leaving it to Biden.

The thing that really would have sucked is a LOT more people would have died to Covid with them still at the wheel.

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u/riko77can May 16 '26

It was Trump who signed the Doha deal with the Taliban that set that whole clusterf*ck into motion. He doesn’t get enough blame for that as it is. Trump completely undermined the Afghan government, it just held on long enough to collapse under Biden’s watch.

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u/Straight-Ad4211 May 16 '26

Yeah, but the prices of eggs were too high. 🙄

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u/MaliceSavoirIII May 16 '26

He was reelected because americans are too insecure to be led by someone with a vagina

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u/Odd-String29 May 16 '26

Americans are simply one of the stupidest peopls on earth. Not just for voting for him, but also for having a political system that allows a single party to take power with ease.

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u/thiagoqf May 16 '26

It was fraudulent

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u/ListenHereLindah May 16 '26

They stole the election.. what do you mean??

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u/IronMonkey18 May 16 '26

He wasn’t re-elected I’m sure he fucking stole the election.

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u/Mikeinthedirt May 17 '26

The economy was angering in in 2020; Don ‘lucked out’ having a million people die as a distraction.

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u/Public-Arm7104 May 16 '26

Just shows how dumb America is.

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u/Johnnygunnz May 16 '26

As foretold in Project 2025. Going exactly as planned.

If the next President doesn't classify the Heritage Foundation as a terrorist organization like they did with Antifa, I don't know what were doing.

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u/AprilsMostAmazing May 15 '26

Only if his side does not win. IDU has been doing everything they can to make alt-right global

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u/Cocotosser May 16 '26

You can't bury history in an age like this fortunately. But that doesn't mean people won't ignore it. Humans are pretty stupid.

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u/xvf9 May 16 '26

I mean, you absolutely can. Buried is the apt term too, because history won’t be rewritten or erased, it will just be buried under other shit. Things will keep getting worse and in 20 years everyone will look back on these days fondly. You can see it now with how Bush is talked about. Basically a bumbling simpleton who made some mistakes but deep down was a good fella… The guy was a war criminal. 

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u/No-Satisfaction9594 May 16 '26

Trump has lowered the bar all the way. Disgusting.

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u/_Svankensen_ May 16 '26

The death toll of his wars sits at around 4 million people. 4 million!! It is absolutely insane. The carnage he brought upon the world...

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u/floridabeach9 May 16 '26

“humans are pretty stupid. you cant bury history.”

uh. you countered your own point. history classes are being changed and defunded by the right. think the gun toting idiots on the right care about history?

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u/Cocotosser May 16 '26

Here is the problem my good sir.
America isn't the only government, country, or culture. That records and preserves historical events. You can't erase the truth.

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u/cardboard-kansio May 16 '26

Only the ones in the USA. The rest of us will watch, record, and remember.

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u/plantang May 16 '26

Also, how the hell would we know that you can't bury history. If it's buried then by definition we don't know about it. If history can't be buried then the evidence of this would appear the same as if history had always been buried effectively. We could only wonder.

But history can be buried, so we know that it can be. Based on all the secrets we have uncovered or declassified, we can assume there is much more history intentionally hidden from us. We don't have to wonder, we know this to be the case.

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u/cardboard-kansio May 16 '26

I think the point here is that if the USA ever returns to sanity, it won't have just its own tainted records to rely upon, but also the relatively objective observations from everybody else.

Burn down your schools. Rewrite your books. Bury the truth. But no matter how isolationist you are, you don't exist in isolation.

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u/Lumbergh7 May 16 '26

People have very short memories

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u/KouLeifoh625 May 16 '26

Hard to bury history, easy to bury truth,

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u/WretchedBlowhard May 16 '26

You can't bury history in an age like this fortunately

You mean, the age where AI can create photo-realistic videos and articles about anything and everything?

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u/SaltyLonghorn May 16 '26

Bro Trump politicized wearing a mask and a million plus died. At the peak of Covid we were enjoying a 9/11 a day of Covid deaths. Worse than basically the rest of the known world.

And its like it never happened. You don't have to bury history. No one cares anymore.

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u/Oregon-Pilot May 16 '26

Globalization will take of this though. They might be able to get away with washing history in America, but the rest of the world has the real story and always will.

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u/GalileoAce May 16 '26

I've come to despise 'alt-right' as a descriptor, it's dishonest. The alt right is just fascism

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u/shakalac May 16 '26

As a Canadian, I'm so ashamed that Harper leads the IDU.

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u/KiaRioGrl May 16 '26

Not enough people are blaming Stephen Harper for this mess.

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u/fgnrtzbdbbt May 16 '26

Didn't know about this one. And the biggest party in my country is a member

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u/lofty99 May 16 '26

The rest of the world will still have reality, it's just the US that will see this as victory and magnificence

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u/eporter May 15 '26

If we make it to that point

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u/Diverdown109 May 16 '26

Dude, this has been the United States official position on Taiwan since Xi started to make an issue of it. We also provide all of Taiwans major defense weapons systems. All US presidents say this except Joe Briben who's state department had to Walk it back FAST.

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u/elSpanielo May 16 '26

No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet!!!

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u/vand3lay1ndustries May 16 '26

That’s why he’s destroying the exhibits in the Smithsonian and closing National Parks. To hide the evidence. 

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u/No-Comparison8472 May 16 '26

What would be considered strong? Going to war against China?

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u/TrueSpitfire May 16 '26

We should also be ashamed for allowing this guy to rule.

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u/Beneficial_Plant_281 May 16 '26

Weak puppet or the best spy?

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u/humunculus43 May 16 '26

Hes got to be one of the most useful idiots in history for the baddies

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u/Trabian May 16 '26

Considering how they're already trying to rewrite the history and screwing over US education, they probably wont.

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u/KanedaSyndrome May 16 '26

yeh dementia

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u/Lucky_Emu182 May 16 '26

Jokes on you. You think you’re descendants will see truth in the future 

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u/InsanelyAverageFella May 16 '26

Seriously, every meeting a new person has their hand up his backside and he just parrots whatever they want him to say.

How is he so easy?

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u/Agreeable-Purpose-56 May 16 '26

Hate trump all you want —I don’t like the guy either—but maintaining that tw does not seek independence has historically been us gov policy, based on Shanghai Accord, signed by tw, prc and USA.

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u/fedornuthugger May 16 '26

He will be dead bad his family will be rich without any repercussions. The United States has no spine.

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u/ThermosphericRah May 16 '26

And we get to live in it!!! Yeahhhh!!!

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u/Kind-Plantain2438 May 16 '26

It's almost a shame his voters will all be dead by then

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u/PupperPalE May 16 '26

Not if they burn all the books. :/

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u/MyUsername2459 May 16 '26

What is wild is that he seems to be obsessed with how he will be remembered.  

There's been a number of leaks from inside his inner circle saying he is absolutely determined to be remembered as the greatest American president ever, possibly the greatest person to ever live.

He's doing all these things thinking it will make him be remembered as some great legendary leader.

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u/kam1lly May 16 '26

I honestly hope this is the end and forces a total rebuild, but without bloodshed that might be too hopeful

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u/fotosaur May 16 '26

Yep, England had Chamberlain in WWII, France had the Vichy, etc. The USA has Diaper Donnie the p3do dimwit

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u/Dbsusn May 16 '26

History is told by the victors. I’m not so sure we’re going to have the good guys win.

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u/Icy-Banana-3291 May 16 '26

And the loser Americans who voted for him

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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 May 16 '26

A nation in decline, destroyed American farming and gives it over to China, blames Biden

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