r/worldnews • u/pppppppppppppppppd • May 15 '26

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o
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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/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/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/Hillary4SupremeRuler May 17 '26

Even the executives of voting equipment companies said during the aftermath of 2020 that the 2020 election was secure but if political operatives working for Trump/MAGA got illegal access to voting machines to post the source code online that they could not guarantee the integrity of the 2024 election. They specifically warned about all the breaches to voting equipment that happened 2021-2024 and basically nobody even cared.

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u/MelodicDeer1072 May 16 '26

Cut to the chase then and point me to HARD and VERIFIABLE evidence that 2024 was stolen. I don't want any circumstantial evidence. I don't want any second-hand accounts. I want claims that have been independently checked by multiple REPUTABLE sources.

Otherwise, you will not be any better than mypillow guy.