• Fecundpossum@lemmy.world
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      A long time ago, republicans needed an easy way to get voters to vote against their own interests and instead vote in the interest of the corporate overclass. Abortion. It’s genius. Make the preachers ultra wealthy by getting them to preach about something the Bible never seemed concerned about. Abortion. They’re murdering babies, you just have to get out and vote.

      Eventually that strategy brought diminishing returns. They overturned Roe and the issue doesn’t have the same bite that it once had. They needed a new plan. Wait, I’ve got it. Trans people existing. Trans people bad, and they’re trying to assimilate your children by existing. They’re trans animals now, pooping in litter boxes at school. How long until you have to refer to your children by neopronouns under the threat of incarceration?

      Seriously. This is how trump won the election. This issue is the issue they chose and it works. I hear it from my rightoid coworkers all the time. The GOP creates boogeymen to get idiots to the polls and it works, and the democrats have nothing to counter it.

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          Also the failing economy, you know the economy that the tarriffs would make great again. The same tarriffs that as of today has wiped quite a lot off the stock market. The same tarriffs everyone else said would hurt the economy.

          Also I might add the non-voters that did not vote for Kamala because they did not find her compelling enough. Whilst the alternative was authoritarian, racist and mysognistic.

          So its really a group effort by republicans and well…. others…. Not sure if those other idiots are left leaning or right leaning tbh but idiots they are all nonetheless.

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          Are you not forgetting the threat of tens of thousands of dog-eating Hatians in Springfield, Ohio?

          In 2016 they ran the “be afraid of Shari’ah Law taking over the USA” program. …so many hoax memes…

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            True, the penis carries more weight than the skin color, but when you combine no penis and more melanin, it’s a bigger handicap than just the sum of its parts.

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              True, the penis carries more weight than the skin color

              I’ve heard that once you go Black, you never go back, so maybe there is a correlation between penis weight and skin color after all…

              but when you combine no penis and more melanin, it’s a bigger handicap than just the sum of its parts.

              Ah, but remember that Trump also won against the one with no penis, less melanin, and a lot of buttery males. I think that is conclusive, scientific proof that most voters see a penis as a necessary quality in a President.

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                Ah, but remember that Trump also won against the one with no penis, less melanin

                Yes, and he would have won by more if she had more melanin.

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        I know someone who is the target demographic for Trump (white, evangelical, 50+ yo man), and refused to vote for him. However, he “couldn’t bring” himself to vote for Kamala.

        It’s so stupid

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      Remind me again why do non-Americans believed the Americans are one single person?

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      Dozens of Bomb threats suppressed the election day turnout in Blue areas of swing states.