Donald Trump’s supporters thought voter fraud could determine the election outcome — until he won.
Enjoy your $12 lettuce, fuckwits.
Trump voters right now:
The problem is that the whole world is sitting right next to the dinosaur.
Non-Trump votes feel very different now that he’s won.
My apathy for anyone outside of my nuclear family is significantly higher than it was a few weeks ago. I’m just stocking up on masks, purell, and stuff for the coming year+ when a bird flu kills the yuckyucks and I can’t buy tuna anymore because captain brain worms and the orange don’t believe in science and will actively punish anyone who does for trying to get medicine. They saw their own covid response and went “hmm we did too much. Let’s take more away” it’s just mind boggling.
American voters aren’t exactly the smartest, are they?
And which party was the one cutting education spending decades ago? They’re reaping their rewards now.
My in-laws are staying with us this week. Fortunately they both are reasonable and voted Kamala but I have heard nothing but Medicare advantage commercials every 5 minutes as they watch live tv (something we never do).
Medicare advantage is a huge scam that takes all your Medicare money and gives it to private insurance companies. It is shocking that we allow people to be bombarded with this day in and day out. It doesn’t surprise me this same group was bombarded with lies from the right for the past year. Lies that don’t match reality. And as those lies come to light, they will feel duped. But either it will be too late or they are too stubborn to admit it.
Yeah, some people are more vulnerable than others, and this is especially true if they are on social media.
I noticed that nearly everyone (perhaps all) in my circle who fell for MAGA were or still are in some kind of MLM.
Online, for example on Reddit looking at users who believe that you see that large portions of them are into crypto.
would not surprise me if fraud or other shenanigans did determine the outcome.
I have no doubt Trump made every effort to cheat. There were attempts to keep people from voting, bomb threats, purging of voter rolls, and questionable access to voting machines.
But in the end, Trump won the election. He got more votes in more states, and he will be the President again.
That’s who we are as a country. We elected Trump again. We need to stare at that in the mirror and acknowledge the uncomfortable truth about who we are if we’re going to make it better.
America is not the bastion of freedom and justice for all anymore. We really haven’t been for a very long time, and denial has allowed fascism to infect our collective subconscious.
We, the reasonable people, the ones who believe in freedom, equality, and the rule of law, we are the insurgency. The fox is in charge of the henhouse, and if we’re going to survive it, we will have to fight for our country again. Our forefathers did it, and I believe we can, too.
I have no doubt Trump made every effort to cheat. There were attempts to keep people from voting, bomb threats, purging of voter rolls, and questionable access to voting machines.
Let’s not forget Elon collecting signatures from demographics least likely to vote, or starlink being used in many districts as the network uplink for insecure machines, or the switch to computerized poll register systems using digital signature on a tablet (rather than a paper poll register) at many of these same polling places.
If you really wanted to juice your guy’s vote numbers it wouldn’t be all that hard to take the signatures you paid for and link them to people unlikely to vote, then get into vulnerable polling place systems and add bullet ballots for your guy ostensibly cast by people who are unlikely to actually show up.
Elon collecting signatures from demographics least likely to vote, or starlink being used in many districts as the network uplink for insecure machines
Are sources available on these claims, particularly the first one specifically it being the least likely voter demographic? I keep seeing this stuff talked about but also hand-waving that it’s been debunked and I’ve been too wrapped up with life to investigate. I’m not hopeful that credible and clear evidence will show up enough to get widespread attention about vote hacking but I wouldn’t be opposed to hearing more come out either.
Yea, even if they did cheat, I don’t really care. Because it shouldn’t have been close enough for that stuff to even matter. People keep calling him charismatic and all I can think is “have you actually heard the guy talk? He couldn’t talk his way out of a paper bag.” Seriously, if a guy on the street corner said the same things he’s said you’d think he was an idiot, and you’d be right.
Voters’ perceptions of the economy are starting to flip along partisan lines
I mean, no shit. People act like partisanship is arbitrary, but it isn’t. We fundamentally disagree about what economic policies, or even which economic systems are best. If you think unregulated, free-market capitalism is best, you’re going to be happiest when the free-market capitalist party is in power. If you’re a neoliberal, you’re going to be happiest when the neoliberals are in power, if you’re a social democrat, you’re going to be happiest when the social democrats are in power. If you’re a socialist, you’re going to be happiest when the socialists are in power.
Or you get even more nuanced and say unregulated free market is best only on the frontier of emerging new market sectors, and that areas we depend on should be heavily regulated, socialized, and run at cost for the public for free supported by tax dollars.
Have different systems for different things depending on which works best for what.
Nuance is important, but it’s also difficult for laypeople. Not because they’re unintelligent, necessarily, but because they haven’t studied and trained like experts have. That’s why we have to be able to rely on experts. But, deferring to the authority of experts means giving up at least some power. I think that can work when there’s trust between the experts and the laypeople, but when trust is lost, laypeople will no longer respect the authority of experts. That’s what the experts, the “elites” have to understand: their expertise gives them authority, and with authority comes power, and, well, as uncle Ben would say, with power comes responsibility, and accountability. I don’t think the experts of today take their responsibility seriously enough, nor do I think they take proper accountability.
I wonder how much they would howl if investigation(s) into the integrity of the vote were to be carried out (by serious people, I mean, not qanon qrazies like pillow guy).
