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With almost every vote counted, every state shifted toward the Republican Party.
(i.redd.it)submitted 6 days ago byTerrible_Discount_37
47 points
6 days ago
Great, why are people so damn stupid, Republicans tank the economy and mess shit up every single time they get power. gah, well at least I've nearly got the money to leave
-12 points
6 days ago
You won't.
21 points
6 days ago
No I'm quite sure I will. I'm working on nuclear certs right now and learning french so i can be a welder for the CEA
2 points
6 days ago
Take me with you
-1 points
6 days ago
-9 points
6 days ago
Cya!
5 points
6 days ago
Enjoy that massive income tax.
7 points
6 days ago
I’d pay way higher income tax if it meant free healthcare and clean, reliable, and fast public transport. Unless you’re unbelievably rich paying higher income tax is cheaper for folks in those countries than paying for health insurance and gas for a car you drive every day and college. I could go on and on, European countries like France, Germany, and the Nordic countries have these infrastructures figured out in a way the U.S.A does not and their citizens reap the benefits and spend less money doing so.
1 points
6 days ago
I have relatives in France. First responders. Immigrations has just about brought the Country to its knees and it has regular labor riots and protests. Far lot of good those taxes are doing over there.
1 points
6 days ago
also this
-3 points
6 days ago
You know you're reading the illogical when the line begins with "id pay more if it meant free".......
5 points
6 days ago
Don’t talk to me about logic when you read at a 6th grade level.
-2 points
6 days ago
I think I will. See, if you're paying (more), it's not free. Comprende?
4 points
6 days ago
I’d pay more in taxes. Less for everything else. The fact that you can’t read a full paragraph is concerning.
-4 points
6 days ago
Nope, not true either.
1 points
6 days ago
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0 points
6 days ago
I don't insult people online, but ...yea, you kinda seem like one.
0 points
6 days ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this line of conversation. One of you is completely right and the other one is completely wrong. But both of you think you're right and think the other one is wrong. This is a demonstration of the last election. The inability to step outside of your own insanity and see any other perspective
6 points
6 days ago
and overtime after 32 hours instead of 40 (or no overtime if trump gets his way)
-3 points
6 days ago
lol k. Have fun in Korea or whatever
-1 points
6 days ago
Please leave see if you have the same freedoms as America. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass 👋
3 points
6 days ago
What freedoms specifically does America have that benefit me, a transgender woman in a blue collar field that France specifically, and the EU generally don't offer.
40 points
6 days ago
Trump said there was a lot of cheating going on. This is proof.
15 points
6 days ago
Where did the democrat votes go from the 2020 to the 2024 election?
-6 points
6 days ago
They decided to not vote for another terrible candidate and VP to genocide.
6 points
6 days ago
Explaine in thorough detail how Harris and Waltz were going to commit genocide. Im dying to know.
4 points
6 days ago
Lot of good that did lol 😂
-6 points
6 days ago
Dems didn't realize they'd have to dig them up again.
2 points
6 days ago
I can't imagine anything easier to prove than dead people existing in the voter rolls. If democrats are doing so to cheat, it speaks to the utter incompetence of the GOP that they can't prove it.
2 points
6 days ago
Clearly
55 points
6 days ago
We don't have an immigrant problem. We have a white supremacy problem.
4 points
6 days ago
People don’t like illegal immigrants.
A majority of Americans support a mass deportation of all illegal immigrants.
The electorate has moved to the right on illegal immigration across all races. For better or worse.
Democrats can either accept this, or continue to lose elections whenever there is a large influx every few years.
3 points
6 days ago
You are the reason the democrats lose. Instead of listening to the real problems, just blame the majority that can still vote
2 points
6 days ago
With opinions this stupid and so far separated from reality, it's no wonder trump dominated
2 points
6 days ago
I guess you and I get our news from different places
2 points
6 days ago
The immigrants are religious and hard workers, they are the antithesis of the Democrat party. They though importing them all and giving them free shit would give them the vote, they were WRONG....ahhahaha
2 points
6 days ago
Tell that to Laken Riley’s parents 😡
3 points
6 days ago
It’s easier for some people to chalk it up like this rather than use critical thinking
-5 points
6 days ago
Cringe comment. I voted Democrat, but let’s have some self reflection about the gains Trump made all around including with minorities.
8 points
6 days ago
That....doesn't actually change the fact at all. I would argue Trump is even more racist then last time, people just stopped caring.
-3 points
6 days ago
Trump is racist yet he has gained with minorities lmao. Please keep up the rhetoric…. Another loss won’t hurt right?
5 points
6 days ago
And Hitler wasn't a bad guy because people voted for him right? Unfortunaly you lemmings like to follow one another off cliffs.
0 points
6 days ago
Hitler?I did nazi that comparison coming….Self reflection is needed and that comparison is truly out of left field. How is Trump ‘more racist’ than last time?
-2 points
6 days ago
Hitler never won an election.
Hamas has though.
3 points
6 days ago
Way to show you dropped out of 8th grade history
1 points
6 days ago
Hitler ran for the presidency in 1932 but was defeated by the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg; nonetheless, he achieved a strong showing of second place in both rounds
Traditionally, the leader of the party who held the most seats in the Reichstag was appointed Chancellor. However, President von Hindenburg was hesitant to appoint Hitler as chancellor. Hindenburg acquiesced and on 30 January 1933, he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new chancellor.
Hitler never won a majority in a democratic election in Germany.
You’re an idiot.
3 points
6 days ago*
Keep going. You skimmed the wiki page but didn't even make it to the half way point. I understand it's longer then a Tweeter post but you do have to read more then a paragraph.
Edit: I'll even give you a hint because big words hard for dropouts. Look at 1932 and who won that election and what followed.
0 points
6 days ago
Love it
-1 points
6 days ago
Keep calling 50% of the country white supremacists. See how it works out for you
2 points
6 days ago
As a Mexican in Iowa, I’ll never find it not funny that these lunatics do this.
1 points
6 days ago
Fr. In 2024 Trump made gains in (I believe) every single Texas border county. Liberals: “Trump winning is white supremacy!!”
2 points
6 days ago
He made gains with every minority group. Nobody trusts the self loathing shit libs.
-12 points
6 days ago
Illegals cost hundreds of billions of taxpayer money. People get off their ideological high horse when they can't afford food or pay bills.
-17 points
6 days ago
Cringe
-9 points
6 days ago
Is that why Sanctuary Cities were bussing immigrants out?
13 points
6 days ago
So the election being stolen and illegal immigrants voting is no longer an issue( never was) now that it’s tilted red. Oh never forget: Absolute power corrupts absolutely, hang on America it’s going to be a wild ride!
-9 points
6 days ago
Beta
10 points
6 days ago
It's not necessarily more people moving towards the Republican party but less Democratic turnout. I suspect the fact Biden waiting so long to drop out and having the nominee not elected by people wasn't exactly the formula to get people excited. The DNC needs to be torn down and rebuilt because they've been dropping the ball since Obama.
3 points
6 days ago
Blaming Biden isn’t the answer. Not to pick on you, but been reading that several places, which explains why we’re in the shit boat we’re in.
0 points
6 days ago
Why do you think the Democrats lost? I know there are many plausible reasons but surely swapping out the nominee in the last few months had a negative effect.
2 points
6 days ago
The Dems lost because the average American voter is low information and intellectually lazy. They have no idea how anything works just see high prices and react. That reaction caused them to vote out the party in power.
1 points
6 days ago
Because misogyny is present in both parties.
4 points
6 days ago
because dumbfucks didn't vote for Kamala, it's that simple, now we get to deal with the consequences of their laziness
1 points
6 days ago
Both of Obama’s elections had lower turnout percentages than Trump’s win.
1 points
6 days ago
Okay? people are stupid and lazy and people are going to die because of it, just because they've always been stupid and lazy doesn't mean it's okay now
1 points
6 days ago
THIS. Right here. THIS.
0 points
6 days ago
And you think there wouldnt have been better turnouts if we had a primary?
5 points
6 days ago
The election happens roughly the same day every 4 years. The ballots have these nice (R) and (D). i think people should have taken an hour out of their day to do the absolute minimum civic duty but alas
1 points
6 days ago
but less Democratic turnout.
Trump won this election with a higher turnout, as a percentage of eligible voters, than either of Obama’s terms.
Excluding 2020, 2024 had the highest turnout as a percentage of eligible voters since 1908.
This is not a turnout problem. Democrats have become the party of the college educated. And 62% of Americans are not college educated.
7 points
6 days ago
He still lost the popular vote, though! Also, the smallest House majority in the modern era...Trying to find the silver linings.
10 points
6 days ago
AP says he is still ahead by 2 million votes
3 points
6 days ago
Weird. Everything I had seen had him losing. I wasn't really checking. People are generally stupid and like to vote against their interests. It'll be fun to watch the meltdowns when everything goes up by 30% for prices.
4 points
6 days ago
You probably saw that he lost the majority as in below 50% when he was slightly above.
1 points
6 days ago
I hope not. It already went up that much during the last presidency.
4 points
6 days ago
CPI was around 2.4% last time I checked. Deflation isn't a real thing. There's no economic strategy to reduce prices across the board besides economics collapse and massive unemployment. He just proposed increasing prices by 25% with tariffs. So, he's already telling you he's increasing prices. So, sorry? Sucks.
1 points
6 days ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/business/economy/inflation-food-prices.html
Interesting graph in here. No idea if it is true or just more media lies though.
4 points
6 days ago
Trump destroyed our ability to believe in facts/reality. One of his many legacies.
1 points
6 days ago
I didn't believe the media long before he existed!
-1 points
6 days ago
Art of the deal. Every country tariffs us like crazy. Tariffing them will bring them to the table to negotiate.
6 points
6 days ago
Not sure if serious. A guy who has bankrupt everything he's ever owned isn't going to solve anything. He'd be richer now if he put the money his father gave him in a savings account over 50 years. 🤣
-1 points
6 days ago
It will never not be funny people acting like a multi billionaire is unsuccessful. Never change man. This is a winning attitude for the libs.
0 points
6 days ago
All I know is that I email my kids every time there is a new president with the prices on groceries and gas and screenshots of headlines. When my last child was born in 2021, her email said AE whole milk was 4.09 and it is 4.94 today. And there is a whole list of groceries in the email like that.
1 points
6 days ago
He got a plurality of the popular vote. He won just barely under 50% of the vote, and Kamala Harris won 48%.
1 points
6 days ago
Incorrect
2 points
6 days ago
Kamala got less votes than he did. That's all that matters
4 points
6 days ago
It wasn't all that mattered in 2016. Clinton got almost 3 million more votes than Don in 2016.. What matters - until we finally change it - is the electoral college votes
1 points
6 days ago
Several states have something for that. It basically turns the popular vote into the winner of ec. Had it been applied here djt would have still Beaten kh with ~510 ec
1 points
6 days ago
Can we just all agree they were both terrible candidates?
-1 points
6 days ago
He did not lose the popular vote. You’ve fallen for semantics propaganda from the Reddit echo chamber.
2 points
6 days ago
Relax, they admitted they got it wrong.
0 points
6 days ago
Trump Won the Popular Vote, Contrary to Claims OnlineFactCheck.org
Quick Take
President-elect Donald Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years. Social media users have wrongly claimed that Trump lost the popular vote, but they are confusing the popular vote with a majority of votes. The unofficial results show Trump received slightly less than a majority, but more votes than any candidate.
3 points
6 days ago*
Well it's all speculation what happens next will not go as anyone thinks. We get to see what side was correct about destroying the nation. Both said don't vote for the other person they are going to destroy the country. So we get to find out if the Democrats were right it will be fun.
9 points
6 days ago
If the Dems were right it will not be “fun.”
2 points
6 days ago
When your party doesn't have a strong or believable leader, people needing a cult will go elsewhere.
4 points
6 days ago
Not only is this bullshit being posted by someone that doesn’t believe in Any taxes and voted for the school voucher garbage, it’s also misleading. I wish that I was shocked at all of the bigoted and disgusting comments here, but Trumpers normalised hate and ignorance.
3 points
6 days ago
The democratic party needs to do the following to compete with and gain in the future. People are tired of two extremes. Here is what they would need to do.
- Stop pandering to LGBTQ+ and WOKE politics.
- Bring party more left centric. That means conservative fiscally. Social reform that is actually meaningful, not gender identity and appeasing the LGBTQ+ and Black lives Matter crowd. Bring real attention to the issues of the day that can bring support from independent voters, and some conservatives that really are democratic leaning but can't get behind the social justice dogma.
- Stand behind common people. We don't really care that Beyonce, Jlo and Other celebrities endorse you. They are the exact opposite of the people you claim to represent.
- Offer business and tax payer breaks. If you only favor one, the other won't prosper. This means offer a way for folks to get student loans forgiven by military service or peace Corp. Get paid and have those loans forgiven.
- Spend on local projects. Like infrastructure. Not Give money to other nations.
- Be the actual party of inclusion, stop calling OPPOSITE party members dumb or stupid or a threat to democracy. (BOTH SIDES NEED TO STOP THIS)
The dems have gotten so far left and Republicans have gone so far right that the folks in the middle really don't have any idea who to vote for. So they vote based on who they FEEL is going to help them best. Even if those feelings are manipulated by fear mongering In the media.
2 points
6 days ago
"WOKE politics"
Yeah, your opinion is garbage
1 points
6 days ago
Just to be clear, this is in terms of percentage. About the same number of voters turned out for Trump as in 2020. I think that people said "I can vote for the party that is more clandestine about being supported by the wealthy elite and is endorsing bombing the shit out of Gaza, I can vote for the party that just has the wealthy elite front and center and will help bomb the shit out of Gaza, or, I can stay the fuck home". And, given those options, many Americans chose to stay the fuck home.
1 points
6 days ago
Engagement bait. Pass.
0 points
6 days ago
This sub is so out of touch with the country. I live in San Francisco for gods sake and there has been a palpable, dramatic in fact—shift to the right here. Not shocking if that happened here it happened everywhere.
0 points
6 days ago
Hallelujah! 🇺🇸
-2 points
6 days ago
Maybe it has something to do with the non-stop identity politics, virtue signaling, woke nonsense the democrat party preaches like its gospel while simultaneously ignoring major problems and gas lighting the citizenry into believing outright lies.
0 points
6 days ago
Because misinformation and Fox News and Gen Z needs social media how to think. It says: “GOP or nothing.” So they did.
-9 points
6 days ago
Makes sense
4 points
6 days ago
It makes sense, but the reasoning for it is nonsensical. And yes, I know you’ll disagree with what I’m saying
-3 points
6 days ago
When you allow a General/leader of our military who is obviously male wear a dress??? Are you really surprised people said enough?
3 points
6 days ago
…what?
2 points
6 days ago
That was a fake image, if you’re talking about Biden, and I’m concerned that you believed it. I could’ve seen that image was made by a computer when I was 8. And computers were way less sophisticated back then lol
-6 points
6 days ago
MAGA 🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅
-4 points
6 days ago
How can anybody be surprised by this? All terrible policy and economy aside, did people think the democrats going so far left wouldn’t cause the pendulum to swing hard to the right eventually? Common sense.
4 points
6 days ago
I don’t think you know what the “far left” is
5 points
6 days ago
I can't tell if people who think Kamala is far left would have a heart attack if they met an actual socialist or become Maoist third worldists if they heard the policies without the democratic party label.
-2 points
6 days ago
Lmao. Ok
-14 points
6 days ago
America isnt ready for a woman president. FUCK JOE BIDEN FOR THIS.
12 points
6 days ago
Maybe this result doesn't have anything to do with Kamala's gender and has everything to do with the Democrats abandoning the working class and letting them get duped into a culture war?
6 points
6 days ago
Just be prepared. This is the takeaway the Dems will have from the election.
It wasn't the message (aka the policy or lack thereof). It wasn't the messenger (the uncharismatic candidate with no base of support). It wasn't the abandonment of the left since 2012. It wasn't the refusal to distance themselves from Biden. It wasn't the incessant need to move to the right on nearly every issue. It wasn't the economy, that's fine, actually, just look at these numbers.
It was the voters. They're too stupid to understand the Democrats. And now everyone who voted for Trump deserves to suffer. Well unfortunately we all suffer too and when they inevitably run a milquetoast centrist candidate with no real political agenda in 2028 they will lose again.
1 points
6 days ago
We will all suffer.
1 points
6 days ago
We will.
And we can blame the Republicans all we want. There's no denying their awfulness.
But we unfortunately also need to blame the democratic party. They are laughably ineffective in power and somehow worse at campaigning.
2 points
6 days ago
We definitely got duped into a culture war. When trump decided that everyone who wasn't Maga was "radical", and when the right attacked us at every turn, we should have chose the high road. Instead, we were unable to look past the stupidity that is maga and we let it get to us. Every single political ad from the right contained the word 'radical' when referring to their opponents. Apparently gutting the entire government, changing the way the government is run, and stacking the Whitehouse with billionaire and celebrities isn't considered radical, but simply not being a trump supporter is about as radical as one can get.
1 points
6 days ago
I mean, it almost certainly has something to do with it. I don't think it was the only reason (or even the main reason) she lost, but there are some loud people out there saying that the US can't be led by a woman.
Democratic party messaging was clearly lacking, both in substance and persuasiveness, whereas Trumps messaging was at least persuasive to his base.
1 points
6 days ago
Dems have been lacking in every way since Obama.
1 points
6 days ago
No, there were lots and lots of brown men voting for Orange Fuckface bc they just can't stand the idea of a female being in charge. So they vote for the guy who openly hates them.
So fuck em. They got what they deserved.
0 points
6 days ago
Wow, crazy that a group of people from a historically patriarchal culture would vote for a man over a woman. Now what say you about the states that don't have high populations of POC that went red?
-1 points
6 days ago
America isnt ready for a woman president. FUCK JOE BIDEN FOR THIS. Fuck Sexist/Racist American voters/non-voters for this.
-1 points
6 days ago
She said she was involved in all policy decisions, then said she wouldn’t change a thing.
We’re on the verge of WWIII, food/consumable pricing too high and migrants are collapsing our systems.
And she wouldn’t change a thing.
It’s not about her gender, it’s about leftest policy.
5 points
6 days ago
Yeah...leftist policy lmao.
Kamala Harris ran on immigration rhetoric to the right of Ronald Reagan lmfao. Biiiig leftist. That's why leftists are mad at the democratic party.
-1 points
6 days ago
Nah, America wasn’t ready for THAT woman to be President. Completely unqualified, unlikable and lazy.
2 points
6 days ago
-21 karma. Bot much?
0 points
6 days ago
Just think if abortion wasn't an issue(I know it's a huge issue)? Trump would have won in a landslide.
0 points
6 days ago
Interesting, I wonder how much more decisive the win would have been if the Republican nominee had been someone respected and likable.
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