Not a landslide. Not even a majority of the country.

November 20, 2024 - 12:21 UTC

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Still staggering however, that he wins the popular vote. There is no moral victory when the dems lose by “just a little bit” with this maniac.
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Trump cheated with help of musk and Russia
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Really searching for a silver lining here, Mehdi. May not have been a landslide by definition but it was in every other way that counts. A convicted felon won. Focus needs to be on how to combat this personality type in future elections.
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1.68% isn't a mandate, much less a landslide.
Unless you're a Fascist.
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Wow
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Still not convinced that Russian interference didn't have an impact.
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Not going to make the slightest difference though is it if he’d got a Putinesque mandate it’s enough to fuck the US, the rest of the worlds countries and the climate
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It’s the ones who said “meh, think I’ll sit this one out” that most disappoint me.
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but the majority of eligible voters apparently didn’t want a president at all … 🙄
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Thanks for this, and let's hope the rest of us keep making our resistance known because it's going to get dangerous for so many people.
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He still has a mandate, to be his own worst enemy.
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Cheated just enough. He told us he didn’t need the votes….
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What could have been, he won narrowly in some swing states.
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In Christianity orange creeps numbers are evil.
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Yep. But this is kinda like the "we won the 3rd quarter," argument.
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Quick reminder that the biggest block of voting eligible people was “didn’t vote” (approx 90 million). Good ol’ America. www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election
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Behold! The Mighty Trump Mandate!

Notice how the legacy press hasn't really been talking about the fact that even though Trump won, barely, Republicans did REALLY poorly just about everywhere else.

Trump won. The GOP did not because people still hate them.

But that's not the narrative they want.
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I have a mandate Mehdi! My mandate includes silencing big mouth Non-Americans who speak against me! Except for Elon & Rupert! They’re ok, they’re on team MAGA! The rest of you get ready for G Bay & Cock Meat Sandwich time!
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Facts don’t make a difference to liars. Harris voters cry about the numbers but trump voters got the win; that’s all Republicans in Congress need. Democrats can only stop the upcoming chaos one way and that’s to beat their asses in the midterms. DNC needs new leadership & Gillibrand is a good start.
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five million people stayed home or were prevented from voting when compared against the 2020 election. The question(s) are: WHY and WHERE?
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They're acting like 90% of the county voted for Trump when it was barely more than half.
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It was less than half. That's why it's not a mandate.
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True. Sadly though his base has heard he won in a landslide and will repeat it and believe it. The truth doesn’t matter to them, only the narrative they are fed.
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Trump needs to quit calling at a landslide. Hillary actually beat him with popular votes in 2016 by a wider margin! Fuck the electoral college, time to go all popular vote, and make everybody’s vote count!
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It’s so disgusting that 76 million people voted for a corrupt rapist felon clown embarrassing to be American
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If you look closer, trump actually had less, they did with biden and to shame on those who did not vote or participate this 2024
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Dems had 4 yrs to solve abortion rights, wars left too long, illegal immigration, talked of new taxes and raising taxes? ...Trump said all get a tax cut. And now we have someone who's a convicted rapist and felon. You wouldn't hire him to work the cash register at the 7-11 and he's president.
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Part of me says the Dems needed to lose this...a good kick in the ass to start to listen. Problem is we have 4 years of Trump and Elon... 🙄
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Math Aint mathing but the felon won it all.

Same in France ...

Same in Quebec ...

They cheat , they lie, they murder , they steal , they make threat and we has a weak society allow it.
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If our present government had any balls they would arrest Trump and hold him for trial for both the documents and January 6th. If he was acquitted he could assume the presidency. If not he goes to jail. What other country just rolls over and turns their country over to a fascist
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bsky.app/profile/keithmm.bsky.social/post/3lbcvki7iic2l
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As of 8:00 PM tonight,
Trump received 2,442,596 more votes than he received in 2020.

Harris received 7,196,905 fewer votes than Biden in 2020

The turnout for 2024 is 4,754,284 less than 2020.

Why did 4.75 million voters stay home?
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Not even a majority of the voters
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About 32% voted for Trump, about 30% voted for Harris, and the other 38% or so just couldn't be arsed. Yes, an absolute mandate to give everyone measles.
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Plus the 2-3 million who didn’t vote for neither No way a mandate
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I am a dual national and voted from overseas, by mail, 6 weeks in advance. After the election, I checked to find that my Ohio electoral office had “not received “ my ballot. I get overseas mail and parcels regularly, some from US. Anyone having similar issues? I call 🐂💩. #Rigged #Resist #Recount.
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The majority of Americans love the Constitution...!!!!
Trump hates the Constitution...YET...he will take an Oath to protect and defend it...!!
Insanity continues..!!!
Such bullshit 🙄 😒
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Good news America: there's an opposition.
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We got Fucked, by so few! For all these many years we were led to believe that the smartest would call the shots!
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It doesn't matter. He will keep saying it's a mandate over and over and over again and Fox News will repeat it and then people will start saying it. Rinse repeat
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Start printing the bumper stickers!
"50.07% of us DID NOT vote for Trump"
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Not a 'mandate'! Who is going to tell him!?
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Nonetheless, totally irrelevant.
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Not even a majority of voters
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Recount now
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Yet we're being constantly told we need to completely change because we lost track of where the country was at.
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The key question is where did 5+ million Democratic votes go? Why did folks stay home?
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Maybe point that out to his buddy @piersmorgan.bsky.social who seems to be still spewing this garbage!
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Harris was one of the most qualified Democratic candidates I've seen in my lifetime. She received more votes than Obama, the Clintons, Gore. Only Biden received more. Convicted felon Trump should not have been allowed to run. What are we talking about here?
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76 million people voted for him. I can’t understand it.
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But the media like cnn or nbc was talking about a blow out LMAO? Few weeks ago I think even the during the counting of the votes
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🤍
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Thank you
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but the demented fascist still becomes POTUS, no matter how many voted for him

it's a horribly shitty system
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of the VOTING country - more than a third didn't even have an opinion
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Really small margin.
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Majority of the country? Not even a majority of voters.
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76 million people voted for a rapist.
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Not even a majority of the voting age population who bothered to vote…
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Cons loved to run with the narrative that this was some massive red wave that swept the entire nation. The tides of the will of the nation cascading against the left.
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They had the names of people who did not vote but a registered vote for Trump was cast for them in various counties in the Swing states.
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Still cannot get my head around the fact that so many people looked at Trump, what he is, what he has done, what he said he will do, and then said, yep, I am up for 4 more years of that.
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You could multiply all he's done and it still won't come close to genocide. He'll likely make it worse but I won't blame any person for voting on facts.
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People like my old high school friend. She is all in on Trump because she is immersed in Fox News everyday. It's the right-wing media. That's the issue. They are taught that the Democrats are evil.
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Not a single sign of at least verification! Pissed!
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The winner was likely other. Non-voters win everytime. It should tell us to produce better candidates...but we don't.
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And certainly not a mandate.
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No one cares about the popular vote anymore. In terms of how elections are run in this country Trump won handily. This isn’t in dispute.
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The only mandate he has is from Putin
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Good morning Mehdi!
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I’m sure Trump got extra secret help somehow some way from that #DarkMAGA partner Elon Musk
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So once again the majority of US citizens who voted do not want Trump
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Mehdi! Have you see the interview with Stephen Spoonamore, the data scientist behind a viral "duty to warn" letter has uncovered results from an analysis of the 2024 election, specifically an inconsistency in bullet ballots. PLEASE WATCH!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJR5uQpweko
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Thank God. This will give them pause when they're trying some of their more heinous plans. They'd need to hammer it home in 2 years or midterms are going to be ugly for them
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No. It won't. It never does. They push shit through with every second they have. If they lose midterms, fine. They'll have a shot again and they'll pick it back up then. That's what they've been doing for decades now. If they can get it through, they will.
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The electoral college is trash. One more vote is all we should ever need. The people should be allowed to vote on every law.

#BrokiesUnited #Impeach47 #TangerinePalpatine
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The details will be lost on them. From their perspective, it was a clean sweep.....a trifecta.
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Not even a majority of the voters in the country.
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Interesting
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49.93%? Not bad for a fascist though.
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Although that probably still only equates to less than 30% of the electorate, but still bad enough
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Less of a mandate than Hillary had
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Let alone the people who didn't vote

People treat them as unworthy slobs but a lot of them have very good reasons not to vote

I learnt that in Japan: basically young people never vote - because they believe (and quite reasonably) that it makes absolutely no difference
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If everyone who said "My vote can't change anything!" started showing up on election day, they could change everything.

Cynicism is cancer to a democracy, it stops progress in its tracks and lets wounds fester that could be healed.

Cynicism never solved a goddamn thing.
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Add in the 90M who didn’t vote and it’s an even bigger loss
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Medhi, it is a MANDATE! House, Senate and Presidency. BIDEN refuses to use his Absolute Immunity. Democracy dies
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Imagine she took even a lukewarm position on Gaza... obviously I would prefer she actually take a strong position, but she definitely would have propelled where she needed to.

Despite her blunder of palling around with the Cheneys she still did well.
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Currently...via Cook Political
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but not really any comfort, either.
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And 89 million registered people didn't vote, right?
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Nope the biggest political party in the United States remains the couch.
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“Mark of the beast” much? The evangelicals can suck on that before the doom hits home in more material ways.
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I mean fuck trump and all that... but the bigger number of a popular vote is sadly the majority of the country in a very literal sense. Let's try to keep to reality to prevent our society from degrading further.
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what is that like 22% of the population? So we need to overcome the ugliness of a quarter of the population, not half.

If we as a nation come out of this in one piece, I hope the corporate media is left far behind, searching for clicks in the ashes of their hyperbole
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She still lost, what, 10M votes?
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trump didn’t win
Harris lost
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Trump knows the low thinking human. This is what they care about. Food, bed, fun. He went for the bros, the left behind in the previous thriving industries, and the very satisfied stomping on the lower rungs of the financial totem pole peeps.
The cult is strong right now.
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America lost 😫
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True bsky.app/profile/keithmm.bsky.social/post/3lbbkvzg5bc2g
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76M dumb dumbs? Wow.
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Hardly a “mandate”.
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Dems lost 7 million votes. Yikes. Wish Joe kept his promise to he a transitional president
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Anyone who brings this up, if they bring it up, will meet with Sean Soicer Part 2
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but ThErE StIlL cOuNtInG vOtEs

📣that’s how this works📣
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Yet, it should not have been above 1%.
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We know not even that, I'd bet 10mil of those votes were fake! Elon Musk Obersaw that election with Starlink! We could shoot them Down! It will never happen again!
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This matters zero percent. They will still talk and act like it was the biggest landslide in history.
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Harris had all the momentum after Biden stepped aside and they pissed it away in part or in whole by insulting and dismissing their base. She and her team made some very bad choices and now the most vulnerable among us will suffer the consequences while she will be just fine.
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One way to game the system that nobody talks about - ensure ballots are cast by eligible voters who do not vote. Dems need to invest to see if those new voters did indeed cast ballots or were recipients of $47 to do so. They only needed 2-3 votes per precinct to flip battleground states.
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That is good hopeful news. #DefyMangoMussolini
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While it still stings, I never bought this idea Republicans had a mandate
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I see that “666” in his number of votes..
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It won't matter though. He will just keep repeating he won by a landslide and soon his minions will believe him. Most R's believed Biden stole the election in 2020 despite all the evidence disproving that.
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Ironically Trump would never have become president if elections were not rigged.

observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/
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Why is everyone making this big deal that it wasn't a landslide or a "mandate". Dems got our asses kicked by a criminal and a traitor. We lost the House and Senate and already lost the Supreme Court. Stop patting yourselves on the back because we didn't lose bigger.
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Exactly 💯
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Bruno- we voted. He cheated. The ONLY way this Facist could win.
Please.
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If this is a mandate, Joe Biden should have been crowned King of Every Freaking Thing He Wanted To Be King Of
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Dems are just as big of a problem as repukes. many dam influencers caused people to stay home because of their false claims of being a title wave. or claims of states turning blue that just didn’t.
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Bro, you keep going back to this. A win is a win. Harris lost to a convicted sexual assault, nut job. That's a blowout. The moment you get that we can move on.
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Keep saying it. Over and over and over again.
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It’s never a majority because so few vote in the US.
Not a real Democracy. Australia has 95% of people vote.
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If he won by a single vote, they’d go with mandate. Their campaign has from the start always go on the offense doing and saying whatever gives people the illusion that they are already in power.
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True, but the thing about democracy is that after an election the winning side/president governs for *all* the country equally.

The fear regarding Trump is that he feels his mandate is to support just his side and ignore or attack those who didn't vote for him
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So not the record turnout the news was reporting all through early voting?
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Hate to say it but it doesn't matter - "electoral college"
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Idk if this is better or worse.
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And not statistically possible.

www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked?utm_medium=web
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@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Please, can we stop with this "half the country", "mandate", "majority" stuff?

A democracy is not defined by the majority of the peeps who bother to turn up.

It's defined by the majority of the eligible voters (250-260)

You would need 125mil at minimum for a majority
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P.s.

Anything less than 125m-130m is a "MINORITY!!!!"

it's a Minority, deciding for the majority
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True. But it sure feels like I have 76 million enemies that want to kill me. That is disappointing at the very least.
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Let's wait for the official data from Pew. But in the meantime look at this article from them.

www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/11/18/americas-news-influencers/
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The 666 makes sense, TBH
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Not a landslide
Not a mandate
You need to get your MSNBC job back!!
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That 666 is telling.
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😮 WOW!
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It's less than Bush/Kerry. But remember how Bush/Cheney pushed like they had swept all 50? It'll be that on an exponential level.
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Same thought.
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76 million are pro rape
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That's weird because I keep reading in the news that it was a landslide. Apparently any time there's certainty about the winner of a presidential election it's a landslide.
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Pathetic
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The economy voted for Harris bsky.app/profile/petea.bsky.social/post/3lb3ap7bqns2a
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Watch how the Dems will blame the 1% who voted third-party instead of the 38% who stayed home.
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Only 31.5% of all eligible voters.
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This blows my mind. I also read before the election that one and three Americans didn’t even know who the presidential candidates were.
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It’s the swing states not millions of people
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And please never forget minorities didn’t vote for Trump, it was white people! 😃
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You expect those who don't know the difference between your/you're to do math? 😂
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Considering 35% of voting age people stayed home, Trump has around 36% support which according to my late father, is slightly more people in this country that would have voted for Hitler.
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1.68% margin now.

Biden got 4.45%
Hillary got 2.00%
Obama got 7.72%
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Correction: *7.20%
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45 got 9 more votes this time than 2020, 76,666,332 vs 76,666, 323. However, 7,196,905 of democrats from my party didn't vote this time. I am ashamed to say that we have racist and misogynistic cowards in my party. BTPOE (but the price of eggs).
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yet enough
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Agreed. But he won, fair and square, let's give it to him and his voters. Beauty of democracy, even though I don't think the American model of democracy is an ideal one. If we keep look for reasons to justify the democratic loss, it will just cause more rift, domestically and internationally.
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More Recent Update:
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If anyone on either side wants a true majority, they are going to have to present policies and solutions that work for the statistical middle… healthcare, education, living wages. This can and should be done ALONGSIDE upholding human rights. 🙏🏼❤️
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And absolutely NO mandate.
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Thank you for sharing that, we need reminders that we are NOT the underdog, and that the power of the strength so badly maimed and killed in Ukraine and Palestine, is a reminder that we should not give up.
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More people voted against Trump than voted for him. Not a mandate.
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You mean not a majority of voters, right? Nowhere near a majority of the country.
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~ 1% of the adult population difference, from my maths...

(76,666,332-74,086,596) / 258,000,000
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... and I get the sense they new exactly where to find that 1% and how to bring it. read.ultraprocessed.news/p/how-to-win-an-election
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Remember how big a deal Trump thought getting 74 million votes was last time? Kamala is just over 19k away from beating his 2020 totals as of today with still more votes to be counted.
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Votes still being counted in Jersey, so.
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If only the rest of the votes showed that she surpassed him... He hide classified documents in his bathroom I won't doubt that he probably hide votes or even replicate his own with the help of Felon Musk...
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alas that's the problem with numbers and democracy being totally dependent on them, power goes to one who doesn't win hearts but numbers
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even if by few decimal places
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The sensationalism needs to stop. A landslide victory is probably 350+ electoral votes which was never going to happen for either side.
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What about the 90 million people who didn’t vote.
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The difference is… he’s got the gift that keeps on enabling him: the House & Senate - and billionaires.
He has no mandate, except playing The HULK. “Me Break Things. Me Angry.”
He’s the leader of the “Revengers.
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So the polls- which called how truly evil half of the voting public is, when they continually said “it is neck and neck” were correct.
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Indeed. Not a landslide, just a slide, away from the Democratic Party, greased, as I’ve said elsewhere, by corporate cash and neoliberal lies. Hi @mehdirhasan.bsky.social !
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Come on Russia and Elon rigged it
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