• Phoenixz
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    we have to find out about who, exactly, was in that whole thing,

    You and maga extremists, those were in that whole thing. You invited everyone by tweet, remember you narcissistic alzheimer maniac?

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    Hezbollah?

    I mean, if were just adding random groups…

    Are you are the Grinch wasn’t involved too? Or maybe Klingons?

    I know Trump says dumb unfounded things on an hourly basis but this one is a top ten level stupidity comment

    Without a shred of evidence, of course

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    Wait, was it a peaceful day of love, or was it a Hezbollah plot? Were they unfairly persecuted in a witch hunt, or were they terrorists?

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      I try to take heart in the fact that the majority didn’t actually vote for him, but it’s cold comfort, considering so many couldn’t be bothered to vote at all.

      We’re kinda fucked.

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        If it helps (it won’t), voter suppression has been working overtime since like 2012. My ballot didn’t come until the 8th of November, and I couldn’t spring for a surprise voting day flight home. For more local citizens, things like making them wait six hours and banning people from providing water are effective, not because people don’t care, but because people are concerned with immediate survival, so they might have to leave the line to go to work.

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        The majority of people who actually voted did. Who knows what the rest really think, but at the very least they were fine with this.

        We’re mega fucked.

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          Still got less than 50%.

          He did get the highest percent, but under half of voters. Still fucking depressing, but as numbers were fully counted and confirmed his percentage steadily decreased.

          Still fucked though, yes.

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          Well ackshually! It was a plurality not majority. Not that it actually makes a difference…

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        He wants to bring the stock market down, at least until he is in office. It’s what he likes to use as a scoreboard. Since his move to easy federal deficit fell through, he needs to find othe means to be able to pump the market further into a bubble. Watch him change his tune as soon as he is in office. He will probably say, oh well Greenland and Panama decided to take a deal, so "Mission Successful!.. while he quietly releases J6ers and takes even more control of our politics behind the curtain.

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      I’m sure people now see that it’s all Hezbollah behind the failed coup and Trump is the only one that can fight them! /s

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      The people who voted for this don’t read the news because they have their heads up their asses, blissfully unaware what goes on in the world. And will blame the dems for anything bad in their life.

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        His key to winning this time relied heavily on people who don’t pay attention and who don’t usually vote.

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      They didn’t. This isn’t a democracy. People didn’t have a choice to vote for.

      Very few people voted for trump.

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      Because not everyone thinks the same.

      Unfortunately both parties have pivoted to chasing voters who are just afraid of “them” and that’s what they both built campaigns around.

      Fear of “them” will always translate to more conservative votes than liberal, so Republicans will win those elections the majority of the time.

      Like, maybe you were just complaining it happened, but if you legitimately didn’t know why, that’s probably the largest contributer.

      Dems gave up on “bleeding heart liberals” because they have standards as voters.

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        These strategies have existed and have been deployed in the past. “Them” have always existed and have been exploited to more/less success.

        So what’s changed this cycle?

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          Nothing.

          Human variation has always existed.

          Conservatives have larger amygdalas so they respond more to that strategy. Liberals have larger prefrontal cortex’s where things like empathy and critical thinking happen, that’s why they’re “bleeding heart liberals”.

          It’s not a small difference. A random person off the street with zero medical training can tell your political leaning from just an MRI scan once someone points out the two relevant parts with like 82% accuracy, which considering some people will be “between” is crazy accurate.

          https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/848363

          Now, the difference isn’t innate, and it can change even later in life.

          But as people’s brains change so the amygdala gets to call more shots, that person is going to want conservative politicians, so Dems move to the right to chase the voters they scared into becoming more conservative…

          Which just further disenfraches the people with a larger left insula (prefrontal cortex) and makes both parties appear the same to them even if one is the “lesser evil”.

          It’s not really new, we’ve known about this since before trump won his first election.

          It’s just the people running the DNC do t care about sociology or even psychology…

          Just money

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          So what’s changed this cycle?

          The dems started relying completely on that strategy. They threw away the hope and change stuff that won them the presidency in 2008. Like the person you’re replying to said, they gave up on the “bleeding heart liberals”.

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      He frequently takes all sides of every issue so his moronic supporters can cherry pick quotes in retrospect and claim he was right all along. He’s been doing it since 2016. They think it makes him “smart”. America will get what it voted for.

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      The largest march in the history of the US happened on his last inauguration day. People care.

      They’re just up against a very rigged and heavily armed system that routinely kidnaps and tortures folks who try to stop them.

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      When it hits their wallet same as always. What actually got is civil rights? Stopping enough business that businesses said enough let them have it so we can get back to work. That said that was back when pinks would get openly shot at and bombed.

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      The DOJ didn’t care for the last 4 years, why should anyone else even think any of it was real? It’s too late already America!

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    Ah yes - remember all those convicted Jan 6 insurrectionists who turned out not to be magas? (Me neither.)

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    Just 12 more days until he literally the second most powerful man on earth. (musk is obviously topping Trump. Figuratively and literally.)