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Former president Donald Trump claims US presidential election as count continues (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 16 hours ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/worldnews@aussie.zone

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In short:

Donald Trump has claimed victory in the US presidential election, saying his political movement is the greatest the world has ever seen.

The Republican candidate swamped his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in critical swing states.

What's next?

The Republicans were on track to win both chambers of congress, too, paving the way for Trump's agenda to be enacted in full.

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[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Trump, unlike Biden/Harris, feels no need to pretend to be doing anything to stop Israel

The pretending is in some ways worse.

In practical terms Biden/Harris have given the Israeli government everything they wanted. Harris is participating in a genocide. Nobody should have voted for her.

But the Biden/Harris Whitehouse paying lip service to humanity/sanity (including ceasefire) seems to have given a lot of people a fig-leaf to vote for a génocidaire, and more generally to go about their lives as if their government is not committing genocide.

See also 'kids in cages'. There's a sizable number of Americans who, it seems, can only see the atrocities their government is committing when there's a Republican in the Whitehouse.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

That... makes sense actually.