He's preparing his base for another January 6th.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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Has been for 4 years now. It's so frustrating to watch play out in front of our eyes.
When he picked JD Vance he thought for sure he was going to win and almost certainly would have.
Nah, I hate this narrative. I'm sure he thought he would win, but I think it would have been pretty close with Biden ultimately prevailing. We'll never know now. But saying Trump was a lock is ridiculous.
Not after that debate where Biden looked like shit. You gotta remember how fucking little normies pay attention to politics. That debate was probably the first time most of them had seen Joe Biden in a long ass time, and he looked bad.
It would be as simple as “I’d better vote for the one who’s not gonna die in office”; which is honestly the stupidest take imaginable, but they have been defunding our schools for 60 years so what did you expect?
You gotta remember how fucking little normies pay attention to politics.
i'm learning from my interactions from lemmy.world that this statement defines so much of what's wrong.
... they have been defunding our schools for 60 years so what did you expect?
i think this is one the reasons why and i also think that there are other just/almost-as-big reasons as evidenced by roughly 1/4 of my 1st-generation-american college-educated extended-family members loving trump; and somehow it's mostly the boomer & gen-x aged ones while the millenials and gen-z vote the other way.
I had and still do have a gut feeling it won't be close and Trump gets shit stomped. Probably just high on hopium, but while the media had been talking about his leads, I just got more vibes that he didn't have the same support and his voter base has been shrinking. Biden wasn't inspiring, but I don't think trump gained more supporters over the past 4 years, and I don't think Biden had lost many. If people show up and vote, Trump will lose. With the new spark in the Dem candidacy, I expect an ass kicking barring something happening over the next few months.
It’s still early to be optimistic but I agree with you. The whole country has seen and knows what Trump is, he is no longer an unknown quantity. He’s not an outsider fighting the system and a competent businessman like people thought he would be in 2016. The Clintons and their baggage are also out of the picture and dems are rallying behind the energy that Kamala has brought. There’s a reason why Trump and his camp are panicking.
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Honestly, the numbers through the years have shown that when people show up to vote, the Dems win. That's literally all it takes. Everyone going to vote.
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Even when he wins, he still casts doubt on the system. Just look at his whining about Hillary in 2017.
Yup. For the last few months it's been nothing but "Biden is old and loves open borders," but when Kamala starts to pull ahead it's, "be on the lookout for runaway fraud".
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hopi g this time with an American in the white house anyone approaching the capitol will be met with 20mm cannonfire.
Honest question, as a non-American.
Surely any and all secret services will be fully prepared this time, and if some MAGA nutjobs were to try it would result in an absolute massacre, right?
Would they be dumb enough to try? I know that you're all armed to the teeth, but the US Army and Secret Service versus a bunch of cousin-fucking redneck bois is likely to end up in the former winning pretty handily.
See, you'd think. But unfortunately, as an old song once put it: some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses
I think you're right. The last one only kinda almost worked bc bloated mussolini was calling the shots behind deployment of security forces like the national guard. Next time meal team 6 won't just be waltzing past an overwhelmed few capitol police.
Remember that fascists think of their enemy as being both weak and strong at the same time. This gives them a blind spot where they're incapable of weighing their enemy's true strength.
They'll try, but they're not as strong as they think they are. The number of Trump voters actually willing to get violent isn't very big. Could get very bloody in a short period of time, but they'll ultimately lose.
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He’s preparing his base for another January 6th.
Let's bring stochastic terrorism back into the parlance.
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They're never fake when he's ahead, tho'.
Weird.
Weren't they "fake" in 2016 and 2020 too? The man has such a limited vocabulary, no wonder he appeals to morons.
It was widely reported at the time, but vocabulary analysis put him at about 8th grader level.
That's a surprisingly in-depth analysis, appreciated. Donnie's brain has been rotting for almost seven additional years now, and the loud noises coming out of his face hole have only become less impressive. It's safe to say he never made it out of middle school.
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that's how you win an electrician. by faking poles
Win an electrician? Are you talking about magnetic poles?
I’m positive that’s along the lines of their thinking. However, your guess is negative.
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How does one win an electrician and why would you want one? Their upkeep is very expensive, have you priced a new Fluke meter lately? And they tend to lose them regularly too.
This is the best aneurysm I've ever read
Funny how the polls were "hugely precise" when they favored him.
The melting mango is losing his shit. I don't think his ticker can take the stress, especially considering it's fueled mostly with hamberders. I'm calling it now-- if he loses the Nov election he'll have a heart attack within 6 months.
My money is on a massive stroke and noone actually recognizes it because the new word salad is just like the old word salad
His face drooping wouldn't be new either
The only thing going on that's fake, is him.
Is being an "Orangicist" a thing? I think I'm that.
Oh man, he is big mad (and kinda obviously scared), and that makes me quite happy.
Survived a gunshot, killed by the polls less than a month later.
What a weak shitheel.
If Trump wins electoral but loses popular again there better be fucking riots
Trumps brain at any given moment: If it is critical of me it must be ____________ 1. Fake 2. A hoax 3. A lie 4. Socialist 5. Communist 6. Horrible. 7. Random noises 8. China 9. Change the topic
Trump: Looks at Venezuela. "Wait! If I get my cronies in charge of counting the vote and they declare me winner even if it doesn't match the polls, people aren't going to believe it? Well, I better start denigrate the polls!"
Real electoral maps and fake polls below (note electoral maps will become fake if they show any tinge of orange falling behind):
2024 Election Poll Aggregators, Aggregated (August 6, 2024) - Harris vs. Trump
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