How did america elect this guy twice? So pathetic.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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It isn't pathetic, it is an engineered strategy that has been ongoing since before any of us were born and it's working because almost no one bothers to do anything but meme about it
I have my doubts that we did it twice. 2024 looks fishy. I'm glad it's finally starting to get talked about
Do you really think it will matter even if they find obvious election fraud?
I think it might get a lot of people who don't like what's happening but accept it to cross over into not accepting it.
I'm not super hopeful that it would matter legislatively or judicially, but I might be the kick in the pants the population needs to go on a general strike, or take other actions.
Sincerely hope you are right, we've gotten so many kicks in the pants so far
I mean, No Kings day was good but we need to do this EVERY DAY
Yes. Nothing more to say.
I hope you are right and will put what effort I can towards the goal, I just am not as sure about the outcome as you are.
I feel like getting trump to write an angry tweet about you is as good an endorsement as Weird Al wanting to parody your song.
I wish he was a communist. I hope I get to vote for a communist in my lifetime.
Pretty disgusted by all of you memeing the collapse of democracy
That's okay, we feel the same way about you. But more to the point, when you're in a situation where the only choice is whether to laugh or cry, it's just a question of how you want to cope.
Before reddit went soft there would be a dozen busy political activism threads encouraging people to join the protests and giving info how.
That's a lot better reaction than laughing or crying
I expected lemmy to be better and it turns out your just a touch more eloquent but that's all
He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.
As a Canadian I know almost nothing about Zohran Mamdani, but I do know that he has more class than a man ever will who, while President of the USA, writes this, or the people who see a non-white left-winger win a democratic vote and immediately call for his deportation. The world can see this. Trump and MAGA are bringing shame on your country.
We know. We’re miserable. (Us sane people, anyway).
+1
every day is more embarrassing than the last. i have felt shame in the past for the things our ancestors did, but there's something different about living in the midst of it. i fucking hate this place. any time i hear "well leave if you don't like it" i'm like "I FUCKING WOULD IF I COULD"
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Whatever the outcome of this presidential reign of stupid. The American system needs to fundamentally change from the ground up.
Trump is about half way to making America sink lower then North Korea on the world stage.
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"All the (centrist fucks) are extreme leftist Marxists!"
"OMG a (milquetoast moderate) won, the Marxists are taking over!"
"Holy shit a (moderately left leaning person) won an election! It's over for America the Communists won!"
"The crazy Marxist Democrat extreme leftists have gone too far with this (standard progressive)"
...etc etc...
now we have an "actual" socialist, but the boy cried wolf so many times they can't label him anything more extreme because they already threw those words at people like... (Checks notes)... Nancy Pelosi... Lol
I want an actual communist to win some election, just to see how much they freak out
It's a Mayor these guys are freaking out over.
The president is freaking out over a Mayor.
That's true fear. They know we intend to use the law to put the real criminals in prison.
To be fair, NYC is a huge city and so its mayor is a major figure in the US. The most recent population I could find was 8.8 million people, vs. the total US at 340 million. NYC is, therefore, home to 2.6% of the US population. As a polity, NYC represents more people than the 9 least populous states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, N Dakota, S Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and Maine) combined. In fact, there are only 12 US states that have a bigger population than NYC alone, and one of those is New York state. From a population perspective, the mayor of NYC is equivalent to the governor of Virginia. That's why everyone is freaking out about this so much. Plus he's young and very handily beat the candidate backed by the DNC establishment, showing cracks in what they assumed was a solid neoliberal core.
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The irony of saying someone’s not that intelligent when it appears you don’t even know how to use punctuation.
I’m pretty terrible with punctuation but I’m not throwing stones from my glass house.
His writing is terrible but his incoherent rambling responses to questions are even worse. Not answers, responses.
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He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart...
Trump describing himself.
Every accusation is an admission
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Trump and the Republicans are now calling him a communist and the GOP are asking Trump to revoke his citizenship and deport him under the Communist Control Act signed by Eisenhower in 1954. I think it's even money that Trump tries it.
I think it's even money that Trump tries it.
Considering he is already illegally deporting people and illegally trying to revoke birthright citizenship, you are more optimistic than I.
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Remember when people didn't get elected because they weren't "presidential" enough?
😢
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I like how they've gone full mask off and given up on the anti-semite attacks and are just calling anyone not calling for Gaza to be ethnically cleansed a Palestinian like it's an insult. Not even hiding the Islamophobia any more.
It's also double funny that he's calling fucking Schumer a Palestinian, it's like calling Biden a communist, which he also probably said. It just goes to show no matter how much the dems try to moderate to accommodate the conservatives they'll always be the enemy.
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Calling that disgusting snake Chuck Schumer the Palestinian senator is pretty hilarious, given where he stands on the genocide.
Weird too because Shumer did not endorse Mamdani. Only a "congratulations". But in Trump land anything goes
Looks terrible, his voice is grating, he's not very smart. Who do those words make me think of? DJT and RFKjr win in a landslide.
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Trump declares Democrats have crossed the line because the outcome of an election didn't end like he wanted it to.
Now I look back at about 8 years of Republicans crossing line after line...
these are the rantings of a shit kid on Xbox
get fucked maga, you're all pathetic morons
He looks terrible.
This is a racist pointing out someone's brown skin.
His voice is grating.
RFK JR
He's not very smart.
My dog is smarter than Donald Trump. Literally.
So anyway, the person saying this is a felon rapist traitor who has repeatedly violated the Constitution. But hey, it's a racist dog whistle and conservatives LOVE that shit.
How do I get AOC+3?
Also, how do we protect Mamdani?
Looks terrible, grating voice, not very smart... Hmm, who does that remind me of?
especially with zohran being specifically noted as pretty attractive, smart enough to not trip over himself when speaking, and at least to my ear he sounds like he could be a radio host.
Republicans always whine about themselves.
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