• Sadness Nexus@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Does it matter? Kamala was supposed to have a slam dunk victory in the last presidential election. Every single post made on Reddit and Lemmy and Mastodon and everything said Trump’s numbers are “lowest they’ve ever been” and what not. In the end, Trump won and it wasn’t even close. It doesn’t matter what the polls say. In the end, hatred and stupidity won in the last election and who knows, it might work again.

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    8 days ago

    The man tried to overthrow the legitimate government of the USA and Americans still elected him into office. Approval rating doesn’t mean shit.

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        8 days ago

        And the voters have an even shorter term memory. Trending downward is nice, but I doubt the shit we’re dealing with now will be in most people’s mind when they vote in 2026 and 2028.

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          7 days ago

          If in March he announces an end to the tariffs and prices have a sudden relief, then the GOP can sail in on the realization of lower prices.

          It’s easier to make things better when you deliberately make them worse first. There’s the lovely strategic thing of the non-election year.

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        Which just means they stood there and watched as 1/3rd elected him into office. Just because they didn’t vote doesn’t mean they aren’t responsible. It’s like three people sitting in a train, one trying to keep it on the tracks, one trying to steer it off the tracks and the third guy just watching like he’s not on the same train as the other two.

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      8 days ago

      But he had all those “Trump 2028” hats. Surely that means he plans to run again. He wouldn’t just troll people for the sadistic glee, right?

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        Nah if his BK special oldddd ass body doesn’t give out on him by then he will definitely “run”…

        … in a “fair” election

        Pro Wrestling Style election you know how it goes.

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      8 days ago

      I recently started following a guy on YouTube who’s answer to the doubt over whether we’ll be able to vote again is, “I’m not asking. I’m voting”. I’ve decided to adopt that mentality and I encourage others to do the same.

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        8 days ago

        This is the correct response. All that matters is what you intend to do.

        You don’t get points for correctly predicting defeat, calling out other’s inaction, or lamenting how unfair the fight is.

        Courage is not the absence of fear, but only cowardice tries to spread it among comrades in the midst of the fight.

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    7 days ago

    That’s cool that some people are (finally) figuring out what a total clown Orange Jesus is, but…did Hitler’s poll numbers really mattered after he seized power?

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    He thinks swing states will see him punish blue states, and that will motivate them to go Republican so they’re not targeted…

    Instead of the rational response from anyone with a shred of empathy: stopping maga from doing it again by voting blue

    Everything trump is doing is setting up a progressive Dem to win in a landslide, and neo liberals lost their death grip on the DNC, so there’s nothing to stop a progressive in the primary either.

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      7 days ago

      Well, what I heard is that Trump’s supporter base is strengthening and growing. What if this news is biased, and the reality is even more grim? You know that people are beyond dumb.

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        I don’t understand what you’re saying…

        You saw something somewhere that goes against every other coverage on this, and you know it’s biased but youre still thinking it’s true?

        Then you say people are “beyond dumb”…

        I legitimately have no idea what you’re trying to say

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      8 days ago

      stopping maga from doing it again by voting blue

      We did that with Biden. Good thing he took his responsibility seriously and went after Trump for attempting to overthrow the government. Whoops, I guess he forgot that part of the plan.

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        8 days ago

        We did that with Biden

        The difference is this time we’ll have a choice who the general candidate is…

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          We thought that until they rigged the primary for Biden.

          Remember how he wasn’t even in the top 5 until they convinced all the other corporate candidates to drop out at the same time, but made sure Warren stayed in for one more round to knock Bernie out of first place?

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            If you didn’t know Hillary, Biden, and Kamala were going to get shoved down our throats in 2016, 2020, and 2024…

            Maybe you should listen to the people who saw it coming back then, when they tell you this time is different?

            By you own admission, you’re not good at predicting these things, so maybe you should listen to the people who have been good at predicting this stuff?

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            That’s not rigging, that’s politics. If you can’t convince people to vote for you, that’s your problem.

            Bernie or Warren could’ve consolidated too but they didn’t. And for all the people that did come out in the primaries, they thought Biden was best.

            What youre describing is just being a sore loser.

            Signed- someone who got off their ass and voted Bernie in 2020.

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              Nope. What I’m describing is not letting the people choose, but artificially fucking with the available choices to advantage a particular candidate.

              I also voted Bernie, but it was 5 months after the primary was supposedly already decided. Most of the country literally didn’t have a choice between active campaigns. I can’t be a sore loser of the game was over before I got a chance to play.

              Where’s the democracy?

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      8 days ago

      From your lips to… well I’m not religious so whatever, I guess your hips or something, but I hope this happens.

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      Where can I get whatever it is you’re ingesting to believe the way you do when reality is telling a much different story.