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‘The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,’ warns House Democrat
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The majority of people who showed up to vote did. Trump won the popular vote this time. The GOP were given control of every branch of government, and made gains in several state governments as well.
I'm still dubious about his win, especially since it's one of the thinnest margins in history.
It's a fact that bomb threats were called into Democrat majority polling places and judges refused to extend polling hours to account for it.
It's a fact that Republican states engaged in heavy voter suppression in major metropolitan areas.
And it's extremely suspicious that bullet ballot rates were orderes of magnitude higher than previous elections only in swing states.
I'm sure this happened (I actually predicted it to be far worse than it was, and thankfully I was wrong), but I haven't heard of any examples of this happening at a degree where it would impact election results. Given the magnifying glass that this particular election was under, if there were any significant cases of this happening, the media would have been all over it.
Further, I'm sure that Harris' team had a team of lawyers on speed dial looking for scenarios like this. One would assume that her team would have been all over it if they had word this was happening anywhere. If they weren't, that's an absolutely catastrophic failure on Harris' team, her campaign, and Harris herself, and I have no reason to believe that they were that incompetent.
Harris performed significantly worse than Biden in all 50 states. All 50 states shifted to the right to at least some degree. States like California and New Jersey, typically as blue as a Smurf, suddenly looked competitive. The GOP voter suppression that they've been setting up for the past 4 years certainly played some role, but at the same time, you can't blame GOP fuckery for the fact that voters even in the most liberal states opted to either shift right or stay home.
There's a couple of problems with this.
First, Trump has a literal cult following that cares about him and only him. I absolutely can see rubes in swing states going to the polls en masse and just voting for Trump and not voting for anything else because they don't care about anything else. I live in MA. One of the bluest states in the country. And I see people in their MAGA-covered pickup trucks and their MAGA flags wearing their Trump hats. And they still show up to vote even though Trump has no chance in the state. I can absolutely see hordes of Trump zombies showing up to do the same thing especially when their vote actually does matter. Even if only for the chest thumping.
Second, it implies that our elections aren't secure at all. Because there's only two options here. One is that our elections are safe, secure, free, and fair. This means that as fucky as it may look on the surface, hordes of people voting for Trump and only Trump is completely legit. If there was some fuckery going on, this means that Trump's team, his supporters, foreign agents, aliens from Venus, or whoever was able to hack into voting systems nationwide, change voting results to their liking, and leave absolutely no trace. You are basically saying that our elections are about as legitimate as a pro-wrestling match, with the winners pre-chosen by whatever hackers are able to infiltrate the most networks.
There's a very simple way to validate this issue. Check the number of ballots cast in a given precinct. Now compare that to the number of people who physically showed up and checked in. If those numbers are equal, that means that a high number of people simply really did just show up to vote for Trump and nothing more. You can look into why, but it's irrelevant. If those numbers are off by even a single person, there's a major problem that needs to be investigated. And again, if Harris wasn't all over this like flies on shit, that's a monumental failure of her campaign and her team. If there were some kind of mass fuckery going on, we'd know it by now.
tyranny of the minority
Do you just not understand how numbers work? Of the number of people who showed up to be counted, ie the ones invested enough to still give a fuck one way or another, more people voted for this than against it. That may not necessarily reflect the sentiments or ideology of the entire population. But if they wanted to be counted then they should have shown the fuck up. Bitch all you want about tyrants and tyranny because it’s fucking here. But stop kidding yourself that these people are still real underdogs in the grand scheme. Their ideology and dumbfuckitude is absolutely gaining ground and pretending it isn’t just adds another blind spot to be exploited.
And to go a step further, every single person who chose not to vote did so because they had no issue with Trump and the Repubs taking office. The majority did vote for this shit.
Eh I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the result of apathy is the same as actual endorsement. I just feel you have lost too much solid ground because of a lack of participation that you are simply no longer considered in the sea of opinions/needs. But semantics aside, we agree.
There was a lot of voter suppression, myself included. A lot of people wanted to vote and couldn’t.
the sentence doesn’t say some Americans voted for this
If it did, I’d agree.