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They did vote for it and they are going to get what they voted for, good and hard.
They actually did vote for this with open eyes
You guys are so fucked lmao
The responses here reaffirm to me how sweet this setup is for the rich. You've got two parties owned by the rich, with one willing to give a few minor concessions to the peasants, and the masses are stuck between them, but you better vote for the somewhat less bad party or else it's all your fucking fault that everything is bad. Seriously, is the strategy to demand the majority vote for a single party until the end of time? You've got to see how that's impossible under this system. It's a way to shift the blame off the broken system and to make it an issue of individual responsibility. Reminds me of people who bash the poor as lazy people who just need to "get a job".
They did with absolute certainty.
They absolutely did vote for this and sat on their asses and also didn't vote and voted for this.
Fuck you Americans, you wanted it, now we all get your shitty choices.
Hey man i didn't vote for the assholes
Too damn bad that's not how democracy works. You'll take what the idiots give us.
Sadly, because of the US's imperial nature, it's not just going to affect them.
Most Americans did vote for this. Now enjoy what you sow.
yes. yes, they did.
But they did vote for this. Whenever I saw Trump speak, he always emphasized on how he will do tax breaks to the big corps. He never proposed a solution on how to help the working class people.
His idea on helping working class is blaming it all on immigrants.
His idea of "helping the working class" consists of tariffs that don't work the way he says they do and a very likely catastrophic mass deportation program.
And people did vote for those somehow.
Some of it yes, but the leopards face eating feast wouldn't exist if they actually got what they thought they were getting. They're just idiots.
Less than half of all eligible voters voted. Yes, non voters essentially voted for Trump but it’s not the same thing as literally voting for and endorsing the dumb demented fat fascist.
The majority of eligible voters are just morons that have been successfully distracted and confused (because they’re so dumb).
There is value in the distinction, even tho that value may be quite small in context
Non voters are even more dumb than Trump voters... at least Trump voters understand the very simple fact that there is power in voting.
but it’s not the same thing as literally voting for and endorsing the dumb demented fat fascist.
In a two party political system it is. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Less than half of all eligible voters voted.
According to Ballotpedia it was 63.7% of eligible voters, which is a very good turnout by US standards.
Still means that only about a third of eligible voters voted for Trump, but, y'know, that's really quite a lot.
Just like Hitler. He got 33%.
It's like a magic number for people. You can often find at least 25-30% of people that'll agree to something in politics/views no matter how terrible it would be for them, and the GOP has them locked down.
Yes they did vote for it. They chose to ignore it because it was less important to them than [insert single issue] and they have blinders bolted onto their faces.
"The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,"
Yeah, actually, they did. Millions of Democrat voters stayed home. Every single state shifted right.
McGovern added, "and you better believe that Democrats will not let Republicans turn the House of Representatives into a rubber stamp for their extremist policies."
You're in the minority party. Republicans have control of all 3 branches of government, and many state governments shifted right.
Simply put, what the fuck are you going to do about it? Democrats have exactly zero power outside of sitting back and watching.
I mean, there's always options, though if things start getting out of hand I suspect it'll be narrowed down to some rather extreme options
Democrats have exactly zero power outside of sitting back and watching.
And yet they'll still somehow get blamed for everything that's coming.
A whole lotta dipshits voted for lower egg prices, or stayed home, voted their useless protest vote or outright voted for donvict, because "genocide joe" or whatever.
But we are all going to get this instead, I guess. It's not like many normal Americans were not warning them...Gaza and egg prices will be unaffected by donvict, maybe made worse by his fumbling idiocracy.