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‘The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,’ warns House Democrat
(www.commondreams.org)
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 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.
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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.
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But they did vote for it?
Right? Like, this is who we are, and who we are is stupid and easily manipulated.
The majority did not.
The majority who didn't vote saw a cookie-cutter politician and an authoritarian man-baby and thought, "Eh, either is fine." So their "vote" went to the majority winner. There are no redos because not enough people showed up.
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You don’t get to vote outside of your own state for senators or representatives. Voting in your state doesn’t change the fact that other states have different priorities, and sometimes it feels like they’re just completely out of touch. My state has a Democratic majority in almost every part of our government, yet we’re still stuck with a president and federal government that most people here didn’t want or vote for. It's frustrating because the system lets other states have so much power in choosing the president, even when it doesn't reflect the will of people in places like mine.
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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.
Biden already said that the US doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Aaaaand Kamala ran on a pro-fracking platform.
I mean, jfc do you people have the memory of goldfish or were you just not paying attention in the first place? Proud to be one of the 13 million, personally. Have fun voting for Liz Cheney when she runs as a democrat in four years!
Yes. They were flawed.
Explain to me how Trump being President helps the Palestenians or the environment.ve4sus a Bid3n or Harris administration.
Even if their policies were 100% in lockstep on Palestine and the environment (Trump will ABSOLUTELY be worse for both), there's a million other ways in which Trump is worse.
You motherfucers who cast votes for third parties, refused to vote, or really did anything but vote for Harris were signing a fucking suicide pact for the rest of us while pretending you were taking the moral high ground.
Everything that's coming is your fault. All the suffering, death, destruction - all of it. Your hands are bloody. It should keep you up at night, but your heads are so far up your own arrogant asses you no longer smell the shit you've spread.
When you had the choice to put up meaningful opposition to fascism, you chose not to.
Fuck you, now and forever.
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Thankfully, Biden is at least using his last hours in office to do something useful, like send Israel another $8bn in weapons.
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Centrists are getting the policies they want either way (especially the genocide) because they're conservatives. Blaming progressives is just posturing to make sure the next centrist dipshit they saddle us with is even more conservative.
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.
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Unfortunately, the American people did.
But we didn't. I voted for Harris but I expected this shit to wait until the inauguration to happen unless she won
Unfortunately, a plurality of the electorate disagrees with us.
As for the timing, it's normal for the rules for the incoming Congress to be put into place before the presidential inauguration. It's just abnormal for them to be so... shitty.
Welcome to the kingdom of north America. United States is dead, this is the new fiefdom, and king Elon and chancellor Trump don’t give a fuck what we think or want.
We didnt vote for a bottomless pit of our tax money to fund a racist-far rightwing genocide against Palestinians so Israelis can steal their land, either.
But here we are.
McGovern is cashing AIPAC's checks and voting how they say, so he knows exactly how this stuff works-- No need to play stupid. Eat a bag of ass, Rep. McGovern.
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yes. yes, they did.
Oh yes, they did. They voted for propaganda. Everything else is gravy.
They did vote for it and they are going to get what they voted for, good and hard.
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