Also! They literally let someone hand out 250 million dollars, openly, and our “courts” gave it the go-ahead - even if it goes against some of the longest standing legal precedent regarding buying votes (done with booze back in the day).

This election wasn’t a thumb on the scale, it was the oligarchs mushroom-stamping humanity.

...... So fucking what?

"Ooh, he hasn't got a mandate." Yeah, know what he has got?

CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT. And no intention of ever giving it up.

(Yes, I know, don't abandon hope, organise, and all that. But crap like this just reads like "it'll obviously work out fine just wait it out" shit. Which famously Does Not Fucking Work)

Those who didn't vote, who thought their vote didn't matter, that no matter which politician gets elected to whatever office.... they're complicit.

Your vote only matters in swing states. The whole electoral college thing is fucked.

Both times Trump won was when a woman was running against him. The only time he lost was to a white old man.

USA is just sexist and Americans better come to terms with it rather than making up random reasons.

If you didn't vote then you voted for the bad guy.

If you didn't vote you are just as bad as the MAGAniacs.

If you didn't vote you voted for Trump.

If you didn't vote you are responsible for the current situation.

Fucking wrong. Every asshole who abstained from voting, voted for Trump. He received 60%. At the very least, that 30% didnt vote for someone else.

So 68.1% of the American public are complicit. Worse than I thought TBH. Fuck.

Hitler got about 33% back when he started. He achieved his position by simply ignoring the law after that. Sounds familiar?

It's so fucking infuriating that practically every election, if it were possible, "did not vote" would win the presidency.

We're always looking at some stupidly close, razor margins bullshit, when there's a MASSIVE group of people that unfortunately just couldn't possibly give a shit less....

If you didn't vote then you were fine with this outcome. The majority are ok with Trump winning.

How gross it is, considering what was in the line that so many didn’t vote. Also I bet the duck he cheated.

As usual, apathy is the greatest ally of authoritarianism.

This is misleading.

According to those stats, the majority of people voted for someone other than Harris as well.

The real takeaway here is large percentage of people that don't vote.

I need to mention that the reason why 20 million fewer voters voted is. Because of the massive voter suppression that was done prior to the 2024 election. So many people were purged from voters rolls and many polling places were closed it wasn't funny.

pfff... he won twice. if americans would want a real democracy that wouldnt have happened.

End the electoral college… citizen United super charged the electroal college for the rich

It's something to keep in mind.

Don't alienate those 36.32%. I'm sure some of us have strong feelings about their choices, but at the end of the day they outnumber Democrats and Republicans each by quite a bit. If you want to see change you are going to have to convince some of them to join you. This goes for elections and this goes for revolutions.

As a brit I have found it fascinating how American and British politics seem to mirror each other. This is exactly the same argument that was levelled against Brexit. The stats the TV showed was 51% vs 49% in favour of Brexit but only 60% of the country voted and with this teeny tiny majority of voters the Conservatives enacted a massive constitutional change and causes absolute havoc which we are still paying for today.

We've since voted out the party that caused it but it landed us with an ineffective centrist Labour party who are continuing the mistakes of the past and not appealing to the left in the slightest (sound familiar?). This government still has 4 more years left in power but unless they change tack then I am very worried that we will have a extreme right version of the Conservatives in power next election.

The problem is the First Past The Post voting system. It's not true democracy. It's weighted to the right. Two parties, both in the pocket of big business. One who says "Oh, we'd love to help all you poors but it's really not possible to increase taxes on the rich and invest in our country", and the other who says "you'll be poor but at least you're not gonna get deported or persecuted like those gay and brown people".

TLDR: Both the US and the UK need urgent electoral reform. Write to your representative. Make it an issue. Do not stop until it is a number one priority for these ghouls or they will keep fucking us.

Thank you for attending my Ted talk. Goodnight.

68.1% of US citizens are bloody idiots.

"my vote won't change anything", "i don't like any of them", "that won't affect me", call leopards for those 36%

Because of Americans inability to get their fat asses off the couch and vote, the rest of the world has to suffer the consequences.

68.1% support Trump 30.84% support Harris 1.06% support 3rd party

FIFY. Please stop pretending that it wasn't a landslide. Please stop pretending that Americans don't support fascism. Please stop pretending that you're not responsible.

Well the US clearly doesn’t mind that much cause they’re accepting his neverending stream of shit.