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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

ruZZia, China, Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the most important Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt off, are the reasons he won. Let's quit pretending, that without all of the dirty money and influence from foreign countries, this idiot would have won.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why did everyone suddenly start misspelling Russia?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Shhh don’t wake the bots

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Except that even with these things in place, they could have won, except that 15m voters chose to stay home. Guess which bloc?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Not that it makes things better but that number is going to be bunches less than 15 million when everything is said and done. Trump is sitting about a 1 million down from his 2020 vote total and Harris is obviously like 11 million down from Biden's 2020 total but California alone still has almost 7 million votes left to count last I looked and there's still quite a few votes left to count across the rest of the states.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

This article is spot on. Saying the economy is booming when it’s only benefiting the small fractionthose who have the money to buy into it, leaves a good chunk of the population frustrated and wanting a huge change.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And the change with trump is "get the billionaires some more billions, lol"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

America is full of idiots. So yes they might not get it but they probably do think trump will do something good. Or they just want worse for the minority. Idk i dont understand all this either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

Totally. They're smart enough to know they're getting screwed, but then they do the worst possible thing to lessen the screw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Or they just want worse for the minority.

The truth that most people know, but don’t want to say out loud.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

As a disappointed American, you are so right. Im sorry for not voting even if i think it wouldn’t have mattered, if all non voters stood up and voted we could have turned the whole country blue. I personally feel responsible for trump and i hate it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

Hopefully this is a lesson for you to always vote in future elections.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Why did you not vote?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Can we just stop using the word "economy" for the income of the billionaire class?