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Summary

Donald Trump and Republicans are falsely framing his 2024 election win as a historic “landslide” and sweeping mandate, despite the data showing otherwise.

Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968, and his 307 electoral votes rank low in U.S. history.

Crucial Senate and House gains were limited, with Republicans relying on gerrymandering for their narrow House majority.

This exaggeration of victory serves to justify potential power expansions, but the facts debunk claims of an unprecedented or overwhelming mandate.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is one defeat that I think we can no longer blame on Russian interference.

Kamala Harris was such a disliked candidate that she lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that previously tried to spark a right wing insurrection against Congress. A convicted felon whose previous tenure led to the Supreme Court bringing back state level abortion bans, and who was running on the manifesto of turning America into a right wing Christian theocracy staffed by Trump loyalists. Not even Hillary Clinton did this terribly.

Biden should never have ran for a second term, given that he was already showing signs of forgetfulness four years ago, and when he was eventually pushed to resign, the Democrats should have held a snap primary instead of immediately backing Harris.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I quote the lyrics of the ABBA's song: "The winner takes it all - The loser’s standing small". And this is the truth: in a few years, no one will ask how DT won the election. He simply won and has a strong mandate to pursue his policy. - n'est-ce-pas?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When I was younger I thought the saying was, "nip it in the butt"

I dunno it always made sense to me.

Anywho carry on

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

I thought it was "nip it in the butt" as well. Listening to Les Mis 10th Anniversary Edition, the way the gentleman who plays Javert always sounded like "butt" to me as well.

To answer the other commenters question of what would that mean: for years, I thought it meant "nip" like a dog will nip your finger, and "in the butt" was like, "you'd pinch em in the butt" to get them to stop whatever they were doing.

Also thought the line "Burnin' up his fuel, out there, alone" in Rocket Man was "Burnin' up the atmos-PHERE, he's gone" for years before a friend corrected me.

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

Please explain what nip it in the butt means.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pinching off a turtle head to prevent shitting your pants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That really doesn't make me feel that much better about it, but I guess we're mostly trying to find the corn in the shit on this one, so thanks?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not going to fly when the entire country saw him sweep the swing states. That's part of the fuckiness of the EC, he only won by a tiny margin but visually state after state went red on the TV.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe if we correct the Republicans they'll listen. Yeah, that'll work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's not gonna win anything and we shouldn't act like it will.

Still, no reason not to be correct about it. He's gonna try and make his delusions national news, so, gotta have the reality out there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Republicans are trying to gaslight us by calling Trump's win a landslide. The point isn't to correct them; it's to make sure we don't believe the lies they tell us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is that in practical terms it is a landslide, because of the way our shitty system is setup. They have control of all 3 branches now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes but we shouldn't act like it gives them any sort of moral authority, or that future elections are unwinnable.

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

Oh Republicans have zero, no scratch that negative 100 moral authority.

As for winning future elections it really depends on if Democrats make some massive changes.

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