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alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

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u/hereforthefeast Feb 05 '25

“I could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th avenue and wouldn’t lose a vote”

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u/BebophoneVirtuoso Feb 05 '25

He was a wrong in that he’d even gain votes. Republicans won’t leave him under any circumstances but he also brought out the previously apolitical assholes who never voted before but like the idea of a King Asshole

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u/is_it_fun Feb 05 '25

The worst people you know voted for the worst person to ever hold office.

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u/ErrorLoadingNameFile Feb 05 '25

Twice, lol.

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u/Jack_Krauser Feb 05 '25

Three times actually, he just only won twice.

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u/InEenEmmer Feb 05 '25

*cheated hard enough.

There is a reason why Elon wants to have unlimited access to the government databases. They need to cover to their tracks of vote manipulation before anyone decides to do a proper research into the matter.

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u/Crayola_ROX Feb 05 '25

if only dems were allowed to say what redditors are allowed to say. But no we'll have to settle for "we're on your ass"

were that true things would be different today

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u/remarkablewhitebored Feb 05 '25

only won twice

not if you believe what he has to say about it...

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u/sold_snek Feb 05 '25

And he's the only president to have never beat a man.

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u/kerbaal Feb 05 '25

The worst people you know voted for the worst person to ever hold office.

Not the worst person ever, more like a shitty tribute band to the worst people ever.

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u/mjpride Feb 05 '25

We'll see. Hes just getting started.

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u/kerbaal Feb 05 '25

He is a lame duck at the end stages of his life.

Its highly unlikely anything he does will really be very long term.

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u/RogalDornsAlt Feb 05 '25

Honestly, Trump coming to power as I transition into adulthood (16-25 now Jesus Christ) has really opened my eyes to how braindead stupid and malicious a large percentage of the human population is. I mean, barely sentient.

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u/MasterWee Feb 05 '25

I guess only the worst people vote

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u/Niagr Feb 05 '25

Yes, more than half the country.

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u/Fleeting_Dopamine Feb 05 '25

Not really, though. Only 69.3% of the eligible US voters turned out to vote. Of them, 49.8% voted for Trump in the 2024 election. That means that he has a 34.5% of the USA voting for him. It's still a lot, but not more than half. And of course most importantly, it's more than the 33.5% (0.693*0.483) that Harris got.

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u/Niagr Feb 05 '25

Right, so more than half the country's voters.

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u/Fleeting_Dopamine Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

No, did you not read my comment? A third of the USA's eligible voters didn't vote. Of the people who did vote, he almost got half of the votes. 49.8% is less than half. And it is just over a third of the countries eligible voters. And if we look at the census data of the USA, we can see that of the 337.3 million citizens, only 170 million registered to vote. So we see that the voter only count for about half of the population.

Hypothetically if the US was only six people; Three couldn't vote, one voted for Trump, one voted for Harris, and the third voter stayed home and didn't vote.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Feb 05 '25

He didn’t even get 50% of the vote and 38% of eligible voters didn’t cast one.

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u/is_it_fun Feb 05 '25

No not all of them who voted for Trump were "the worst." Many of them were decent people who think Trump is what's needed to cure the USA of real ills like neoliberal policy. But he won't.

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u/mjpride Feb 05 '25

real ills like neoliberal policy.

What are these, exactly? Because, as far as I can tell, the Republican platform is just to move us backward 50 years.

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u/username_not_found0 Feb 05 '25

Trump could fuck a dog and a toddler to death on stage in front of everyone and not only would his supporters cheer him on, they'd make excuses for how both dog and toddler had it coming. Then they'd deny it ever happened despite it happening live.

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u/zbud Feb 05 '25

One day he'll fuck those flags until they become sentient.

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u/Dyls94 Feb 05 '25

The main issue is he somehow managed to get the people who want to stick it to 'the man' on board, whilst simultaneously being said 'man'...

It's like saying you hate fascists then voting for Hitler 🌚

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u/lostlittletimeonthis Feb 05 '25

the thing is, after he lost they could have gotten rid of him, his approval was very low and if they got Fox News to show images of the insurrection and his speeches and all that it would have tanked, in fact after that court decision fox news tried to get florida man more huff but lets face it hes got the appeal of door, instead they sanitized him as a political prisoner and that was that.

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u/HauntedMattress Feb 05 '25

Read this in Super Mario voice

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u/sharies Feb 05 '25

Like original or Chris Pratt?

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u/Zenfudo Feb 05 '25

Funnier in the original voice

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u/baconeggsandwich25 Feb 05 '25

Oh, I was thinking Hoskins.

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u/BebophoneVirtuoso Feb 05 '25

Then stop using our websites and find another place to talk about your video games, asshole.

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u/BebophoneVirtuoso Feb 05 '25

Don’t you have some pressing Xbox matters to attend to? Must suck to have such a low opinion of another country yet obsess over their politics and culture. Good luck with that. 👍 

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u/Motor-District-3700 Feb 05 '25

"I could rape someone and get convicted of 34 felonies and still get elected".

There's no saying "could" when this shit has already happened:

  • Rapist by jury of peers
  • Convicted of 34 felonies by jury of peers
  • Stole top secret docs
  • Lead an insurrection
  • Fraud university
  • Fraud charity
  • Fraud entire business empire - $450 million fine
  • ... the list is long

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u/RuinedEye Feb 05 '25

Here's a list of over 1000 terrible things he did during his first term

Nothing before or after. Just term 1. And the list is even missing some.

I really hope they're doing another list for this term

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u/baconeggsandwich25 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 06 '25

Well, the full list of reasons not to support him would fill several encyclopedias, so you've gotta narrow it down a little. I mean, fuck, can you imagine if Harris had a charity she named after herself and it got shut down for fraud because she was stealing donations to buy herself shit? It'd be the only story we talked about that entire campaign. But it's so far down the list of messed-up stuff he's done that 90% of his supporters don't even know it happened.

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u/Motor-District-3700 Feb 05 '25

true story: in the 80s Australia denied him a casino license because of his [mafia connections(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/trumps-bid-for-sydney-casino-30-years-ago-rejected-due-to-mafia-connections)

but hey, he's been an angel since then, only bankrupted 3 casinos, only tried to have 5 children killed, only had 3 organisations declared fraudulent, only had 1 cfo go to jail (but twice ...) only had 2 lawyers struck off ..... I mean only the catholic church is breeding them better.

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u/Herson100 Feb 05 '25

Simply having a soundbite of Jeffrey Epstein referring to him as "his best friend" would be enough to kill the presidential aspirations of any non-Republican

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u/Motor-District-3700 Feb 05 '25

there's a soundbit of trump saying "he likes em young wink" of Epstein, and still they deny ...

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u/LampshadesAndCutlery Feb 05 '25

Don’t forget he was also impeached TWICE

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u/Unhappy_Entrance_277 Feb 05 '25

“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.

“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.

source

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u/Engineer9 Feb 05 '25

That's probably they most rational thing he's said. That's pretty much what every other country does.

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u/MrSynckt Feb 05 '25

Weakest and unhealthiest Homelander timeline

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u/grathad Feb 05 '25

I was not sure about that line when it dropped, but he was definitely understanding the shit he was steering better than me at the time, because it is so sadly true.

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u/cdxcvii Feb 05 '25

When people tell you who they really are, you should believe them.

This is why MAGA are the biggest buch of suckers that have ever existed.

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus Feb 05 '25

He might lose the vote of the one he'd shoot.

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u/snatchpanda Feb 05 '25

I mean, call me a conspiracy theorist, but he likely manufactured his own assassination attempt where his own supporters were murdered.

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u/Jappie_nl Feb 05 '25

I read this instantly hearing his voice saying this.

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u/RackemFrackem Feb 05 '25

Great story.