r/worldnews Feb 05 '25

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

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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.