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outside2344 | 2 months ago

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irishcoffee|2 months ago

If you go look at the data and consider that ~34% of people didn’t vote, somewhere around ~35% of people voted for trump, and a little less than that voted for harris.

This whole notion where “half the country voted for this guy!” Is a tired and inaccurate trope.

beached_whale|2 months ago

The idea that the people who don't go to the polls and cast ballots don't vote is not true. They have chosed to have what the others choose. That is a choice and they made it, just like those that cast a preference via ballot.

fakedang|2 months ago

Put another way, half the country decided that they would be better off being governed by a dimwit who could be outwitted by a dog, whether they voted for him or not.

ecshafer|2 months ago

If you don't vote, you forfeit your vote. So yes, over half of the country voted for him, only those who are active enough citizens to get off of the couch count. 34% Trump, 35% FORFEIT, 31% Harris, we don't care about the forfeits. Democracy is about the active citizens.

roamerz|2 months ago

>>good idea

Or maybe just the less of 2 evils. An intelligent asshat or non asshat that was an imbecile. It was time for a change.

There are so many things I don’t like about him but some of his policies such as immigration / border enforcement, natural resource utilization, federal workforce reduction, regulatory reduction and tariffs are absolutely legit imho and will take time to have an affect.

cevn|2 months ago

None of those ideas you listed were legit. But it would take much longer to refute than it did to simply list them off

skeeter2020|2 months ago

wait - you agree that those are all issues, or with the executive orders for supposedly "dealing with" them? There is a very big difference.

lovich|2 months ago

> An intelligent asshat or non asshat that was an imbecile.

I like your implication that Trump is not an ass hat here instead of the biggest asshole ever elected to office

> There are so many things I don’t like about him but some of his policies such as immigration / border enforcement, natural resource utilization, federal workforce reduction, regulatory reduction and tariffs are absolutely legit imho and will take time to have an affect.

For most administrations yea, since they actually try to keep the government running and use a lighter touch, but since this guy took a sledgehammer to everything we’re already feeling the effects, unless you believe the inflation report that’s missing tons of data produced by people who replaced the leaders that gave him numbers he didn’t like previously

throwaway-11-1|2 months ago

Hahahaha amazing. Yeah dude asks anyone, everything is going super well. Really hope you bought a ton of Trump coins or bibles or whatever dumb shit he’s selling these days

stronglikedan|2 months ago

It was waaay more than 50%, and good ideas take time to execute but it's going swimmingly so far.

j_w|2 months ago

Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population.