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    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I bet it’s the same millionaire paying off the protestors! Elon will get him one day…

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    7 months ago

    Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for “election fraud.”

    He’s going to run for a third term. That’s what this means. Buckle up, y’all. We’re in for yet another Constitutional crisis that the Democrats will do exactly nothing about.

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        7 months ago

        The man attempted a coup and faced zero consequences for it. In fact, he was rewarded with a second term as president. Forgive me if I refuse to hold my breath for Democrats to do anything substantial to prevent him from wiping his ass with the Constitution.

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          What you aren’t mentioning is all of the corruption of SCOTUS and the Republicans at the state level that facilitated his success. The Dems did A LOT to expose them… the American people believed the lies and the state governments went along with the coup.

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            Please explain to me why then the states did not just ignore Scotus, or use there constitutinaly, scotus garenteed rights to determine who the state electors vote for, and order that they could not vote for trump, a thing that is allowable without saying no to the court.

            and before you say that a state cannot just ignore the supreme court, need I remind you that right now the president is, and we have had it done by county clerks refusing marage licences before.

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              The laws on the state and national side would prevent such action generally speaking. POTUS is breaking laws. That simple.

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                and I am asking what the hell is a law, more than words on paper we all agree to follow, If the stakes where as dire as was being said, why the hell did we stay following them, the choices where simple, use your right to direct state electors to under no circomstance cast a vote for said individual, or to contenue to follow your interpritation, the plain text of the document you say you care for and say you have an oath to. Laws do not have mystical power to force someone to follow. At the war crime trials “I was just following the law/orders” will not be a defence. Chose your side and stick to it

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    President Donald Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for “election fraud.”

    Responding to the polls, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday: “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”

    It’s not an election, and I hurt myself reading that deeply moronic quote. How is this man in charge of anything?

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        7 months ago

        I think of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, masters of aimlessness, crisis and noise, firing all those experienced people who have been quietly and competently managing government departments for years or decades. This only looks like progress to fools.

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          I mean, he is doing what he’s said he would and running the country like a business. Which often results in paying yourself a huge bonus and making a lot of experienced workers redundant.

          Unfortunately all of his past businesses have failed horribly.

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    We’ve got zionists running through the streets of New York assaulting people they perceive to be possibly arab, a mayor who is only there because trump pardoned him for his crimes, and trump, who “demands” the polls show him whatever he wants to see. It just gets crazier, stupider, and more corrupt every day, and we are only 2/48ths of the way to trump being out of office, assuming he leaves peacefully. He needs to be impeached.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I understand that Trump might be confused about this. He isn’t doing anything that he didn’t specifically say he would do when he was asking for people’s votes. They loved him before the election. They loved voting for him. I can understand why he might not believe that suddenly they don’t like him. Somewhat the same for Musk except he started crashing back with the purchase of Twitter so he should have had time to understand that he was driving his fans away the further right-psycho he got.

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      One of the rhetorically effective things about his campaign messaging was how broad and vague it was. Pundits, podcasters, influencers, and those manipulating the algorithms of social media, took that messaging, isolated parts of it and recontextualized those parts for specific audiences.

      So while he may have assumed he was being very clear about what he was going to do, the messaging many of his voters got was totally detached from his intentions.

      A good example of this is people who thought that the tariffs would somehow be a tax levied on foreign countries, not a sales tax on imported goods. Or those who thought the tariffs would be targeted at specific goods categories to benefit their particular industry, not a blanket tariff that impacts their upstream supply chain.

      He told his subordinate on the campaign to get voters to vote for him, he assumed that meant convince them he was right, but that was impossible, the only ones that could get him the numbers he liked were the ones who just twisted what he said till people agreed with it.

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      He isn’t doing anything that he didn’t specifically say he would do when he was asking for people’s votes. They loved him before the election. They loved voting for him. I can understand why he might not believe that suddenly they don’t like him.

      This is what happens when you steal an election

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        The data behind that conclusion is compelling to those who understand both statistics and technology. Most of the US Congress has repeatedly shown that they have neither the capacity nor the inclination to understand either.

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    “Election fraud”… how? A) Reporting facts of public opinion is never illegal. B) Election fraud comes in 3 forms, as far as I know. 1. Campaign finance fraud. 2. Civil rights violations. 3. Voting/ballot fraud. This is clearly none of these. C) There is no Election going on. The current administration has only existed for 3 months. We are about as far from an election while being far enough into an administration to hold a valid opinion on it as possible. D) YOU CANNOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN YOU FUCKING RUBE! I don’t give a fuck what your ethically void legal team of Heritage Foundation ideolgues tells you. They are full of shit.

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      A) Reporting facts of public opinion is never illegal.

      So far. If the crybaby gets what he wants, it will be.

      D) YOU CANNOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN YOU FUCKING RUBE!

      Alas, when has the constitution actually stopped him? His supporters fully support this blantantly corrupt crap, and he’s even selling “Trump 2028” merch.

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        Alas, when has the constitution actually stopped him? His supporters fully support this blantantly corrupt crap, and he’s even selling “Trump 2028” merch.

        Yes, but for him to actually run, he needs to be on the ballot. Elections are run by the states. He would need enough states to recognize his legal right to run again to even be on their ballots. Then he would have to win any number of court challenges to his being allowed. And then he would have to actually win. And then he would have to be confirmed by Congress. I’m sure he’ll do anything he can to game the system, but I don’t think he’ll make it past all of those stopgaps. More than likely, if he gets a third term, it will not be through any amount of legitimate means. He’ll try to skip elections entirely, is my bet.

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    More signaling that he plans to ignore the constitution and try to run again in 2028, as if anyone is surprised. (I think we’ll mostly be surprised if he makes it to 2028)

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    7 months ago

    Definitely not something a dictator does right?

    “Any approval rating that isn’t 100% is a punishable offense! All hail Dear Leader!”

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    7 months ago

    Article says Trump believes he has a 99.9% approval rating on the border issues…

    He is delusional