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I've been following you on YouTube for some time now. Thank you for all that you do and what provide to everyone.
Did that years ago man
You are one of the few I kept watching after the election. Keep up the good work!
You better be getting paid! for acting like ___ isnt doing a ___ the last year+. I watched you during the Trump years, but sadly you're a loyal partisan and political zionist
I looked up the 2016 popular vote total. Hillary won by just about 3M votes. Right now Trump is up 2.7M votes. That's not half. Are you seeing different numbers, David?
Now add in the 2,883,286 3rd party votes who didn't vote for Trump. 73,794,005 + 2,883,286 = 76,677,291 votes against Trump
Can we do that?
Yes. This is not only trying to show Trump didn't get the popular over Harris by a large margin (or at all) but that even more people didn't vote for him. Showing that he doesn't actually have a large popular mandate; let alone one at all.
More math: 76,677,291 > 76,464,848 or 76,677,291 - 76,464,848 = 212,446 Total votes counted (so far) = 153,142,139 Trump at 49.9% Leaving other votes at 50.1%
I’ve listened to your podcast for about 8 years and I finally became a member last week. God, I need your sanity right now. 👏
I love your show and deleted X but today, I learned about Bluesky thru you so here I am and love that I can post since I didn’t use X only had the app….. so Thx
Been here since your first “Obama”, sir, with tears in my eyes!
I now support and follow independent media. Sick of the main stream media that whitewashed the Republican Party and Trump.
If you're sick of it now, just wait until January 20th and beyond. It's only going to get worse for a while. Especially with that bill coming up that will hurt NGOs that disagree with the GOP. Thankfully we have independent media.... well for now at least. But, we will get through this, together!
I’ve gotten multiple friends and family hooked & subscribed to your channel! Thank you for everything you do!
I already do!!
Saw you holding your own on the Piers Morgan. You're right, the trans issues are an issue on the left. It's the right that pushes it. I think you should have noted Harris responded to the question regarding trans prisoners with she would follow the law, which was an acceptable answer to me.
David, are you aware of H.R. 9495? theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...
Have been subscribed for a long time! Enjoy your YouTube show very much.
Me too
Me three
He really highlights pragmatism. I think that's important
Such a fart sniffing attitude to post on a mainstream site for views and engagement but then say come to this niche site to respond. You’re part of the reason we lost.
What?
I support you on Patreon. Is that the best way to support you...is that enough? Watching you each day has helped keep me engaged and informed...helps immensely.
dave, what's the link for the popular vote percentage? NBC has the orange turd at 50.0%. I hope it falls below 48%. 😀 btw it looks like someone hacked your home page
Biden won The Electoral College and popular vote margin by 7M just 4yrs ago, and not once did the MSM suggest that MAGA is dead or Republicans need to at least moderate a little because of his incredible “landslide” victory.
Interesting. Still, four more years of humiliating acts by a US President and perhaps we will never vote again as he insists.
He has no mandate on us. This election was stolen.
Nope, I will definitely not be shutting up.
When the MAGAs (and others) say that over half the country voted for him, I cringe. It's nowhere near half the country. Apathy + Hate gave him the win. "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference” - Elie Wiesel
This is getting as odious as run-up polling. If the media would authentically call their *hot takes* “preliminary results”, or “what old people with home phones think a week before the election”, we’d have more accurate data to argue
And just to be fair Harris was only in the game for 90 DAYS & came within an inch of beating the crap out of him.
Every election since 2000 the total vote count goes up millions every year... w/one exception… in 2008, Obama got more votes than he did in 2012… 2016 was a low turnout w/HRC & Trump, but still went up 2 million… 2020 was 155.5 million… the total vote count seems low… 2024 should've been a record...
Hello Cambridge Analytica style exit poll data manipulation I noticed the same people are involved as during Brexit including certain Russian and Chinese investors. They specialize in data theft/manipulation, online manipulation, election fraud and coups
The insane amounts of funding and bonusses are done with crypto transactions to hide identities and players which is why some popular crypto jumped sky high around the end of the elections. All the money is still on the markets. Soon it's cashing in with a dump to launder foreign investment
Well, Well, Well!
Was a landslide of RIGGING not of voting 😡
It's important to remember that popular vote margins don't always reflect the true will of the people. A 'landslide' should be measured by more than just numbers. it’s about uniting the country, not silencing opposition. Democracy thrives when every voice is heard.
I refuse to sit down OR shut up! 💙💙
He’s currently under a 2% margin. No reasonable political scientist would call that a mandate. With that logic, every election since 2004 (aside from Trump in 2016), was a mandate. In the graph below, you’ll see the margin of victory %.
Source: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/d...
That “popular vote mandate” that MAGA was so loudly claiming… It got deported.
These numbers are encouraging. What is the source?
Look, it's either fixate on this stuff, or move on and work out what to do to help people not to be suckered in to stupidity for our whole lifetimes. Which would you rather do?
Also important to note that had WI, MI and PA voted for Harris, she would be president-elect. A margin of 237,000ish votes decided this election.
Important! ♡
She was so close 😏
Dem candidates win down ballot, the policies win on voter levels. The problem is the media wing of the GOP does not live in reality and they attack everyone at the top of the ticket.
California taking forever to count
Big state!
As always. Big state.
California barely finishes in time for the early December date that becomes the official record. The margin keeps shrinking. She will not overtake Trump but keep shrinking that lead.
This gives me some hope
It's a big state.
As long as it's under 52%, my inner American will throw it in my inner Brit's face. Which is only fair, because my inner Brit knows we only did that *once* while the US just repeated an abomination.
It's amazing how well the right controls political narrative. Even some people on the left bought into the "big popular vote win" by Trump within 24 hours of the election. Tons of votes to count still....the margin will prolly only be 1.5%.
This is why even through the dismay and wanting to disengage out of anger and frustration that we can't do it. I won't do it. Their was no landslide, no mandate. We need to stay vigilant.
I really despise it when pols use the word "mandate" when they obviously have no idea what it means.
They HOPE we will. We wont.
I have seen local maga on a community Facebook page call for “all commies to sit down and take a knee”. Good things Dems aren’t Commies.
Out that person to his family and employer
If they’re rural, there’s a good chance their family and employer is on board with it.
Not all rural ppl think that way
I have lived in Alabama for thirty years. Not all do but the vast majority do.
I lived in FL. I understand. Register as GOP, run liberal GOP in primaries. One way FL moved 6 points to blue this election
Honestly it is feeling more and more like this election was literally stolen, I hope the harris team arranges actual recounts ASAP. Really crazy,
Honestly, I see this vote count as a reminder that this country just hates women. Abortion was literally on the ballot and should have been the rallying cry, but nope.
Why is so difficult to see that it was a terrible candidate? In a healthy democracy the system needs parties aligned with reality.
Needless now Work together to subvert trump
If you refer to oppose vehemently against and democratically. That is the way to go. An example of political laziness was to leave federal abortion rights depending on decision court. Are Dems, working on a federal law?
We need to cast aside these differences rn. Literally what russia wants “The ideal scenario is to maintain the schism and uncertainty in the States till the end,” says Pavlovsky. “Our candidate is chaos.” www.gq.com/story/why-do...
Terrible candidate that was able to raise over $1 billion in 100 days? Right.
Unfortunately, they use effective scare tactics that cause people to vote against their own interest.
She was an excellent candidate. The misinformation and other BS directed toward her didn't help.
She was a fantastic candidate. Stop. Just stop.
Lolololololol
So, Harris was a terrible candidate yet Trump won, so that makes him a good candidate? Living up to that user name, I see...
The results say clearly that Trump was marginally a better option than what the Dems offered. Let that sink in.
You have a point but I think a lot of them just see us as pets who need to be trained even better
Exactly why I’ve been shaking my head. Didn’t Biden win by 8 million votes in 2020, and they claimed it was “rigged” and “stolen?”
Kamala over Trump all day long he has a clown show
There's at least one county in PA defying the state supreme court ruling about matching signatures. The youth these days don't know how to sign their names, or do it consistently. Heck, I was told that you want slight variations to know it's not fraud.
They knew what they had to gerrymander to win and they were successful.
In their minds, we just don't count and shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place.
The popular vote does not matter. Unless something happens on the 15th that swings the electoral college votes, we are stuck with 45.
Don’t act surprised, this is Donald the great exaggerator Trump. The moron thought he won when he lost.
Wow!! That's something positive
Trump had almost the same votes that in 2020 he is no more popular, nor more accepted than before, but the Democrats lost many votes. Even so, they should be able to recover.
This needs to go on that Billboard in front of Mar-E-Lardass so that he has to look at it everyday. Oh, Oprah - got some extra cash I can borrow 😍😍😍
20mil votes missing Democrats! Where are those 15mil votes? You must have cheated in 2020 to have 8mil more votes! We won in a landslide with 312 electorals! Just look at those numbers! Shut up, the popular vote doesn't count! The electoral was a scam but now it's not cuz we won!
I thought the people gave a clear mandate? what happened to all that nonsense?
This!!! They want democrats to disappear and shut up.
The Left is going to have "The Greatest Comeback Ever"! The only way the nasty bastards won their votes are through deception. When Trump and his clowns pass on they will be the ancestors their family refuse to talk about or add to the family tree. Satan will have a special pit for them in Hell!
Got time? 11 min of it youtu.be/62MCJf2ogRg?...
No, they believe the left has to lay down because Trump won - the electoral college - the popular vote - retained the House - regained the Senate - already had the judiciary And were idiots not to nix the filibuster. They are not wrong.
Hmmm...sources for this data?
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Hi, what is the source of this graphic, please? I'd like to track it. Thanks.
The graphic is bogus. The latest numbers from CNN, NYT, etc, show Trump/Harris at 50/48.3. It's sad no one in here questions the graphic that has no link.
NYT as if this morning. Still a few votes to count but if he stays at 50% it will be by a hair.
He can't say he got more then half anymore
Recounts now
Landslide will be hollered from the mountain tops for the next 4 years irregardless. But this disaster will result in a mess for them before they know it.
Thanks for this info, David.
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67 year old retired nurse, & learning more about politics from you than ever before----- depressing as it is right now. You always tell it like it is. Thnx for everything you do! #echomachine2025
Why is Cook Political Report the only source for this information that I can find?
While this is true he still won and counting percentages seems like a wasted effort. Large part of the country did not care to participate or have preferred faschist on a promise of cheap eggs and gas. Other then telling maga's that he only has "small" majority mandate what is the point?
You know what's also interesting. If you combine all the other candidates that were running including @DrJillStein @RobertKennedyJr @ChaseForLiberty If those votes had gone to @KamalaHarris , she wins. The other candidates add up. Over 76 million total if people had voted for Kamala instead.
A marginal victory is a landslide when you win the Presidency, control of the House, control of the Senate, and a conservative majority on Supreme Court. In totality, it’s scary.
No. The left has to go to the center and win back those who the left the left.
Hello David! Love your show! I signed up for a yearly membership last week finally due to so many people unsubscribing. Now is not the time to retreat! I just got on Blue sky because of you mentioning it in the post in your YouTube video about this. Team Progress !!!
I love this!
I want kamala to bring her polices to California
California is a socialist shit hole that she helped create
Green Bank, West Virginia is a town where cell phones and wireless internet are outlawed.
California should ban fossil fuel.. grow hemp for fuel.
I want kamala to bring her polices to California.
How much worse can California get?? Hate to break it to ya … Kamala created what California is today, as AG and Senator there. The hell hole that is California is her fault
You can always move while it's still a free country. I liked the policies kamala offerred.
You must be living in the wrong California!
I advocate exceptional, early, education, algebra by 3rd grade,civics studies,true history for all children. Health and dental care is up there 4 me. Stuff MORONAVIRUS promotes is intrusive, repulsive, psycotic, immoral, unneeded, and illegal.
Maga
Maga Stop buying petroleum. End the war.
Maga Bring Kamala's policies and blue cops to blue states counties cities. Free all inmates in blue states. Biden should Pardon all fed inmates except, insurrectionist. Send the blue military home. Call Buffalo Soldiers.
White supremacy of politics a general example of hypocrisy and psychological projection. Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, Puff Diddy, Eric Adams, Al Franken, Andrew Cuomo, Donald Trump .
A landslide is when you lose all 3 branches and ask the swing states
#StuckInTheMud
Meanwhile half of the MAGA crowd is still screaming about "where did the 15 million less votes go" 🙄
No cure for stupidity or basic maths. Unfortunately, 15 million Americans chose to sit out the election. They will now live with the consequences, as will the rest of us.
I saw someone say this but I don't understand the cult lingo, where are they suggesting these votes went?
The implication is that all of those votes from 2020 were fake and part of the supposed rigged election. But they are going off the incorrect day of voting data that had Kamala at 66M votes compared to Biden's 81M which is incomplete early data.
...if it was early, why did she concede!?!? I knew there was something funny!
Do you not understand the difference between the total popular vote and how the electoral college works? I'm guessing you don't understand how a lot of things work.
No i get it...
Thank you, although now I feel like the the dumb world I live in just got even dumber.
Welcome to the hellscape that is our current political environment. It is absolutely even dumber than you ever expect it is and logic has left the conversation.
"Join the club, we've got jackets." -Shrek
It did soon as I saw those posts.
Truly
They need to recount blue wall states.
Once again the Electoral College system fucked this country over. And corporate interests, but we knew that already.
Literally. The difference in votes is so small and yet Trump has nearly 100 more electoral votes. That is crazy.
Money in our politics and the lack of a functional justice system totally messed up this election.
The dream of overturning Citizens United is getting farther and farther away.
Yes. Especially when Thomas and Alito retire and t Rump gets two younger justices appointed.
Biden should have packed the courts when he had the chance.
I agree. I've been saying that since Joe got inaugurated.
At what point did he have 60 votes in Senate to do that? www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r... they tried.
It has to be approved by Congress...at what point was there enough votes to do so?
It maybe wouldn't have happened, but he had all three parts of government for 2 years.
Even it had failed, the attempt to show the ones that voted him in that they were trying to do anything would have been so welcome… :(
I dare Senate Republicans to get rid of the Filibuster!
And despite years of warning that this was coming.
ec fucks us over every election cuz every campaign has to cater to a select few particularly confused states
I follow your podcasts and they are very good. Thank you David
Doubtful this will change anything in Trmps mind sadly
Engage locally, embrace new avenues of communication.
Agreed. While my state went for Trump, we now have two democratic senators, we protected women’s rights, and voted not to retain two extreme supreme judges who turned back abortion rights to an obscure 1800s law.
I still cannot believe millions of Americas stayed home from 2020.
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Is that now the most up-to-date count? Seems like his vote lead was around just 2 million or maybe even lower.
Why is the mainstream media acting like it’s a landslide? While I think the Dems must get their act together and win, half of the voters who bothered to vote voted against Trump.
Anyone who ever thought democracy was anything other than a means to his own ends is delusional.
Naive question: is there anything Biden could do, to stop this madness that could prove to be a danger to US security and a danger to developing dictatorship in USA? What powers does Biden have?
Question, when I calculate these #s I get 50.8% for him… is there third party votes not shown here??
Still missing millions of voters from 2020, even more when you consider newly registered voters. Did millions sit out? How big of a part did voter suppression and intimidation tactics play?
We need to talk about the major distortion between the popular vote ratio and the electoral vote ratio.
Problem is they invent whatever reality they want, if he calls it a landslide they call it a landslide, then the corp media calls it a landslide, etc etc, and no amount of facts we present them will convince them otherwise (we shouldn't help them though - don't comply in advance)!
Enjoy your show - appreciate what you are trying to do. Looking forward to your new book!
Over 3 millions voters voted for 3rd party candidates of Robert Kennedy, Jill Stein and Chase Oliver combined. Why didn’t anyone bring it up about the 3rd party? This is what’s happening.
At this stage in the game, people can ask questions and very importantly, some can do the necessary recounts and audits allowed. It's not election denial at this point.
Why would the left have to lay down about anything when our desires were literally and explicitly ignored the entire election?
The “left” you mean.
F trump
There is no mandate, Harris lost because she is a female of color. Our country needs to reckon with the fact 76+ million voted for a felony/adjudacated rapist who says hateful things regularly. We need to amplify facts and human decency.
This part. It doesn’t even matter if ultimately she does win the popular vote when it’s all counted. The fact that it was even close is disgusting.
You know, this number makes me happy! Dems are not shrinking. No dramatic shift! The focus on battle ground states and YES overconfidence...fueled this loss. We did not get out the vote! New DNC chair?
Id love to have seen how this election went if they weren't calling states within the first few votes
Wow
As I recall, the loudest we’ve ever been in my life was 2016-2020. They are in for a surprise.
Looking at these numbers makes me feel like it is slightly more rigged than it was before. Now if the numbers go back the other way, nothing to see here, but if the numbers start to look closer, it's definitely more rigged.
The woman had THREE months to campaign. What she was able to accomplish in three short months is an absolute miracle. The regret by MANY Trump voters has already started.
Please explain how he won states that were pure blue otherwise.
clearly a resounding mandate from the electorate
Btw, Kamala isn’t the left. She’s not even center.
HE STILL WON THE POPULAR VOTE. LOL
Comprehension is not their forte
Popular votes are hits or yards. Electoral votes are runs and touchdowns. Hits and yards only matter when you can string them together and score runs and touchdowns. This is the game we are playing.
I will never lay down
Republicans always claim a mandate when they win, regardless of the margin of victory. It’s part of their messaging to validate their behavior.
Definitely not a landslide. But it provides insight into the mindset of the democrats. They have failed to appeal to the masses. They continue down the road of corporate elitism. It has to change
Agree. I feel like David will never acknowledge this
David’s mainly left of regular dem
I get it and so am I. But that’s going to keep losing us elections. Does he not get this?
As a teacher I’m terrified for this new administration and changes to education. I also live deep red Utah where they’ve been already under funding public and replacing that funding towards private schools. I’m so scared what happens when Utah has full control 🫥
I'm also in Utah and a retired teacher. Hang in there!
I heard John Stewart say the electoral college is like affirmative action for rural Americans
Harris accumulated almost as many votes as he did but she only campaigned for 107 days. He's been campaigning for almost 10 years now. I would say that's a win
Harris accumulated almost as many votes
They would have insisted the left lay down and shut up even if they had lost the popular vote...
i don't understand these numbers, but i don't understand Democrats' attitude even less
Mark my words - he stole the elections
I agree but what the hell are we going to do about it ? He and musk seem to be made of teflon
I can tell you that over here, demonstrations had limited effect, as Media and other coalition politicians just don't care.
Last and subtle point - this dark wave of autocrats is working hard to create division among the people and put each group in its own reality, to fight this you have to maintain the relationships with the other side, don't back out on your thoughts, but if you lose touch with your Trump supporting
Uncle - they lose touch with your reality and its hard to bring them out of their imaginary world where immigrants eat cats. Its hard to do, but with a little luck you and the Uncle will outlast trump and hopefully that Uncle can be nice. Talk about the weather, cars, food, just keep in touch.
Back your elected officials to let them know you see them fighting and encourage them to continue doing that - they are at the front line and every vote or law they win and stop slows the coalition down. Over here, media supposed crappy opposition and they need to be reminded often of their role
Another big battle ground is social media - where armies of bots manipulate the discourse... I don't know how to fight it yet other than organizing and reporting all these bots
Media can be influenced by reaching out to advertisers and telling them to stop supporting something or you will be voting with your wallet, voting with your wallet isn't enoug, you have to tell the advertisers why you are doing that.
Its not Teflon, its the media betraying the people for a few extra views. Not all of them are bad and lying - their incentives are off and the owners have their hand on the scales
Update: Donald Trump has thus far received 50.1% of 150,161,453 votes cast Kamala Harris has thus far received 48.3% of 150,161,453 votes cast Fascism has thus far received 68% of all eligible voters’ approval.
And if the numbers were reversed, Repubs would be burning down the country right about now.
Since they don't believe in global warming, the "landslide" they're referring to is more akin to a Florida sinkhole
I can't believe how quick they jumped on the completely false landslide victory narrative. The saddest thing is a lot of people will believe it forever now
Not giving up. #DefendDemocracy 💙 #ResistersUnite 💙
If prayers worked, I would pray that some of those states flipped blue
We need to have the Dems learn how to appeal to voters more because calling the other guy a fascist over and over doesn’t work. It failed when Hillary tried it and it failed now that Harris tried it again
I get so angry when I hear any Trump supporter say, "landslide win." Are we redefining the term landslide win?
I am in Australia, so a bit confused with how things work. What if Harris gains most of the 800,000 Cali votes. Will that trigger a recount of all states where Elmo used Starlink?
I shared this earlier, but realize I don't know source. Which site is this from?
Huh? If we're going by percent margin, Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1% and Trump is winning by 1.8%. If we're going by raw vote margin, Clinton won by ~2.9 million votes; Trump is winning by ~2.7 million votes. Where are you getting "half" from?
And you think this will be the stat he is going to talk about? He will be referring to the above 50% stat and within the same sentence he will end with saying he got 90% of the vote. Worse part is…they all going to believe him!!!
This part. Numbers don’t matter to him. He could tell them he got 300 million votes and they’d believe it without batting an eye lol
US population: Approximately 346 million. Eligible voters: Around 231 million. Trump voters: Approximately 76.4 million Republicans ruling with 22.1% of populations support with 33.1% of Eligible voters support with 47.% of Registered voters support with 49.6% of voters who actually voted support.
An underrated thing that has come out of this election is that the Democratic coalition is now benefiting more from the electoral college. Kamala could've easily won the electoral college with a narrower popular vote margin than Hillary with how close some of the swing states were.
As you know, reality means very little to them.
Landslide🤣🤣🤣🤣 Mandate🤣🤣🤣🤣
And 38% didn’t vote, so it’s really more like 31-32% overall vote share in reality.
I really don't get the majority not voting. Is it too hard? 6/10 Americans struggle with their economy. Guessing that will increase over the coming years .
Where is a good place to get accurate counts for Trump voters, Harris voters, other voters, and *total eligible voters*? (That would allow me to see how many didn't bother.) Ideally State by State, but total for US would be okay.
Oh the hell we will. We are gonna fight tooth and nail next time #NeverAgain
Do it this time. Call your Reps and Sens Demand: recount in swing states, senate confirmation, Gaetz report
No, we fight....NOW! Demand a forensic audit and recount. I will fight tooth and nail to prevent DJT from burning our country to the ground. Join our fight!!
Ain’t gonna be a next time.
Disagree. Don’t buy into the fearmongering. No way will we just watch it happen. trump will probably have died or been removed before 2028. His Alzheimer’s is escalating and half the rightwingers can’t stand Vance. We’ll still have elections. Don’t roll over and just give in to worst case scenarios.
Go rollover and play dead then. Stop with this capitulation in advance. You’re not helping anyone.
I don’t know, I taught some of my trans friends how to shoot and maintain firearms this week. Kinda the opposite of rolling over and playing dead.
Well, good then. Putting hopeless statements out there like you did is what they want. They revel in it. We cannot do that.
Since you’re not paying me, you don’t get to tell me what to do. If you dislike my content feel free to block.
Ok big guy. Thanks for the hot tip. 😂
don't comply in advance, sad sack.
That’s what I’m afraid of.
Well if you're posting on here, I doubt you truly believe its over. Take some time off and come back with some of that piss n vinegar we need in the fight to come
I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong.
🍊🤡 said he will fix it so you do not need to vote .
Historically speaking, when fascists come to power, approximately 90% of the population tends to go a long with it.
and you're one of them
someone who wasn't cozy and secure in the belief that his little pink dick will protect him from fascist harm wouldn't be shilling for them for free. I intend to fight for free elections, what about you, stumpy?
What the fuck are you even talking about?? I was punching Nazis before I had a drivers license.
Historically speaking powerful leaders don't spend half their time playing golf. This is going to suck. But just like last time it'll be incompetence and lack of leadership. He never gets anything done.
He got the wall built, from the Pacific Ocean to Gulf of Mexico!!! Oh...wait...that's right...he didn't.
It’s not just Trump we have to worry about though
Don’t be part of the 90%
Historically speaking, and I'm referencing Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the best times to take down authoritarian regimes--and they DO get taken down--is at the end and also at the beginning. We are at the beginning. We must give it our all.
Diversity is our strength against fascism. Historical examples of fascism are in countries that have a mostly singular national identity, shared language & history (Germans, Russians, Italians, etc.) Not one had our incredible diversity!!
When the leading ask on Google and Bing are “How do I change my vote” makes me think America won’t stand for it.
90% of the population sure as hell aren’t going to go along with it.
I'm going to go out on a limb & agree with the guy who can spell along!
90% of counties did.
41% already did when they refrained from voting.
Imagine if EVERY US citizen whose vote was not counted - filed a complaint and requested a recount www.usa.gov/voter-fraud
Would you say America is one of the more violent countries in the world?
I don’t believe they refrained this election tbh. I think things were made to appear this way- it’s why Trump is in a hurry to be inaugurated prior to 1/20
Painful lesson coming their way
And they hate it when you point that out
Exactly
Well maybe this will be the “LESSON of our lifetime!”
If all the polls got closed down in your area & you don't have a car. It's not a choice. Republicans have engaged in voter suppression & racial gerrymandering for decades. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
He won on thin margins. Obama won by much larger margins. Reagan even more than that. Trump can't even carry the Republicans down ballot. Let's not make more of this than what it is.
I agree. Dictators only have as much power as the people around them allow them to have.
I admire your positivity but half the country doesn’t care if we have a fascist in power or not and half of the other half wants a fascist in power.
And the Democratic voters failed to show up during midterms to help support Obama and Biden and they failed to vote against Trump the first time and the third time. If Dems voters can't consistently back their side why do you think anyone else will revolt against GOP?
GOP won the Senate and the House will be within two seats. He carried down ballot just fine.
that's by a fucking hair. a LOT of ballots read "Blue, except for trump" which I still find statistically weird
Dems won many statewide races and ballot initiatives in states that Trump carried, which says a lot
2018 midterms
By a hair.
Dooooom give up be paassssssssive
Not compared to the power he had after 2016. When Trump was 1st inaugurated in Jan. 2017, the GOP at that point had the most power that they'd got in DC since the 1920s. Also,whites & blacks voted more for Kamala than Biden. It was Hispanics had the huge shift to the Right. GOP is a powder keg.
Democratic voters showed up just fine in 2018, 2020 and 2022. I don't really get why they didn't this time. But I'm sure they will again. Assuming Republicans don't cancel elections, 2026 and 2028 won't be pretty for them.
2022 turnout was down from 2018 and midterms. www.brookings.edu/articles/new...
How can Republicans cancel elections? I understand the dread, but they are run by the states so I don’t understand the logistics. Leftists need to learn to show up every time, that is the only way we will shift the Overton window in the direction we want.
Maam they won the white house, senate , house. I DONT believe there is a way for them to win more.
You must be slow.
Do not comply in advance.
Lay down and die then. Typical guy behavior. Meanwhile… We rise
Yep. That’s what guys always look like. Have a great day!! 💙
I think you need to work on your reading comprehension buddy.
I’m afraid you might be right. If Trump is not stopped and is allowed to stretch the limits of the Constitution to no end and to cause chaos and distress in the country, he might just suspend 2028 elections.
Yep, I think it was America's last election too. A dictator was just elected, what do they think is going to happen. He'll hand it down to Baron🤷
Not with that attitude. No excuses.
Oh, there will be a next time. America isn't a country that likes to be oppressed.
“Lay down?” We label MAGAts dumb for a reason. NEVER!
California still has ballots to count. So electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-...
But the Electoral College Map is really red. That is what they go by.
Voter suppression in urban areas worked.
Imagine if EVERY US citizen whose vote was not counted - filed a complaint and requested a recount www.usa.gov/voter-fraud
It’s amazing what billionaires who own the media channels can do when they put their minds and money to it. We officially have a USA plutocracy. MSN oligarch: a "very wealthy business leader who helps to run the government - Elon Musk personally gave more than $130M and his super PAC gave $200M
Do we have an idea now where the final margin will end up? There are still lots of votes being counted right?
This has been so interesting to follow. Thank you for the updates.
The right has never lay down and shut up for anything, and they’re *frequently* in the minority….i see no reason for the left to do so.
Just curious, where are you seeing these numbers? Every site I go to shows Trump (currently, of course votes are still being counted) just at or above 50%.
You are correct. These numbers are made up and nobody in this thread bats an eye. Where is his link to these numbers.
Youre conflating Kamala's campaign with "The Left"?
Yeah well we ain’t gonna just take any bullshit they toss out
"The left". The only real person who is remotely in the area of left wing is Bernie Sanders. I don't recall any of Obama, Biden or Clinton ruling out anything similar to the state health care available in Europe. Unfortunately, for most of us across the pond, the US is centre right and far right.
Of course…
The senate democrats have already obliged. WHY?
Still skeptical of the results especially in the swing states.
With over 60 Russian bomb threats in blue areas in swing states and Putin’s aide, Patrushev, openly stating that they won the election and Trump needs to pay them back for it, it’s hard to believe the validity of it.
All they do is tell us to lay down and shut up no matter what the topic is. I'm expecting them to get even crazier.
Hardly a majority
Nate Cohn on election Day said he believed Trump had about a 1% lead. Good Nate knows his stuff.
Really?
As a center-right Kamala voter, the left-wing of the Democratic still needs to reexamine its policies. I would point to the red swift in the cities for example.
As an ever-expanding, all-consuming telepathic technoblob Kamala voter, the sane normal faction of the US still needs to reexamine its policies.
Democrats have to solidify their base. Embrace progressive policies, stop capitulating to the right and stop letting the right define progressivism.
Ok. But we are on a train headed to the camp. Lets buck up and work together rn to subvert trump
#RESIST
I made a graph. Trump got just under 50% of the popular vote - just 1.7% above Harris and the lowest margin of victory since Bush v. Gore in 2000. That is hardly the "mandate" that Republicans and the press are claiming.
.8% of votes not counted yet. A lot of Biden voters did not vote this time.
Let’s go Kamala! Hey Donald, it’s smaller than you say it is.
I know you're a politics nerd, David. When I was a poli sci minor in college, we were told that a landslide is a victory of at least 10%. Ain't no 10% here.
Funny how that works. But I thought the last election was stolen? Muh 15 million votes!
Losing 7 million votes also sucks
It does. Let’s blame Dominion and claim election fraud. I’ll bet the republicans reprogrammed hammer and scorecard to delete Democrat votes.
😂🤣
We definitely shouldn't lay down anything, but I mean....he still won the popular vote...that alone is still shocking
It is ,but many MAGA folks are learning that their family and friends want nothing to do with them. They can follow their extreme cult but it’s going to be a lonely Thanksgiving. No one wants to be around that type of toxicity.
Good‼️ I will never be convinced that criminal won fair and square but it is what it is
This is the "Landslide" that was "too big to rig proving that 2020 was rigged" btw
But a victory nonetheless which is so sad to see the majority of the country vote for a xenophobic, misogynistic and racist idiot.
“Landslide”…absolutely not.
If it hasn't been pointed to you, he won them popular vote. The margin does not matter. We have ample evidence that the right will support him no matter what. No more talk about what they should do. What are WE going to do?
The election was electronically stolen. Muskrat and Russia were instrumental in rigging.
There may be hope for the future yet.
I find it's funny people think "woke" will disappear bc of this victory. Also, I just switched over from Twitter, looking for followers. 😅
The term “woke” lost its meaning. Much like “antisemitic”
I’m taking that back! “Woke” is people who are…..educated, enlightened, tolerant, can think for themselves, and categorically know the following: The earth is not flat Science is real Vaccines are good Cults are bad Democracy is good Tolerance will always win over hate…..
Lol. Ok
I like this definition woke: Woke - (verb) aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice Traits I attribute to woke people: High critical thinking skills Sceptical Knowledgeable The word is often missed & has been reappropriated many times
That it has. I mean, its what the far-right does. Distort meaning and misinform people.
Absolutely.
But as lame as Trump's victory margin is, Kamala did worse than that ... And the Democratic party machine STILL can't believe that they're part of the problem I liked Kamala, she was an excellent candidate, but I agree with Bernie Sanders. Bernie's a cool dude!
Trump still has almost 3 Mio more votes than Harris But yes he is below the 50% mark
Landslide/more votes is not a reason to lie down and take whatever. But I'm sad I can't say he lost the popular vote like he did in 2016...
I will lay down the moment he stops using bronzer.
Dude. As a member of the left myself, please stop acting like this was close. It was not. Dems running against a psychopath fascist should win by 30%, not lose by a little. Comments like yours here allow Dems in power to think they don't have soul searching to do.
Of course they do. It’s part of the continued gaslighting of America. Shrub did it too. You give them less than a micro-fraction of an inch and they say “mandate!” We get to say what goes. Along with their micro-victory they will continue to make changes to make it harder for D’s to ever win again
I still can't believe he won