• ZeroCool@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”

    I hate this timeline so much.

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      Reading this made me wanna cry. It’s so fucking sad that millions of people actually voted for this man. Wow, just wow.

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        My neighbors have started putting out trump 2024 flags. I have no idea how anyone can look positive at that man…

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        What’s even sadder is that it’s millions of people that some of us used to look up to and respect, now we just have a bunch of sad brainwashed shells of the people they used to be before Trump/conservative propaganda got ahold of them. They broke our communities and now they’ve broken our families, now all that’s left is for them to break is us.

        I’m not the biggest Hillary fan but she’s been right about the Trump Qult from day 1 and this is a great essay from her about this topic:

        https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/

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    Let’s game this out the way some of the comments are saying.

    Scenario 1: Proud Boys and other right wing militant groups stand around polling places with open carry weapons to intimidate Democrat-leaning districts. Maybe it doesn’t chase everyone away, but we know a lot of election officials are complaining about threats and have quit. So it’s going to have some effect. Enough to swing the vote? I don’t think that matters. It’s still election interference.

    Scenario 2: right wing militants show up, and so do various antifa groups to counter them. Maybe antifa show up armed, maybe not. Either way, it’s an escalation. Escalating tensions with guns present significantly increases the chances that someone uses their gun, regardless of who shoots first. The first shots in a civil war? Then the right wing militants win, because they’ve been agitating for this for years. Who wins is immaterial to the millions of people who will suffer as a result.

    Scenario 3: polling places are reinforced with police and National Guards as necessary to prevent any election interference. They can be present to “observe” but they’re not allowed to intimidate anyone. This is the only scenario I can see where democracy is defended and preserved.

    Agree or disagree? What am I missing? Where am I wrong?

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      Yeah, though I wouldn’t be surprised if he legit didn’t really want to be president in the first place, but the opportunity to fleece more people was too great for him to pass up so he just ran with it and can’t stop now.

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    Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”

    No, Donnie. No one has ever thought of this. You’re the first, you beautiful genius. /s