It seems like we didn’t vote for this guy and he cheated his way to winning the election. He made suspicious comments about Elon Musk and how he helped with the election, mentioning something about how he’s really good with that technology. Which Musk also mentioned, claiming that Trump would never have been elected without him.

Then there’s an active lawsuit going on where several counties in New York state found that absolutely no one voted for Kamala Harris in their location during the election, despite having large groups of Democrat residents. Their electronic voting machines received patches right before voting started, which is highly suspicious. That’s being investigated right now.

It appears that the election was likely stolen and we have a president who was never elected. This is how fascist takeovers start, and unless people organize against the government, they’re just going to keep enabling this downfall of our country.

How can this guy be your president, US folks? It was absolutely well known.

Because millions of people didn’t care

Hate is a hell of a drug. The religious people (primarily Christians) in our country are particularly susceptible to it. Trump pretends to be religious, and his cruelty is embraced by these types.

It’s just layers of indoctrination, basically. It’s not the majority of Americans, it’s around a third, but they vote in very high percentages, and the actual majority of Americans don’t vote.

So, we have this loud, delusional group with the most power right now purely because the majority of Americans don’t care to vote.

Media and propaganda. They are very powerfull. Greed as well.

1. We didn’t really have a democratic choice
2. Most of my countrymen are stupid and proud of it
3. Most of the people who are aware of how bad it is are not willing to break the law or upset the status quo to fight it
4. Reform and revolution take organization but that takes time and effort that most can’t afford.
5. People who were aware of how bad things were and are getting have become exhausted and constantly feel powerless to the point they can’t find the strength to keep trying

Those with the time/wealth/power to do anything are too blind or unsympathetic to do anything real. Those without time and resources lack the resources to do anything influential without organization which they also lack the time and resources to create as well.

We’re already in a dictatorship. But you likely have time to stop your country from following suit. Make sure there are good guys left to beat the shit out of us in the end

Edit: to clarify, by “we didn’t have a democratic choice” I was referring to gerrymandering, vote suppression, and other things like winner take all states. I voted and I know there were a surprising number of people who voted blue despite being lifelong republicans. It didn’t do anything because we don’t have democracy.

I’m not USian, but from what analysts worth their salt would say, it is combination of-- but not limited to-- intentional dumbification of Americans, the opposition not really being opposition, the US Supreme Court legalising bribery, the atomisation and polarisation of American communities, de-industrialisation, growing wealth inequality and general corruption. These contributed to the growth of frustration and populism among the voters to vote for anyone who is “not establishment”. Someone who “tells it like it is” unlike most politicians who always do politician speak. In the minds of many Americans, Trump may be a grifter and a pervert, but they see him as genuine. If the democracy is a sham after all, might as well pull down the mask and show tje country for what it truly is. That’s why people say Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The same symptom is happening across the world which is why we’re getting the same far right populism.

How can you allow this to happen?

I love how people ask questions like this, like we’re gods who can snap our fingers and magically stop the fascists who outnumber us. The number of people who wanted it to happen outnumbered the number of us who didn’t want it to happen. Simple as that. Can’t even blame the electoral college.

And those people still absolutely love him and will do anything for him and to keep him in power. The only option left after losing the election would be civil war, but even if enough people were ready to go all out and start one, we would lose that war because they have the government and its resources, including the military. That’s the problem with democracy, you see–majority rules and if the majority decides they don’t want a democracy any more, then it’s over.

~30% of the country really wanted to hurt other people because their lives were messed up, they weren’t rich, or they wanted to be richer.

So, 13 is too old, huh?

Does he? He says he doesn’t want to be like Foley with 12 year olds. That’s not an answer.

look as much as I detest the guy, that’s not what was actually said

More than likely yes, and they were fucking children too.

Wtf? They’re very brazen.

Are you sure that’s not exactly what that number was?

Not exactly. The quote is:

I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.

So I guess his cutoff is 13 which is absolutely no better.

Because he didn’t release the files, said they didn’t exist, and then said they were created by the democrats. It’s the Streisand effect. So people are applying pressure by finding what they can without him

I think it’s Elon.

Trump also pays outsized mind to social media in general and Twitter in particular.

The most common theory is it is push back from him trying to replace Powell.

It went from locker room talk with him acting offended children were being harmed (also by “illegals”) to why won’t he release the records.

His baddy status is more confirmed.

I think trump is just a walking loyalty test. They’re allowing this to continue to make DAMN SURE of who’s willing to support him absolutely no matter what.

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