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I don't understand why people are acting like half the country didn't want him. Present them with any other option and they will still choose him even today.
Edit: To those who keep discussing how people didn't vote, please realize that is still a choice. If you didn't vote then you may as well have voted for him regardless.
Im still trying to figure out how people like you think half the population voted for him. He won a plurality, which means more than his opponent. A majority is over 50%.
Only <65% people of voting age even voted (including 3rd party candidates). He didnt even win a majority amongst only those who voted. And who of the remaining 35%+ is fascist or anti-fascist? They're pretty vocal, now.
Any other option lmao. Dude, he's the least popular president in history. What are you huffing?
Regardless of supporting someone who attempted to overthrow our government, he is surrounded by convicted rapists and pedophiles. Why would he do that?
Regardless of his fascination with dictators and his love of rapists and pedophiles, his Iran war BS is being used explicitly for stock market manipulation. Presidents are not allowed to manipulate the stock market for profit. They actually have some pretty specific rules about what kind of money they can gain, use, and their possession of property is typically very scrutinized for a variety of reasons.
A rapist and pedophile loving, dictator admiring, stock market manipulating, genocide supporting and threatening, wonderful president.
Let me ask: Who won in 2020?
That's because democrat voters couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman.
They said her problem was that she smiled too much.. Then the country chose the rapist who's destroying them as we speak.
American voters from both sides are responsible for all the death and suffering caused by their president.
And somehow it's never their fault.
Still he was elected by the american people, after being a convicted rapist and trying to overthrow democracy in the USA.
Americans should be ashamed that he even was a candidate.
Don't try to make excuses, americans did this.
Correction, voters couldn't bring themselves to vote for an incompetent candidate. The Democrats had years to find someone electable and failed. Biden was a self-stated bridge candidate. Orange Julius was elected because the Democrats failed.
She was and still is objectively the most competent candidate, saying otherwise is exactly what enables trump. His propaganda works with you.
If she was competent she would have won the election. Just look at what she was running against. A clearly deteriorating Joe Biden was able to beat him in 2020 and buy the DNC some time to get their shit together. Why are some unable to see that the Democrats own a big chunk of where we are today?
Are you aware that the Biden administration, as a condition of Joe stepping aside, insisted that Kamala not deviate from the administrations policy positions at all? She was hamstrung from the beginning.
You may be unaware that when Joe stepped aside the only person who could legally replace him on the ticket was Kamala Harris.
If true, this information makes her even less competent. Only a fool would agree to be hamstrung by the policies of the prior administration.
It was the current administration. She wouldn't have been able to run at all without that agreement and Trump would have won by default.
It's telling that you blame Kamala for the constraints put on her rather than Biden who put them there.
Ideally, Biden should have resigned in 2024, making her president and giving her the incumbent advantage. That was a serious miscalculation.
We have a serious problem with aging politicians hanging on to their positions for far too long. We were screwed by RBG, Biden, Feinstein and now Schumer. We need progressive candidates to primary every one of these ossified centrists and zionists.
To be clear I don't blame her for the constraints put on her. I blame her for accepting them. Why would anyone run with those constraints? She should have told them to go lose an election. It's telling that she didn't.
Well, it's a good thing you know the minds of everyone involved.