Summary

Donald Trump and Republicans are falsely framing his 2024 election win as a historic “landslide” and sweeping mandate, despite the data showing otherwise.

Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968, and his 307 electoral votes rank low in U.S. history.

Crucial Senate and House gains were limited, with Republicans relying on gerrymandering for their narrow House majority.

This exaggeration of victory serves to justify potential power expansions, but the facts debunk claims of an unprecedented or overwhelming mandate.

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It’s time to nip that lie in the bud

Frankly, I’m sick and tired of nipping MAGA lies in the bud every day. It’s been the better part of a decade of this bullshit already… I fucking hate that my countrymen chose this for us for the next four years. Fuck every Trump voter, but a much bigger fuck you goes out to all the jackasses that stayed home on the 5th. You’re complicit, and I don’t give a shit why you think fascism is “okay” as long as you got to punish the Democratic Party for your grievances.

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34 points

Exactly, until media reframes this from distraction politics to a call to action none of this matters. Wake me up when we have a functioning government again.

I’ll be focusing locally on building mutual aid networks and contributing as much as I can to local policy and governance.

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I think the bigger message is that our information environment is totally screwed.

The eye-opener for me was watching our local news station interview college students coo and rave over how “strong” he was and repeat (apparently not) obvious misinformation.

It wasn’t about apathy, not really… He just won an influencer war. And now the CEO of Twitter is basically president…

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7 points

Wait until the idiots graduate and look for a job. The Orange Bag of Shit holds the record for US unemployment and he has a very good chance of breaking it again.

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6 points

To be fair, and president would have been screwed over during covid, even if they had “contained” it (which, looking at China, seems highly unlikely).

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20 points

I’m sick and tired of anywhere near half of the voting public choosing him.

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If you voted for Harris, you’re complicit, and I don’t give a shit why you think blue fascism is “okay” as long as it means your rights are protected at the expense of others

Edit: to be clear, I mean complicit in the currently occurring Palestinian genocide and overall maintenance of the status quo

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21 points

My choice was Trump or not!Trump.

I picked not!Trump. Harris could have been a literal turkey sandwich on a plate, I still would have voted for her. She’s not great, I actually wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders in Andrew Yang’s body, but that’s not gonna happen.

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My choice was revolution or status quo.

I picked, and continue to pick, revolution

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15 points

“If you voted for the only other viable option in the election, you’re responsible for Trump” is a very strange claim.

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84 points

Doesn’t matter. He won the presidency. He has demonstrated his entire life that he will just do whatever he wants and dare the world to stop him. (Narrator: They haven’t.) Now he also has near-complete criminal immunity once he’s inaugurated. He’s already stacking up appointees who are going to follow his orders.

“B-b-but Senate confirmation --” Shut the fuck up. Whoever he wants to be in charge of departments is going to be in charge of departments. Don’t appoint anyone else, throw “Acting” in front of the title, done and done. What is anyone going to do about it? Fucking nothing.

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9 points

Of course it matters. It doesn’t matter to trump but the public is not trump

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11 points

If it doesn’t matter enough for anyone to do anything about it, it doesn’t matter at all.

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-5 points

Yes only bloody revolution matters /s

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2 points

The “public’s opinion” is of very little concern without a threat of violence to back it up.

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-2 points

you go first.

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0 points

15mil who voted last time didn’t this time. 40+ declared they give two shits about what kind of person Trump is. The public does not give af.

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56 points

Maybe if we correct the Republicans they’ll listen. Yeah, that’ll work.

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7 points

Republicans are trying to gaslight us by calling Trump’s win a landslide. The point isn’t to correct them; it’s to make sure we don’t believe the lies they tell us.

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6 points

The problem is that in practical terms it is a landslide, because of the way our shitty system is setup. They have control of all 3 branches now.

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2 points

Yes but we shouldn’t act like it gives them any sort of moral authority, or that future elections are unwinnable.

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4 points

It’s not gonna win anything and we shouldn’t act like it will.

Still, no reason not to be correct about it. He’s gonna try and make his delusions national news, so, gotta have the reality out there.

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53 points

Maybe the media themselves shouldn’t have been running around talking about the absolutely massive and devastating defeat the Democrats suffered the day after the election… Maybe they should have waited for all the results?

Nahhh… Clicks clicks clicks! It’s all that matters! Money money money!

All corporate media:

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That really doesn’t make me feel that much better about it, but I guess we’re mostly trying to find the corn in the shit on this one, so thanks?

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