good thing he’s, by law, above the law
Pennsylvania alone would not have flipped it.
312 to 226.
Flip Pennsylvania:
293 to 245.
Still 25 short of a win. PA+MI+WI were required and she blew all three, just like Clinton did.
Cool, doesn’t matter
Right, who’s going to hold a cabal of the richest men on Earth accountable?
Therefore it would be technically impossible to hack voting machines since the paper trail would not match up. Wishful thinking though."
Yeah if you ask for a recount. The one the DNC never bothered with.
Pretty sure nothing can or will be done about it.
In this case, unfortunately, the past is indeed indicative of the future. Oh and by the way, fuck you Merrick Garland you useless quisling and coward.
The one thing I know in my heart and in my soul is these guys will fuck something up so badly that their own base will demand they be torn to shreds before these 4 years are up.
As we’ve seen again and again, this is very unlikely.
As he said, many years ago now, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
These people do not care about rules, they do not care about law, they do not care what is good for them and those they care about. They care about owning the dems.
Owning the dems, to the oligarchs themselves, is merely a means to an end. They say it because the base loves it. That’s all.
We’re…talking about his base, lol…
IDK man. Itallians eventually took care of Mussolini
The part of the country that didn’t like fascists hanged him after Allied troops landed in Italy and the country had a civil war
The fascists didn’t hang him. They didn’t change their minds about what happened.
People fucking shot them in the face for being fascists until there weren’t enough goons left to protect him.
And then a communist hanged him.
I don’t want you to be right, but I know you probably are.
This would be easier to deal with if I didn’t have to worry about my families fate too
The only recorded instance of which I can think of someone who was even slightly pro-fascism taking out a fascist is literally Hitler… he killed himself, but only because the Red Army was already inside Berlin and looking for him.
And they are also back in the government by the way. Financed by…drum roll…
Maybe if he actually imposes his stupid ass tariffs and collapses our dollar, people will wake up. Who knows.
The base will never turn against trump, never
Whatever Trump fucks up, they’ll just blame it on democrats
It had worked for the GOPers every time so far. So why not now?
How many of them will survive the next preventable pandemic?
50% probably
Bird flu really feels like a thing we all need to be watching right now… just saying.
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.
Except that Elon actually doesn’t know shit about computers. Trump is just rambling delusionally like usual.
Elon dazzels Trump with tales of setting the correct time on all sorts of video players.
I wish people would stop conceding even that about Elon. The guy is not some technical whiz at anything that I can discern.
Does he even have a real degree?
Virtually all of the self-created myth about Elon seems to be complete bullshit.
He’s been massively inconsistent about the year, some weird story about grad school requirements.
His “woke mind virus traceroute” post just does not seem like the kind of thing anyone who has ever used any form of command line would actually write. The way he talks about physics and rocketry, as someone who has taught physics and also been blessed to actually talk to some of the smartest NASA scientists in the world, does not sound like the way that people talk about physics and rocketry.
Elon musk is great at buying companies that could be promising and getting them to massively grow. It’s likely mostly about being able to secure funding, but it’s something I guess.
Or repeating Elons bs bragging
Musk hired someone to use Starlink to change the votes, this is not news to me.
There’s nothing special about starlink. They’re just big routers. And unless an election office is running off starlink, (they aren’t), there would be evidence all the way down the line to the ground terminal used to connect to starlink. Furthermore it would require well over 100 people from both parties and disparate social groups to keep a secret. Because it would absolutely be noticed. And the people whose job it is to notice it don’t stay quiet, it’s kind of their thing.
Then why’s he praising Musk for “using the computers well” to “win Pennsylvana”
He’s a dementia patient. He calls his Facebook “the computers”.
It doesn’t fucking matter. He can splatter an infant against a tree like an old testament god and nothing will ever happen then either.
None of this defeatist bullshit. It matters.
https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack
Keep track. Or don’t keep track and keep it out of your head for your health.
Just no defeatist bullshit.
Thanks for pointing out that community, because I’ve been trying to figure out how to get some kind of news feed that only covers the important things that we actually need to know about, without having to subject myself to the firehose of irrelevant bullshit that the media breathlessly covers as if it was just as important as news about stuff that is actually happening and getting buried in all that distracting trash.
Keeptrack seems like it should work for me for this purpose. It looks like posts there will be just the actual actions taken by our new overlords that impact us, without all the crap that’s just bluster for drama and stoking the base.
Yeah. Trump and his supporters don’t matter. Take from them everything, and leave them with nothing but regret, fear, and pain.
I appreciate your effort but a person is smart people are dumb. OP is correct and not only that his smiting a baby will come with a chorus of applause. This only changes when the idiot masses wake up again but I fear WW3 has to happen first. History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. This is the path we are on.
Sorry, we can’t prosecute a sitting president. It’s tradition.
It’s a tradition we’re starting just now, but a tradition nonetheless!
Fiddler on the roof intensifies
Lee Harvey Oswald had entered the chat…
Here we go again. Even when he’s literally found guilty, it makes no difference because there’s just not the will to make it stick.
Get the message: the system will not save us from Trump.
We need a Luigi.
Ding ding ding. Constitution? Basically a system. Justice department? A system. They have failed. We keep pretending like a super hero is gonna show up, correct it all then vanish again for another 50 years.
Goku shows up and wishes us to New Earth
Rise Washington rise! Welp I tried.
He can confess to multiple murders and show the bodies on stage and nothing will happen. The US “justice” system only applies to poor people.
He could rape and murder kids on stage and nothing would happen, and his supporters would dismiss it by saying that the kids deserved it. He’s a narcissistic psychopath, and he holds the nuclear codes.
Good luck, America.
It’s only day 1. I can’t wrap my head around 4 more years of this shit.
It didn’t help it’s already been 8 years of this shit. Even losing he never shut the fuck up. Ever.
I hope I live long enough to read his obituary
Honestly, I could see spontaneous celebrations breaking out when he passes.
Nothing will happen
No laws apply to him now.
None ever have.
Only one solution.
Remember Trump and Johnson’s “secret plan” to win the election?
I ‘member.
Yep I am not giving to many conspiracies but I do believe he cheated in many states. Only how he could win the popular vote. But unfortunately he still won because of sexiest and racist.
I assure you, Trump is not the sexiest anything.
Lmao. Think they meant sexism.
What evidence do you have other than “a feeling”? Which is what the republicans have been insisting on since 2020.
MAYBE there was limited election fraud in swing states. Nation wide, there was consistently lower Democratic turnout in basically every county in every state. That is HOW trump got the popular vote. Because people were too fucking stupid and selfish to go fucking vote.
So unless trump controlled every single machine in every single county? He won. And if he DID control that, he would have won by much larger and much stupider margins.
The problem was not “the computers” (that is gonna be the 2026 and 2028 problem…). The problem is that we spent the past 8 years smiling and nodding when self proclaimed leftists can’t go five fucking minutes without ranting about how nobody’s vote matters and we all deserve to suffer because their candidate didn’t win in two thousand and fucking sixteen.
It’s time to arm yourselves “leftists.”
I got mine, do you?
Oh such a big strong man with a big strong gun.
What are you going to do when a tank rolls through your house? Or a drone blows it up? Oh, I know, you are going to rise up and fight the power. Except the cops and military have way more guns than you do.
Let alone the fact that we live in a surveillance state and it will be trivial to track down the crack team of assassins to a suburb that can just be leveled.
Life is not Red Dawn and you aren’t going to stop the fascists just by screaming “WILDCATS!!” at the top of your lungs. There is a reason the republicans, who have been planning this shit since reagan, are also the party of guns.
Because they don’t do shit other than act as a lightning rod for morons
So your answer is no? That’s not an acceptable answer to me or my family comrade.
I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.
It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.
This has been a concerted effort going back almost 70 years, Reagan was just the first actor they hired. One of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate just how fuckin’ bad these people are and they’re winning.
Maybe you don’t have anything to lose friend, that’s great. My suggestion to you would be to sit quietly and let those who do continue the discussion. And I’ll re-iterate for my “leftist” friends now is the time to arm yourselves friends, the police will not protect you. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could absolutely happen here.
Again. What is even your fully automatic assault rifle going to do against a military with tanks, drones, and surveillance on every corner?
Because that is what we are up against. And I would rather not waste time with security blankets that justify military operations on civilians targets.
What is even your fully automatic assault rifle going to do against a military with tanks, drones, and surveillance on every corner?
Bro IDK where you’re even coming from I didn’t say anything about assault rifles or the military relax.
The right to bear arms is fundamental, gtfo with your “the other team is the gun team” BS. In the short term, when a truck flying a MAGA flag drives into the local gay community looking for fun I’d like there to be an armed support network for that community since we already know the police response will be slow. Longer term, if infrastructure collapses (or is intentionally neglected) expect to see migrations into rural areas in search of food and other resources. It’s hard to hunt (and defend yourself against fundamentalists with guns) without guns.
My comment was clearly not meant for you, I’m not sure why you’re so hostile. Would you suggest threatened and marginalized groups remain defenseless?
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”
Trump is so old he probably means human computers. They were still around when he was a young man. Right? He meant the people counting the votes, right? Heaven forbid he actually tried to monkey with the voting machines. Because that would be illegal, and totally unthinkable for someone with a stainless reputation like His Orangeness…
Don’t assume there’s anything meaningful behind what he says. His algorithm is mind-numbingly simple: say stupid shit. If it gets attention, double down.
That’s all there is. There is no thought and no feeling. He has no more inner life than a cockroach.
say stupid shit. If it gets attention, double down.
And that’s exactly how he gets away with all the stuff he does: people simply assume he’s talking crap, until they realize he wasn’t.
Trump should not be allowed to say anything remotely controversial without meeting fact-checking and extreme resistance at each and every step. Either that’ll teach him to be careful with what he says, or he’ll eventually get caught incriminating himself. If people let him say any old thing because of the sheer volume of bullshit coming out of his piehole, he’s gonna keep getting away with everything.
If anything, this is a distraction from something else.
Yeah remember that analysis by some data scientists that said there was some fishy shit going on?
Do you have a source? I don’t remember it and I’m not turning much up by searching.
Here is the article that was published about it.
Take it with a grain of salt. But the dots are starting to line up.
It looked reasonable on the surface, largely because of the “factual” claims he made. But as soon as you start peeking into the publicly available numbers, it falls apart. He said 11% bullet ballots in NC. It was around 2.2%. That’s the one I verified myself.
In North Carolina, which saw 11% of votes for Trump cast as bullet votes.
NC had 5.67m presidential votes. NC had 5.54m gubernatorial votes. A difference of 128k. 128k/5.67m = 2.257%
I checked a couple other NC races as well. It doesn’t get close. Not to mention places like NYC went more red too. Do we think they cheated in NYC too? Did they cheat literally everywhere?
Of course the bullet ballot guy makes the claim that the swing states and the surrounding states are different, but they really weren’t. His numbers are just lies.
That guy neverehad a source to make the claims that he did. Rebecca Watson addressed this guy’s claims
