How did a man who was indicted with so many crimes

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06 Nov 2024, 1:42 pm

Just how on Earth did a man who was indicted with so many crimes and who lead to an attack on the US capital on January 6, 2021 manage to get reelected as US president? It is like a pig suddenly transforming into a dog.



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06 Nov 2024, 1:55 pm

unkind and counterproductive types call the shots here, by and large. h.l. Mencken tartly observed, "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." he wrote that a hundred years ago and it still is true.



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06 Nov 2024, 3:57 pm

America gets the leadership it deserves.

I thank God for my home in the Philippines.


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06 Nov 2024, 4:02 pm

Fnord wrote:
America gets the leadership it deserves.

I thank God for my home in the Philippines.


No, we have a uni-party that shares most of the worst policies in common like supporting the genocide in the Middle East. The Democrats haven't actually let the primary voters choose their Presidential candidate since 2008 and they've largely been running on being less horrible than the GOP since 2000.

In this case, they didn't even bother having proper primaries and several were outright canceled.



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06 Nov 2024, 5:27 pm

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Just how on Earth did a man who was indicted with so many crimes and who lead to an attack on the US capital on January 6, 2021 manage to get reelected as US president? It is like a pig suddenly transforming into a dog.


His opponent was a woman, that's why they voted for him. Conservatives believe that a woman's place is in the kitchen.


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07 Nov 2024, 9:28 pm

Also, they did something very sneaky that is probably going to be impossible to fight: they invalidated mail-in ballots by claiming that the signatures didn't match because young adults don't know how to sign their own names -- funny how it was always young people, the constituency most likely to vote against him -- and did not follow the legal procedures to warn those voters so that they could 'cure' the problem. It happened to a handful of people I personally know, including one of my daughters. I contacted officials after the requisite 2 business days to point out that they hadn't contacted her as legally required so how can she fix the problem? No answer.

Completely illegal and apparently happening all over. She didn't even know to check, which I'm sure is a common thing, so the deadline passes and oh well, your vote wasn't counted.

So if you were wondering how an election that supposedly had the largest number of voters ever somehow ended up with about 13 million fewer votes, this is probably part of the explanation.


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07 Nov 2024, 9:56 pm

ChicagoLiz wrote:
Also, they did something very sneaky that is probably going to be impossible to fight: they invalidated mail-in ballots by claiming that the signatures didn't match because young adults don't know how to sign their own names -- funny how it was always young people, the constituency most likely to vote against him -- and did not follow the legal procedures to warn those voters so that they could 'cure' the problem. It happened to a handful of people I personally know, including one of my daughters. I contacted officials after the requisite 2 business days to point out that they hadn't contacted her as legally required so how can she fix the problem? No answer.

Completely illegal and apparently happening all over. She didn't even know to check, which I'm sure is a common thing, so the deadline passes and oh well, your vote wasn't counted.

So if you were wondering how an election that supposedly had the largest number of voters ever somehow ended up with about 13 million fewer votes, this is probably part of the explanation.


Also, between the time they signed their voter registration card and the election, someone could have a stroke or hand/arm injury, or other medical condition that affects their motor skills, and they could be unable to sign their name in a way that matches the card.

And supposedly, all of these cases were in swing states. None in solid red or blue states.

Why has nobody considered making online ballots an option? How come Estonia is the only country that does it?


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07 Nov 2024, 10:10 pm

That's exactly why he got reelected. The DSA is overrun with racist misogynist homophobes who see anyone different as "woke" and therefore the enemy. I'll bet they'll even start forcing child-free single women into marriage and having kids since we're all supposedly crazy cat ladies.

My cats are both gone now, when is this overwhelming desire to dress in pearls and high heels while I do housework all day and then serve up a sizzling pot roast for my breadwinner husband and 6 or 7 pure white hetero kids going to start? :roll:



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08 Nov 2024, 12:43 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
TheNet wrote:
Just how on Earth did a man who was indicted with so many crimes and who lead to an attack on the US capital on January 6, 2021 manage to get reelected as US president? It is like a pig suddenly transforming into a dog.


His opponent was a woman, that's why they voted for him. Conservatives believe that a woman's place is in the kitchen.


If sh***ibs are stupid enough to accept this explanation the Dems won't win another election again ever and they'll deserve that outcome.


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08 Nov 2024, 9:00 am

funeralxempire wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
TheNet wrote:
Just how on Earth did a man who was indicted with so many crimes and who lead to an attack on the US capital on January 6, 2021 manage to get reelected as US president? It is like a pig suddenly transforming into a dog.


His opponent was a woman, that's why they voted for him. Conservatives believe that a woman's place is in the kitchen.


If sh***ibs are stupid enough to accept this explanation the Dems won't win another election again ever and they'll deserve that outcome.

That's more or less my thought. The Democrats refuse to run on popular policy positions and refuse to trust their own primary voters to decide which candidates to nominate. There was a lot of ballot splitting going on this election in terms of states going solidly for Trump while also voting for abortion rights.

That view also fails to explain why so many women were voting for Trump, knowing that his attitude towards women was abysmal.