Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud

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.

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.

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

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:

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?

They already have power. They don't need a justification for expansion they'll just do it.

Who cares he still fucking won. We are fucked regardless.

That's not going to fly when the entire country saw him sweep the swing states. That's part of the fuckiness of the EC, he only won by a tiny margin but visually state after state went red on the TV.

This is one of the reasons I hate talking in abstracts. I hear people talking about landslides, but what does that mean numerically? If there was a vote with a pool of 10 people and a candidate got 6 of those is that a landslide? Is 9/10 a landslide?

Some people talk "landslide" but without knowing what that means, it makes it hard to have a conversation.

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Have you seen the crowd in his 2016 inauguration? It was huuuge. Or how he fit 80,000 people in a 20,000 capacity venue.

People should know by now that he exaggerate everything including the size of his mushroom penis.

That's pedantic. They won the trifecta of government. The definition of landslide is academic at this point.

Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968…

What about Trump and Bush 2 both losing the popular vote yet winning the presidency?

Wait, did a major outlet just use "lie" in its headline?

I'm impressed. Even for an op-ed.

Anyway, this cannot be repeated enough. I'm already sick of people trying to say it's "historic", it's a "landslide", etc....give me a break.

When I was younger I thought the saying was, "nip it in the butt"

I dunno it always made sense to me.

Anywho carry on

In states where he won, it was either a blood-red wave, or barely past 50%.

Half of Lemmy seems to believe that Trump won by a landslide. Remember a comment upvoted like crazy yesterday talking about how hard he won.

I mean I get it, the fact that he won by any amount is horrifying but nuance exists. I'm glad to see this article attempting to clear it up

This is one defeat that I think we can no longer blame on Russian interference.

Kamala Harris was such a disliked candidate that she lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that previously tried to spark a right wing insurrection against Congress. A convicted felon whose previous tenure led to the Supreme Court bringing back state level abortion bans, and who was running on the manifesto of turning America into a right wing Christian theocracy staffed by Trump loyalists. Not even Hillary Clinton did this terribly.

Biden should never have ran for a second term, given that he was already showing signs of forgetfulness four years ago, and when he was eventually pushed to resign, the Democrats should have held a snap primary instead of immediately backing Harris.

Too late. It's that whole thing where it takes ten times the effort to undo misinformation than to introduce it (or however that goes). This narrative is here to stay. Those who try to counter it will just be in the role of the "Well Ackchyually" guy in the conversation

I quote the lyrics of the ABBA's song: "The winner takes it all - The loser’s standing small". And this is the truth: in a few years, no one will ask how DT won the election. He simply won and has a strong mandate to pursue his policy. - n'est-ce-pas?

Lies are a crucial foundation for fascism.

That horse left the stable a long time ago. Once the MAGA crowd latches onto something they don't let go. They're still claiming TFG won in 2020, for crying out loud.

Did Mehdi really write this on the 3rd? I've heard him saying this at least a week ago. Seems kinda pathetic to rehash this over and over again.

Yeah but history is written by the victor so that’ll be cleared up by the Trump regime eventually

He won bro. He's president of the ENTIRE COUNTRY it doe at matter how you cope.