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@Maiq @silence7 I still don’t get it. You’d think that even a Russian asset, as a malignant narcissistic demagogue, on becoming president of the largest economy in the world with the most powerful army, would just go ‘actually f*** you, I’m a bigger deal than you now, and your army and economy have both been ripped to shreds since I last got booted out anyway.’ Like, why’s he reducing the power/influence of the US and therefore his *own* power?!
@TwinTitans ah ok I see. Thought you were saying 5 years was a *long* time!
@TwinTitans @MicroWave I mean I get your point. But how long do you expect a car to last in the US? We have one car and it’s a 2012 reg that we bought secondhand in 2018…
@OutlierBlue @Chainweasel the rich have forgotten they should vote for social safety nets because otherwise the poor have nothing to lose.
@raef @thefluffiest Pretty sure ChatGPT went down a list according to trade ratios:
@AA5B that’s why he’s pulled Stefanik back in - he needs *every* seat
@Eheran @RaoulDook no. Didn’t get 50% of the vote. Only 1.7% margin vs Harris. 11th smallest margin ever (including 5 negative, eg 2016).
When he claims a landslide it’s because he wants to claim he has a mandate.
TBH the numbers are really weird. Getting that small a margin but winning every swing state is not likely. And every county that flipped, flipped one way to him, which hasn’t happened since Hoover. Again, on that margin that’s quite the feat.
@Nightwingdragon @vegeta I think he’s just trying to stay solvent because knows Tesla is going to *tank* and he needs to pay off the Twitter investors (using xAI investors’ cash) before he gets margin called
@Xanthobilly @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein partly this. Possibly also dementia + power-crazed wannabe dictator I suspect
@Eruanna amazing! And you thought you’d be the only one - I think this is the importance of these - people are realising they’re not alone, just because Fox keeps telling them they are
@Eruanna @Elkot I’ve been following the #TeslaTakedown stuff with interest - some of the protests seem to be enormous. Hopefully it is inviting people to dip their toe in the water, meet some fellow pissed off people, start organising, be visibly against what’s happening… It all matters.
@henfredemars @ObviouslyNotBanana at that point the military would surely drag him out because it would officially be a coup, so they’d be bound to do it. And no, putting Pete Hegseth in charge doesn’t mean he’s suddenly captured the whole military. He hasn’t even managed to kick out any LGBTQ+ people yet.
@Boddhisatva @vividspecter there was massive voter suppression this election. It’s been mounting for ages but even worse this time. Loads of mail-ins chucked out; bomb threats; voter roll purges. A lot of people tried to vote (or even now, think they did) but were turned away or their votes weren’t counted. Even on those numbers, things look sticky for Trump. https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
@barneypiccolo @Prandom_returns probably need to settle on some nice succinct nicknames for everyone involved, a la Sleepy Joe / Lyin’ Ted…
@barneypiccolo @Bamboodpanda really gives you confidence that they all know what they’re doing in the databases to make sure “everything’s computer” in the federal agencies
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@pleasegoaway @Nightwingdragon don’t forget the federal buildings
@drmoose dunno, we have a strong tradition of petty bureaucratic jobsworths who take rule-following too far, and also a nasty history of over-policing protests.
@ToadOfHypnosis or out of a window