Friday, November 29, 2024

Trump Has Lost His Popular-Vote Majority

So by any measure, the claim of an "unprecedented" mandate simply isn't true. Trump won a very close election and will govern a country where a near majority of people have voted against him three times.

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"Given that perilous hold on power, Trump might want to reconsider his current strategy of ruling Washington like a devastated and occupied enemy city with a Cabinet largely composed of men and women who appear to hate the departments and agencies they are supposed to oversee, plus a governing plan that may rely on testing the tolerance of the federal judiciary for totally unparalleled assertions of supreme presidential powers.

And Trump's MAGA base should also cool its jets a bit. There's certainly a degree of triumphalism in the air that really isn't justified by the election returns."

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Their jets are mostly lost in the vapor trails.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-28 09:57 PM

They are drunk on power and revenge. They could care less about the proverbial wall they are headed towards.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-28 10:05 PM

They could care less about the proverbial wall they are headed towards.

That's because they know Mexico is going to pay for it.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-28 10:09 PM

There you go, injecting reality into a MAGA brain and expecting it to make a difference. Silly rabbit.

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-11-29 08:07 AM

Whoa, wait, what?

... Trump -- 49.83% ...

Pres-elect Trump did not win a majority of the votes?


Can you say ~un-mandate?~

I knew you could.



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-29 10:10 PM

By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-11-29 11:14 PM

@#6 ... By some estimates 8 to 18% of Democrat votes are fraudulent. ...

Got a link?

The reason I ask is that most of the legal cases about fraudulent voting in the past few years have been directed towards Republicans.

So, what's yer got?



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-29 11:23 PM

By some estimates

Some people say you got that from your colon.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-29 11:26 PM

Unfortunately, this is meaningless.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-11-29 11:26 PM

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