• hansl@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Maybe Americans should explore not voting the rich and powerful into permanent roles. There are real limitations of what you can do with a president after their time in office and it makes sense that you’d want security details and special rights for past presidents.

    The right thing to do would have been not to elect Trump as a meme. We shat the bed, now we see the consequences. Let’s see if people are still as stupid as ever.

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      11 months ago

      Never forget: they mostly didn’t.

      First, the majority of people voted for not-Trump, though lmfao b/c we don’t care about “majority” here… :-P

      Second, the majority of electoral college votes were for not-Clinton. Including protest votes to third-party candidates.

      And before that, the majority of votes in the Republican primary election were for not-Cruz.

      And before that, the media gave him tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars worth of free advertising. Then afterwards they gave even more, b/c you “gotta be fair” after all!:-D

      He very much is the product of “The System”, which shat him out and just as easily can produce another exactly like him. Kanye 2028?

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        10 months ago

        Democrats too. Democrats pumped alot of money and energy into elevating trump, and continue to pump money into far right candidates.

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          10 months ago

          “Certainly not many people would be dumb enough to…” -> Almost half the nation proceeds to prove them wrong.:-(

          “Well what else were we to do, leave the only other option be BERNIE SANDERS!?”

          Republicans are not “conservatives” nor are Democrats “liberals”, I now realize.:-(