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In 2022 there were 161.42 million eligible voters in the US (latest number I could find)
Trump got 77,284,118 votes
There is 340.1 million people in the US.
I'd say that far from all.
But otherwise yeah I already know the Supreme Court pretty much gave him unlimited power.
Yes all. No one stood up or this guy would not be in office. Like you said above only 77,000,000 voted for him. And the other 263 million allowed those few fascist lovers even have a say.
He was honest and open (oddly enough) about his plans for dictatorship years in advance. Your complete society allowed this to happen. No one could have stopped it but the citizens of your country. No one can still stop it but you. Yet in years of knowing no one has organized any resistance at all. Again allowing it to happen.
He put his Nazi goons in your capitol buildings and still no one did anything. He stacked your top court with fellow fascists. He was convicted of dozens of crimes. He's flaunted the law his entire life. He's been a grifter and a cheat his entire life but you all have him one of the most popular tv shows of its time and thus a very loud voice within your celebrity culture that dominates your news cycles. You propped up his celebrity status and cheered him on for being a dickhead to people. You've watched him openly destroy his own businesses and bank accounts on whims multiple times yet remain extremely wealthy. No one did anything the entire time. You continue to put celebrities on pedestals and declare them higher than the rest of society because they're famous and rich and gwne they do things that affect or harm others they are allowed to walk free because they're famous. But you made them that way, only you can stop it.
Yes I blame American society as a whole, and that includes you, for encouraging and allowing this to happen from the very beginning.
We "allowed" them. Which ignores the fact that people have a RIGHT to vote for who they WANT.but yeah that's not important to you.
Have fun in your delusions. Bye
Enjoy your death camps. He tried to forcefully overthrow your government but you ALLOWED him on the ballot again. Yes allowed. You. Your family. Your neighbors. Your friends. You.
One guy seemingly tried. Took a few shakey shots. He tried. Not sure what hellhole they dropped him in, probably dead . That guy I'll give credit to, even though he missed. He tried. Should be a folk hero larger in status than Luigi.
You don't know how to math. 77 million voted for Trump sure but plenty didn't. Yes non voters suck but they aren't 263 million.
Your comment is false and really doesn't help. At all.
No, in fact; they are 91 million. Which is plenty enough to have made a difference between a win and a loss for democracy.
Their comment is not false. If enough non voters voted, things would be very different now.
They didn't vote for him but they also didn't prevent him from getting on that ballot again after he openly tried to overthrow your government, openly courted Nazis, declared himself a dictator, stacked your highest court in favor of himself with bribes and payments, was convicted of dozens of crimes and, and, and...
Who was supposed to stop that? Me? A Canadian? Maybe you expected the French anarchists to protect you. Or the Mexican drug cartels. I don't know. Who was supposed to stop the fascists from rising to power in your country and start killing your own countrymen?
I believe that would be you. I'm pretty sure it's not me. I have my own country's fascism problems to deal with having bled over the border from the shithole to the south of us.
When are you going to start blaming yourself? You've had so much fun blaming 300 million people, and if you've gone that far, why not put one more on the list?
That's your American exceptionalism showing through. Expecting everyone else to manage your bullshit.
Who am I supposed to blame for the problems Americans have caused for themselves and the world from within their own country? The fake man in the sky?