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In a statement, the White House told the BBC that Trump had made clear that acquiring Greenland was a "national security priority".

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[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago (5 children)

WE.DONT.WANT.GREENLAND. wtf is going on here?? How are we turning into the bad guys here????? WHO ASKED FOR THIS??

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago (12 children)

1/3 of the population who voted red and 1/3 of the population who didn't vote because "voting doesn't matter"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

236M of America's 343M residents were eligible to vote. So we're talking about 70% of the population, baseline.

Of the eligible pool, only 174M were legally registered, because our voter registration system is archaic and deliberately exclusionary. We also nixed mail in voting after 2020, driving down participation for rural and minority communities enormously (because our voting infrastructure is dogshit). This depressed actual turnout to 153M.

Of that 153M, it broke out 77M Trump and 75M Kamala. But get under the hood and recognize only five states actually mattered by vote margin - Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Georgia. Every absent voter in California turning out for Harris couldn't help her. Record turnout in Texas helped Trump more than Biden in 2020.

Of the five swing states, four (excluding Georgia) produced statewide wins for Democrats. These were winnable elections for Team D. They came within a razor thin margin - less than 2% of total votes each - at both Presidential and state levels.

And yet Harris was so fucking unpopular that people refused to vote for her in states other Democrats won.

Let that sink in.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago

And yet Harris was so fucking unpopular that people refused to vote for her in states other Democrats won.

Either that or there was election fraud in the Presidential race that was absent in the down-ballot races.

I'm not saying I think that's what happened, but I do think there were enough statistical anomalies to warrant an investigation.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And yet Harris was so fucking unpopular that people refused to vote for her in states other Democrats won.

Is that really surprising, considering that she said herself that she wouldn't deviate from anything Biden did before?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Biden got an extra 6M votes.

Of course, Biden had to slog through a primary with stiff opposition from a socialist challenger. Meanwhile, Harris was handed the nomination absent any democratic input.

So, who can say?

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some other things to consider are misogyny and racism. I mean, at least in the US she is considered "black".

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

States that happily vote for Joni Ernest and Sarah Huckabee Sanders don't get to write themselves off as misogynist.

Conservatives that nominated Hershall Walker and Tim Scott and Wesley Hunt don't get to hide behind the race card.

If Harris were a Republican, she'd be doing fine.

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

The US citizens when they elected Trump, again. Apparently voting matters.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 20 points 6 days ago

How are we turning into the bad guys here

The US?? The US has been like this for a long long time but you guys have just dropped the charade and started attacking countries closer to home. Trump's just too much of an idiot to come up with a half-believable sounding casus belli

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

WHO ASKED FOR THIS?

The Trump regime's sponsors, Israel, and Russia.

Probably

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

This is being done for two reasons

  1. To distract from Epstein
  2. Because it’s good for Russia
[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And the crappy part is, was can't protest by burning the white house because trump's already trashed it

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago

I mean... there is a shitty golf course he loves a lot more than anything outside of his daughter's snatch.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Gotta completely desecrate it so it doesn’t come back as a zombie. Canada, the e-vites are in your inboxes since you know how to throw a proper bbq.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 6 days ago

Eh we still can, for giggles and shits if nothing else.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

We STRONGLY Don't 100% like this!

-The EU!

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