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After the election was over I personally saw some voting machines removed from my local rec center and placed in a truck for removal and storage of the unit. Make of that what you will. /s
This shit is old and stale, and nobody buys it anymore. Nobody cheated, because they didn't have to cheat, everybody just hates Trump and MAGA that much.
His problem wasn't even the Democrats, he should expect them to vote against him. His problem is the Independents, who went against him nearly 100%. EVERY election in America is decided by the Independents, and they broke AGAINST Trump in a major way.
of course he started this bullshit again. republicans only cry foul when they lose
I think his base is a lot less likely to swallow this shit when they know how dissatisfied they themselves feel.
His base will gladly swallow his orange shit, and ask for more.
What took him so long?
Fuck him and his "minor update" in the swing states. Let's not forget the fucking Russians and their banks of mobile phones that every single MAGA turd fell for. Let's return to the Epstein Files.
Everything's computer!
when he says "does anybody" after there were a record amount of people voting....
No what happened is in spite of your blatant voter suppression efforts voters overwhelmingly rejected MAGA.
Remember, every accusation is a confession. Every accusation is a confession. "...the results must have been manipulated!" So, this blue wave happened despite efforts by Trump's toadies to do the manipulation. They done royally fucked up.
This was my thought as well. Republicans cheated in every way imaginable and still came up short.
Tell us more about honesty you child raping shit eater ..
The midterm vote was not honest, we know that because of the open and obvious gerrymandering and voter suppression the GOP was leaning fuck you hard on. They fucked up so bad that in an election specifically rigged by them for GOP victories they got absolutely fucking trounced.
“Could it be that we have fomented this unquenchable hatred towards ourselves and that we can only blame our losses on our own abject failures?
….No, it’s the voters who are wrong!”
The gerrymandering actually backfired on them and magnified their loss. Cherry on top really.
That was beautiful. They seemed to think that if they gerrymandered those districts out of existence, they also made the votes disappear, but that's now how it works. Those votes still exist, they've just been put into a previously safe red district, thus diluting it, and making it susceptible to a flip. In most elections, it wouldn't matter, but in a once in a century wave, they can ALL flip. And that's exactly what happened.
Hilarious, and a perfect future lesson to teach students the nuances of gerrymandering.
Trying to squeeze out more seats and paying for it with margins.
Gotta keep playing the hits for the morons.
Oh fuck off, pedo.
It's all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter.
And people, I think we just got handed a quote for the ages.
I'm just surprised he didn't say it sooner. The little bitch.
I think they had him sedated or something so he wouldn't pop a blood vessel when results came in. He was way too calm for those few days. Uncharacteristically for him.
Yeah it was weird. The day after he was just rambling about the ballroom like he was on another planet. Definitely not what he got us used too. Either they sedated him, he brain snapped and he's in total denial, or he's cooking something bad.
How could the Polls be so wrong???
What polls? Show me any polls that didn't predict a blue wave.
I bet this means nobody dared to tell him how bad the poll data actually was.
That’s one thing I haven’t been able to figure out. I know he’s surrounded by yes-men, but is he really that sheltered? He has to have directly been told he’s a piece of shit by hundreds, if not thousands. What goes on in his head? He’s consistently up there with Musk as one of the most hated people in the U.S.
I know he’s surrounded by yes-men, but is he really that sheltered?
More than you might think. They're not just sycophants, but people who have now gotten jobs in or near the Oval Office itself, working for a highly volatile, unstable man-baby who screams at and fires people on the regular just because he needs someone to blame. I'm sure some of them, especially the younger ones, are traumatized.
So it's everything you said, but add some terror and the threat of losing everything you ever worked for, and that's the level of information filtering he is surrounded with. Nobody's going to tell him what he doesn't want to hear, especially if someone else can do it, and in the end he just doesn't get told a lot of things.
This is the one shiny thing about Stephen Miller getting the Chief of Staff job: he's no Susie Wiles, and he's now going to be the personal target of all that demented presidential ire. Whatever happens from this point forward, at some point it's all going to be Miller's fault even to Trump, and the ketchup will fly, and he too will be thrown under the bus.
(Note that Miller was also left on the decoy plane when Trump and Natalie Harp left via food truck to get on the real Air Force One in Turkey: to Trump, Miller wasn't worth saving. None of them were, except Harp.)
This gif is evergreen
He was chill after the election because the centrist Democrats promised they weren’t going to go at him too hard and tried to push that message. Once he saw that they didn’t have the power and are looking to get replaced as leadership, Trump changed his tune. Now it’s “stolen.” This fucker’s a narcissist. Never take his actions from any other perspective.
Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote
What he means is that in some races, Republicans would have lost if every single Dem voter had stayed home on election day...
Because so many Dem voters couldn't wait and voted early.
Yes the party that has no power or ownership over the machines hacked them and cheated, meanwhile the party who has power and direct ownership of the machines were helpless to stop them, if anything that just tells us how incompetent they are, while also completely doubtful.
2016 when the Dems were in power, it was a super duper fair election
2020 when the repugnants were in power, that was the worst most corrupt election in US history.
2024 when the Dems were back in power and the reds won in questionably sweeping fashion, it was the bigliest securiest election is US history.
2026 when literal Nazis controlled all 3 branches, the election was, yet again, corrupt AF
