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Harris is already campaigning for '28.
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She never made it to the primaries in 2020 and didn't get a single vote this go-round, having essentially been selected to replace Biden (who should've decided not to run a lot sooner than he did) and despite having everything given to her by the Media and Celebrity Arms of the Democratic Party, she still managed to lose to a 34-count convicted felon and serial sexual predator.Harris is already campaigning for '28.
She never made it to the primaries in 2020 and didn't get a single vote this go-round, having essentially been selected to replace Biden (who should've decided not to run a lot sooner than he did) and despite having everything given to her by the Media and Celebrity Arms of the Democratic Party, she still managed to lose to a 34-count convicted felon and serial sexual predator.
She's cooked politically.
In the case of Trump, no one ever thought he'd return; the Left's overarching strategy was to weigh him down with so much lawfare that he'd either give in, get convicted and/or keel over and die from it all.Wasn't that also said about some orange faced blowhard that kept saying stupid shit in front of TV cameras not all that long ago?
And then there was this guy:
American citizens who in recent years raised questions about possible voter fraud in the 2020 election were censored, deplatformed, and stigmatized. The results of the 2024 election appear, however, to have vindicated such skeptics, at least in their understanding that there was something anomalous about the number of votes Joe Biden supposedly received.
The official story regarding the 2020 election is that President Donald Trump received 74.2 million votes and Biden received 81.2 million votes — a combined total of over 155 million votes.
According to Decision Desk HQ's latest count, Trump secured over 73.2 million votes in Tuesday's election and Kamala Harris received 68.6 million votes — a combined total of around 141.8 million, with some votes still left to be counted in states such as California. At the time of publication, CNN had the numbers at 72.8 million for Trump and 68.1 million for Harris.
For some sense of historical context, in 2016, Trump secured 62.9 million votes and Hillary Clinton secured 65.8 million votes, and in 2012, former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney netted 60.9 million votes and President Barack Obama secured 65.9 million votes.
Harris' performance, as measured by the popular vote, appears to be more or less in line with Clinton's and Obama's. Biden's supposed result, on the other hand, stands out like a sore thumb.
'Every f***ing time except 2020.'
On Wednesday, Democrats and their allies in the liberal media started asking how they could have record turnout in the 2024 election yet still have Harris net tens of millions fewer voters than Biden did four years ago. By raising this question and in some cases suggesting that Trump must have cheated, Democrats unwittingly prompted renewed concerns among their counterparts about the legitimacy of the previous election.
Zerohedge shared a graph on X comparing the popular vote results in the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections, writing, "Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here?"
"Yes, let's do go back. American voters want and deserve to know precisely where 81 million 'votes' appeared from and how all the official 2020 evidence collected via courts and states has never been properly analyzed, summarized and presented," wrote Rasmussen Reports. "It's a huge public topic."
BlazeTV contributor T.J. Moe responded, "There is not a single honest person in America, who believes Joe Biden get [sic] 81 million votes. Last night made it clear 2020 was stolen. History will acknowledge this."
Former Republican National Committee spokeswoman Madison Gesiotto Gilbert asked, "Where'd all the Democrats go?"
The glaring discrepancy also caught the eye of last-minute Trump supporter Joe Rogan, who noted on his show after Trump's latest landslide victory, "It's so crazy. You look at it and you go, 'Is this real?'"
Rogan noted that the consensus in the lead-up to the 2024 election was that it was "one of the most consequential elections ever," such that there was some expectation that voters would turn out for Harris in similar numbers as they supposedly had for Biden in 2020. "Look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020. It's unprecedented. It's way higher than any other time," said Rogan. "This is what's crazy: They're consistent. Look, they're all like 60 — look at where the number is. It's all like 65 million. ... Every f***ing time except 2020, and in 2020 it goes way the f*** up."
Nathan Hughes of Arkansas, one of the Jan. 6 protesters prosecuted by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, noted, "Obama got 69M votes. Kamala got 68M votes. But they want us to believe Joe Biden somehow got 81M votes and won, despite losing nearly every bellweather county? They raided our homes and sent us to jail for asking where those extra 13M votes came from."
Hughes speculated, "They couldn't manufacture and pump them into the system like they did during Covid."
When pressed about what might have changed, YouTuber David Freiheit, known under his online pseudonym "Viva Frei," similarly suggested that this time around, they didn't have limitless ballots like they did in 2020. In 2020 they mailed out ballots to everyone. Changed the rules for indefinite confinement, drop boxes, never did signature matches in Georgia, etc. It was designed to facilitate ballot harvesting so they could just come up with the ballots to meet whatever number was required to win the election. Plus they had the cover of Twitter which was not yet controlled by Elon. And the courts never stepped in like they did this time around.
Some conservatives are hopeful that with a Republican trifecta at the federal level, there will soon be answers and accountability.
"This entire phony thing is getting swept out," the newly liberated Steve Bannon said ahead of Trump's victory speech Wednesday morning. "Biden's getting swept out. Kamala Harris is getting swept out. MSNBC is getting swept out. The Justice Department is getting swept out. The FBI's getting swept out. You people suck, OK? And now you're going to pay the price for trying to destroy this country."
Bannon, who has long complained about alleged election shenanigans in 2020, added, "[Trump] may be empathetic. He may have a kind heart. He may be a good man. But we're not. And you deserve ... not retribution, justice."
The liberal media rushed to reassure the public the 2020 election was legitimate. The Associated Press — which has done a great deal in recent months to undermine its credibility, particularly with false reports about Israel's defensive war against Hamas, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Project 2025 — published a "fact-check" Wednesday titled, "FACT FOCUS: A multimillion vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narratives."
The AP article stated that "claims of widespread fraud in 2020 have been debunked countless times" and suggested that the final count might greatly narrow the delta between Biden's unprecedented result and Harris' more conventional result. Once the remainder of the votes are counted and finalized, Americans will have a better sense of exactly how anomalous the 2020 election really was.
More:Democrats had bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t
At least one thing was taken for granted before voting day - women across the US were going to turn out for Kamala Harris.
Just as months of relentless polling showed Harris in a virtual tie with Donald Trump, many of those same surveys told the story of a yawning gender gap.
It was a strategy Harris’s team was betting on, hoping that an over-performance among women could make up for losses elsewhere.
It didn’t happen.
Across the country, the majority of women did cast their ballots for Harris, but not by the historic margins she needed. Instead, if early exit polls bear out, Harris’s advantage among women overall - around 10 points - actually fell four points short of Joe Biden’s in 2020.
I am very sorry to hear that things got so bad that you considered ending it. I am happy that you are still with us. I have been there myself so I understand, but it does get better. Sending love and light your way.On the first question, I want to say a lot but from what everything I saw in the run=up to the election, not as much as expected. One thing Trump supporters got very damn good at was hiding their support for Donald Trump. Yes, there were Trump signs out but a lot fewer than what I saw either in 2016 or 2020 (and Western NC is a relative GOP stronghold) and when asked why, they straight-up told people they were tired of being browbeaten by others over their support for Trump (again, remember, perception vs. reality) and so most all of them simply hid their Trump signs and waited until election time and took out their frustrations at the ballot box.
That said, as someone who's suffered from mental illness the past few years (including a failed suicide attempt in Oct. 2021) I've had people ask me why I supported Kamala Harris and I told them it was a combo of her policies and my loathing/dislike for Trump (for which I got thrown the TDS label often for). But do I think Trump supporters are mentally ill or illiterate? For most of them, no to either one; most were entirely cogent and sound of mind in their support for him.
On the second question, when it comes to the media I always go by Ronald Reagan's famous quote "Dovery, no provery." (Russian for "Trust, but verify.") Don't trust anything you see/hear/read in the mainstream press until you can either (a) prove it with another source or (b) disprove it w/another source. Don't just take on faith that what the media says is legit and that applies across the board - Left, Right, doesn't matter. We can't simply take what the media says and shrugs as if to say "Okay, I believe you."
Read, learn, listen, study - never let your mind grow idle or lazy. Keep it busy as much as possible, even if you're recycling past things; a lot of the issue w/media illiteracy and the lack of CT (critical thinking) skills is that we've (and this is across society, Angel) allowed ourselves to outsource those skills to media hacks who lie, cheat and misinfo at every opportunity.
Just look at all the polls going in that were nigh-identical to each other, over and over again. Herding, they called it; I think it was more of the pollsters/media not wanting to go against the crowd and acting accordingly, an even more dangerous thing than what you asked above.
I’m going to step out of this thread. Too unbearable as someone who is a woman and born in China predicting myself to be treated in such a way. I also have a disability and am sensitive to insults.
Goodbye
I said this earlier and I'll repeat it: at the end of the day, you have to provide for the people, to be able to appeal to and provide for the basic needs of the people and those needs are simple - making sure they're able to provide for their families, making sure they have jobs, making sure the necessities of life are available and not expensive as they are at present - that first level Maslow spoke of in his Hierarchy of Needs.The worst part of it all, is that his voters will get exactly what they voted for and they will the ones hurt the most because of it. When Trump was talking about how he was going to MAGA he wasn't talking about for his voters, he was talking about his donors and fellow wealthy child traffickers.. but his voters voted for him because they hate the same people.. others, and themselves but were willing to be participants in their own oppression.
My guess offhand w/out knowing anything else?
A bunch of borscht-eating, vodka-drinking Russians are trying to seriously fucking interfere in the post-election process; I honestly doubt its' a lone individual and the incoming adminstration has enough shit to deal with; remember, despite the supposed friendship btwn Trump and Putin during his first administration, the Russians were still trying to gin things up....
We get it. You soooooo funny Trump fan. Moving on...This comment sounds as if its coming from a Kamala/ Democrat. You guys need to cheer up lmao
This comment sounds as if its coming from a Kamala/ Democrat. You guys need to cheer up lmao
Okay; who do you think they're coming from?This comment sounds as if its coming from a Kamala/ Democrat. You guys need to cheer up lmao
I know there coming from that group.. Democrats often say the way Donald Trump talks is worse than how your "President" talks.Okay; who do you think they're coming from?
Lmao yall mad she lost. Move on . MAGA 2024!We get it. You soooooo funny Trump fan. Moving on...
Okay, prove it or shut up.I know there coming from that group..
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