US President Trump calls for delaying 2020 election, citing possible mail-in voting fraud despite little evidence
    • ap1 [any,undecided]
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      4 years ago

      this headline is based off a tweet shitpost lmao but he umm can do shit - America are pretty good at doing military coups

      You could view this tweet at as the start of manufacturing consent for this to happen. Start with a twitter shitpost posing the idea based on baseless fears on election fraud (which won Trump an election already lol), and slowly get more serious and normalise the idea.

        • CuminAndSalt [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It drives their ratings up. The media wants people watching the news, Trump wants people talking about him. The reason the media never wises up to trump's strategy is because they're on the same team

          • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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            4 years ago

            they’re on the same team

            They aren't though, the liberal media would prefer a liberal in charge, they just can't help themselves. Because ultimately if they don't get those Trump clicks. a competitor will, that's capitalism.

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          You could say that when he was just a celebrity TV candidate, but if the president says something like this it's actually meaningful. Will it probably not happen? Sure, but he's in a position that might be able to make it happen, and anyone who tries to tell you something is 100% for sure off the table at this point is a fucking rube.

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          If by they you mean half the anxious electoralists on this site, then you are also correct