https://xcancel.com/sjs856/status/1874499240392872123

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    4 days ago

    More votes than every other candidate in history

    Bro hasn't been introduced to the concept of demographic growth

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    She outperformed George Washington by a factor of 2,678:1! How can you not respect her campaigning abilities?

  • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    There where states that had down-ticket Dems with more votes than her. Like people voted straight democrat except Kamala. This is a clear cut example of a bad candidate.

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    hillary fucking clinton was an astoundingly unlikeable open warmonger and STILL beat trump in the popular vote

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    4 days ago

    the-democrat "So, we got our asses handed to us pretty hard this election...clearly we need to change nothing except ramp up and extend the duration of our shame and insult 'get the vote out' campaigns"

  • jUzzo6 [none/use name]
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    4 days ago

    Maybe they can for once let primary run it’s natural course instead of pre-selecting candidates. Outrageous, I know.

  • GenXen [he/him, any]
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    4 days ago

    | save 2

    The fact that one of those two had nearly 12 million more votes despite his brain leaking out of his ear seems somehow relevant, but who am I to 'opine'?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    If you believe in a democracy you should probably not use the word "mandate" so flippantly

  • blame [they/them]
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    4 days ago

    Probably like 95% of their votes are already baked in through pure inertia, it's possible she could have run no campaign at all and landed roughly where she did.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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        4 days ago

        She did tell anti-genocide protestors to shut up and also said, "Actually, I love fracking!"

        • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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          4 days ago

          She also told trans people, "I love laws", while her supporters were going around telling them that Trump was going to pass laws to round them up and put them into camps.

          • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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            4 days ago

            "I will wave goodbye when they put you in the caddlecar" wasn't the winning campaign message they thought it was.

            • miz [any, any]
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              3 days ago

              my opponent won't even feel bad about it, but I will! vote for me!

      • LaughingLion [any, any]
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        4 days ago

        No. She ran a campaign. She was all over social media. She had commercials. She was doing rallies. She was pretty active.

        In a way that was the problem because she was not giving the speeches and answering the questions that motivated people to vote for her. Her inability to move even a fraction left on some key issues just gave more fuel to the dumpster fire of apathy and resentment that the Democrats keep perpetually burning and really ended up suppressing turnout. People would rather stand alone in the cold than huddle around it anymore.

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 days ago

        Probably would have done better if she had done nothing.

        Hell they'd make successful decisions then immediately reverse when they were shown to be good ones only to go full warmonger.

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        4 days ago

        Nope, she tried her damnedest to run her election into the ground and still managed to get 63 million votes.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      A paper bag with a smiley face drawn on it would probably have received the same number of votes.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        I like what Congressman Bagface has to say about corporate interest rates.

  • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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    4 days ago

    got more votes than every other candidate in U.S. history

    Which has never fucking mattered in a presidential election, it always comes down to electoral college votes. Popular vote means nothing and never has

    except 2

    lol

    lmao

    Imagine posting that L and thinking it's a win (Those 2 are Biden and Trump)

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      This is mostly a consequence of rising population numbers, and is a silly statement

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        In a democracy with a rising population you should hope for every election to have a higher turnout than the previous election.

        Having a lower turnout should mean your democracy isn't very democratic.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    4 days ago

    Even ignoring the massive “raw number versus percentage” problem, her raw total dropped off by more than 6 million from Biden in 2020. There’s no amount of lipstick that can be put on that pig.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 days ago

    Let's do the same thing forever and expect different results. That's the sign of true intelligence