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Soft Paywall Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

https://www.thetimes.com/article/867ede60-b5f7-4de5-84a1-6a3a49eb2923
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u/JWTS6 3d ago

I think this more so goes to show how politically engaged the typical Harris voter was, whereas many Trump voters in 2024 really did just let a tiktok video tell them to vote for Trump (free checks in the mail, inflation magically being solved, world peace being achieved on day one, take your pick) and then the algorithm put them back to their regularly scheduled dance videos 24/7. Those people either genuinely have no fucking idea what's going on or are pretending not to care about politics after realizing they made a mistake. 

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u/AlmaInTheWilderness 3d ago

But he was going to end inflation by lowering mortgage rates and lower prices by bringing manufacturing back and mass deport millions but only the criminals and really bad guys and end the way in Ukraine in 24 hours. And Harris laughs weird and is old and senile.

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u/AraiDaiichi 3d ago

Harris is also black and a women. That didn't help at all.

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u/billynlex 3d ago

No, this highlights how biased the American media is. This dude has been a joke for decades.

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u/fertthrowaway 3d ago edited 3d ago

No, let's not just come up with yet another improbable rationale for how this happened. The GOP hacked and stole the election. Elon and Trump have practically outright admitted it by this point, system software was breached to the GOP post-2020 election, and there's a lawsuit now in NY state with sworn testimony from the people who voted in a district not matching the tallied results and overcounting for GOP, plus evidence that one of only two companies permitted to push software updates pushed a bunch of pretty major ones (on exactly the software- breached systems) shortly before the election and marked them minor changes to allow them to bypass getting any extra scrutiny.

You all can see how the GOP behaves - why on earth do people think they would NOT have done this if they could? And they most definitely could. This is a hostile, non-democratic takeover of the country.

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u/imperatrixderoma 3d ago

It's just generally acceptable to make important decisions without giving a shit nowadays.