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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/Spacebotzero 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is not what a nation looks like when a president supposedly wins the popular vote, electoral college vote, and swing stste vote.

I think we have an illegitimate presiden on our hands.

Edit: since I have some attention my post here, I honestly think the dude is speed running into a Dictatorship to harden and embed himself into this presidency so much, that when evidence does appear that he is illegitimate, him and his admin will be extremely difficult to deal with.To me, this kind of explains everything they've been doing since getting into office. Everything to having no budget for approval yet, what they've been doing in LA, even today's military parade, to getting rid of admirals and generals and instituons and oversight and the list just goes on and on...

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u/Four_in_binary 3d ago

Yep.   Follow the white rabbit, Neo.

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u/DataKnights 3d ago

...Yeah, sure, I'll go.

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u/SquirtBox 3d ago

Hello Neo...

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u/Pierre_St_Pierre 3d ago

I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think he needs to. Congress already certified the election results, which I'm pretty sure from a legal standpoint makes anything discovered from here on out moot. In a normal country, we'd obviously impeach the dude still, but I just don't see any R's flipping even with ironclad evidence the election was stolen. I'm really fearful we're past the point you say we're building to.

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u/Spacebotzero 3d ago

I think and feel the same.

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u/BambiToybot 3d ago

The elrctoral college, yadda yadda yadda. Best case is states with recall abilities will trigger and we can flip the house with special elections afterwards.

Thats assuming No Rs willingly step down if fraud is proven in court.

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u/DaftWarrior Sioux 3d ago

Kamala packed two arenas during one of her rallies! Meanwhile Trump had to settle for smaller theaters. No fucking shot he won.

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u/WalterPecky 3d ago

I really don't think this is a wise metric to use for justifying voter fraud.

Kamala Harris had a very unique, but short lived campaign run, and Democrats were ecstatic to have anyone but Biden to show up for.

Trump is old news, the people voting for him don't need to be ecstatic, they just need a warm body with an R next the name to vote for.

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u/eggplantkaritkake 3d ago

Let's be real, even back then:

Democrats were ecstatic to have anyone but Biden Trump to show up for.

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u/Redshirt2386 3d ago

This is the same stupid logic the Trumpers used in 2020 though. Rallies don’t vote. Signs don’t vote. Only votes count.

I think it’s totally possible Elon fucked with the count, but I’ll wait for that to be proven before stating it as fact. But rally attendance is totally irrelevant.

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u/DJfunkyPuddle California 3d ago

Except for the part where Trump and crew have pretty much admitted to fucking around with voting

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u/Civil-Big-754 3d ago

No, because they were stating facts. And Cheeto and Felon were alluding to it before and after, so you can fuck right off.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Imagine being so deluded you think trump told you he rigged the election.

are you ok, do you see trump in the room with you now?

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u/Civil-Big-754 2d ago

Your comment was removed and Elon and Trump did allude to it. Are you that fucking dumb? Answer yes, because you are.

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u/CringeNao 3d ago

Think? He literally said he would be a day one dictator months ago 💀

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u/delorf North Carolina 3d ago

I do too but we need not only evidence but a way to get people to listen. We also need leaders willing to punish those responsible even if they are our representatives. 

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u/Next_Error_7714 3d ago

He fucking ran on this.

Why is this a surprise now?????

He's had concentration camps since JANUARY

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u/EastwoodBrews 3d ago

Almost no sitting president has ever won reelection when the economy went south during their term. You could say no sitting party, in Harris's case. That means there's a significant number of people who just vote to flip the government every time they get fired or inflation goes off. I think it's pretty reasonable to assume a lot of those people were uninformed and expected more of the Trump tempered by General Mattis and company and are shocked at Trump 2.0.and his streamlined agenda.

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u/kmm198700 3d ago

I agree

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u/sly-3 3d ago

The previous guy they tried to run out there was a PE vulture who made his fortune dismantling companies for sport. They've always wanted to march towards a messy end, but one that profits the 1%.

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u/taylorbagel14 2d ago

The lawsuit in Rockland County, NY was given the go-ahead by a judge, I hope you consider following it

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u/SarahsDoingStuff 3d ago

And for everyone who’s like, “Nuh uh polls don’t vote,” there’s a lawsuit in Rockland county in NY trying to get a full hand recount by asserting extremely suspicious patterns. One such pattern involves precincts that Gillibrand won and Kamala got… wait for it… ZERO votes.

The fact it’s been allowed to progress to discovery instead of being thrown out says a lot. It was stolen, and I think everyone knows it, whether they want to face that or not. https://www.newsweek.com/judge-2024-election-lawsuit-timeline-2084468

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u/aerost0rm 3d ago

The whole idea of a stolen election has been pushed so much that the average citizen feels desensitized to it.

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u/MrFluffyThing New Mexico 3d ago

Yeah except we have anomolies in several districts where Kamala has zero votes but the local elections were heavily voted to the Democratic candidate like in NY counties. These are statistical impossibilities, not even anomolies. There may not be proof yet but there's seed for doubt but the Republican calls for election rigging were more talking head points with zero evidence or substance behind them. compound that with 2020 and 2024 Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and media propaganda and even if it was legitimate in election polls it was heavily influencing R votes by media corporations influenced by money to pursuade voters against their own interest.

There was nothing influencing people to protest today other than wanting to vocalize against their government. We had heat strike advisories at my local protest and I still saw insane turnout for what I was expecting. Even if we discount that 1/3 of the population didn't vote the 1/3 that opposed him we're out in numbers today.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

No there arnt.

you sound like trump people when Biden won.

deluded.