Because you now did it to yourself.

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    7 hours ago

    Nah Trump won the popular vote too. This has nothing to do with voters staying at home. Trump won on the economy. I went to the gas station before voting yesterday and a redbull was $4 and a small bag of chips $3. I knew at that point there is a good chance that Trump would win.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah price gouging by companies because of what they got away with during a shitty handling of covid under trump is a great reason to bring him back.

      He is back because Americans are stupid and gullible. It really is that simple.

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      I went to the gas station before voting yesterday and a redbull was $4 and a small bag of chips $3. I knew at that point there is a good chance that Trump would win.

      I don’t understand any logic that suggests Trump would improve this situation.

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        Like many things, trumpers are happy to believe it whether the logic is there or not.

        I’ve seen real people I know personally, people with degrees and with jobs that affect people’s lives, honestly look forward to the lower gas prices and inflation if he were to get elected.

        In think there’s just a lot of ignorance, and people not paying attention to real events and falling back to thinking that voting Republican means you support hard work and white people and saving money, while voting Democrat means you support tax & spend and love lazy minorities.

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        😮‍💨 point to the biden policy that would please. Then point to the harris campaign platform stating how she’d fix it. In fact harris took steps to signal she wouldn’t fix it by not committing to Khan.

        Neither candidate was going to fix it. So whats next in the list?

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          4 hours ago

          They were doing more than Trump will.

          https://qz.com/ftc-probe-grocery-price-surge-consumers-inflation-1851611874

          And even if neither of them would fix it - how is that a reason to vote Trump?

          Edit:

          That’s been the logic problem through this entire election.

          Yes, Kamala dodged right when many of us wanted her to dodge left. I get that, and it frustrates me as well.

          But on ANY issue where they were equally bad policy-wise, how does one look back and forth between Trump and Harris and go “Well, clearly Trump”

          Folks act like for any tossup issue between them the obvious advantage is with the racist, convicted felon, rapist, demented, shitbag. Somehow Trump just has to be on the same level as Harris to get the nod, but Harris only does if she miles and miles better on an issue. I just don’t get it.

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            4 hours ago

            And she lost the lack of self reflection that has inspired in you is why this will keep happening.

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        6 hours ago

        What in saying is that it probably doesn’t have much to do with Gaza. People voted on the economy.

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          I’d argue that 98% of US voters don’t care about Gaza whatsoever. It’s a wedge issue for a very small minority but was unlikely to significantly affect the race in the big picture.

          Almost everybody I know bitches about the price of groceries (regardless of where they place the blame) but I only know a couple people in the Real/Outside World who regularly talk about the Gaza genocide.

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          Mmm now explain to me how you were going to get harris to shift on inflation, a position she already signalled she’d fire the most effective agent we have for it. (Khan).

          When you wouldnt even be budged on mass murder? God do i dread the conversations about how to fight inflation effectively due to corporate greed. That is a hard and incredibly nuanced conversation with no clear answer. Gaza is easy in comparison.

          You’d just blame us for undermining harris over inflation instead of gaza. The topic doesn’t matter.

          You jnow the most effective way to get people to vote? Give. Them. What. They. Want.

          For Michigan it was gaza, for Pennsylvania it was inflation. Sadly your too politically unaware and rather just blame others for not seeing reason than challenging your candidate for their shit platform.

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              And you realize thats the issue right? You bought into lesser evil so hard you gave harris the signal she could shit on arabs, laborers, lgbt+, women and still get their vote instead of putting forward policies that would have got people to show up. Combine that with the prior that trump is so bad a red wave wouldn’t happen and you made a perfect environment for harris to run a shit campaign.

              Americans didnt want biden 2.0 they wanted a firebrand who’d gonafter corporations, tackle inflation, bring back the american dream. Houses. Etc.

              But na, its everyone elses fault.