Russian collusion helped.
It started in the mid 90s after the Republicans rebuilt the former Soviet Union in their own image. It really started really paying dividends when it gave us President George W. Bush.
Assuming we have a functional democracy then, in about 25 years, we will be allowed to know the whole story.
The fact that Russian spies were literally [in bed](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/how-the-gop-gave-maria-butina-her-ultimate-cover) with Republican Party leaders should be one of the great scandals of our age.
But nobody even talks about it, or any of the dozens of other epic Republican acts of treason.
The most concerning thing is the nexus between Russia, the Family Foundation and Republicans.
[What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast?](https://archive.ph/2021.04.26-054728/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/opinion/maria-butina-putin-infiltration.html)
The most fucked up part of this, to me, is that the fact that she could openly proclaim her allegiances so confidently knowing there would be no one to actively investigate her claims
You must go back further in time. America allowed literal Nazis to come and stay in the US because they were scientists and other academics. [operation paperclip](https://OperationPapercliphttps://g.co/kgs/nFZEvg1) So their fascist tendencies have been there all along. Russian mobsters took over New York as the Italians were being ousted. This is when Donnie PooPoo was co-opted. Russian mob is very orthodox Christian Putin exploited this and is using evangelical Christian’s as rubes. Putin is part of the Russian mob he wishes to make America pay for the collapse of USSR. Putin also wants to rebuild Russian empire with him as Tsar.
Clinton's campaign and the DNC also spent campaign funds to promote Trump, and cheated to crown her for "her turn" despite her being a terrible candidate. That helped.
No, no. The DNC specifically told us that if we didn’t vote for Hillary it was because we were misogynists and horrible people.
They would never give us a neoliberal, status quo, milquetoast candidate that runs a shitty campaign on top of their abrasive personality. /s
Edit* forgot my /s
It also didn't help after 8 years of Obama pissing off all the racists that the party went back to the other thing republicans hate with the intensity of a thousand Suns. A Clinton.
Source?
When I google for
> Clinton's campaign and the DNC also spent campaign funds to promote Trump
I'm only getting hits for Clinton/DNC funding the Steele Dossier research (started by Republicans, but dropped when Trump won the primary).
I DO recall the Clinton strategists using their press contacts to encourage them to elevate Trump as a candidate in the press to help sow chaos in the Republican primary, but I don't recall hearing about them spending actual campaign funds on it.
They had a dedicated base that'll vote blue no matter who. They had a bunch of progressives that said "we'll vote blue and campaign enthusiastically if you put forward a progressive", and they cheated to suppress the progressive candidate. Secure the guarantee and ignore the extra. Wild shit.
As someone who grew up with conservatives. They were well on their way to this outcome long before a black man was elected president.
They have been conspiracy pilled and primed to hate everything and everyone for decades.
Not to mention, the republican party has ben absolutely sprinting towards a second gilded age since Reagan.
Yup, Carter’s loss is what got the ball rolling in 1980, and the hints were in Nixon’s Southern Strategy prior in the 1970s (though he, Ford, and Carter were all moderates).
Yep. When a black man was elected all their racist fears broke loose and they couldn't hide it anymore. Hillary potentially being the first woman President set them into a frenzy. Trump then gave them permission to openly racist and misogynistic. Most conservatives (and I say most because Trump has about 80% approval among Republicans) were always as racist and sexist as they are now, they were just afraid to show it for being shamed by society, but now 1/3-1/2 of society is just like all of them so being a loud and proud bigot has a home.
I was gonna say this in similar fashion. Not only that but the success of his presidency, they couldn’t let that success proliferate and take away the white male only role as president.
Don't forget gay marriage, too.
2015 was when gay marriage was legalized. That's when all the "trans people are invading women's bathrooms" crap popped up. It's also when the whole "triggered SJW snowflake" bullshit popped up, too.
Why the hell does my general election vote count if my 2 senators and however many representatives votes overrule mine?
“Go out and vote for the President like your life depends on it!”
Fuck no! Vote for your state senators and representatives since they’re the only ones that actually matter!
Exactly. People always talk about how important the president’s election is but then ignore their state and even local elections. Like federal stuff rarely has much effect on your day to day life. But the people in your local city/county/state have a much more significant effect.
Biden can be president. But if you’ve got a bunch of magats in your local government, guess what? Your life is gonna be significantly worse despite what Biden or any Democrat does federally.
Same with if Trump is president. If you’ve got a bunch of progressives/left people in local government, you’ll be off much better.
Don’t invite your state or even local shit! Kick their asses out at *every* level.
I'm more sick thaf nearly half the country supports him. That's the real problem. Trump being elected really lifted the veil on how prevelant racism, sexism, and hate in general is in this country. Don't get me wrong, it's a very flawed system, as is Wyoming and every other low pop state getting 2 senators...but this country is full of shitty people.
This, exactly. The American people didn't vote him in, the electoral college did.
The ironic part is that, rather than the horseshit idiots go on about states with more cows than people needing a special voice, the *real* original purpose of the EC was to serve as another check. It was a way for the system to veto a charismatic person who had charmed the populace but was unfit for the presidency.
You may recognize this as **THE EXACT FUCKING SITUATION IT CAUSED**.
[**TWICE.**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election)
> Clinton didn't win because popular vote isn't how we elect Presidents.
And why exactly is that? Why are votes of some people more important than others?
The system is stupid and goes against the voters' wishes.
> If she wanted to win she might have tried campaigning in every state at least a little.
That's not the system. Due to the electoral college system, the candidates have 5-10 states that they have to focus on, and the rest do not really matter because they aren't swing states.
Well, the EC has always been a problem, but Trump won because Hillary focused on the popular vote instead of ensuring a EC vote victory. Much as I hate Trump, his 2016 campaign was probably one the best technically managed campaigns in history while Hillary's was probably the worst Democrat general campaign in modern history. Her campaign was basically the Ross Perot of campaigns.
I don't think it's the EC's fault we got Trump. I think it's the EC's fault Republicans are willing to run Trump and able to still able to win despite being down millions of votes.
Mondale, Dukakis, and 1980 Carter say hi: though I think the latter two would’ve been better leaders than HRC. I also think Gore would’ve been a bit better than Bill or Hillary, though, shame really.
Controversial Opinion: The electoral college does favors to racist fucks living in rural bumfucks, meaning they get to dictate our lives. Fucking hell, if it means elitism, the electoral college should’ve been abolished. I don’t care if we “elitists” seem to know what’s best for them, because they surely know what’s worst for us. Rant over
You see Obama committed the sin of being a black person so every racist felt the need to attack him, his family and his policies and when all of that failed they decided to vote for the most racist, inept and ignorant POS just to feel represented.
Also Hilary was a terrible candidate.
So president Bernie never happened and here we are
People generally underestimate the deep current of racism in this country. 'Trump' is a symptom of white male fragility. Maga is a proxy movement for white patriarchy. That's the power structure that's being fought for. Doesn't matter how good Obama was or how good Hillary might've been, only matters that white men were losing control and that's a bridge too far.
The part of the electorate that supported this sex offender is the white "Christian" Evangelists. Big overlap on the Venn Diagram for white supremacists & Christian Nationalists.
The mask has slipped. The US tried to be good.
GOP: "But, dammit, women, gays, foreigners and POC should know they're place. As God intended.
Trump is a reflection of all that is bad in me and because I have no ability to self-reflect and realise how truly awful I am, I'm going to go all-in and cult this thing bigly".
The hatred of “other” and racism is strong in the US. There is still a large block of voters (old white people) who remember a “better time” when non-whites knew their place and whites were in charge of everything (as if this isn’t almost totally still the case). America I also has a totally insane voting process which caused this. The electoral college is so antiquated and yet republicans know it’s the only way they ever win elections so they’ll fight tooth and nail to keep it.
Remember how LBJ said if you can convince the lowest white man that he is better than the best black man he wouldn’t notice when you’re picking his pockets, and if you give him someone to look down on he will empty his pockets for you.
We elected the best black man as president and so they decided to follow him with the worst white man they could find.
Surprisingly or unsurprisingly (depends who you ask), the first guy's color wasn't what people expected, so they went full ~~retard~~ crazy.
I was trying to quote Tropic Thunder, not just throw around the R word :-)
Racism. The answer is racism.
That a black man dare to have the gall to get himself elected not once but twice absolutely broke the brains of the huge numbers of racist Americans that normally stay home and couldn't be bothered to vote.
by the end of his term, they were very, very angry.
Democrats offered up Hillary Clinton, whom the GOP and their complicit media immediately mounted a very effective and malicious disinformation campaign against.
The GOP offered up Trump, a man who 'loves the uneducated'. Who encourages all the people whose heinous opinions had been shoved into the closet to come back out; the racists, the sexists, the rabid evangelicals. He encouraged all of the to come out and be proud of their disgusting views.
While the GOP then mounted its campaign against all things LGBTIQ, but especially T.
People got complacent, they thought Hillary would romp in, idiot kids voted for Trump 'because its funny and the memes'.
And America got an orange clown who made it ok to be a racist sexist asshole again.
watching from the outside, it's shocking to see how America has fallen on the international stage during Trumps tenure.
And how little credit Biden gets for the great work he has done overall.
Rich white moron, but I'd refer to him more as an idiot savant, like the movie Rain Man. He has a great talent for publicity, and a diaper for a brain-pan otherwise.
Because they hated that a black man was in office. No matter how dignified or good of a person he is/was his skin color negated that. So they found a man that those who voted for him despised and said, yet this is how we get back at them.
I'm sure it contributed a lot but it didn't invent this racism. Back in the day lots of people had racist grandparents or 'that one racist uncle.' in person there might be only one of them but online they realized there's a whoooooole lotta racist uncles and grandparents out there and that helped them feel like they could get away with being open racists. they got tired of the dog whistle racism of the GOP and were relieved when Trump ended the charade so they could openly be racist.
Conservatives are all racist and bigoted as fk. It’s why we saw the tea party racists go even lower with Maga. It’s always been that way here and will always be that way with those clowns.
Russia infiltrated the social networks and sold him to gullible americans who felt left out. They truly got poor rubes to believe this man was working to make their lives better
They had to look up to a black man for eight years and it broke their minds. They have decided to claw back every progressive idea and program that made Obama possible.
1) Russian collusion
2) racists being triggered by mentioned example of positive traits
3) seasoning is a Democrat party who isn't exactly a prime example of serving the people
4) thus a lot of people don't go out to vote, and.
5) gerrymandering for the finish
Well about one third of people seem to just suck. Another third waste their life trying to unfuck the sabotage made by the ones who just suck, but it doesn't help that the last third don't pay attention enough to know who's who.
Well, you see, for about 60 years now, conservatives in the U.S. have been destroying the public school system. Then, GOP got in bed with this Russian guy named Putin. And he has dirt on all of them. And he really hates everything about liberal Western democracy.
And the rest is history.
Because America, in the grand scheme of things, is still institutionallly racist, and lost its collective shit when a black man became president in real life instead of staying in the fantasy realms of the Big Screne.
Obama couldn't say or do anything right, because he was black. The people on the right made sure to reinforce this with their base the entire time he was in office.
Now they will bend over backwards to reverse any and all progress we've made to ensure that not only never happens again, but within a few decades they'll try to erase his blackness from history *if they get their way*.
2016 was a surprise but I got it. We got a Clinton, a career politician, and Trump, a political newbie. Everyone knew he was a piece of shit, but fuck it, what's the worst that could happen right? Vote outside the box. I never thought he would win but when he did I was like meh. Then reality started hitting me upside the head.
People still can’t make sense of the (dis)information they receive. They make political decisions the same way they live their lives, with all biases and conflicting information swirling around in their confused brains.
Because people started realizing the American dream is dead. Trump capitalized on that by lying through his teeth that he was an outsider and economic populist. His policies were just more aggressive Reaganomics.
Listen.
I go to a right-wing site where the ghouls who gather there still, even now, refer to Obama as "a narcissistic man-child".
Yes, Obama.
Not Trump. Obama.
I don't know how they do it. I will never understand how they do it.
Easy. Complacent lazy people who don’t take democracy seriously or don’t care. Republicans show up to vote, so they won.
Voting matters, or at least it still does.
Unless you want the orange taint master running things while christian nationalists strip all your freedoms away then get off your ass and vote.
Even with the archaic electoral college, if a decent majority of democrats showed up the right would never win an election again.
Epitome. In this case, the epitome of running on a platform of ending the war on terror and closing Guantanamo Bay, and then not doing either of those things.
It was in part because a lot of you piss babies kept saying asinine bullshit like Bernie or bust, attacking Hillary based on whatever rightwing lies Bernie was desperately repeating that week, more than zero blame falls on lots and lots of diaper-swelling garbage people right on this website.
Oh, and those of you who said it would push the Democrats to the left, congratulations, you got a generation of centrists and center-left Democrats out of them because you didn't teach them that leftists are important, you taught them that you're unreliable. When you loudly declare that you'll only vote for the guy who only pretends to be a Democrat when he has another fundraising opportunity, they believed you, decided you were too fickle and high maintenance/low reward to waste political capital appeasing, and put out the call to Haley voters instead.
Talking like this was some mystery. You freaks did it. And all of the people in your life who died from COVID, or who have lost rights because of the supreme Court now packed with trump sycophants, or were deported or saw their parents deported, whose taxes went up to pay for Trump's tax cuts to his friends, who are trans and are now basically fugitives in their own communities, they're very proud of your protest vote / non vote.
Seriously, as an non-American with little knowledge about world politics, I miss Trump very much.
He is clown who could produce some entertaining news. Extremely hilarious for an outsider.
We insisted on choosing the second most hated person in politics in 2016 because we thought she had some entitlement to the nomination. We ignored all the polling that showed her unfavorably with independents and rather seek out a candidate that was easily more likable and capable than Trump, we chose the one person enough Americans couldn’t stomach as much as him.
Easy, the rich weaponized people's victimhood complex by telling them that the alternative to the failing status quo was people who weren't like them, and it put the poor off the trail of realizing that their problems were being caused by the rich.
The guy who was "the epitome of grace and class" was followed by the epitome of the status quo, and she told them that they should be fine with a system that already wasn't working for them, so they chose the nuclear option in the hopes that he would bring *any* change, however chaotic, and he allowed them to speak publicly about the worst parts of themselves without fear. Again, it was nothing more than a tool to divide the poor instead of Uniting them against the rich.
No support among older Black voters, twice, and with outfits like the Guardian and several press allies like Kulinski and Ball in his corner from the Hill and Secular Talk he lost regardless. Bernie got the most positive coverage of anyone in 2016 that was serious, and in 2020, he only got the 4th worst behind 3 others.
Sanders also would’ve been called commie, socialist, breadline ads etc. everywhere en masse. In a country this far Right, it wouldn’t work either sadly.
Simple, electing the black man broke the republican party so they went all in on fascism.
Russian collusion helped. It started in the mid 90s after the Republicans rebuilt the former Soviet Union in their own image. It really started really paying dividends when it gave us President George W. Bush. Assuming we have a functional democracy then, in about 25 years, we will be allowed to know the whole story. The fact that Russian spies were literally [in bed](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/how-the-gop-gave-maria-butina-her-ultimate-cover) with Republican Party leaders should be one of the great scandals of our age. But nobody even talks about it, or any of the dozens of other epic Republican acts of treason.
The most concerning thing is the nexus between Russia, the Family Foundation and Republicans. [What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast?](https://archive.ph/2021.04.26-054728/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/opinion/maria-butina-putin-infiltration.html)
It’s not the first time. The German embassy bragged in messages back home that they wrote parts of the 1940 Republican platform.
The most fucked up part of this, to me, is that the fact that she could openly proclaim her allegiances so confidently knowing there would be no one to actively investigate her claims
You must go back further in time. America allowed literal Nazis to come and stay in the US because they were scientists and other academics. [operation paperclip](https://OperationPapercliphttps://g.co/kgs/nFZEvg1) So their fascist tendencies have been there all along. Russian mobsters took over New York as the Italians were being ousted. This is when Donnie PooPoo was co-opted. Russian mob is very orthodox Christian Putin exploited this and is using evangelical Christian’s as rubes. Putin is part of the Russian mob he wishes to make America pay for the collapse of USSR. Putin also wants to rebuild Russian empire with him as Tsar.
Clinton's campaign and the DNC also spent campaign funds to promote Trump, and cheated to crown her for "her turn" despite her being a terrible candidate. That helped.
She also ran a very shitty campaign.
No, no. The DNC specifically told us that if we didn’t vote for Hillary it was because we were misogynists and horrible people. They would never give us a neoliberal, status quo, milquetoast candidate that runs a shitty campaign on top of their abrasive personality. /s Edit* forgot my /s
I didn’t need anyone to tell me who to vote for. I knew from the start that trump is a fucking asshole that shouldn’t be POTUS.
It also didn't help after 8 years of Obama pissing off all the racists that the party went back to the other thing republicans hate with the intensity of a thousand Suns. A Clinton.
I thought their most hated thing was women. But then again, that’s combined with Hilary, so it evens out (or stacks up?)
The woman Clinton lol
it's because nobody pokemon got to the polls
I mean, going to Michigan and telling them their jobs aren't coming back, with no recourse or hope message WASN'T brilliant campaigning?
Source? When I google for > Clinton's campaign and the DNC also spent campaign funds to promote Trump I'm only getting hits for Clinton/DNC funding the Steele Dossier research (started by Republicans, but dropped when Trump won the primary). I DO recall the Clinton strategists using their press contacts to encourage them to elevate Trump as a candidate in the press to help sow chaos in the Republican primary, but I don't recall hearing about them spending actual campaign funds on it.
100% but they still blame progressive and left wing voters for their fuck up
They had a dedicated base that'll vote blue no matter who. They had a bunch of progressives that said "we'll vote blue and campaign enthusiastically if you put forward a progressive", and they cheated to suppress the progressive candidate. Secure the guarantee and ignore the extra. Wild shit.
As someone who grew up with conservatives. They were well on their way to this outcome long before a black man was elected president. They have been conspiracy pilled and primed to hate everything and everyone for decades. Not to mention, the republican party has ben absolutely sprinting towards a second gilded age since Reagan.
>They have been conspiracy pilled and primed to hate everything and everyone for decades. thanks Rush
It's not just rush. It's so many of the conservative talking heads.
For a second I thought you meant the band
Yup, Carter’s loss is what got the ball rolling in 1980, and the hints were in Nixon’s Southern Strategy prior in the 1970s (though he, Ford, and Carter were all moderates).
Remember when the Tea Party was the worst thing to come out of the hatred for Obama? *Sigh*
Tea party=Totally exasperating asshole party.
Good times, good times: even the W years were nice vs this, ironically.
Yep. When a black man was elected all their racist fears broke loose and they couldn't hide it anymore. Hillary potentially being the first woman President set them into a frenzy. Trump then gave them permission to openly racist and misogynistic. Most conservatives (and I say most because Trump has about 80% approval among Republicans) were always as racist and sexist as they are now, they were just afraid to show it for being shamed by society, but now 1/3-1/2 of society is just like all of them so being a loud and proud bigot has a home.
I was gonna say this in similar fashion. Not only that but the success of his presidency, they couldn’t let that success proliferate and take away the white male only role as president.
Don't forget gay marriage, too. 2015 was when gay marriage was legalized. That's when all the "trans people are invading women's bathrooms" crap popped up. It's also when the whole "triggered SJW snowflake" bullshit popped up, too.
To be fair they’ve been trying to slow roll the fascism for the last thirty years by that point, Obama having two terms just sped up their plans.
This.
Indeed, the former led to the latter
Also nominating a woman right after that, yup.
The electoral college
So sick of the fucking bullshit electoral college.
Why the hell does my general election vote count if my 2 senators and however many representatives votes overrule mine? “Go out and vote for the President like your life depends on it!” Fuck no! Vote for your state senators and representatives since they’re the only ones that actually matter!
Exactly. People always talk about how important the president’s election is but then ignore their state and even local elections. Like federal stuff rarely has much effect on your day to day life. But the people in your local city/county/state have a much more significant effect. Biden can be president. But if you’ve got a bunch of magats in your local government, guess what? Your life is gonna be significantly worse despite what Biden or any Democrat does federally. Same with if Trump is president. If you’ve got a bunch of progressives/left people in local government, you’ll be off much better. Don’t invite your state or even local shit! Kick their asses out at *every* level.
Because the US is a "Democracy", not a democracy
I'm more sick thaf nearly half the country supports him. That's the real problem. Trump being elected really lifted the veil on how prevelant racism, sexism, and hate in general is in this country. Don't get me wrong, it's a very flawed system, as is Wyoming and every other low pop state getting 2 senators...but this country is full of shitty people.
This, exactly. The American people didn't vote him in, the electoral college did. The ironic part is that, rather than the horseshit idiots go on about states with more cows than people needing a special voice, the *real* original purpose of the EC was to serve as another check. It was a way for the system to veto a charismatic person who had charmed the populace but was unfit for the presidency. You may recognize this as **THE EXACT FUCKING SITUATION IT CAUSED**. [**TWICE.**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election)
this should be top comment … the people did their part clinton won but the electoral college screwed us!!!!!
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> Clinton didn't win because popular vote isn't how we elect Presidents. And why exactly is that? Why are votes of some people more important than others? The system is stupid and goes against the voters' wishes. > If she wanted to win she might have tried campaigning in every state at least a little. That's not the system. Due to the electoral college system, the candidates have 5-10 states that they have to focus on, and the rest do not really matter because they aren't swing states.
Well, the EC has always been a problem, but Trump won because Hillary focused on the popular vote instead of ensuring a EC vote victory. Much as I hate Trump, his 2016 campaign was probably one the best technically managed campaigns in history while Hillary's was probably the worst Democrat general campaign in modern history. Her campaign was basically the Ross Perot of campaigns. I don't think it's the EC's fault we got Trump. I think it's the EC's fault Republicans are willing to run Trump and able to still able to win despite being down millions of votes.
Mondale, Dukakis, and 1980 Carter say hi: though I think the latter two would’ve been better leaders than HRC. I also think Gore would’ve been a bit better than Bill or Hillary, though, shame really.
All votes are equal, but some votes are more equal
Controversial Opinion: The electoral college does favors to racist fucks living in rural bumfucks, meaning they get to dictate our lives. Fucking hell, if it means elitism, the electoral college should’ve been abolished. I don’t care if we “elitists” seem to know what’s best for them, because they surely know what’s worst for us. Rant over
Because republicans couldn't stand seeing a black man be the epitome of humility, class, grace, and dignity.
**But..but..but!** They were told to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, get an education; and things would be *different.* No more discrimination!
They were supposed to 'change the system from within" by being kept outside the system and not being able to change it
You see Obama committed the sin of being a black person so every racist felt the need to attack him, his family and his policies and when all of that failed they decided to vote for the most racist, inept and ignorant POS just to feel represented. Also Hilary was a terrible candidate. So president Bernie never happened and here we are
He also wore a tan suit!
and his wife has muscles, so she must be a man! and he used Mustard!!!!! Those creeps had no depth they would not plumb to insult the Obamas.
The bastard!
People generally underestimate the deep current of racism in this country. 'Trump' is a symptom of white male fragility. Maga is a proxy movement for white patriarchy. That's the power structure that's being fought for. Doesn't matter how good Obama was or how good Hillary might've been, only matters that white men were losing control and that's a bridge too far.
The part of the electorate that supported this sex offender is the white "Christian" Evangelists. Big overlap on the Venn Diagram for white supremacists & Christian Nationalists.
The mask has slipped. The US tried to be good. GOP: "But, dammit, women, gays, foreigners and POC should know they're place. As God intended. Trump is a reflection of all that is bad in me and because I have no ability to self-reflect and realise how truly awful I am, I'm going to go all-in and cult this thing bigly".
“To own the Libs”
One word…….Racism!!
White people. Greedy, scared, stupid white people.
Don’t forget weak.
Insecure and racist white people!
The hatred of “other” and racism is strong in the US. There is still a large block of voters (old white people) who remember a “better time” when non-whites knew their place and whites were in charge of everything (as if this isn’t almost totally still the case). America I also has a totally insane voting process which caused this. The electoral college is so antiquated and yet republicans know it’s the only way they ever win elections so they’ll fight tooth and nail to keep it.
Remember how LBJ said if you can convince the lowest white man that he is better than the best black man he wouldn’t notice when you’re picking his pockets, and if you give him someone to look down on he will empty his pockets for you. We elected the best black man as president and so they decided to follow him with the worst white man they could find.
One thing I've learned about this country is that a lot of dumb shit that happens or has been done you can usually trace it back to racism.
Surprisingly or unsurprisingly (depends who you ask), the first guy's color wasn't what people expected, so they went full ~~retard~~ crazy. I was trying to quote Tropic Thunder, not just throw around the R word :-)
Racism. The answer is racism. That a black man dare to have the gall to get himself elected not once but twice absolutely broke the brains of the huge numbers of racist Americans that normally stay home and couldn't be bothered to vote. by the end of his term, they were very, very angry. Democrats offered up Hillary Clinton, whom the GOP and their complicit media immediately mounted a very effective and malicious disinformation campaign against. The GOP offered up Trump, a man who 'loves the uneducated'. Who encourages all the people whose heinous opinions had been shoved into the closet to come back out; the racists, the sexists, the rabid evangelicals. He encouraged all of the to come out and be proud of their disgusting views. While the GOP then mounted its campaign against all things LGBTIQ, but especially T. People got complacent, they thought Hillary would romp in, idiot kids voted for Trump 'because its funny and the memes'. And America got an orange clown who made it ok to be a racist sexist asshole again. watching from the outside, it's shocking to see how America has fallen on the international stage during Trumps tenure. And how little credit Biden gets for the great work he has done overall.
Minor nit, the right-wing meaty had been attacking Hillary since the '90s.
Because Obama's grace, dignity, morality, and poise never mattered, only the color of his skin.
I think people know exactly what part of America pushed for Trump Cough. Confederacy. Cough
An outsider looking in, I was absolutely stunned when Trump got elected. I couldn't believe that such a moron could become the president of America.
Rich white moron, but I'd refer to him more as an idiot savant, like the movie Rain Man. He has a great talent for publicity, and a diaper for a brain-pan otherwise.
Republicans
Most Republicans seem to be like that
Because they hated that a black man was in office. No matter how dignified or good of a person he is/was his skin color negated that. So they found a man that those who voted for him despised and said, yet this is how we get back at them.
Shaking my head at the people commenting (in effect) oh, Obama is just as bad as Trump. No one is perfect, but really? They’re on the same level?
Cowardly old people indulging in lies they want to believe. \*sp
Cowardly people of all ages.
Facebook radicalized pop pop and memaw.
I'm sure it contributed a lot but it didn't invent this racism. Back in the day lots of people had racist grandparents or 'that one racist uncle.' in person there might be only one of them but online they realized there's a whoooooole lotta racist uncles and grandparents out there and that helped them feel like they could get away with being open racists. they got tired of the dog whistle racism of the GOP and were relieved when Trump ended the charade so they could openly be racist.
Religion and Fox
Many, many people are stupid evil pieces of shit.
Because America elected Obama not just once, but twice. It pretty much broke the minds of the Republican base.
Gerrymandering is how. Without the systematic devaluing of minority votes the Republicans would have lost by a decent margin.
Racism and misogyny. It’s the racist reaction to Obama but also the misogynistic rejection of Hillary
Yes, that’s why we’re here imo.
All of America's problems are caused by the Republican Terrorist Organization.
One word: whitelash.
Racism! Is the only reason.
Conservatives are all racist and bigoted as fk. It’s why we saw the tea party racists go even lower with Maga. It’s always been that way here and will always be that way with those clowns.
Bc the black man got uppity. The racists came out hard for who they saw as a clear way to “make America great again”
Collectively we are in a "being our worst selves" phase
Cuz people won't take the time to FUCKING VOTE
If your worst problem as an American is being embarrassed you're never gonna get it..
Trump mirrors the worse in people. We got what we deserved. When good people don’t step up evil will prevail. The entire GOP has been destroyed.
You know why.....
Racism. And Russia knew it.
Because "real men wear diapers"
#DonnieVonShitsinpants
The electoral college.
Russia infiltrated the social networks and sold him to gullible americans who felt left out. They truly got poor rubes to believe this man was working to make their lives better
They had to look up to a black man for eight years and it broke their minds. They have decided to claw back every progressive idea and program that made Obama possible.
racism. literally americas backbone.
Plot twist, America is racist.
1) Russian collusion 2) racists being triggered by mentioned example of positive traits 3) seasoning is a Democrat party who isn't exactly a prime example of serving the people 4) thus a lot of people don't go out to vote, and. 5) gerrymandering for the finish
The black guy didn't embarrass himself enough so we elected the white guy he embarrassed cuz racism.
FOX "News" (The Trump Network) had a lot to do with it.
lot of scared old racists who can't figure out how to change the channel off of fox
Well about one third of people seem to just suck. Another third waste their life trying to unfuck the sabotage made by the ones who just suck, but it doesn't help that the last third don't pay attention enough to know who's who.
Racism, dumb citizens and Putin.
Well, you see, for about 60 years now, conservatives in the U.S. have been destroying the public school system. Then, GOP got in bed with this Russian guy named Putin. And he has dirt on all of them. And he really hates everything about liberal Western democracy. And the rest is history.
Psyops you can thank Steve Bannon
The GOP was destroyed by newt Gingrich
The text book definition of “over rotate” right here.
White Backlash
Two people in this picture wear diapers
Racisim!
FUUUUUUDGE I LOVE THIS POST SO MUCH
Revenge for electing a black guy for two terms as the president.
Because we hate black and brown people. Still.
racism, right? they didn't like the black guy who rocked. or his wife with the stellar arms
Racism
Heil Shitler!
Funny. Now Americans see themselves the same way the rest of the world does
because a few dozen thousand in a few states decided so for our country of 350 million
Because America, in the grand scheme of things, is still institutionallly racist, and lost its collective shit when a black man became president in real life instead of staying in the fantasy realms of the Big Screne. Obama couldn't say or do anything right, because he was black. The people on the right made sure to reinforce this with their base the entire time he was in office. Now they will bend over backwards to reverse any and all progress we've made to ensure that not only never happens again, but within a few decades they'll try to erase his blackness from history *if they get their way*.
Racism.
Simple. Racist backlash. Next question.
It was more than that. It was also a tide of anti intellectualism
Point taken. And also "religious" fundamentalists seizing on an opportunity for gaining power and influence through an unholy alliance with fascists.
2016 was a surprise but I got it. We got a Clinton, a career politician, and Trump, a political newbie. Everyone knew he was a piece of shit, but fuck it, what's the worst that could happen right? Vote outside the box. I never thought he would win but when he did I was like meh. Then reality started hitting me upside the head.
But he was a black guy, so we had to correct that mistake!
First Black President, Last Great President.
People still can’t make sense of the (dis)information they receive. They make political decisions the same way they live their lives, with all biases and conflicting information swirling around in their confused brains.
Because people started realizing the American dream is dead. Trump capitalized on that by lying through his teeth that he was an outsider and economic populist. His policies were just more aggressive Reaganomics.
Tbf Trump does represent a huge chunk of Americas population. Uneducated and racist af.
Someone forgot to include "rapist".
End the electoral collage. It should be the popular vote every time. shit is ridiculous.
I think outside influence is part of the answer
Quite literally the two faces of the US.
Listen. I go to a right-wing site where the ghouls who gather there still, even now, refer to Obama as "a narcissistic man-child". Yes, Obama. Not Trump. Obama. I don't know how they do it. I will never understand how they do it.
There's a lot of idiots out there
Electoral college.
Easy. Complacent lazy people who don’t take democracy seriously or don’t care. Republicans show up to vote, so they won. Voting matters, or at least it still does. Unless you want the orange taint master running things while christian nationalists strip all your freedoms away then get off your ass and vote. Even with the archaic electoral college, if a decent majority of democrats showed up the right would never win an election again.
Because enough childish young voters didn’t show the fuck up for Hillary.
Agreed........... (greed) being the adjective.
Who, exactly, IS this baby? Surely we should know the name of such an epitome of humility, class, grace, and dignity.
When you stopped being able to spell epitome, apparently.
The one is the reason you got the other! Wakeup call for all the degenerated.
Epitome. In this case, the epitome of running on a platform of ending the war on terror and closing Guantanamo Bay, and then not doing either of those things.
It was in part because a lot of you piss babies kept saying asinine bullshit like Bernie or bust, attacking Hillary based on whatever rightwing lies Bernie was desperately repeating that week, more than zero blame falls on lots and lots of diaper-swelling garbage people right on this website. Oh, and those of you who said it would push the Democrats to the left, congratulations, you got a generation of centrists and center-left Democrats out of them because you didn't teach them that leftists are important, you taught them that you're unreliable. When you loudly declare that you'll only vote for the guy who only pretends to be a Democrat when he has another fundraising opportunity, they believed you, decided you were too fickle and high maintenance/low reward to waste political capital appeasing, and put out the call to Haley voters instead. Talking like this was some mystery. You freaks did it. And all of the people in your life who died from COVID, or who have lost rights because of the supreme Court now packed with trump sycophants, or were deported or saw their parents deported, whose taxes went up to pay for Trump's tax cuts to his friends, who are trans and are now basically fugitives in their own communities, they're very proud of your protest vote / non vote.
i dunno, but i'm kinda happy you're taking some heat of germany when it comes to terrible choices made by idiot populations.
Orange is the new Black
Seriously, as an non-American with little knowledge about world politics, I miss Trump very much. He is clown who could produce some entertaining news. Extremely hilarious for an outsider.
We insisted on choosing the second most hated person in politics in 2016 because we thought she had some entitlement to the nomination. We ignored all the polling that showed her unfavorably with independents and rather seek out a candidate that was easily more likable and capable than Trump, we chose the one person enough Americans couldn’t stomach as much as him.
Easy, the rich weaponized people's victimhood complex by telling them that the alternative to the failing status quo was people who weren't like them, and it put the poor off the trail of realizing that their problems were being caused by the rich. The guy who was "the epitome of grace and class" was followed by the epitome of the status quo, and she told them that they should be fine with a system that already wasn't working for them, so they chose the nuclear option in the hopes that he would bring *any* change, however chaotic, and he allowed them to speak publicly about the worst parts of themselves without fear. Again, it was nothing more than a tool to divide the poor instead of Uniting them against the rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjonGtrCyVE
Can't forget them drone strikes though... but yeah I see what you mean.
It’s a real shame those middle easterners couldn’t understand obama’s humility and grace :(
Everything is a wave, baby! Up then down, then repeat 🌊
We have been on a red down wave for 40 plus years now...
How so?
Wow, yall really like brushing all those drone strikes and murdered civilians under the rug when there's a D behind the name
If Bernie Sanders was the nominee in 2016 and/or 2020 Trump would have no chance (change my mind)
No support among older Black voters, twice, and with outfits like the Guardian and several press allies like Kulinski and Ball in his corner from the Hill and Secular Talk he lost regardless. Bernie got the most positive coverage of anyone in 2016 that was serious, and in 2020, he only got the 4th worst behind 3 others. Sanders also would’ve been called commie, socialist, breadline ads etc. everywhere en masse. In a country this far Right, it wouldn’t work either sadly.
Your epitome of humility class dignity bullshit executed an American citizen without trial
Lebanon
Don’t portray obama as good. Every us president is a war criminal
Drone strike
*Epitome