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Naval gazing, believing what they were told?

Voting for the leopards they were certain would not eat their face.

Not voting. If we combine harris and non voters we get a similar number to the poll. Of course that's a major simplification, but it still has something.

They were told to be angry at trans kids in sports competitions, so their two braincells were busy.

I don't think he cares as much about the tariffs, but I am quite sure tariffs on Mexico and Canada were Elonia's idea

Oh it's deeper than that, it's money coming out of our pockets slipping through a third party and going back into the government offers. It's an extra tax on goods by proxy. He then has a fresh revenue stream without any earmarks on it.

156,302,318 voters voted out of 244,666,890 eligible. 77,266,856 people voted for tRump. That's 167,400,034 eligible voters who did not vote for tRump. So yeah...that tracks.

I was told the election was about the economy.

They voted because of "woke" and immigrants. A guy on social media told them those are the real problems we face.

I can't believe how little we are acknowledging that social media is currently being used to manipulate voters not just in US but also in Europe. Why people think that what happened in Romania didn't also happen in US? And is not happening in other European countries?

You don't understand though. They really had to stick it to minorities and women, their every day be damned.

It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn't. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn't be surprised if you rolled red.

News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don't want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it's a scoreboard. I didn't want him to win, but the polls weren't wrong.

Why? The polls showed Trump winning and he won, if anything they got more accurate.

Doesn't he at least have concepts of a plan for that?

Seriously…. If 74% think his economic plan is bad, and yet a majority said that ‘the economy’ was the biggest reason for who they chose…. How?

Republicans have been tanking the economy my entire life. Their voters do not learn

I understand the appeal of "teaching them a lesson", purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:

• You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He'll learn alright, but he'll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don't want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.

• We who didn't vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he'll hurt us too in the process.

• History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children's children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.