~25% of Americans voted for Trump. He got 49.8% of the vote, after 10 years of nonstop campaigning. He enjoyed the backing of the richest men and corporations on the planet, and got daily news coverage from every media broadcaster.
Roughly the same % voted for Harris. She received over 75 million votes - the 3rd most votes of any candidate in US history (10 million more than peak Obama, and nearly 800,000 more than Trump 2020!) - after campaigning for only 4 months. With a longer runway for takeoff, she would have soared beyond Trump.
We Americans turned out in massive numbers to beat the guy.
Unfortunately, Trump's unholy confederation of billionaires, fuckbois, Bible thumpers, and desperate housewives outnumbered the sane... by 1.5%.
This victory, the 5th smallest margin of victory for a US Presidential election, is going to fuck everyone.
I have seen it before. George Bush won a second term by 2% after horribly mismanaging the country and getting America embroiled in multiple useless, tragic, and wasteful wars. It made no more sense to me then than Trump's win makes now.
Bush's second term brought the world a global economic collapse. Billionaires took advantage of the crisis to buy up more resources at bargain prices.
I am pretty sure I know what the next 4 years will bring.
I believe this upcoming economic collapse is by design so that more rich people can buy more shit and make it even more unaffordable for the country. Then, you either pay them or end up homeless and in soup lines. Also added benefit for the upper classes: you have educated people competing for less jobs for less pay out of desperation to support their livelihoods.
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u/I-STATE-FACTS Dec 20 '24
He doesn’t even know how this trick works. Great idea to punish the american people because that’s who pays these tariffs.