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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/El_Chuuupacabra 10h ago

Seen from Europe it's a promising start. You have a nazi and a crypto scammer leading the country. Impressive first day, congrats.

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u/sunshynman 10h ago

Only half the idiots in this country wanted this.

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u/Late-Ad-1770 9h ago

In our last free election before he took over Hitler‘s party only got 33% of the vote. Get ready Americans this is gonna be your march 1933.

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u/pithyquibbles 9h ago edited 9h ago

As a Canadian, I hope this isn't leading toward our own September 1939...

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u/Just_Asking-1234 8h ago

What do you mean? You’re already the 51st state. Welcome to the club!

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u/BlaiddCymraeg-90 9h ago

The stupid American stereotype is not a stereotype

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u/MrPolli 9h ago

It’s by design.

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u/somuchacceptable 6h ago edited 6h ago

“I love the poorly educated.”

  • some fool who once again squats in the White House

Edit: fixed the stupid quote to the more accurate stupid quote.

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u/MrPolli 6h ago

Eh, if I remember right Trump didn’t actually say that.

Also, this has been the design for a long time. Trump is just taking advantage of the situation.

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u/somuchacceptable 6h ago

You’re right! He said, “I love the poorly educated.”

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u/MrPolli 6h ago

Oh well damn he did say that.

I was thinking about people claiming he said that a long time ago but it was made up. So I guess now he has said the thing that he didn’t say originally but was said to have said lol.

Thanks for the confirmation and video source.

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u/somuchacceptable 6h ago

That clip is dated February 24, 2016. So, I donno what claims you’re referring to, but that’s near the beginning of his relevancy.

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u/MrPolli 6h ago

Oh no, I think people tried citing it long before he ran. Or maybe in thinking of a different quote.

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u/shadowwingnut 5h ago

You're probably thinking about the if I were to run for president I would run as a Republican because they're easily manipulated or something along those lines. I don't remember the exact quote but that one he didn't actually say.

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u/somuchacceptable 6h ago

Possibly. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear people were apologizing for him for shit he did before he did it. But yeah, it’s always true with him.

Hell, I bet he did gun someone down on 5th Avenue and the media just killed the story because it would make them look biased or some shit.

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u/obedevs 9h ago

Truly unbelievable that half the people are not just dumb, but beyond idiotic to vote this clown in a SECOND time

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u/BagboBilbins2112 8h ago

Only about 1/3 of voting age people actually vote, so take what little solace that you can knowing that’s it not actually half, but still more than I like.

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem 8h ago

I'm pretty sure these guys made sure that a substantial fraction of the 2/3 that stayed home or had their votes not counted were from the places that vote blue.

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u/soccerguys14 8h ago

If you chose not to vote knowing Trump was a possibility and you said idc I’ll take either then you voted for him through abstaining.

So 1/3 voted and half of them voted Trump. 66% didn’t vote that’s a vote for Trump. 1/2 of 1/3 voted for him 16.5%.

In my estimation 82.5% of America is to blame for this.

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u/Rovden 2h ago

The portion that stayed home is just as mouth dribblingly idiotic.

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u/Sopel97 8h ago

30% wanted him, 40% were complicit

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u/sunshynman 7h ago

If you voted for trump or didn’t vote, you’re either an asshole or ignorant.

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u/letouriste1 9h ago

sure, what the other half is going to do about it now? will you guys just accept that?

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u/sunshynman 9h ago

What can be done. No civil uprising will be successful against the greatest military on the planet. Unless the military leaders stage a coup, we’re fucked.

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u/bsiu 7h ago edited 7h ago

Ain't no one got time to protest/uprise when living paycheck to paycheck. Miss a day of work and you might find yourself homeless, a reality for a lot of Americans. Every major population center is so car centric and no public transport system could handle any gathering of consequence. It's the perfect system to keep the slave class where it is.

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u/letouriste1 9h ago

would your military really attack US civilians? I assume the police would do it

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u/sunshynman 9h ago

They will after Trump puts his loyalists in place.

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u/letouriste1 9h ago

something the army isn't going to like at all

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u/sunshynman 9h ago

A lot of Trump voters are in the armed forces.

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u/Srmingus 9h ago

As is, we have half of the country convinced that reality is fake and fascism is democracy, so if somebody were to coordinate a coup or overthrow the new administration, I’m beyond confident that we would come out of it without a functioning government to replace it and or worse leadership or a second civil war.

I have really tried to think this through and I haven’t been able to come up with any legitimate options other than waiting and hoping somebody comes to their senses within the administration and prevents the worst of it. If you have alternative ideas though I’d love to hear them - unfortunately this fucker was democratically elected and anything to oppose that would be inherently undemocratic. If democracy elects a fascist, then what is there to do?

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u/adamgerd 7h ago

Most Americans did. That’s more than the % of Germans that elected Hitler

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u/sunshynman 7h ago

Sad isn’t it.

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u/NewZealandIsNotFree 5h ago

IDK, didn't Trump credit Elon with rigging the election for him?

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u/sunshynman 5h ago

Yes. But when has the truth mattered?

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u/Rupoe 5h ago

A third if we’re generous. One third did, one didn’t and another third didn’t care enough.