| ▲ | embedding-shape an hour ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Trump 2 is about dismantling democracy Seems strange to me that not everyone, including republicans, aren't aware of this, when he's pretty outspoken about not wanting any more elections, and how "if you vote for me this time, it'll be the last time you have to vote". If a presidential candidate anywhere else was openly talking about wanting to remove elections and democracy in the country (not to mention triggered an insurrection [?!]), I'm fairly sure they'd almost be automatically disqualified. Really strange situation all around. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tcp_handshaker 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
>Seems strange to me that not everyone, including republicans, aren't aware of >this, when he's pretty outspoken about not wanting any more elections, and how >"if you vote for me this time, it'll be the last time you have to vote". 1) Puerto Ricans were called publicly on a Trump rally in New York, an "island of garbage" and they massively voted for Trump. - Second generation Latinos, whose many parents, and grand parents and other close family are illegal immigrants, were repeatedly warned of what would happen, and its one of the constitutions, that massively voted for Trump... - Trump continued to state, as late as 2024,that the Central Park Five were responsible for the 1989 rape of a woman in the Central Park jogger case, despite the five males having been officially exonerated in 2002. - Trump was a leading proponent of the debunked birther conspiracy theory falsely claiming president Barack Obama was not born in the United States - Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the Department of Justice for housing discrimination against African-American renters. Donald Trump made big gains with Black voters in 2024. - Trump is a convicted rapist and felon, and is known 44 million women voted for him... We are past strange, and we are in the phase of electorate deserves what they voted for. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | frumplestlatz 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sources for those quotes would be very helpful for anyone interested in this, because I’ve certainly never heard this before. We’re two years into his term and democracy does not appear to be dismantled, or even remotely at risk of being dismantled. I also expect the same or similar accusations to be leveled at the next Republican candidate, who if elected, will also not “dismantle democracy”. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | nyeah an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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