You just left out 281k third party votes.

Europe needs to step the fuck up right now. Don’t they know that appeasement doesn’t work? Are they going to continue standing on the sidelines for years while Ukraine fights on their own?

They can also stop this war. Europe can take action. Lead the world while the US has its head up its own ass.

Here is the bullshit article (that sounds good).

https://substack.com/home/post/p-151721941

One of the claims is

North Carolina is the most extreme.  The public results indicate over 350K voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race making up over 11% of Trump’s voters in NC drop off votes or bullet ballots.

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/north-carolina/?r=0

Donald Trump: 2,898,423
Kamala Harris: 2,715,375
Jill Stein + Chase Oliver: 47,000
Total: 5,660,798 roughly

Governor: 3.069m + 2.241m + 280742 = 5.60 million

That’s not a difference of 350k.

They did not cheat in every single state. The results were a similar swing in every single state.

They did it through propaganda and social media. They didn’t tamper with the actual results (this time).

Don’t call wolf unless there’s a wolf. This is a thing we need to learn from and we need real facts if we want to learn the right lessons. We lost this election because people didn’t vote.

I know what article you’re referring to, and it was bullshit. Bullet ballots and all sounded great, believable. Evidence with easily verifiable numbers.

But when I went to verify those numbers with actual election results, they were all bullshit. Swing states did not have the bullet ballots numbers he claimed. There was no big discrepancy between swing states and the states next to them.

Absolutely. I was specifically referring to sanctions, which are unlikely anyway, but possible.

Europe needs to take real action. You want Ukraine to actually win? Go make it happen. You can do it.

Putin is not going to use nukes to win Ukraine. Kowtowing encourages nuclear proliferation.

America, even this America, does not want war with Europe. They may sabre rattle, but nothing outside of sanctions will come of it. And if all goes reasonably, the US should hopefully be an ally again in four years.

You need to work on your military. Ukraine is the place to do that.

The US is in this mess because none of the good guys would take bold action. EU, you’re the good guys now. Will you do anything?

The fascist part of our state is on Putin’s side. You can’t really say those are fighting each other.

It’s the remnants of our Democratic state supplying Ukraine. And it’s not because of ethics, but it is absolutely ethical.

And fuck right off with your characterization of being victimized by the US supporting Ukraine. This is borderline propaganda.

From the evidence I have seen, yes the US has escalated the conflict.

Looks like a direct quote and not a strawman.

Well, sweat it. Sucks that you wasted 8 great years.

But yeah, 25 is young. Get your shit together and do what you need to do to live a fulfilling life.

“Make America Great Again” means going back to the times of 5-10 kid families in the hopes that most survive.

That wasn’t that long ago. It was common as recently as the 1950s.

Maybe they’ll do what Trump does. Just agree to it and then don’t do it.

Seems to be only California Teslas for now.

to arrest them

to arrest whom?

You should be able to (at some point) accumulate enough wealth that you can live at least half your life in luxury without ever working another day.

That should be a difficult , but possibly attainable goal.

You should not be able to accumulate enough wealth to make hundreds of people commit their life’s work solely to your whims. You should not be able to accumulate enough wealth to just buy politics.

That’s what’s fundamentally broken in our system. It’s fixable, if the right people want to.

No. As of 7 days ago, he has not been paid the $50 billion. The judge’s order is holding for now.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/elon_musk_appeals_voided_pay_package/

Did that actually get paid out? Last I heard the judge said no, multiple times.

But he’s an idiot, and if Vance sees a legit opening he might jump at it.

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” he wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.

In another 2016 interview about his book, Vance told a reporter that, although his background would have made him a natural Trump supporter, “the reason, ultimately, that I am not … is because I think that (Trump) is the most-raw expression of a massive finger pointed at other people.”

He did win the popular vote this time. Not by much. He absolutely does not have a mandate.

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