47.7% is a pretty significant problem...

[MrScorpio]

Link to tweet

[magicarpet]

1. Indeed.....

[sprinkleeninow]

2. This is the part of this election experience that is very disturbing to my whole being.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Sad isn't it?

Just checked your twitter page. Wow...President Obama follows you. 👍🏽

[safeinOhio]

4. and half of them claim to be

very religious too.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

10. They all claim to to be kind, caring and self aware...

Just like their leader.


My mom is in the cult and I nearly stopped speaking to her.

Mom do you support the abuse of women, no, You support Trump
Mom do you support separating parents from children, no, You support Trump
Mom do you support cheating on your taxes, no, You support Trump
Mom do you support people making fun of people with disabilities (her nephew, my cousin the sweetest kid ever) no, you support Trump
Mom do you support the LGBTQ community (She does ) Yes, well Trump does not and you support trump
Mom do you support Health insurance for people with pre existing conditions (she has a ton) Yes I do proudly, Trump does not and you support Trump

I could go all day, but you get the picture

The disconnect is strong with people.

[Doodley]

14. Why do you think she supports Trump? What is it that makes her choose Trump over Biden?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

30. Easy, Fox News

She always has it on and I guess it tells her what to think

[Tribetime]

5. Need paper ballots 100%

[crimycarny]

8. Yep

Only way to be sure votes aren’t being flipped

[Doodley]

15. Agreed. These results look way too fishy, as does Trump's behavior.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. No Excuse Anymore

The machines didn't help with what they were intended to provide.
They were supposed to make compiling the vote faster, but we're in the 4th day and votes are still being counted.
Somehow, with no immediate results, the earth is still turning on its axis.
We don't need the machines. Toss them out.

[regnaD kciN]

6. "How do you solve a problem like the MAGAts...?"

[uriel1972]

13. With fire and steel? No how about we...

Use this opportunity to educate their children and hope they dwindle with age?

[soothsayer]

21. COVID?

[Rstrstx]

23. Prediction: many will lose interest in politics

With Trump gone there won’t be as much incentive to show up at the polls. Many are more loyal to Trump than the Republican Party, which could be a problem for them.

Things could get interesting if McConnell stays Senate Leader and gets on Trump’s shit list.

[qdouble]

7. It should drop to 45% or so when all the mail in votes are counted nationwide

I guess it's still shocking but not unexpected. We knew that are large amount of the country still supported this wannna be tyrant way before election day

[kurtcagle]

12. I'd even drop it down to about 42 to 43%, but still too high

I think there was systemic error caused by touch screen voting machines in Republican-controlled states. Let's say that one in every 33 ballots were flipped from Democrat to Republican internally. That would account for a 3-4% increase in apparent Republican voter count. It's still too high, but this would be consistent with what you saw in polls. I suspect that this has been in place for years now.

[joshcryer]

9. Reminder that the AA community here was completely obliterated...

...over time.

BLM

ACAB

Fuck Trump.

Fuck the "populist left."

[ansible]

11. This is why civil war is inevitable IMO

A nation can't keep existing being so divided like this, people with such radically different ideas of how a society should work won't coexist peacefully anymore. Trump's presidency was finally the point of no return.

[Jspur]

16. I disagree with you on a Civil War

happening. I think we are more on the verge of having a Soviet Union type of collapse. I see this country falling apart in the next 10-20 years unless serious progressive economic reforms are passed.

[Doodley]

17. Disagree. We have to address the reasons why we have this divide and take that on. Yes, racism,

xenophobia, fear of "socialism," etc., play a role, and Trump speaks that language, but we have to be better at drawing more folks to our side.

[cstanleytech]

18. Aye, that there are millions of similar like minded vulgar people like Trump does suck.

[Indykatie]

19. That 47.7% Also Means Only RW Loonies Will Be Able to Survive Any Future GOP Primary

I've long expected a realignment of the US political system and Trump has hastened the transition. Most of the never Trumpers who also were anti GOP will never have any other viable option to vote for but Dems. The sane Republicans need to realize they've lost control of their party to right wing cultists even after Trump loses.

[no_hypocrisy]

20. The transition of the United States into a Non-White majority was always

going to be traumatic -- for some Whites.

The Whites no longer have a default superiority which means several things: More Non-Whites living in white neighborhoods. More Non-Whites as mayor and council. More Non-Whites as employers (who have the power to fire Whites). More Non-Whites more prevalent in White families.

Society is changing and it can't be reversed or neutralized. This is not South Africa 30 years ago with apartheid.

[lambchopp59]

22. Faux Noise and hate radio has done irreparable damage

Recent trip to western Az was distressing, I'll give it this much credit though:
Hate radio, under the guise of "Christian Broadcasting" kept me awake and angry the last 100 miles in.
How in the hell did, do, they continue to justify all that self-contradictory BS?

[smirkymonkey]

24. Very disturbing.

This really bothers me. I am lucky that I live in solid blue Massachusetts, probably the bluest state in the union. I can't believe how hateful and racist the rest of our country is. It really makes me sick to my stomach.

[arlyellowdog]

25. The young aren't like us

And this time, unlike us baby boomers. They will not be jerks because the stakes are too high. They actually experience climate change fires, school shootings. They do not discriminate.

[RobinA]

40. Dream On

We thought we wouldn't be jerks. Our parents probably thought they wouldn't be jerks. No generation will have or has had a corner on the jerkishness market. Millennials have their own issues. Maybe different from ours due to growing up in different times, but issues.

[texasfiddler]

26. Biden needs to convince them we are not taking away BBQ Beer or Freedom

Easy Peazy! I'm joking, but just slightly. Rural America has been sold such a caricature of Democrats. Why do you think Trump kept talking about toilets, dishwashers and they are coming to take your cows away? We laughed, but that shit works because the ground work has been laid for years from AM radio, Fox and now the internet. I live in a rural county in Texas that went 77% Trump in 2020. There are things that are brought up on DU that make me cringe because I know it is such a hot button issue with rural voters and most urban/suburban people don't even realize it. This issue is cultural. A lot of trump supporters are not evil/racist people. I just think they are ignorant. I am an electrical engineer and I installed solar at my house. I have convinced many skeptical people that renewables are economical. They get a little jealous when I tell them pay off period/savings and how my future Power Wall II will provide backup power during a hurricane. I have actually helped other do it yourself trump supporters install solar and helped with the interconnection agreements. They now have people looking at their systems and I get calls if I could help them. If I had started talking to them about CO2 and feedback loops and global warming they would have closed their minds. They have been programmed. I can't explain it.

[lambchopp59]

29. Oh... oh... oh... butt now we cun say "Mary Kristmas" again.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
By the way, title is a (slightly twisted) quote from one of my Trumper neighbors.
I agree, most like my ignorant neighbor are not evil/racist. Just astonishingly bamboozled.

[pansypoo53219]

27. qidiots + flat earthers. thanks facebook. cosidering secret penisesin buildings. have they checked

out pornographic mushrooms?

[treestar]

31. His support among minorities and women went up a bit too

Even more concerning. It's less white than last time.

[jayfish]

32. It's A Long Shot But;...

maybe a good percentage of those who got duped will come to their senses over the next 4 years. Like a drunk who has to apologise to everyone at work for everything that happened at the Xmas party.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

33. I'm betting you're a "glass is half empty guy"

[roamer65]

34. It isn't much higher than he won in 2016.

As CA and NY pile on Biden votes, the percentage will drop further.

[Johnny2X2X]

35. They are actually more like 25% of the country

280 million adults in the US and 1/4 of them voted for Trump, the rest of the country despises him.

[andym]

36. It will ultimately be about 47% with late CA returns

Still, it is a big problem and it indicates that Trump is more popular than the polling which had him at ~42-44%

[durablend]

37. Many of them are. not. reachable.

Like I said in another thread, some of those counties in PA where Trump got 60-70-80+% of the vote are simply out of reach short of whoever we nominate becoming a Republican. They are not interested in our ideals.

[ooky]

38. My opinion is this shows the damage the wedge issues/boogeyman beliefs/misinformation

is doing. I don't believe 47.7% of the country voted for the pig because they just liked the pig. I'd guess it's more like 25-30% that are racists and selfish really liked the pig. I don't know the answer to winning over the others, but that 15-20% is probably the opportunity band if we can figure out some ways of breaking through. Finding ways to get truth out to them might go a long way though. They have a lot of false beliefs.

[ansible]

39. Wedge issues like gun control are simply insurmountable