• guy@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    The main issue regarding that is not just the insane president. It’s the voters.

    How can the EU trust Americans not to vote in another openly fascist president? Everyone saw his first presidency and heard everything he said he would do.

    How can we trust the US population again?

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      16 hours ago

      Would it help if it came out down the line that he had Musk fuck with the voting machines? I’m still not convinced everything was above the board for the last election.

      Winning every single swing state in a rematch election just reeks of foul play.

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        15 hours ago

        It would, and I’m surprised nothing came from Trumps statements about Musk and the computers. I thought the Americans would definitely challenge the outcome solely on that comment but 🤷

        I know there’s plenty of protests on going across the US, but that so many of the voters still just accept when the president breaks the law is still adding to the trust issue. I mean, if the party I voted for behaved in the same way I would feel betrayed and embarrassed, and would have me on the barricades next morning demanding their resignation

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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          15 hours ago

          The way he overperformed in basically every state make manipulation unlikely. We’re talking about a system of 50 state run elections that all have slightly different systems, all of which would require considerable effort to corrupt. Election meddling would at best flip a few states, and Trump won by a bigger margin than that.

          Plus, Musk and Trump’s goons aren’t the geniuses who can pull off something like that. Their incompetency running the government makes it even less likely that they cheated. Thinking they cheated is just a distraction from realizing how effective their message was and how shitty the Democrat’s were. They lost fair and square, and they cannot rely on their enemy to be the only reason to vote for them.