It’s time to nip that lie in the bud

Frankly, I'm sick and tired of nipping MAGA lies in the bud every day. It's been the better part of a decade of this bullshit already... I fucking hate that my countrymen chose this for us for the next four years. Fuck every Trump voter, but a much bigger fuck you goes out to all the jackasses that stayed home on the 5th. You're complicit, and I don't give a shit why you think fascism is "okay" as long as you got to punish the Democratic Party for your grievances.

Doesn't matter. He won the presidency. He has demonstrated his entire life that he will just do whatever he wants and dare the world to stop him. (Narrator: They haven't.) Now he also has near-complete criminal immunity once he's inaugurated. He's already stacking up appointees who are going to follow his orders.

"B-b-but Senate confirmation --" Shut the fuck up. Whoever he wants to be in charge of departments is going to be in charge of departments. Don't appoint anyone else, throw "Acting" in front of the title, done and done. What is anyone going to do about it? Fucking nothing.

Maybe if we correct the Republicans they'll listen. Yeah, that'll work.

Maybe the media themselves shouldn't have been running around talking about the absolutely massive and devastating defeat the Democrats suffered the day after the election... Maybe they should have waited for all the results?

Nahhh... Clicks clicks clicks! It's all that matters! Money money money!

All corporate media:

That really doesn't make me feel that much better about it, but I guess we're mostly trying to find the corn in the shit on this one, so thanks?

They already have power. They don't need a justification for expansion they'll just do it.

Who cares he still fucking won. We are fucked regardless.

That's not going to fly when the entire country saw him sweep the swing states. That's part of the fuckiness of the EC, he only won by a tiny margin but visually state after state went red on the TV.

Have you seen the crowd in his 2016 inauguration? It was huuuge. Or how he fit 80,000 people in a 20,000 capacity venue.

People should know by now that he exaggerate everything including the size of his mushroom penis.

This is one of the reasons I hate talking in abstracts. I hear people talking about landslides, but what does that mean numerically? If there was a vote with a pool of 10 people and a candidate got 6 of those is that a landslide? Is 9/10 a landslide?

Some people talk "landslide" but without knowing what that means, it makes it hard to have a conversation.

That's pedantic. They won the trifecta of government. The definition of landslide is academic at this point.

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Wait, did a major outlet just use "lie" in its headline?

I'm impressed. Even for an op-ed.

Anyway, this cannot be repeated enough. I'm already sick of people trying to say it's "historic", it's a "landslide", etc....give me a break.

Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968…

What about Trump and Bush 2 both losing the popular vote yet winning the presidency?

Half of Lemmy seems to believe that Trump won by a landslide. Remember a comment upvoted like crazy yesterday talking about how hard he won.

I mean I get it, the fact that he won by any amount is horrifying but nuance exists. I'm glad to see this article attempting to clear it up

When I was younger I thought the saying was, "nip it in the butt"

I dunno it always made sense to me.

Anywho carry on

In states where he won, it was either a blood-red wave, or barely past 50%.

Lies are a crucial foundation for fascism.

Too late. It's that whole thing where it takes ten times the effort to undo misinformation than to introduce it (or however that goes). This narrative is here to stay. Those who try to counter it will just be in the role of the "Well Ackchyually" guy in the conversation