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[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Dean Phillips would have won

Hell, I think even Witmer would have won

We're a racist country, to a lesser degree sexist

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that we are more racist than sexist. We had a black president, who even got elected to 2 terms. We have yet to have a woman.

Either way, awful.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

None of the women who have run had Obama's charisma. Harris was a bit of a wet blanket and clinton was just unpleasant.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago

And we need to be honest about what a presidential election really is at its core: a popularity contest.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 38 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

I am genuinely disgusted at how this could even happen like this. He got the popular vote? By 5 million?

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it wasn't even the electoral college fucking us. He straight up won, by a significant amount too.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

He's lost at everything in his life, despite trying so much and having every advantage. At a certain point the law of large numbers has to kick in.

And the one time he does it's because of nazis lol. Still not really a victory.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 17 points 18 hours ago

Oh its worse then that.

Just winning would be bad, but with the popular vote that is a mandate.

Having a clear mandate would be very bad but the house/senate would both need to go red to be able to execute the sort of mandate promised. You know that thing that also happened.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 13 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

If George Clooney was the democratic nominee, he would have won easily.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

yeah, but George Clooney has multiple oscars.

[–] schrodingers_dinger@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I've been thinking this for a while now. Nothing gets people more excited than a celebrity, and Trump is proof of that. Dems definitely need to fight back with a classically "alpha" seeming white male celebrity to fight back.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago

Until education is fixed in America it's reckless not running a celebrity figurehead. This is the ugly fact.

[–] Gordon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

While I highly disagree with the concept of turning the office of president into even more of a joke by purposefully electing more celebrities, someone like Nick Offerman or Robert Downey Jr. Would easily be able to defeat just about any Republican candidate just on popularity alone.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Many terrible things are coming, but my heart is aching for Ukraine this morning...

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The list of people fucked by this is pretty long.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Maybe they could get together all across the world to undo it.

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[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Congratulations America! Corruption, greed and hate just won.

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