• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    Factually incorrect, judging by the fact that not only has Donald lost basically every election in 2025 and 2026, but the majority of those elections he’s lost were in districts he won by double digits in 2024, both red and blue states.

    Americans are so pissed off about the child rape that Republicans can’t even gerrymander anymore, because they can’t accurately predict where they have voter support.

    And, everyone on this thread just pretending the meme is true, perhaps think through it a little before responding.

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      Republicans are the more religious of the bunch, and their “youth pastors” have a long track record of child abuse and these people make pedophiles their leaders religious and political, so there is that.

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      Donald lost basically every election in 2025 and 2026

      :-/

      I gotta double check, but I’m pretty sure Donald wasn’t on the ballot in '25 and '26. I think you’re underselling the rest of the GOP field, which has actually under-performed Trump himself even in the good years and is now outright shitting itself in the bad ones.

      But that’s not really the gist of the meme. Might be worth noting that Epstein was as deeply embedded with Dems as Repubs, having allied with liberal luminaries like Larry Summers, Kathy Ruemmler, and - of course - Bill Clinton. Meanwhile, roll the calendar back a couple years to the Biden Era DOJ and you find zero shits given about Epstein when Dems had control of both Congress and the Executive Branch.

      Then you’ve got “Kids In Cages”, which was a very big deal right before the '16, '20, and '24 election cycles, but suddenly stopped mattering the day after. Actual concern for real human children does not seem to move the needle on public support/opposition to a politician. It’s just a rhetorical cudgel to swing.

      If anything, the sadism inherent in immigration politics seems to get a certain sector of the voting base off.

      And, everyone on this thread just pretending the meme is true

      Slapping a sticker with a President’s face on it next to a gas station price tag has been common practice since the Bush Era. Very common for apparatchiks to hem and haw over the cost of a gallon.

      But when it comes to child sexual abuse? crickets

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          The president has historically been a factor. Trump’s broken with the trend, typically running several points ahead of the party as a whole.

          After three electoral samples (more than most presidential candidates can ever claim), we’ve repeatedly seen people voting just for Trump and nobody else. Like, vote Trump, leave the rest of the ballot blank. Back in 2016, it was described as a “negative coat-tails” effect. Now, it’s more described as a pure cult of personality. Trump sucks in people who generally don’t like either party to vote exclusively for him.

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            He literally said himself that he cheated. The important point here is people rejecting the party because of him now. There are die hard maga not voting or even voting Dem out of spite.

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              He literally said himself that he cheated.

              He said he cheated. He said the Democrats cheated. He says whatever sounds good to him at the moment. That’s got nothing to do with the election results.

              The important point here is people rejecting the party because of him now.

              Why is it always “If they won, they must have cheated, but if I won then clearly the people have embraced my party instead”?

              Why do elections only provide meaningful information when they break your way?

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      this is true, you can see deep red con state harshly turning on donald, all the simple idiots now know he isn’t going to help them and that he is a dangerous loon and there running, don’t get it twisted tho, their are still plenty that follow him.

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      Also, meme isn’t invalidated by the fact it doesn’t apply to everyone. It does apply to some, and it’s a really dumb or shitty line they’re drawing.