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Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
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Tell us again why she had to support Israel in spite of losing voters?
to keep a coalition in congress? the one thing the dems and republicans agree on is Israel, she wasn't going to alienate herself politically to appease a few nut jobs who were not going to be convinced otherwise. Try being an appeasable voter base and you may be appeased at some point.
A coalition with whom exactly? I suppose that since Trump also backed the genocide, these people are now in a coalition with him instead if we're following this logic. That means both the Dems and Republicans are aligned with Trump and you don't see the issue with this?
And yet thats exactly what she did with this and several other aspects of her campaign.
"Be happy with spoiled table scraps or you won't receive any more spoiled table scraps" is all I hear from this. Since when is it the voter base that needs to appease their leaders in order for those leaders to win elections? That is insanity.
She alienated herself from like 2% of the population that went and voted 3rd party. Low voter participation was the real winner off the election, turns out more people don't care to vote at all. The non-voters who make up another 30% of the country don't give a fuck about a terrorist shithole that's soon to be a glorious trump hotel and a permanent US military base. Once again you are in the radical fringe, you have no voting base for anyone to gain or lose. We're confident in your Jill Stien Votes in 2028 as im as confident a non-voters not gonna vote. We're all slaves to Russian sponsored partisanship. Yay
I didn't say be happy. I just said I can't understand given a binary outcome you chose the worst and most obvious one. Like it's a really easy thought process.
Foundation: I really care more about Palestine than any other political issues of our time and I want to Help! Useful info: My country is the most powerful influential country in the world and I get to choose who leads it, this will directly effect the amount of suffering in Palestine. Choices: a fucking rapist. or a prosecutor who has worked in the same office for the last 4 years. Results: voted for a rapist, who then raped my favorite cause. Conclusion: GEONOCIDE JOES FAULT
I love how the 'alienated' group is both so large that they're blamed for her loss even now a year later but also so small that you're arguing they're fringe beliefs that weren't worth appealing to. This is a tactic straight out of the fascist playbook, but I'm not surprised to hear that from someone who refers to Gaza as a "terrorist shithole" as if all those innocent men, women, and children locked in a literal cage deserve to be blown into a red mist just for existing.
These are such radical fringe beliefs that governments around the world have been implementing laws banning support for Gaza. Trump cracked down on universities across the country because they're so fringe. The UK banned clothing showing support for Palestine because so few people are doing it. The ICC released arrest warrants for Netanyahu because they're a fringe organization. It all makes so much sense 🙄
The turnout for the '24 election was the second highest in recorded history, so you're just talking out of your ass here. Furthermore non-voters wouldn't have swayed the outcome at all. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
There's a lot you don't seem to understand. Perhaps consider that it isn't really a binary choice and both of the options were the worst ones. Maybe consider that we're a nation with hundreds of millions of people and that two darlings dictated to us by two private organizations aren't the extent of possibilities.
Now the strawman argument? Who said anything about Jill Stein?
You say as you spew a bunch of propaganda.
But I thought these were just fringe beliefs from a tiny minority of people that had no effect on anything?
Lmaooo im just skim reading this and second highest in recorded history. Bro gtfoh. is that by voter participation or due to the fact the country's population and eligible voter base was the highest it's been in recorded history? Im not gonna read the rest of the shit because I literally credit the non-voters for winning the election. I just pointed fun at the 1.5% of the country that voted 3rd party on some fringe issues that you made up in your imagination. Now go ahead and type more disingenuous bullshit aint no one gonna read. Voter participation vs turn out lol. tough to differentiate these concepts I know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections#cite_note-:0-8
Here's a nice little spreadsheet that actually covers the voter participation. It really helps that they made 20 million voters ineligible, and the voting age population grew allowing for that high turnout number. Percentage wise it was slightly above average when it comes to participation of voting age people. Furthermore 100 million non-voters is who you try to attract during elections, not the 2 million crazies that vote 3rd party.