Trump’s Battle Isn't Against Democracy—It’s Against the Power Brokers Who Claimed It

[KhunLA]

14 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

He also only won by 1.45% of the vote. One of the least in 50 years. Far from a mandate

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin

EC are the only votes that count, and a landslide by 27.5% 

[bunnydrops]

4 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

Far left are left fuming…..😂

Do you want to show me where one of your right-leaning news outlets gave space for a left-leaning opinion? I give them points for allowing the other side to speak their mind.

[coolcarer]

17 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

Do you want to show me where one of your right-leaning news outlets gave space for a left-leaning opinion? I give them points for allowing the other side to speak their mind.

I presume you are referring to The Hill which is middle and probably one of the least bias outlets out there. 

why would I want to help you deflect the topic by giving links to other right wing sites which also publish opinion pieces?

 

Where did you assume I'm a right winger?

 

[bunnydrops]

16 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

EC are the only votes that count, and a landslide by 27.5% 

Trump won by 42 votes

Obama won by 95

Clinton won by 109

Reagon won by  255

 

[ericbj]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Of, it’s those billionaire tech Bros Trump invited to stand behind him at his inauguration?!

 

MOST people have sufficient acumen to see for themselves. 🙂

 

[cjinchiangrai]

It is a scam to steal money for Trump and destroy NATO for Putin. Nothing more. The DOGE thing was a distraction and payoff the Musk. All of it is wrapped up in a lawless, racist campaign of terror to satisfy a vindictive, petty egomaniac.

[Cameroni]

On 4/19/2025 at 2:02 AM, Social Media said:

What we’re witnessing isn’t a breakdown of democracy. It’s the first real effort in generations to return democratic institutions to the people by stripping power from a cloistered elite. The deep state got comfortable calling the shots. Now, their hysterical resistance to change is revealing just how absurd their claims really are.

 

Indeed Trump is acting in the best interest of the country as a whole, not the oligarchs and their bureucracy and progandist and clientele dependents.

 

That Trump was prepared to see billions wiped off companies in the Dow Jones shows, corporate and oligarch interests are just subordinate considerations to him at best.

 

Only a man who is a billionaire himself can act with such disregard for the oligarch class. Trump is a once in 1000 years apparition in politics.

[kimothai]

1 hour ago, bunnydrops said:

He also only won by 1.45% of the vote. One of the least in 50 years. Far from a mandate

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin

All you are doing is trying to minimize the impact of Trump winning the popular vote, but really, who cares? A President isn't elected by popular vote, it's the electoral college that elects a President and that was overwhelmingly in favor of Trump and that decisive victory WAS clearly a mandate for Trump. 

[Chomper Higgot]

28 minutes ago, ericbj said:

 

MOST people have sufficient acumen to see for themselves. 🙂

 

I can name the Billionaire Tech-Bros  Trump invited to stand behind him at his inauguration.

 

Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Pichai.

 

Lets see you demonstrate your ‘acumen’, give us some names.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

There seems to be an awful lot of people in this ‘elite’ the author of the OP opinion piece refers to:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/anti-trump-rallies-protests

[coolcarer]

On 4/19/2025 at 7:02 AM, Social Media said:

What we’re witnessing isn’t a breakdown of democracy. It’s the first real effort in generations to return democratic institutions to the people by stripping power from a cloistered elite. The deep state got comfortable calling the shots. Now, their hysterical resistance to change is revealing just how absurd their claims really are.

Here here, and they are so hysterical they've  now taken to the streets and joined the far left looneys unhappy they are getting their institutions stripped of their far left policies. The leftie Guardian is loving it. 

[Cat Boy]

On 4/19/2025 at 1:39 PM, thaipo7 said:

"Trump is the only one that uses the word Democracy as intended."

 .... to hand-over centralize power from corporations to individual oligarchs and away from the 99% of common people, eliminating the checks and balances between the branches of government, and concentrating power in an imperial presidency, read: dictatorship, which exerts power by edict, presidential decree, not due process, and knee-caps all those who disagree or have differing opinions.

That's not any definition of democracy I've every heard

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, bunnydrops said:

Trump won by 42 votes

Obama won by 95

Clinton won by 109

Reagon won by  255

 

312 - 226 = 86 

 

[mikebike]

17 hours ago, ericbj said:

 

This may help:

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5245624-deep-state-shock-trump-pursuit/

Thank you 🙏 

[mikebike]

3 hours ago, coolcarer said:

The Hill which is middle and probably one of the least bias outlets out there.

Left, right, and, I am sorry to tell you, middle, ALL contain bias.

[SunnyinBangrak]

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

312 - 226 = 86 

 

That map looks VERY red. I thought it was touch and go who won, and most certainly not a landslide. Interesting....

[KhunLA]

29 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

That map looks VERY red. I thought it was touch and go who won, and most certainly not a landslide. Interesting....

Yea, MSM called as close, with Harris  leading most of the time, right up until she lost big time ... go figure 

 

The red looks even better if you pull up counties won, as apparently, she barely won some of those states.  And why the EC appoints the president, not the popular vote.

 

He's another thought for you, where's all those illegal immigrants going ?  New Dem voters, not needing ID to vote, or worse, allowed to vote.

 

Carry California (54 EC votes) & New York (28 EC votes) and you got near 30% needed to win (270), with just 2 or the 50 states.

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-map-showing-trumps-004800031.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEEV2LNXAhDT28hZbZBCSvHjisZtYa29cO8pUfkoGI2XCozV9bDBjcWwaJqPRAD61rqUT7veWHefD-98aM1Ly5BR52sW0lrjMbGMjvDhWpUfc46gFpO2ZxNB10BSg5eeuEFHC92hPtQ7gciviqbi70AkLbFe_Z6Qh48pu39Yp_Sk

 

[coolcarer]

39 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Left, right, and, I am sorry to tell you, middle, ALL contain bias.

That’s exactly why I said the Hill has the least bias. Do read my post again

[bunnydrops]

2 hours ago, KhunLA said:

312 - 226 = 86 

 

You need 270 to win. Trump only got 42 over that, far less than the others I mentioned. If you could show the same maps for the others, it would look pretty much the same. He only won by less than 2% of the popular vote. Most of those red areas have very few people.

[coolcarer]

15 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

You need 270 to win. Trump only got 42 over that, far less than the others I mentioned. If you could show the same maps for the others, it would look pretty much the same. He only won by less than 2% of the popular vote. Most of those red areas have very few people.

Why did you leave Biden out of your equations in 2020?

[bunnydrops]

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

312 - 226 = 86 

 

Ok I will do the math your way

 

Trump 312-226=86 won by 1.48% of pop vote

Obama 365-173=192           7.25%

Clinton 379-159=220           8.51%

Reagan 525-13=512           18.21%

 

Anywaay you look at it Trump didn't come near a mandate

But as the old joke goes "What do you can the guy who graduates  dead last out of Med school?"

Doctor

[bunnydrops]

23 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

Why did you leave Biden out of your equations in 2020?

Because I am only showing he didn't win by as much as they make it out to be. Sure, there is others that have done worse.

Biden 306-232=72, but he did win the Pop vote with 4.45% over Trumps 1.48

[coolcarer]

58 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

Because I am only showing he didn't win by as much as they make it out to be. Sure, there is others that have done worse.

Biden 306-232=72, but he did win the Pop vote with 4.45% over Trumps 1.48

Yea but I don't think it's fair to leave poor Joe out of things, its like you did it deliberately to make the numbers look better, so I decided to put him in context next to Trump and the latest example you gave of how many over the required 270 ec votes they both got:

 

Biden: 36 over the required 270

Trump: 42 over the required 270

[cjinchiangrai]

Regardless of all of the vote tabulations, Trump is the president. that said, he is still running the white House like the convicted felon he is and selling out the country to Putin. Tilting at windmills is all well and good but blatant lies and disregard for the constitution is not.

[Patong2021]

This type of  fluff piece is called running for cover.

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23 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Oh, thats the goalposts now? Now its "majority" of folks, not the ones who took the time to vote.

 

What a bunch of sad, sorry losers LOL

 

What don't you understand about the fact that it was kimothai who who made the claim about the vast majority of Americans. And it was me who pointed out that the actual election results didn't support what he claimed?

[bunnydrops]

13 hours ago, coolcarer said:

Yea but I don't think it's fair to leave poor Joe out of things, its like you did it deliberately to make the numbers look better, so I decided to put him in context next to Trump and the latest example you gave of how many over the required 270 ec votes they both got:

 

Biden: 36 over the required 270

Trump: 42 over the required 270

I gave the link, I wasn't hiding anything. As I have shown, he didn't win in a landslide, He only won over Harris with only 1.48% of the popular vote that he wouldn't have gotten if he hadn't paid off R. Kennedy to quit running with a job. He didn't even get 50% of the total popular vote since 3rd party candidates siphoned off more than his 1.48% over Harris, so there is no mandate from the people. Reagan had a true mandate, and he is the one with Thatcher who put together the world order that Trump is trying to destroy.

[coolcarer]

5 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

I gave the link, I wasn't hiding anything. As I have shown, he didn't win in a landslide, He only won over Harris with only 1.48% of the popular vote that he wouldn't have gotten if he hadn't pay off R. Kennedy to quit running with a job. He didn't even get 50% of the total popular vote since 3rd party candidates siphoned off more than his !.48% over Harris, so there is no mandate from the people. Reagan had a true mandate and he is the one with Thatcher who put together the world order that Trump is trying to destroy.

 I wasn't hiding anything. 

 

I believe you, honest……😄

[Chomper Higgot]

9 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

This type of  fluff piece is called running for cover.

I think it’s more likely the type of puff piece that says ‘I hope to get another chance to run for office’.

 

Former failed GOP candidate sucks up to Trump for another chance.

 

 

[coolcarer]

6 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I think it’s more likely the type of puff piece that says ‘I hope to get another chance to run for office’.

 

Former failed GOP candidate sucks up to Trump for another chance.

 

 

I refuse to acknowledge it. I refuse so much that I will jump up and down and shout it’s all just a ploy to further the authors career with Trump.