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In reply to the discussion: how did this idiot get elected President twice? [View all]Jilly_in_VA
(12,443 posts)30. It was the machinery behind him
They didn't care who the candidate was. They just wanted the Democrats out so they could get their hateful agenda in. Remember the link about Palantir? That's who did it. That's who engineered this whole godawful mess, so the architects of Project 2025 could get their agenda in.
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Voters choose nominees. Democratic voters are not "allowing" populists to be nominated?
betsuni
Jun 24
#3
Ah, the rigging superdelegates conspiracies, beholden-money-status-quo-corruption conspiracy theory.
betsuni
Jun 24
#6
Well, now you know. Rigging superdelegates don't exist, superdelegates rigging elections doesn't exist.
betsuni
Jun 24
#10
FTI: rethugs cheat, supress and purge Dem vites. And this time Musk money also pad for/bribed/bought the election.
brush
Jun 24
#55
I knew I was living in a world populated by blithering idiots from the very first time I sat down in First Grade reading
Aristus
Jun 24
#53
You obviously didn't read the articles. Although Trump and company got into the guts of the voting ...
Botany
Jun 25
#65
He got elected twice from first Putin playing him and his appeal to the misogynist of the US.
Jit423
Jun 24
#38
In 2016 Putin's Alfa bank reached out to the Trump's campaign server 2,500 times in the little town of Lititiz,
Botany
Jun 24
#42
Racism, Xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, decades of brainwashing. All the finer things in life.
usonian
Jun 24
#52
80 million people voted with their hate for Dems & Libs. The orange one is a reflection of his voters. nt
Hotler
Jun 24
#59
A successful payoff from a 30-year campaign to defund and delegitimize education
Torchlight
Jun 25
#67