• SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I hope this is just the first salvo the Biden’s launch and start using all the ridiculous policies the GOP is setting against them.

    I am middle of the road but registered democrat. I vote for who I think will do the best job in local and national elections.

    I am partially paralyzed and it takes me 1/2 a day to vote. I will always vote because its all we have imo.

    IMO The Electoral college stole the election from Hillary but you don’t see her running around like Kari Lake who is acting this way on purpose so if Trump wins, she will get appointed to a good job in his cabinet.

    Back to Hillary, She won the popular vote by millions and still lost!

    This is what the electoral college did

    She won the popular vote just short of 3 Million!

    Back then we had **249,372,406 people over the age of 18. About 80% of them were eligible to vote

    That is roughly 200k people. 199,497,924. The point is the amount of popular votes should have been a solid win. Not a landslide but solid.

    This makes me very sketched out along with all these new voting districts and restrictions on absentee ballots,

    and some states banning giving people in line a bottle of water or food! Google line warming!

    What if Biden wins by 2 million? Is that a solid win for Trump???

    **Child and Adult Populations 2016

    Age 18 and over

    United States 249,372,462

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      Yes, democrats have to win by a landslide in order to squeak out a victory. Meanwhile, republicans can lose over and over and over and still rise to power. No republican has ever entered the presidency by winning the popular vote in my entire lifetime.

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      That is roughly 200k people. 199,497,924.

      I think you may have meant 200M, or you have 3 extra numbers and a comma that don’t belong lol.

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        He meant a period instead of the 2nd comma. 0.924 extra people voted for Hillary

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    4 months ago

    I wonder how many people are doing time right now who should be free on this basis.

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    Wasn’t that ruling only for POTUS? Like if Biden drone striked a caravan of terrorists and it took out a US civilian on accident he’s not facing murder charges.

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      Now that Trump ruling. The other Trump ruling.

      Where Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Mar-a-Lago documents case because the Special Prosecutor was “unlawfully appointed”.

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      Judge Cannon in the classified documents case just threw out the case saying that the DOJ can’t appoint special counsel and so Trump shouldn’t have been indicted by Jack Smith. Hunter was indicated by a special counsel and so he’s trying to say that he shouldn’t have been indicted either.

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      Not the newest one, it was dismissed on the basis of how the special counsel was appointed.

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      The Supreme Court has been upending a lot recently, it’s giving me whiplash just keeping up with every decision. As others have pointed out, this is because of how the appointment of the special council was made, which is how Trump’s stolen classified documents case was thrown out in court this week. It seems that in the judicial system bending over backwards for Trump, they failed to consider 25 years of precedence and the ramifications to people other than Trump.