r/inthenews • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • May 27 '24

Donald Trump rejected by Libertarians, gets less than 1% of vote article

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rejected-libertarians-less-one-percent-vote-presidential-election-1904870
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u/SelectionNo3078 May 27 '24

This is going to be a fascinating election

Already depressing and a bad omen for things ever improving.

But fascinating

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u/coldliketherockies May 27 '24

I really don’t want him to win but in a sadly poetic way we do get what we deserve. If we live in a country where 70+ million of our fellow citizens both and want and can’t be persuaded away from a twice impeached, consistently lying, up for multiple criminal cases included rape charges, hush money, stealing government secrets, colluding with Russia etc then maybe this country has to “fail”. I get why a few million may fall into this but over 40% or over 70 million just means the problem isn’t just Trump but the citizens who don’t understand their own interests in a free country

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u/SelectionNo3078 May 27 '24

30 years of fox propaganda

A period that has also seen previously unthinkable cultural changes and widening economic inequality

And on top of that the vast majority know nothing about politics history or the economy

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u/ILikeBigBeards May 27 '24 edited May 27 '24

historically it was Rush, and then also Fox, but now it's also big time social media propaganda. Putin knows what he's doing and the US has fallen way behind on that battle field. The Russians (and now also the Chinese) have won, friends.

The scarier thing about social media propaganda is that it's much better than Fox at targeting the other side. You don't have to get them to vote for Trump, you just gotta get them to not be motivated for their guy.

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u/CaptGeechNTheSSS May 27 '24

Reagan and the bushes gutting our education system led to this

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u/SelectionNo3078 May 27 '24

The fairness doctrine in media led to fox.

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u/spaceman_202 May 27 '24

even longer for talk radio propaganda and "both sides" liberal media propaganda

during the 2020 election, the "liberal" on PBS news coverage, literally stood up and cheered for Trump's Stock Market (his words)

again, the "liberal" called it Trump's Stock Market and was talking about how it was so good before covid

NPR was doing segments on how "Russia is not involved and that's been disproven"

you either get right wing lite news "both sides, but Democrats are bad"

or right wing news "Trump is a lion, Biden is senile and drinks children's blood"

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u/willywonka1971 May 27 '24

Don't worry, I hear in the future we will be sent a savior named Not Sure.

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u/SelectionNo3078 May 27 '24

We’re def living in idiocracy

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u/My-Cooch-Jiggles May 27 '24

Yeah the political theater part of me is super excited. The having to live with the results part terrifies me. 

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u/SelectionNo3078 May 27 '24

Yup.

May we live through interesting times

Though I’d rather just be interested in fun distractions than the descent into dystopia.

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u/JC351LP3Y May 27 '24

I’m also morbidly interested in seeing how this all plays out.

I live in a solidly Repub area in a deep Red state. I’m not seeing anywhere near the same amount of Trump fanaticism or public discourse that I did at this same point in the 2016 election season.

Perhaps all the Trump folks are just being quieter this time around. I dunno.

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u/SelectionNo3078 May 27 '24

Same in the deep red trumptarded state.

Idk. I think it’s just that the thrill of owning the libs has lost most of its shine

ESP while he is on trial and not in power

Or they’re too busy stockpiling weapons and insinuating themselves into positions to thwart their violent coup if he loses again