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the fact that biden cant landslide an impeached president responsible for a massive lethal disease outbreak shows how fucking pathetic he really is

Biden has over 70 million votes, which is the most of any Presidential candidate in history. He’s leading Trump by 4 million votes.

He came very close to flipping Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina.

The take is that 1) the electoral college is fucked up and 2) white supremacy and hate are extremely strong motivators for this country’s right wing, not “Biden is pathetic,” you fucking dimwit

Also this was in the face of massive voter suppression

And there’s a certain percentage of the voting population who are just … kind of terrible people?

The ones who like Trump because he hurts people they think he should be hurting. The ones who want to overturn things like marriage equality. They were never going to vote for Biden - or any Democratic candidate.

I saw this thread earlier from Ursula Vernon that helps put a lot of this in perspective: (ID and transcription below)

[ID: a series of tweets by twitter handle @ursulav, username Kingfisher & Wombat, who has a cute little hand-drawn wombat as their user ID pic.

“Basically, though, it seems like people expected a landslide denunciation of authoritarianism. And I feel like that was never actually on the table? Of course it would have been nice! Sure! No question! But that’s never how it seems to work?”

“I’m not enough of a historian to have any go-to but Hitler, sorry, but I seem to remember that he was quite popular and then he lost the war and a few years later nobody in Germany had ever been a Nazi and that was all other people in some other town.”

“We all wanted the big repudiation without the war. I get it! But I think we did something more impressive, in its way. We saw it coming before we got that far.“

“More Americans than have ever voted in the history of America saw down the road and went “Oh HELL no!” Before we had to have the big collapse where suddenly nobody had ever supported the despot, ha ha, no, not us, that was some other town, nobody here.”

“So yeah, it would have been more emotionally satisfying if all the Trump supporters had a Come to Jesus moment and threw down their MAGA has. But you only get that if the despot runs unchecked long enough to destroy…well, everything.”

“If there’s a really unsafe road and you block it off, a lot of people aren’t going to be grateful. They’re going to yell that it’s safe and anyway, they’re a good driver. Somebody has to die on the road—maybe multiple people—before they’ll admit it’s dangerous. Some never will.”

“But the sooner you close the road, the more lives you save. And that’s worth it.”

End ID.]

I know things are still unsure, right now, but I think this is worth taking heart from.

Lets also not discount the fact that there is an active propaganda arm that is LYING to your parents and other seniors. Q Anon is deliberately designed to trick people into thinking it’s real and that it is their religious, moral and patriotic duty to ensure that the corrupt pedophiles running the new world order don’t succed. 

The left is very good at ignoring how good the right is at duping people into voting for them. Fox News is so dangerous because it’s a VERY effective propaganda machine. It preys on the fears and worries of the elderly and drags their worldview to the right. Far-Right youtubers are scarily good at bilking the algorithm to get more eyeballs on their garbage - which is framed very intelligently and seems non-biased, but is stem to stern some HORRIFIC sexist, racist, homophobic propaganda. This is why PragerU is so dangerous.

There are lots of people who have parents and friends that they would say “they used to be kinda liberal, and really discerning, I don’t know what happened…”

What happened is that social media and the far right radicalized them

Fighting uphill against THAT is hard. Fighting uphill against that AND voter suppression AND a pandemic is… astronomical. Biden did about as good as could be expected. 

And the fight’s not over yet. We still have to get the fat orange tick out of America’s backside. We’ve got the tweezers but he’s not removed yet.