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Getting really sick of "You can't just ignore the votes of 74,000,000 people!" We didn't. We counted them. They were less than 81,000,000. And more importantly, Trump's electoral votes are less than Biden's.
But don't your votes count for something?
Funnily enough, no.
But don't your votes count for something?
Funnily enough, no.
It's Republicans who have insisted on the precedent that if you lose the presidential election then you get no say in anything. Your votes count for nothing. You have no voice. No matter how slim the victory, the winner has a full mandate. That's the principle GWB insisted on.
Neither Bush the first time nor Trump the only time he won managed to secure a popular vote majority and yet both expected to rule as king undisputed. So no, MAGA, your 74,000,000 votes don't matter. Trump didn't have enough. He lost. No consolation prize. No participation trophy
Once upon a time the prize for coming in second place for the president was you got to be the vice president, but that was amended away and now there is no second prize.
74,000,000 votes for Donald Trump and every single one is as worthless as a promise from Trump himself.
74,000,000 votes for Donald Trump and every single one is as worthless as a promise from Trump himself.
But if you're steamed that your 74,000,000 losing votes don't matter, MAGAs, then just think how ticked off we are: our votes for Hillary Clinton also didn't matter, and there were more of us then just as there are more of us now.
And look, I know when you put your heart in a candidate winning then it's crushing when it doesn't happen, and if you can get millions of people together to agree on something, almost half the voting country... it does feel like that should count for something.
I agree!
I agree!
And I think it's great, as a general practice, for the person who wins the presidency -- Joe Biden in this case -- to look at the country with a sense of humility and recognize, "I won, but I didn't win the whole country. Yet I serve the whole country."
But that can only work if everybody is doing it, not just one party doing it to play nice (that's the Democrats) while the other rules like kings and emperors (that's the Republicans).
But hey, buck up, buttercups, because it's not all bad news. Even if your 74,000,000 votes for Trump are absolutely worthless garbage after his loss, you are still OVER represented in the government.
Gerrymandering in the House and state sizes in the Senate means that MAGAs get waaaaaaaay more legislative rep than you should be entitled to, based on the number of votes your reps got.
Your votes are literally worth more than ours! Sometimes way more!
Your votes are literally worth more than ours! Sometimes way more!
So even though you worship an amoral, treasonous god-king and you practice an ideology that is antithetical to the health and existence of the republic, you're going to continue to have more weight on our government than you actually deserve.
So what are you complaining about?
So what are you complaining about?
