As Trump assembles dictatorial regime, Biden offers “smoothest” transition

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As Trump assembles dictatorial regime, Biden offers “smoothest” transition
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Elections have consequences. Americans knew what they voted for. They fucked around and they are going to find out.

Well, the rest of the world will find out also

Europeans seem like they constantly need reminding of this. You people are also fucked for a myriad of reasons

yeah, I don't understand why people think that it will not change anything here, first with the war next door, and we're living on the same earth so the climate will be impacted everywhere not just locally in the US

[edit] also: what do you mean, YOU people?!

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As much as I hate this its correct.

With lying, external influence, racism, terrorism and general crime he was just democratically elected. Supporting democracy means that it has to be followed.

It's wrong, its a bad move, but its democracy.

No, the US constitution literally has a protection for this exact scenario: the electoral college. The founding fathers knew that the general population was stupid and could fall victim to a tyrant, so the EC was supposed to vote against the popular vote if that happened. They couldn't have forseen the internet, though.

Our government has a responsibility to protect the country and the constitution from those who seek to destroy it, and Trump and gang seek to destroy it. They all should face a military tribunal for sedition and treason, and be hung for it.

Technically, the US also has protections against wannabe dictators claiming they are above the law: a supreme court which, were it not undermined by that dictator's toadies, should shut that shit down in a second. Still, there's a difference between blindly following everything that court makes up out of thin air and supporting the actual rule of law. Same with democracy.

Biden/Harris knew they'd lose the left if they continued to ship weapons and they shipped them anyway. So here we are.

Nobody is spending millions on an election campaign when they knew they were going to lose my dude.

Not unless it's other peoples' money. Good thing US election campaigns are self financed /s

They raised over a billion dollars after Harris got the nomination.

They spent a quarter of that on sending door knockers to the same people's houses 2-3 times.

And they donate money to Republican outsider campaigns to try to siphon votes off the Republican incumbent (who they usually still lose to anyway).

They would absolutely spend millions of dollars thinking they were going to lose. It's not their money, and their lives will not change whether it's spent or not.

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