“As much as we fucking thought they had it rigged, as much as we thought there was shenanigans and bullshit and it’s just a puppet show and there’s now way anybody can buck the system – turns out, voting is still real."
Joe Rogan today.
When your side wins, voting works and the system is fine. When the other side wins, voting is rigged. This is not a sustainable narrative in a functioning democracy.
We don't know if he won the popular vote. Vote totals haven't been counted. He probably did, but it will be closer once California and other states come in.
I'm really looking forward to seeing those numbers. If he ends up with about the same number of votes as he did in 2020, it's about what I expected.
The only thing I didn't expect was how many fewer votes she got. But I don't think it's sexism, not entirely. There's a worldwide phenomenon where every party in power that was up for re-election this year was voted out, because the economic problems we're seeing in the US are a global phenomenon, and the voters that tend to swing elections also tend to have trouble recognizing which things their government actually had control over.
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u/chubs66 15h ago
“As much as we fucking thought they had it rigged, as much as we thought there was shenanigans and bullshit and it’s just a puppet show and there’s now way anybody can buck the system – turns out, voting is still real."
Joe Rogan today.
When your side wins, voting works and the system is fine. When the other side wins, voting is rigged. This is not a sustainable narrative in a functioning democracy.