No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.

Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.

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An outgoing president needing to pardon his family pre-emptively because the incoming president is threatening them is well along the path to fascism.

Good job electing Trump you fucking morons. I hope that the consequences of your own actions hurt you more than they hurt the rest of the world.

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60 points

… well along the path to fascism.

Oh, we’re already there.

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36 points

Good job electing Trump you fucking morons.

I’d like to thank the Gaza single issue voters and bLuEMagA mouth breathers, good job guys!

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14 points

Gaza was either not big enough to affect the result, or big enough where your candidate should have acknowledged it. You can’t have it both ways.

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3 points

But muh scapegoat :(

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To be honest, there is a lot of blame to be cast on the Dem leadership as well as the voters. They managed to run one of the most uninspiring campaigns of all time.

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7 points

Nah, they gave voters plenty to be hopeful about but none of them actually want that future. The choice was pretty damn clear.

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12 points

Yeah no. Even if the choice had been a blabbering idiot with a Napoleon identity crisis and a beany with propellor for a hat…. then still you don’t vote for a grifting fascist antichrist . It’s really not that hard.

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Americans are not the dumbest mf around because you voted a felon and the man who attempted a coup into office knowing full ell us has literally no measures to make him ever leave.

You are the dumbest mf around since you blame the other campaign for being uninspiring.

It was the most important election in US history: a literal felon who attempted a coup and was somehow not hanged for it vs a candidate.

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Social media manipulation like in 2016 should really be a part of the scapegoat club

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yes, why couldnt those dumb peasants who never had it so good have gotten aboard genocide joes bandwagon? Its a real mystery that evidently no one can understand.

/s

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4 points

What is Trump’s policy?

Oh. He lifted the pause on 2000lb bombs.

Definitely better.

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To be fair they didn’t actually elect trump, the election was clearly rigged

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Yep. The traitor even said so last night, by dementia accident.

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I don’t understand why folks downvote comments pointing this out to be honest. Like bro, the man literally fucking said it out loud what more do you want. He’s quoted as saying a) Elon musk in some way stuffed the electronic ballots in PA and b) he (ie trump) wouldn’t be president if the election had not been rigged what more do you want bro serious question I’m fucking interested

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We’ll never know now. The party and Biden/Harris were too busy feeling sorry for themselves to look into the voting irregularities that the cyber people were screaming about. Now its Jan21 and they are locked out of every level of government. Maybe they should have gotten off their asses and done something about it. Doing nothing is their pattern.

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Rigged, no, Stolen, also no.

Results shifted due to successful propaganda from foreign countries and billionaires, yes.

This is the downside of Democracy, people are pretty dumb overall.

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I don’t understand the enormous resistance to the extremely simple idea that obviously evil people obviously and literally rigged an election by literally adding new fake votes, a method so obvious and literal and with such pedigree and history that it has a name, which is ballot stuffing.

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FWIW, as an American, I really hope you’re right. Because there is serious potential for us to fuck up the entire rest of the world for a very, very long time.

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19 points

The US fucked up the world a long time ago, we’re all entering the find out phase now.

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Hey, we’re Britain’s fault!

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We been fucking up the world for the last 4 years…

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Sadly we would have embraced fascism whether voters elected Trump or Harris/Biden, as we’ve seen with the sentiment towards Palestinians.

With the former, it’s fascism. With the latter, it’s fascism-lite.

Ultimately, we’re going to reach a chilling point that will probably demand a WWIII. When that comes has probably now been accelerated due to Trump winning.

Sanders was our key to fighting fascism. Sadly Obama, Clinton, and Biden all kneecapped him in favor of billionaires and the status quo while claiming no responsibility for the seeds they sewed.

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I’d bet far more on the US splintering than on a WW at this point.

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I do find it funny that he thinks it will work

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