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“We’re losing a lot of people because of the internet,” Trump said. “We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.”

He said this in 2015, folks. And we still elected him. We’re fucked.

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118 points

‘We’ didn’t elect him. A horde of deluded, ignorant douchebags in just the right states did.

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124 points

No, a bunch of empty land elected him.

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56 points

I can only imagine where the country would be if we reformed the Electoral College and the Senate. It’s absurd to be giving 1 million people in Hickle Dickle the same votes as 30,000,000 in another state. Or even worse, in the EC people in small states get 3-4 times the voting power as citizens of some larger states.

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37 points

Don’t forget the tens of millions of Americans who stayed home because “both parties are the same”

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24 points

Yeah, that’s always the problem. Sometimes it’s just a lack of motivation. Also don’t discount voter suppression, like how voting day still is not a holiday and there’s a significant lack of facilities in urban areas compared to suburban and rural regions. Nobody should have to wait in line for 5 hours (complete with BS like ‘giving them water is a crime’) to vote.

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Even worse. The single issue voters, or hard core progressive voters who voted independent or wrote in names on their ballot because they didn’t get their way. They know who was better for America out of the two real choices, but made the statement of “I’d rather see the country burn than participate”

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A quick browse of this community will show you that a large percentage of the users here fall into that category.

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Weird. I didn’t know not casting a vote meant you were responsible for the person that millions of other people did vote for.

(for the record, I voted)

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44 points

We have to go see Bill Gates

This line… Lol

“Hi Bill, you’re the CEO of the internet, right? I’m going to need you to turn it off for me. Thanks.”

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13 points

He saw that South Park episode and thought it was a documentary.

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8 points

Well he doesn’t know Al Gore personally, for some reason he never seemed to show up to Epstein’s parties

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4 points

tfw someone breaks it to him that he’ll have to call Al Gore…

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27 points

It’s amazing, he’s said so many terrible things, I’m still learning about stuff like this he said years ago.

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7 points

That’s just locker room talk…

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6 points

Ironically he got elected in large part because of his always online meme army. I’m guessing that part of the Internet sticks around.

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