Trump, post-election thread 🧵
"After Iowa was called for Trump Tuesday night, his campaign released a statement gloating about the win—and calling out the gold-standard pollster by name.
“Starting on Day 1 President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will help to ease costs, secure the border, and protect Social Security for retirees like Ann Selzer,” the statement said. "
https://newrepublic.com/post/188044/donald-trump-mocks-poll-loss-iowa
Trump is now the first convicted felon to become president, and has the authority to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by AG Merrick Garland specifically to investigate Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and lead the January 6 insurrection, as well as his mishandling of classified documents.
Trump has already threatened to not just fire Smith, but have him deported.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188070/how-trump-make-legal-cases-disappear
"Mr Rahmani said that if Smith refuses to dismiss the case, Trump can simply get rid of him, as he has pledged to do already.
“I would fire him within two seconds," Trump said during a radio interview in October."
2. Classified documents case: Judge Cannon dismissed saying Smith was improperly appointed. It is under appeal, which likely gets dropped..
3. The Georgia election case. This is attempts to overturn the election. This case will likely be put on hold for the time he is president
In 2020, 81 million people voted Biden (D) and 74 M voted for Trump.
It looks like in 2024 about 67.8 M people voted Harris and 72.5 M for Trump (both as counted so far, which was Nov. 6 @ 3pm).
UPDATES (#s from CNN, all M):
Nov 8: Harris 69.5 - Trump 73.5.
Nov 9: 70.2 - 74.1
Nov 10: 70.9 - 74.5
Nov 11: 71.1 - 74.7
Nov 18: 73.8 - 76.4
Nov 24: 74.48 - 76.98
Dec 22: 75.02 - 77.30
Voter turnout 63.5%. Comparable to past numbers (2020 had 65 and was high water mark). See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
Interestingly, I was watching the numbers and although the Democrats usually come out the gate with a lot of mail-in ballots, Kamala was around 8 million votes behind at the beginning. So she made up to 5 million below Trump. Interesting.
Looks like this was the Democrats' election to lose. Trump was down to only 2 million votes.
You can see Trump actually got FEWER votes this round than last.
Jill Stein received around 628,129 votes. You can make of that what you wish.
States are mostly won or lost with under 200k votes. Sometimes much less.
Example of the big swing state, Pennsylvania, and a nice narrow race in Wisconsin.
Congresswoman Maria Salazar (R):
"The Trump administration is not going to be deporting the people who have been here more than 5 years, who have families." Etc.
PBS interviewer:
Have you received those kinds of assurances from the administration?
MS:
(Non-answer)
(PBS News Hour Nov 6)
(Just for ref she's against abortion. Voted against impeachment for Jan 6, against removing healthcare but wants more free market, against normalizing relations with Cuba, supports Javier Milei)
The other day I heard that Putin wasn't going to congratulate Trump because the countries were still unfriendly.
Today Orban has congratulated Trump and suggested that the war in Ukraine will end shortly.
Now, I just heard that Putin has, in fact, congratulated Trump and said he was a very brave man to have survived the assassination attempt.
Even the theater we get is garbsge and low IQ.
Oh please now Trump says he wants to end the war because he's all about saving lives. Oh please.
Jd Vance is saying draw the boundaries where everybody is now and there would be a neutral zone.
Putin is saying we should consider the idea. Just the other day he was saying he wasn't going to congratulate Trump because the US was attacking him.
All in one day? This happened in one day?? Are you kidding me. This is ridiculous. This would be thrown out as a Netflix show plot.
Here it's the new show on Netflix called "We're Not in Cahoots."
It's a show about two people who are definitely in cahoots, but of course they're desperate to maintain to the outside world that they are not in cahoots.
You can watch all the crazy hijinks as they come up with insane explanations for how they appear to be working together but, as they always say at the end of each episode:
We
Are
Not
In
Cahoots
(Wink)
(Fade to.black)
I didn't realize before the election was even over they were defending Musk.
Makes sense. These people are not hiding anything.
Nov 11:
Kremlin: "The messaging about peace favourably distinguishes him (Trump) from the incumbent."
Grifting just before the election got intense
That one is paywalled but here's one from March that isn't
The Trump team isn't signing the background check forms that the incoming team usually signs during the transition.
Trump is now looking to purge 3 and 4 star generals he doesn't like.
Cool cool cool
It's okay I'm aure he'll use them for good--OH NO HE WANTS GENERALS LIKE HITLER HAD COME ON
We might ask what does he need these generals for, because he has said he doesn't want war and will end all conflict in a matter of days, no? 🤷
Fascism thread 🧵: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113447409892695069
Trump and fascism thread 🧵: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111405799062348652
Trump and post-election thread 🧵: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113437191857888641
Trump keeps books of Hitler speeches by his bed. From 1990. https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113386697916634868
Here's the "man of the people", living large, just like Hitler did, while the people go hungry.
He doesn't care about anyone but him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/donald-trump-cabinet-elon-musk-other-maga-hustlers-/104598564
Harris down by about 6 million but Trump up 2.5mm.
Voter turnout only a little less than last time though.
Stein got 764,928 votes which wouldn't, to my eyes, have changed the result.
Inflation probably got enough peo0le mad enough to vote to pop the system. That plus huge amounts of disinformation these days. Now billionaires know they can get into the race overtly and there are absolutely no consequences so things will just get more fun in future.
From Oct 2023
"A report released by Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution finds that an appetite for political violence has risen since 2021, the year of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Two years ago, just 15 % of Americans agreed with the statement that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
Now, 23 % are in favor — including 33 % of Republicans."
"These findings are especially alarming amid Trump’s increasingly violent rhetoric that experts fear will further incite his followers to take dangerous and criminal actions. He ridiculed the assault of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul; he accused former Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley of treason and suggested that he be executed; he endorsed the police shooting of suspected shoplifters. ...
... And he has ramped up his already vitriolic attacks on perceived outsiders, claiming recently that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” Just this week, he pledged to “implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants” to keep out those who “don’t like our religion.” "
Here is a good easily absorbed summary of demographics and how they shifted. In short, looks like Trump picked up a lot of voters in the Latino and Asian communities.
NPR and PBS have excellent reporting, by the way. Their reporters seem to ask follow up questions much more than others, in my personal experience.
Here is Trump's speech from January 6, 2021, in case you want to subject yourself to it.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
Donald Trump Trashes 'Radical Left Lunatics' in Thanksgiving Message
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-radical-left-lunatics-thanksgiving-message-1992943
He wrote: "Happy Thanksgiving to all including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote. ...
... Don't worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!"
He excludes the State Department from participating in phone calls with foreign leaders including Putin who by the way said Trump was a liar about a call the two said. Power play much?
_Trump’s private phone calls with foreign leaders worry former diplomats: ‘Dangerous territory’_
A sign of things to come, didn't this happen before, didn't people get TOLD about it, clear the MAGA supporters are so blind to this.
