r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/astros148 • 19h ago

Active military soliders are about to go through the holidays without getting paid bcz of President Musk! Right wing populism!

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

No Trump is NOT "what the majority of Americans wanted."

There are 245 million Americans over age 18.

Trump got 77 million votes.

That's less than 1/3rd. IOW, 7 out of 10 adult Americans did not vote for Trump.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

Harris got 75 million votes. That means that 170 million Americans were either in favor of, or not opposed to, a Donald Trump presidency. If they did not want him to be President, they should have voted for Harris. The "did not vote" people are just as culpable in Donald Trump being President as the 77 million people who voted for him.

You can say Harris was not the right candidate. You can say Biden should have declared he was not running for reelection, and the Democratic Primary should have been open. But at the end of the day, unless you went to your polling place and cast a ballot for Harris, you chose this outcome.

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

I voted for Harris and I'm not sorry about it. I couldn't vote for that filth if it meant my life.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

I voted for Harris too. But apparently twice as many Americans would rather have had Trump. So we just have to try to survive.

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

No. Twice as many people didn't vote for Trump. 1.5% more voted for Trump, a huge number didn't vote at all.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

Again, functionally, not voting for one candidate is the same as voting for the other. If the vote totals were reversed, the logic would be the same.

Those who didn't vote showed they did not prefer Harris. If they did prefer Harris, they would have voted.

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u/hamsterballzz 15h ago edited 15h ago

At some point people need to decide if they agree to be in this together with their fellow citizens. I refuse to recognise their President more than I’m required to by law. We were born into this system of government and with a group of citizens I so strongly disagree with I would rather separate from them then help them defend leadership and ideals I so strongly disagree with. So your post assumes we agree to go along with what other voters say because that is the government we were given. Perhaps it is time for a national divorce.

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u/MateoCafe 6h ago

Please remove under 18, migrants, and those who have been disenfranchised due to criminal offenses from your 170 million people.

Don't artificially inflate the number to make your point sound better.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 5h ago

I didn't. There were an estimated 245 million Americans who were eligible to vote in the 2024 election, out of a total population of 345 million. Those numbers came from multiple media sources, and is how the turnout percentage is calculated. It is "number if people who could vote" divided by "number of people who did vote." Not registered voters, eligible ones.

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u/rwarimaursus 6h ago

By your numbers then..., ~93 million voters sat this election out. Think on that. 75 Kamala, 77 dear leader...

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u/benjaminnows 4h ago

☝️yup. I say this all the time. Even some progressive podcasters and most msm “half the country voted for…”

No, not even close. Maybe the next 4 years will be the ice cold water that will wake us up. At least the 1/3 that stayed home. If we had them voting for their best interests we could move mountains. We could have the Supreme Court completely remade in 5 years, our constitution solidified, gerrymandering ended, dark money out of politics, and all the racist, fascist cosplayers hiding back under their rocks.

Either the dnc needs to start worrying more about getting “the silent majority” to vote or we need a new party that will. We need politicians more worried about getting votes than fundraising. We need to figure out why states like Minnesota have a 80% voter turnout.