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As long as I live, I will never understand why America would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.

@Strandjunker
Because he's going to give them cheap gas...
Wait until the actual shit hits the fan next year and they are all standing around wondering how they are going to eat.
The idiots in this country are too stupid to even be worth saving.

Sergio

@palin @Strandjunker I am amazed at how my fellow latino voters chose to be deported by this clown!

@clintruin @sergiodomeyko @palin @Strandjunker

Because Dearborn's Arab Americans can be confident that Trump will be fair and even handed and has no reason to make things worse.
Oh wait...

"The Adelson family also own the right-wing Israel Hayom newspaper, is a resident of Tel Aviv, and regularly donates to illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territories and pushed for US recognition of the occupied West Bank as part of Israel."

newarab.com/news/israeli-us-bi

Adelson has given the Trump campaign a total $100 million this year [GETTY]
The New Arab · Israeli-US billionaire Adelson gives $100m to Trump campaignThe Israeli-American physician and political donor and her husband donated $90 million to support Trump during his 2020 campaign.

@sergiodomeyko @palin @Strandjunker Not surprising if you look at the Latin America's history, they like authoritarian leaders.

@ma_ui @palin @Strandjunker and then there is this? Where did at least 20 million votes go? It was a record year for new registrations and voters. Something smells fishy! Did the orange blog not say he did not need the votes that everything was taken care of?
I do believe he was telling the truth that they had messed with the election somehow.

@ma_ui @sergiodomeyko @palin @Strandjunker I don't think that's the case. A lot of those dictatorships were installed by the US or other meddling. Look at Zapatistas in Mexico or the long democratic traditions in many latam countries. Where the tradition hasn't been broken, there's no more authoritarian leaders than in the "west" in my opinion.

@cohentheblue I was thinking about "caudillos."

@ma_ui Western EU christians liked kings and dukes, islamic areas liked sultans ... There weren't a lot of democracy, anarchy or other nontotalitarian power structures going on outside of very small tribes, for a long time. The US wild west similarly regressed and the only difference was a more central power that happened to have more power took over from the local bandits, landlords etc. Even that was not successful, probably to a degree until this day.

@cohentheblue I agree about Western Europe, the roots of caudillismo are likely in the Spanish colonization. Catholicism had a big part in the idea of a strongman sent by god to fix things. And I think that's why, in countries like Spain and Italy, too many people still like dictators such as Franco and Mussolini. Also, immigrants, especially the older ones, tend to be more conservative.

@palin @Strandjunker so updating my beliefs on this situation. Where did 20 million votes go? There seems to be something fishy going on.

@sergiodomeyko
When you find out please let me know.
Almost 20 million people sat on their stupid asses and destroyed our Democracy?

@sergiodomeyko @palin @Strandjunker hey the final counts aren't in and there's more than 10M ballots to go. It'll be, like, a week before those final numbers are out.

@peterbutler @palin @Strandjunker Thanks for sharing this great write-up Peter!