Something doesn't add up.

[ffr]

Supposedly 63 million Americans voted for Donald. Supposedly right-wingers are rabid fire breathing in-your-face proud-to-dance-on-libtard's rights and yet AND YET, where are they on inauguration of the person of their admiration?!!

What happened to the big crowds? Poof! They've vanished.

Something tells me that this ain't right. The numbers, for me, don't add up.

ELECTION COUP.

[Jacob Boehme]

1. They coudn't sober up long enough to make it.

[Laurian]

2. I've felt that way since the election.

????

[Wounded Bear]

3. Not sure of the actual percentages...

but I suspect a lot of his voters were not really supporters, if you know what I mean.

Volume doesn't always translate into numbers.

[Hortensis]

42. Right. The right is in the grip of a viciously irresponsible

hyperpartisanship. They have been trained to knee-jerk reject anything the Democrats support.

Remember the outrage back when Democrats wanted to make street crossings wheelchair accessible? Or more recently when Michelle Obama suggested we feed our children more vegetables? A thousand other, increasingly destructive examples? Like their bizarre behavior just now in rejecting affordable college and increased wages and benefits to instead elect a mentally disordered, debauched swindler to the presidency?

They didn't hate the handicapped or love bad nutrition then, and they don't hate good incomes or approve of finger rapists now. They are ruled by an out-of-control hyperpartisan hostility against Democrats/liberals that threatens to destroy our republic. As our founders foresaw nearly 250 years ago and worried about greatly.

[ffr]

4. Their numbers are abysmal.

This is the best they could summon? We should call for special elections in every state then, because we'd run the tables on them.


Protest march today.

[ekelly]

5. Not a single mention (that I saw) in the MSM...

of any counter-protests, or pro-Trump rallies today. You'd think SOME group would have put something together to hail their great leader.

[Hekate]

30. So at the LA rally of 750,000 there was a lone message plane above us trailing a sign....

"Congratulations President Trump"

Three TV news helicopters, one drone, and that silly plane. One person paying good money to tell us DT is prez, and three-quarters of a million women and men to say No.

[cmeneer]

6. Same

I've been saying the same thing. This does not add up. No enthusiasm and small numbers--funny all the women found their way to DC today.

[ffr]

14. Is it then the case that tRump voters all have mad-cow disease?

And couldn't find their way to that all-so-glorious-of-triumphant parades yesterday?

Even some of his supporters were stumped. One said something to the effect that it felt like watching a funeral.

When RW'ers start making sense, you know my 'somethings very weird here' antenna go up.

[lunasun]

7. They were there! The press manipulated the reporting. The WH sez so, listen to them

they are telling you now the real numbers
See presser
https://mobile.twitter.com/seanspicer

[Stellar]

11. Something tells me that these low-life sobs will be

explaining their lies for the next four years, as well as run the country.

[Cha]

8. I know what you mean, frr.. his polls are so low they're

hitting the ground. And, why didn't he have a huge crowd at his inauguration like he's lying about?

[KittyWampus]

9. the Electoral College means that acerage counts more than people.

[NanceGreggs]

27. As was represented ...

... by all of that empty acreage at the inauguration.

[betsuni]

12. I've been thinking the same thing, it's awfully fishy.

Something is rotten in the state of Donmark.

[karynnj]

13. He got a huge percent of the Republican vote even though

Many had major problems with him. They likey has a reason we should understand - they voted their team for rea sons including the Supreme Court.

[ffr]

16. But mostly because anti-Hillary,, anti-human rights, anti-science, anti-you-name-it

So then, I'd expect them to come out and celebrate their big day of dancing on our doused hopes and make a spectacle of it.

And, follow me on this, if they're so-unproud now, what's to stop a movement to call for special elections? Like I said above, we should be able to run the tables now.

[tritsofme]

19. The Constitution doesn't allow for "special elections"

His term runs through January 20, 2021, absent resignation, removal from office, or death.

[Hekate]

31. I don't know why Americans have such a hard time understanding this basic Civics lesson.

[astral]

15. I had to see what all the posts that came while I was typing said.

The videos I saw do not match up with this thread. The many blind men touching the elephant all 'see' a different animal.

[Bucky]

17. It could a massive conspiracy, or maybe...

The people who voted for him mostly aren't the seriously & civicly engaged citizens who show up to political rallies. Did you doubt that people who voted for him are more likely to be ignorant and passive?

[ffr]

18. I do doubt they are passive.

According to this interactive map, most hate groups are east of the Rockies, with lots and lots near the capitol.

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

[Bucky]

20. "They" is a problematic term here.

It's a waste of time to try to generalize about 60 million people who are all voting for a lot of different reasons. So sure, there are a lot of hate groups backing Trump. Some of them are engaged activists.

But a whole lot of the people who voted for him are passive, politically uninformed, desperate people, who have fallen for the Fox, right-wing, Limbaugh, Trump BS propaganda that helped put the big orange Cheeto into office.

And a lot of them are starting to get buyer's remorse. Just looking at his approval rating, hovering around 35%. Tthe lack of crowds is about people finally waking up to what terrible thing has happened. It doesn't prove that the election was physically rigged.

[ffr]

21. Perfect. I'll start the petition for another general election. All 50 states.

Get this puppet out of here before he does serious damage!

[delisen]

22. His support may have been a mile wide an an inch deep n/t

[kairos12]

23. Fearful of

rain.

[ffr]

24. OZ

[TheFrenchRazor]

25. more proof that the election was hacked. nt

[LonePirate]

26. I don't think they can find DC on a map so that's possibly why they didn't show.

[LovingA2andMI]

28. Something does indeed smell rotten as hell

In D.C. and it's occupying OUR White House. You have a HUGE point. This is something personally that has been questioned since the beginning of all of this. Where were those crowds? Where are his supporters? Where are his voters from November? Why were they not in D.C. on the 20th in mass, slowing their so-called "power" of allegedly 18 million strong?

Not only were they not in D.C. but, if you Tweet, venture over to Twitter. The Trumpskin's Tweeting is DRAMATICALLY LESS than prior to the election. Massively so, in fact.

Maybe the ruse was to build a social media fake "powerness" with of course the "assistance" of Putin's crews locked in a small office building, chained to computers and then just hack the election itself?

This is what the evidence thus far has proven. And furthermore, the lack of supporters for Cheeto flocking in mass to D.C. on the 20th, gives concrete evidence of.

[Sunlei]

35. please tweet t(R)ump at his new desk job, he can't block anyone :P

Sunlei ?@SunleiHolysmoke · 2h2 hours ago
@WhiteHouse @POTUS IT'S SATURDAY, WHERE IS OUR WEEKLY ADDRESS FROM THE PRESIDENT? WHERE ARE THE DAILY PRESS QUESTIONS?

[LovingA2andMI]

36. DONE.

[Sunlei]

37. He reads every tweet!

[Phoenix61]

29. I think ACA repeal has taken

the shine off their new Pres. He promised them he wouldn't repeal without a replacement but it's clear he doesn't have one. I don't think his cabinet picks have helped his popularity any either.

[Raine]

32. Buyers remorse now that reality has hit.. nt

[Charles Bukowski]

33. I think we're overestimating how many Gump voters

were rally attending, MAGA hat wearing, hardcore Deplorables.

I would wager that the majority were simply partisan hacks who voted for Gump simply because he ran as a Republican.

I know a few in LA that fit the bill. They voted for Kasich in the primary (he had already dropped out) and had nothing good to say about Gump, but when push came to shove convinced themselves that Shitstain was preferable to Clinton, so they voted for him.

I ran into one of these Trump voters a few days ago. The best he could sheepishly muster was, "Give him a chance. He might surprise you."

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. I think many here in KC just didn't like Clinton.

Didn't like the Clinton name. They really didn't like Trump all that much but just voted for him anyway.

Or they just voted Republican. They just would never vote Democrat. .

[Sunlei]

34. Because Republicans in charge don't need him anymore.

if he would just let Pence finish the damn transition in peace

[BlueStater]

38. Didn't you hear?

They were all at their jobs or so they say. You know, the jobs that supposedly don't exist because Obama has done such a lousy job as president.

[ffr]

44. ha-ha-ha. Yup!

[JI7]

39. Comey Letter resulted in many Republicans who were going to vote Clinton to Stick with Party

even though they didn't like him.


and then there were the ones who just vote party regardless of their feelings for the candidate as a person.


if the republicans had united behind a candidate in the primary maybe they might have beaten him. jeb, rubio, kasich and some others get together and decide to get behind one of them. but instead they split the vote and the crazies all voted trump. what usually happens is the crazies split the vote allowing mccain and romney to win. but this time it was the opposite.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

40. Several polls showed a close race, so I doubt...

there were any huge electoral crimes that gave us this result. Maybe in some key states? Anyway, my main point is that polls of likely voters showed it was close for a long time, and that alone blew my mind.

I suspect that Trump squeezed out as many voters as possible. When non-voters are considered, his current favorable percentage isn't much different from the percentage of votes he received across the country.

If we had a law in this country that required people to vote (and making it easier), like in Australia, I suspect the outcome would have been different.

Why Are the Poor and Minorities Less Likely to Vote?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/why-are-the-poor-and-minorities-less-likely-to-vote/282896/


This shows the level of political participation by different socioeconomic groups.


Is it any wonder that so many politicians seem to cater to their more privileged constituents? They're the ones that most help them get elected and stay in office.

National polls of what Americans would like to see happen in government don't jibe with what we get. I'd like to see those same polls among people who actually vote and participate, though.

[doc03]

43. Many of the ones I know have a 1985 broken down rusted out

pickup truck that they are lucky to get to the carryout with.