r/politics • u/tetaniclemur • 5d ago

No Paywall Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares a National Emergency to Secure America’s Bulk-Power System

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-a-national-emergency-to-secure-americas-bulk-power-system/
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u/Yharnam_Blunderbuss 5d ago

Even worse, your population voted for this... twice... giving the optics that Americans condone this behavior.

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u/False_Ad_5372 I voted 5d ago

You’re downplaying it even. There are a significant number of voters who voted for him THREE times. 

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u/Minimob0 5d ago

Don’t remind me. I wake up every day with the knowledge that my father, and half my neighbors are vile pieces of shit. 

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u/Yharnam_Blunderbuss 5d ago

Your population requires constant reminders... you have never taken accountability for your actions... which is why you never learn, never progress.

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u/Minimob0 5d ago

Gonna have to assume you mean Americans as a whole, because talking about me in this way makes you look like an idiot. 

I can tell my family all the facts I want, but they won’t listen. God, Trump, and Guns are all that matter to those morons. That, and hating Gay and Trans People. 

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u/Show_Me_Your_Cubes 5d ago

I don't know where you are from but i'm sure we can make you look just as bad, or worse, if we used similar generalizations on you.

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u/flipzyshitzy 5d ago

How easily people forgot elmos involvement is fucking jarring.

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u/mutnemom_hurb 5d ago

Trump actually lost the last election, they just manipulated the voting machines to give him enough votes to win

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u/Ill_Technician3936 5d ago

Been saying this about Ohio machines since JD became a senator. Especially when news broke that "a minor update was done" which ended up being pretty major. Him winning made no sense other than the machines being fucked with.

Trump's numbers don't even make sense for Ohio because JD was picked as VP and he was a shit senator that immediately lost credibility.

More towards trump, wasn't basically every ballot in a state that were voting democrat lacking a presidential vote but the ones for trump were fine? I wanna say New Jersey or something

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u/mutnemom_hurb 4d ago

Thank you for talking sense. To future generations who are discussing this era, it will be so fucking obvious that they rigged the elections that they will look at everyone who denies it as a complete idiot. History really won’t be kind to the current generations

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u/Ill_Technician3936 4d ago

Either that or it'll be a part of American history that's skipped over for decades to get "fixed".

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u/Cmatt10123 5d ago

The people who defend him see themselves in him.

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u/Shifter25 5d ago

To be fair to the country as a whole, though it's still sad how many voted for him... the first time, he won by a fluke. The system wasn't designed to be rubber stamps for whoever won each state. Clinton won by millions of votes, but because of a margin of less than 100k in 3 states, Trump was President.