#2016 election

[lithiumseven]

I think actually one of the wildest parts of November 5th 2020 (if any can be narrowed down) was when you would very occasionally see an entirely unrelated post. Like somehow there were some people blogging about just normal shit that night and it was like standing in a costumed rave that was on fire and then just seeing one person completely calm checking emails. And all you could think was How can you not be seeing this???

#it was surreal #november 5 #nov 5 #November 5th #nov 5 2020 #nov 5th #november fifth #spn #destiel #Putin #2016 election #fuckin #teen wolf?? I think?? #and of course #Sherlock s5 #tumblr #2020

[alwaysbewoke]

#hillary clinton #donald trump #maga #elections have consequences #political opinion #2016 election #democratic party #voter engagement #political consequences #current events #genocide #authoritarianism #political polarization #israel #gaza #gaza strip #palestine #free palestine #anti-semitic #islamophobia #zionism #alwaysbewoke

[batboyblog]

I'm thinking about this tweet today.

#hillary clinton #Supreme Court #2016 election #she told you #Hillary was right about everything

[deadpresidents]

Why do you think people were so foolish at the 2016 election not to recognise the risks of Trump getting on and throw away their vote or not vote at all?

While I certainly think it's silly to waste your vote or cast a protest vote and wish that more of the people who don't vote would take advantage of their right and privilege to do so, I am more concerned and disgusted by the 62 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 and the nearly 75 million who voted for him in 2020. Those people are actively destroying our country, and that's worse than any protest vote or non-voter.

#2016 Election #2020 Election #Donald Trump #President Trump #Voting #Elections

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

#outdated joke #polls #pokemon go #2016 election #stch

[o-kurwa]

#what a fucking quote tho #politics #relationships #bill clinton #hillary clinton #2016 election

[fangomango]

...just thinking about it...

I was in elementary when it was the 2016 election

They had us

THE STUDENTS

Have a fake vote of who we thought should win

Trump or Hilary Clinton

I don't remeber who I voted for (I was in like 4th maybe 3rd grade..I think 3rd grade) but I remeber Hillary Clinton won

...now why did they have children vote????

Like...huh?????

#school system #2016 election #btw i dont feel old saying what grade i was in...i think my math is wrong though...actually no its right #because we got a new school building my 4th grade year amd this vote thing took place in the old library...so yeah 3rd grade #:3

[rjalker]

next person I see spreading the lie that Trump won in 2016 because of "people refusing to vote" is getting thrown in the wood chipper.

Stop fucking blatantly lying about basic historical facts.

Trump lost the popular vote, AKA the fucking election, by over two million fucking votes.

Read that again with your special eyes.

Over two fucking million.

He lost by over two fucking million votes.

And he still got elected anyways, and can you guess why? Because this government was functioning as intended.

The electoral collage was literally created for the sole purpose of taking power away from the actual people and putting it in the hands of politicians, because the founding fathers, who were all rich, white, slave-owning men who thought only other rich, white, slave-owning men were human, didn't want to actually give anyone else any power.

Trump did not win because of "Russian psyops" "misinformation" "voter apathy" "political exhaustion" "splitting the vote" or people "only wanting to vote for someone perfect".

He won because this government, which has never been truly democratic, was functioning as intended.

Stop fucking lying. Stop fucking trying to rewrite history to suit your victim blaming fucking narrative.

If you have to lie and spread blatant misinformation to win arguments, your shitty fucking arguments aren't worth anything.

And pro tip: if you're arguing that people have to vote for the man literally pouring billions of dollars and social support into genocide, you are complicit in genocide. History will not forgive you, and neither will anyone else who has a single shred of morals in their soul.

#vote blue no matter who #genocide joe biden #trump #2016 election

[burnitalldownism]

The non-US political figures/commentators who…

1) Cultishly fawned over Trump in ‘16 & ‘20, then…

2) Had an…

moment after he lost in ‘20 and went full anti-reality, fascist, whackadoodle, and then…

3) Have now gone back to licking his boots coz he might win and it’s more important to own the libs.

They’re the lowest form of life on the planet. The Fox News/Newsmax.etc wankers who peddle whatever are at least consistent.

I’ve honestly got more respect for the dictators who just saw him as a useful moron in and out of power than I do for these weather vanes.

#donald trump #boris johnson #nigel farage #piers morgan #viktor orban #bolsonaro #us politics #2024 elections #2020 election #2016 election #political commentary #populism

[lurkiestvoid]

I found an old abandoned blog that still had posts from the absolute hellfire that was 2016-2017 and just. Holy shit. It was a very detailed flashback to the actual reality of that time.

The political/election arguments were almost all entirely 100% identical to current, often right down to the exact words used, except with "Hilary" instead of "Biden". And then, after Nov 2016, the absolutely bonkers influx of weekly and then daily chaos that was the Trump administration.

massive news posts filled with dozens of links that were just 'quick update on this past week' 'in case you missed it, here's everything that happened this weekend' 'news from the last three days' bc so much horrible balls-to-the-wall surreal bullshit was happening SO FAST the only way to stay informed was daily news megaposts that still couldn't catch everything

Like, it really was that bad, constantly, from the November election results onwards, he really started fucking with things quite immediately. And these really are the exact same circular and toxic infighting arguments that led to those exact predicted results last time. And we really are doing this again, but this time with bonus gaslighting about whether or not we're repeating ourselves.

#us politics #election 2024 #2016 election #might try to hunt down more posts from that era and try to put it all together #it really is wildly surreal #how identical it is to today's climate and infighting #its no wonder weve mostly blocked it out tho #it was genuinely horrifyingly 24/7/365 unhinged from day 1 and that was A Lot to process #let alone hold onto all of it #its hard to find a lot of these posts now bc the tumblr search function is shit #so finding one abandoned mid-17 and scrolling backwards was A Ride

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News.

The letter was addressed to Bragg and said, “ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the sources said. It contained a small amount of white powder.

There were no evacuations or injuries, officials said.

In a statement, the DA's office said the letter “was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance.”

Markings on the envelope indicate it was mailed from Orlando, Florida earlier this week, the sources said. It was postmarked on Tuesday, the sources said.

The letter comes in the wake of Trump announcing — falsely — that he would be arrested in the probe this past Tuesday and that people should "protest." His rhetoric has become more heated in the days since, including warning on his social media website early Friday of "potential death and destruction" if the DA indicts him.

Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump.

The unsubstantiated threats, now under investigation by the New York Police Department and FBI, were emailed to local government officials at a Manhattan community board, according to police. They came from Russian email addresses in the early morning hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, listing government buildings and schools as the targets of alleged pipe bombs, according to the local board official who received them.

"The FBI told me that they appear to be coming from Russia," said Susan Stetzer, district manager of Community Board 3, who read the emails to Law360 Friday. The board received four email threats over the three days, often sent from @mail.ru domains under different names, she said. The NYPD confirmed the board was the recipient of the original bomb threat on Tuesday.

The FBI declined to comment.

Separately on Friday, a suspicious white powder was delivered to the offices of District Attorney Alvin Bragg in an envelope marked "Alvin," according to the NYPD.

A spokesperson for the district attorney said that "it was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance."

The emailed bomb threats did not mention Trump or the grand jury mulling indicting him for an illegal hush money payment allegedly designed to tip the 2016 election in his favor, the local official said. Still, they used language that echoed his recent attacks on the case, referring to "the downfall of our country" and stating, "You people are destroying America."

The grand jury is considering a possible indictment of Trump on charges that he directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to bury her claims of an affair before the 2016 presidential election, and covered up Cohen's reimbursement as legal fees.

An FBI and special counsel investigation of interference in the 2016 election found that Russia engaged in a sprawling online campaign to manipulate public perceptions in favor of Trump. The investigation found that Trump did not conspire with Russia.

Stetzer said she first reported the bomb threats Tuesday morning by contacting local police precincts and dialing 911. Since then, she has been in regular contact with the FBI.

"Now when I get them, which I haven't today, I just forward it to the FBI," Stetzer said late Friday morning.

In response to questions, NYPD said it had one threat on file for Tuesday of an email "sent from an unidentified individual who stated they are placing various explosive devices at locations throughout the city. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing."

Beginning last weekend, Trump called for protests of Bragg's investigation with increasingly heated language as he criticized the possible charges against him and incorrectly predicted he would be arrested on Tuesday.

Among a dozen posts on Truth Social about Bragg posted Thursday, Trump called the district attorney an "animal" and "human scum," compared him to Joseph Stalin and the Gestapo, and said, "He is doing the work of Anarchists and the Devil, who want our Country to fail." Trump also posted a link with an image of him holding a baseball bat beside an image of Bragg's head.

"You're still allowed to self-defend in this Country!" Trump posted Wednesday, additionally claiming that anti-fascist "lunatics" are infiltrating conservative gatherings.

Early Friday morning, Trump said that "potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country? Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely hates the USA!"

The New York City bomb threats used similar rhetoric.

A threat sent Thursday that targeted the district attorney's office and schools said: "You people are disgusting degenerates. Fuck you and fuck everything you stand for. You are responsible for the downfall of our country and you will die," Stetzer said, quoting from the email.

One threat Wednesday read: "Evacuate before the bombs go off. You people are destroying America so we will destroy you," according to Stetzer.

Stetzer declined to share the emails directly with Law360.

The threats have led to heightened security at the court buildings in Lower Manhattan, which have included regular sweeps for bombs and a more visible presence of police officers and court officers along with barricades surrounding the entrances to the district attorney's office.

The district attorney's office has declined to comment on the threats.

Meanwhile, a Manhattan federal judge presiding over a writer's civil defamation and rape suit against Trump on Thursday ruled that jurors in the case will remain anonymous, drawing a link between the former president's recent rhetoric and threats to public safety.

"Mr. Trump's quite recent reaction to what he perceived as an imminent threat of indictment by a grand jury sitting virtually next door to this court was to encourage 'protest' and to urge people to 'take our country back.' That reaction reportedly has been perceived by some as incitement to violence," U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote. "And it bears mention that Mr. Trump repeatedly has attacked courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters."

Judge Kaplan noted, however, that "it matters not whether Mr. Trump incited violence in either a legal or a factual sense. The point is whether jurors will perceive themselves to be at risk."

Joe Tacopina, a criminal defense attorney for Trump, told Law360 Thursday, "We have no problem with the ruling," but declined to comment on the social media posts or threats.

#us politics #news #law360 #nbc news #fbi #nypd #new york #alvin bragg #donald trump #death threats #bomb threats #Manhattan District Attorney's Office #russia #stormy daniels #hush money #2016 election #2023 #inciting violence #Truth Social #Judge Lewis Kaplan #Joe Tacopina

[imkeepinit]

#Jeanine Pirro #quote #Fox #2016 election

[deprofundisclamoadte]

"why didn't you guys just vote for Hillary" we did. 65.8 million people voted for Hillary versus 62.9 million votes for Trump. She won by almost 3 million more people. The electoral college system is corrupt and the Republicans cheated. How many times do we have to go over this

#politics // #2016 election #dont get me started on gerrymandering #ok thats enough politics for tonight i promise

[deadpresidents]

Are there any notable Presidential speeches you know of that were fully written or prepared but never delivered for some reason? (Such as Nixon’s failed moon landing speech for Apollo 11)

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any specific speeches similar to the undelivered speech prepared in case of a disaster on Apollo 11 (which is still haunting to read even with the knowledge that everybody made it home safely).

Obviously, most Presidents and Presidential candidates prepare victory and concession speeches, but we don't usually see the speech that wasn't needed. Once some time had passed, Hillary Clinton did read the victory speech that she would have given had she not lost the 2016 election to Trump. It was before he was President, but General Dwight D. Eisenhower had prepared a short statement in 1944 to deliver in case the Allied landings on D-Day had failed.

It's not quite the same thing, but I have a fascinating book called Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters That Harry Truman Never Mailed that is a collection of letters and notes that President Truman wrote while angry or annoyed but gave into his better judgment and held back on actually mailing. They are pretty entertaining.

#Speeches #Presidential Speeches #Presidents #History #Presidency #Politics #Undelivered Speeches #Richard Nixon #President Nixon #Apollo 11 #Hillary Clinton #2016 Election #Dwight D. Eisenhower #President Eisenhower #D-Day #World War II #Normandy Invasion #General Eisenhower #President Truman #Harry S. Truman #Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters That Harry Truman Never Mailed #Presidential Correspondence #Presidential Writing

[astoriachef]

#2016 election #the left #the american left is useless #berniebros

[somerandomg33k]

Question

Question: Do you blame someone who voted for a third party or didn't voted at all in 2016 for Trump winning?

#politics #elections #2016 election #Trump