monica_b1998@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoThe U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five monthsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square187linkfedilinkarrow-up1836arrow-down18
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minus-squareduncan_bayne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoDumbfucks will always dumbfuck. Trick is to get the voters who stayed home. The numbers I found with a quick search … Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote. Of the 65.3% of the eligible voters who voted. Which means actually only 32.5% of Americans voted for him, in the sense of “could be arsed to get off the couch and cast a ballot”. That’s an encouraging number to work with.
Dumbfucks will always dumbfuck. Trick is to get the voters who stayed home. The numbers I found with a quick search …
Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote.
Of the 65.3% of the eligible voters who voted.
Which means actually only 32.5% of Americans voted for him, in the sense of “could be arsed to get off the couch and cast a ballot”.
That’s an encouraging number to work with.