Almost a week after Democrats swept the midterms with historic gains in Congress and downballot races, Donald Trump denied the legitimacy of election results across the country and resurrected old conspiracy theories about voting machines.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump posted on social media Monday morning. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”

Democrats saw historic, sweeping gains across the country last week. They won the largest majority in decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, flipped party control of the U.S. Senate and clinched control of local governments in numerous states.

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[–] 93 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Shut up, dumbfuck. All you do is lie and everyone knows it.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The definition of "everbody,"" while including us, sadly does not include a very large number of people.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago*

    I think there was a part of me that was expecting everything to become awesome literally overnight. I think there are MAGA people abandoning ship now, but there are still some MAGA morons remaining. News stories about ICE still have commenters demanding "the whole story" because they can't acknowledge that sometimes ICE acts immorally

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  • [–] 65 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote

    What he means is that in some races, Republicans would have lost if every single Dem voter had stayed home on election day...

    Because so many Dem voters couldn't wait and voted early.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    With threats of armed goons stalking polling places on Election Day, who could blame anyone for getting in an early vote?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Exactly. We were there on the first day of early voting. Especially because when you vote in person in this state, you have to vote at the exact precinct to which you are assigned. In a blue bubble next to a red metro in a red state, NO WAY we were waiting for whatever shit he had planned for last Tuesday.

    He said to vote like he was on the ballot. He talked loudly about an "October surprise" while he performatively placed National Guardsmen at a ballot box in DC. He talked about "DoJ presence" at polling places and tried very hard to float the credible threat of ICE violence at voting sites. He talked a lot of shit. This time, I took him at his word.

    And we're not the only ones who believed it because never before have I ever seen a line during early voting, and certainly never at the midterms, but we actually had to wait a bit to get in.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    I'm just surprised he didn't say it sooner. The little bitch.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    I think they had him sedated or something so he wouldn't pop a blood vessel when results came in. He was way too calm for those few days. Uncharacteristically for him.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago

    Yeah it was weird. The day after he was just rambling about the ballroom like he was on another planet. Definitely not what he got us used too. Either they sedated him, he brain snapped and he's in total denial, or he's cooking something bad.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    In his interview with 60 Minutes, he actually talked about walking back his immigration policies. Of course, during the broadcast of this interview, 60 Minutes pointed out that after the interview he made Stephen Miller chief of staff and that seems to contradict this promise

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    We know he agrees with the last person he talked with so I guess Stephen Miller got to him after that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    "Look Big Guy, you've done enough to save America, and these animals obviously don't appreciate it. How about you just tend to your legacy and building projects, and let me handle the executive functions, huh? You have fun, and I do all the hard work, how does that sound?"

    Of course Trump would respond positively to that.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Yes the party that has no power or ownership over the machines hacked them and cheated, meanwhile the party who has power and direct ownership of the machines were helpless to stop them, if anything that just tells us how incompetent they are, while also completely doubtful.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    2016 when the Dems were in power, it was a super duper fair election

    2020 when the repugnants were in power, that was the worst most corrupt election in US history.

    2024 when the Dems were back in power and the reds won in questionably sweeping fashion, it was the bigliest securiest election is US history.

    2026 when literal Nazis controlled all 3 branches, the election was, yet again, corrupt AF

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  • [–] 38 points 2 days ago (10 children)

    How could the Polls be so wrong???

    What polls? Show me any polls that didn't predict a blue wave.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I bet this means nobody dared to tell him how bad the poll data actually was.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    That’s one thing I haven’t been able to figure out. I know he’s surrounded by yes-men, but is he really that sheltered? He has to have directly been told he’s a piece of shit by hundreds, if not thousands. What goes on in his head? He’s consistently up there with Musk as one of the most hated people in the U.S.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago*

    I know he’s surrounded by yes-men, but is he really that sheltered?

    More than you might think. They're not just sycophants, but people who have now gotten jobs in or near the Oval Office itself, working for a highly volatile, unstable man-baby who screams at and fires people on the regular just because he needs someone to blame. I'm sure some of them, especially the younger ones, are traumatized.

    So it's everything you said, but add some terror and the threat of losing everything you ever worked for, and that's the level of information filtering he is surrounded with. Nobody's going to tell him what he doesn't want to hear, especially if someone else can do it, and in the end he just doesn't get told a lot of things.

    This is the one shiny thing about Stephen Miller getting the Chief of Staff job: he's no Susie Wiles, and he's now going to be the personal target of all that demented presidential ire. Whatever happens from this point forward, at some point it's all going to be Miller's fault even to Trump, and the ketchup will fly, and he too will be thrown under the bus.

    (Note that Miller was also left on the decoy plane when Trump and Natalie Harp left via food truck to get on the real Air Force One in Turkey: to Trump, Miller wasn't worth saving. None of them were, except Harp.)

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  • [–] 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    The midterm vote was not honest, we know that because of the open and obvious gerrymandering and voter suppression the GOP was leaning fuck you hard on. They fucked up so bad that in an election specifically rigged by them for GOP victories they got absolutely fucking trounced.

    “Could it be that we have fomented this unquenchable hatred towards ourselves and that we can only blame our losses on our own abject failures?

    ….No, it’s the voters who are wrong!”

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    The gerrymandering actually backfired on them and magnified their loss. Cherry on top really.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago*

    That was beautiful. They seemed to think that if they gerrymandered those districts out of existence, they also made the votes disappear, but that's now how it works. Those votes still exist, they've just been put into a previously safe red district, thus diluting it, and making it susceptible to a flip. In most elections, it wouldn't matter, but in a once in a century wave, they can ALL flip. And that's exactly what happened.

    Hilarious, and a perfect future lesson to teach students the nuances of gerrymandering.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    So Miller is telling him how to ignore the results and destroy the last shred of democracy? Got it.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I think in most cases the margin was so large there isn't much they can actually do about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    There's virtually nothing they can do to stop the democrats from taking power....legally. the next thing to worry about is that they'll do something illegally to stop democrats from taking power. I hope somebody with power has a plan to stop any coup attempts

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  • [–] 30 points 2 days ago

    It's all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter.

    And people, I think we just got handed a quote for the ages.

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    Didn't you say Musk fixed that the last election cycle? I used to get fired up with Trump quotes, but at this point all I can think of is: shut the fuck up you old demented fool...

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago

    oh man I thought he might actually go one election without claiming this.

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    Ha ha, what a bitch.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I think his base is a lot less likely to swallow this shit when they know how dissatisfied they themselves feel.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I was wondering when he'd revert to the "sToLeN eLeCtiOn!!1!" trope. Surprised it took this long honestly.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    He didn't get the support at first or he would have. I believe the justice department resignations were a part of it. He faced a mass exodus if he ordered them to pursue fake charges.

    An exodus only because the justice folks knew it wouldn't work, not because they've any loyalty to the US, that goes without saying to anyone still in the federal justice system though. And there were precious few before with any fucking morals.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Heads I win, tails you cheated.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    First time he's ever disputed election results when they're not in his favor, am I right?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    No what happened is in spite of your blatant voter suppression efforts voters overwhelmingly rejected MAGA.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Remember, every accusation is a confession. Every accusation is a confession. "...the results must have been manipulated!" So, this blue wave happened despite efforts by Trump's toadies to do the manipulation. They done royally fucked up.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    This was my thought as well. Republicans cheated in every way imaginable and still came up short.

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  • I still have zero doubts the places reds still won were the result of manipulation and them not shooting themselves in the foot hard enough. Just look at Mississippi for suppression which still barely wasn't enough and when they try to unsuppress it only works against them

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago*

    SHOCKER.

    I must give him credit, he did last a few days longer than I suspected before calling "no fair I was robbed". Almost a week!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    Grandpa Donald telling his stories again?...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago

    of course he started this bullshit again. republicans only cry foul when they lose

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I had this on every line of my bingo card.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    One analyst said (the day after the election) it was too early for Trump's real reaction. Guess he was right. Here's the real reaction.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Dems lose "gods plan"

    Dems win "can't trust the machines"

    Cry harder fat fuck

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Trump thinks machines are more important than people, got it. That explains a lot, actually.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    After the election was over I personally saw some voting machines removed from my local rec center and placed in a truck for removal and storage of the unit. Make of that what you will. /s

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Everything's computer!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago*

    Fuck him and his "minor update" in the swing states. Let's not forget the fucking Russians and their banks of mobile phones that every single MAGA turd fell for. Let's return to the Epstein Files.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The least shocking news of the year

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    Funny how easily you lose without Russian AI... oh sorry the Russian "Super Intelligence".

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  • Gotta keep playing the hits for the morons.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    Oh fuck off, pedo.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    He was chill after the election because the centrist Democrats promised they weren’t going to go at him too hard and tried to push that message. Once he saw that they didn’t have the power and are looking to get replaced as leadership, Trump changed his tune. Now it’s “stolen.” This fucker’s a narcissist. Never take his actions from any other perspective.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    This shit is old and stale, and nobody buys it anymore. Nobody cheated, because they didn't have to cheat, everybody just hates Trump and MAGA that much.

    His problem wasn't even the Democrats, he should expect them to vote against him. His problem is the Independents, who went against him nearly 100%. EVERY election in America is decided by the Independents, and they broke AGAINST Trump in a major way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    He is impervious to doing good things. That early "concession" just couldn't last.

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    I got a piece of paper and a marker and filled in the boxes on the paper with the marker. It was a little embarrassing to be honest. Are the Sharpies rigged? I used my own Sharpie if that makes a difference.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    when he says "does anybody" after there were a record amount of people voting....

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