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Cat: Trump has a mandate from the people. Dog: Trump got under 50% of the popular vote and barely more than he got when he lost in 2020. Poster: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. -- Robert Hanlon Cat: The people want change! And they're gonna get it good and hard! Dog: Six million Democrats staying home (or having their votes suppressed) hardly qualifies as a resounding victory. Poster: when a new sect springs up, that is to say a new religion, the first effort is...to destroy the old or existing one. -- Machiavelli Cat: Democracy is when 49% of voters demand we burn it all down, we burn it all down. Dog: Kinda sucks the Constitution's so flammable. Poster: Some men just want to watch the world burn. -- some stupid movie

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Trump's many toadies are all thrilled to trot out the line about the mandate supposedly delivered by the voters this year but the more the votes get counted the less like a mandate it appears. It's always a mystery why anyone votes for Trump and his cronies but the possibly solvable mystery here is why so many Democrats stayed home. It's not as many as it looked the morning after the election, when people were saying 15 million voters just didn't show up, but the current figure of half that still isn't great. If you look at the maps for 2020 and 2024 -- while holding your depression at bay -- you can see only six states flipped. That's a total population smaller than New York and California, of which some percentage of a percentage pulled the switch to take us down the fascism track. That's it, that's the mandate, I'm not doing the exact math but like eight people voted in favor and one grumpy guy sat out.