r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 11d ago

Paywall Trump, 79, Seems Utterly Perplexed About Where Alaska Is - The president made multiple comments suggesting he doesn’t know Alaska is part of the United States.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-seems-utterly-perplexed-about-where-alaska-is/
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u/public_enemy_obi_wan Texas 10d ago

I'll never fkn understand how "laughing Kamala" was any type of insult or disqualifier, but here we are.....

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u/OhSixTJ 10d ago

we should ask the many democrats who chose not to vote for her. I'm thinking it was a race/gender thing for them which is...ironic.

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u/Orangecuppa Ohio 10d ago

I know a girl who said she didn't vote for Kamala because of her stance on Gaza.

Like... seriously. You'd think TRUMP would do better? She didn't vote for Trump either, she just didn't vote so it's the same as voting for Trump imo.

I'm sure many many people out there are similar. It's crazy how this Gaza issue really fucked over Kamala and the US in general.

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u/NonlocalA 10d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a huge psy-op.

Because guess what the fuck happened to the protests after Kamala lost? Sure, there's some die hards left, and some terrorist actions. But now that Gaza is literally a smoking crater, there's hardly a peep in the states. Just a whole bunch of surprised pikachu faces.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

It was a psy-op. The CCP controls what content is trending on Tik Tok, so in the months leading up to the 2024 election, they flooded Tik Tok with videos of Israeli violence against Palestinians and videos of people implicating the Democratic Party in said violence. They wanted Trump to win because they knew that would destabilize the US and allow China to become the world’s #1 superpower.

IMO, it was a pretty transparent psy-op and it’s shameful that we fell for it. Long before the 2024 election, it was clear that Tik Tok was being used as a psychological weapon, as evidenced by the fact that the Chinese version of the app promotes educational content while the American version promotes idiocy. Many of the videos on Tik Tok were also from past Israeli attacks on Gaza but were presented as footage from the current one. It’s bizarre that they would lie about events in Gaza when the truth is horrifying enough, but they did, and we failed to grasp the implications.