The president made the remarks alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He claimed earlier in the day that Gazans had "no alternative" but to leave their homes.
Trump won with 1% of the vote.
35% of registered, eligible voters stayed home. If 1% of those that stayed home would have voted we would be in a different world right now.
Protest voters are absolutely to blame for this.
If you actually want to look at the numbers of who stayed home in 2024 after voting in 2020 then those demographics were the older white men/women and hispanic men. Probably because both those groups have a harder time stomaching a woman with the exact same policies
The people protesting the Zionists' war were college students and under 30s, who voted the exact same they always do.
This election was an existential threat to democracy. Anyone who was able to vote and didn't vote for Harris, the opposition candidate, is to blame. The Democrats who stayed home because of fucking Gaza even moreso. We Harris voters knew this shit would happen because we pay attention. Anyone who voted for trump to send a message needs to do the same. There was 0 chance a trump presidency would turn out well for the Palestinians in Gaza.
"Both sides are bad, so I refuse to vote for either"
"Democrats need to earn my vote"
"Well, yeah, Trump is definitely bad. I don't want Trump. But I demand a pony and a blowjob. If the Democrats want my vote, they're going to have to do more than just stop Trump from killing all the ponies. "
You should be calling return2ozma and TokenBoomer too. The 'I'm not voting for Trump's opponent, but I'm gonna complain about the consequences', crowd.
I'm sure the 100k people who use Lemmy swayed the millions of voters the Dems needed to defeat fascism... for another 4 years... until the next manufactured choice between "corporate whore lite" and "yet another fascist".