I have listened to one talking head after another give their opinion on why Trump won. Some of them going on and on how it’s a new day in America and how conservative principles won and how Trump won by a landslide and how God seeks Trump’s advice…and on and on and on. It is sickening…and it’s all nonsense!

Let reality speak for just a minute…Trump got 74million votes in the 2020 Presidential race…and in 2024 he got 74million votes in the Presidential race. What!?!?!?!!?!? Yup, Trump performed the same in 2024 as he did in 2020…so there is no huge landslide…no mandate…no ANYTHING!!! Simply put…Trump won the 2024 Presidential election over Harris…and that is all. Well, kinda.

Back to the 2020 race for minute…so how did Biden “win”? In 2020 Biden got 81million popular votes…11million more votes than Harris in 2024. Here’s what’s interesting:

• In 2024 144million people voted…out of 162million registered voters…that’s a 89% voter turnout.
• In 2020 155million people voted…out of 168million registered voters…that’s a 92% voter turnout.

Going strictly by official numbers…Harris lost – Trump didn’t win!!!!

How is that possible? Trump got 74million popular votes in both elections…and Harris got 14% less votes in 2024 than Biden did in 2020. It is that simple! Harris lost votes…Trump didn’t gain any.

Yeah, yeah…we could debate the actual vote(s) in the 2020 election and who won vs who was selected…I get that. But that is a different debate/conversation. We are talking about the 2024 election here…and the inane, mindless, senseless, and asinine crap from talking heads about how Trump had a landslide victory and he has this incredible God-given mandate to fix America.

He didn’t win by a landslide and he doesn’t have a mandate!!!! People need to get that in their heads!

If you want to know what Trump is supposed to do now…ask the freaking people who voted NOT THE IDIOT TALKING HEADS ON THE RIGHT!!!!

Here are the top 4 concerns people expressed coming out of the polls on election day:

1. The direction of the country…state of the democracy.
2. The economy.
3. Abortion rights.
4. Illegal immigration.

As for #1 – The Direction of the country…state of the country: 75% of the people exiting the polls stated they were worried/concerned about the direction of the country. Depending on the date and the poll sponsor, before the election 71 – 76% of US citizens believed the country was headed in the wrong direction. That matches up exactly with the exit pools. Just about twice as many Repubs felt that way as Dems. So almost everyone (75%) in the US feel that the country was headed in the wrong direction. BUT, 75% of the folks in the US didn’t vote for Trump…Trump barely got a little more than ½ of the popular vote. There is no overall mandate for some radical change in the direction of the country to the right.

As for #2 & #4 (Economy & Legal Immigrants): Once again…as horrible as both are in the US right now…there was no overwhelming vote for Trump to fix it. How so? If there was Trump would have won by 10million votes vs winning by less than 5million.

Taken at face value:

• Trump in 2024 didn’t perform as well as Biden in 2020.
• Harris in 2024 performed very slightly worse than Trump in 2020 or 2024.

Now…the talking heads…

These freaking idiots talk about Trump winning by getting this demographic or that gender or that whatever. It is all pure bullshit!! Folks, realistically Trump didn’t get any more votes in 2024 than he did in 2020. What does that mean?

All it means is Trump won this time because Harris got less votes…but only marginally so. Remember, Harris only got barely 4+% less than Trump…THAT IS NOT A LANDSLIDE!!!!!

And that being the case…THERE IS NO POLITICAL MANDATE!!!!!

There is no major shift in principles, no change of hearts of the voters, no move to the Republicans, no sudden national repentance. Trump barely won…barely.

So what did the voters tell Trump they want him to do:

• Fix the economy.
• Fix Illegal immigration.

Remember the country is still politically split, virtually 50/50 – Republican/Democrat. There wasn’t and isn’t some major national political shift in any direction!

So what about fixing the direction of the country (as in the state of the democracy)? Well, quite honestly…he can’t. Why? Because the country is split along political lines…those political lines pretty much match class lines. So how can he fix the country? Only by changing the minds of a whole bunch of voters. And the only way he does that is by what he does…his actions…his performance. And changing all those minds my friend will not be easy…actually…probably impossible.

Why? Opposition by the ruling class, the elites, the war-mongers, the authoritarians, the leftists, and global powers.

So please…please…don’t get suckered into all this nonsense commentary, discussion, aggrandizing, bloviating, and fantasy from the talking heads. Just appreciate that Trump won and that Congress appears to be able to assist him.

I am begging you, pleading with you…continue to Pray, Plan, Prepare, Practice, Pray, and be Peaceful.

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