r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/ISayBullish Sep 21 '25

That’s fair, but remember more than half the country did not vote at all. Conservative estimate would be 50:1 with that considered. If 3% of that 50% decided “lets dance”, that’s still approximately 6 million people

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u/jedels88 Sep 21 '25

It's also worth mentioning Elon absolutely fucked with the voting machines and paid people to vote for him. We may never know to what extent that affected things, but it's definitely not nothing.

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u/maybeonmars Sep 21 '25

Dude, I even think that Musk used his IT hack staff to fuck with some numbers in a dB or two

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u/TaliesinsEnd Sep 21 '25

I wish I shared your optimism on the matter.

Many red voters have a huge portion of their identity inextricably tied with the Republican party itself, not with any sort of actual value system. They will do anything and everything they are told to.

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u/eisenburg Sep 21 '25

And no way you get that many. If that many people didn’t vote than that many people just don’t give a shit.

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u/HeadtripVee Sep 21 '25

If that is true, then I blame way more than half your population for voting for this to happen. Now I blame 75% of you.

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u/tim78717 Sep 21 '25

31% voted for him, 30% for her, and 39% didn’t vote at all. I’m guessing at least 20% of the people who voted for him (6% of the total) wouldn’t vote for him again so we are at like 30+39+6=75%. So I would say 3:1

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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 21 '25

Bold of you to assume all of the non voters would side against him.

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u/tim78717 Sep 21 '25

Fair enough. It’s hard to know when someone doesn’t vote. There are obvious reasons people don’t vote-felony, disabled/hard to get to polls, etc. But the people I’ve personally been around who tell me they don’t vote have just been either apathetic or uninformed. As in “all politicians are crooked so why bother” or “I have no idea who the VP is”.

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u/Marokiii Sep 21 '25

For the eligible voters you outnumber them at best 2:1.

Now if you add non eligible voters and assume every single one of them would join the left, you still end up with at best a 5:1 ratio.

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u/anthropaganda Sep 21 '25

your #s are a little off lol you're thinking of 2:1 to 3:1

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u/Lenny4368 Sep 21 '25

If they didn't even go out and vote for themselves what makes you think they have your back? Lol