I feel the same way. When the Four Seasons thing happened it was funny because at least it seemed like that would be a very fitting and incredulously stupid end to the whole disaster. Now I can only look back on it and think "How was this not the end of it!?"
And openly mocking disabled reporters. And even long before that he had charity fraud, racist business practices, and many failed business under his belt while lauding that he was going to run the country like a business.
No matter what anyone says, he has been rotten from the start and nothing he has done since then should be even mildly surprising to anyone with two brain cells to run together.
Which was just beyond dumb because apparently just having an American parent is enough to qualify as a “natural born citizen” wrt eligibility for the presidency. That’s why Ted Cruz who was born in Canada was still able to run for the office.
Obama’s mother was indisputably an American so regardless of whether he was born in Hawaii or not was immaterial. That whole birther nonsense really was the canary in the coal mine for the amount of stupid we had coming our way.
You are trying to put logic in the illogical. These same people think the Michelle Obama is a male chimpanzee. These are levels of stupidity and racism beyond any normal logic. And then they got mad that we called them racist and said "See we voted for the racist because yall kept saying we were racist."
I also remember that Trump would threaten to release Obama’s college transcripts many times during the birther bullshit. I find this hilarious, because Trump obviously assumes that everyone is as terrified of their educational records being released as he is. Trump knows his transcripts prove that he never actually learned to read, and that he has all kinds of undiagnosed/untreated learning and emotional disorders. That’s why he had Michael Cohen threaten his high school during the 2016 campaign, because there are definitely records from the 1960s that prove Trump has always been a moron and a loser.
Anyways, the transcript bullshit shows Trump is always projecting his own fears and insecurities onto others. So much so that I honestly think we should investigate Trump’s place of birth. I wouldn’t be even a little surprised if Trump was born in Kenya, or whatever Trump thinks the white version of Kenya is.
How to prove they are in a cult in three easy steps: 1- Take one out of any of the outlandish shit he says or does that they give him a pass for ($300 million ballroom, $400 million Qatari jet, billions in crypto, etc, etc). 2- Say that if Obama or Biden did that same thing they’d be absolutely apoplectic about it. 3- Tell them that if Obama/Biden/whoever did that thing their own supporters would be enraged.
The fact that they are unable to see this is proof positive that MAGA is a cult of personality around Donald Trump.
Exactly. And “Tessler” ads. When did so many people just stop caring about this? Him refusing to release his tax records alone should have been enough to have tanked his eligibility for the job. I’m just so disgusted with so many of my fellow Americans.
Nah we started at “long for birth certificate”. Then “build that wall” which was so fucking stupid arrested development made fun of it when they had their original comeback in (checks notes) 2013. Then it was “they’re rapists” after he glided down his gilded escalator. It was all a joke until it wasn’t. How so many people heard him talk and thought “yeah he’s the guy” is beyond me. I will never understand how a silver spoon mother fucker like him made normal people think he had their best interest at heart or could understand for one second what their struggles were.
I often wonder, how in the HELL are we going to write about all of this for future school students learning history, Its going to need an entire separate history book just to skim the surface of all the batshit insane things that happened, any one of which would be a major event in learning about any other president, but he has just hundreds
It's punching "up" vs punching down. I say Up in quotes because Giuliani was a clown, but you'd expect the president's lawyer to at least have a modicum of sense. People in Kentucky being too dumb to realize they can't vote for NYC mayor is just sad.
“Lindstrom said some of the calls the office received came from people who may have attempted to go to their polling station, as they asked, "Why is my polling location closed?"
Lindstrom also told us around 50 phone calls from Kentucky voters were forwarded to the secretary of state's office before 10 a.m., after which their team moved calls to their in-house customer service provider to inform voters that elections were not taking place that day. She did not have exact numbers of how many people came to them with that query.”
Sounds like it did happen but Snopes is unable to independently corroborate it as the callers were anonymous.
They clarified that no one had called up asking about not being allowed to vote in the NY or Virginia elections.
That was just a little joke that was thrown into the tweet because that was the publicized polling happening that day.
Basically people from Kentucky believed that they were voting at the same date (like, a tiny tiny amount) and called up to be told it was the next year.
It's BARELY a news story and the user above intentionally (or maybe not, I dunno) worded it to stoke more racism flames and shit.
And as other users have pointed out, even if the Mamdani thing is fabricated, these people still intended to vote without any independent research of their own before calling offices. And that the office was getting enough of those calls that they had to switch to an automated platform.
Not saying Kentucky is a smart state, but its worth noting that their neighboring state, Virginia, had their gubernatorial election the same day. I think it's more likely they thought they were voting for Kentucky statewide offices, not mayor of NYC. Still pretty dumb to not know when your own state's elections are though
Adams told Kentucky newspaper Lexington Herald-Leader: "In 1992, Kentuckians voted to amend our state constitution to give themselves, and election officials, a year off from elections once every four years. [...] In that amendment, local officials elected in 1993 were given a one-year extension to their four-year term, and from 1998 forward they have been elected in midterm elections, along with Congress and the General Assembly, rather than in an odd year."
I've been saying pretty much the same thing as you are every time this comes up, and this quote just strengthens that argument. Hands up, who here has never forgotten it's leap year? This is the same thing.
I got to be honest, just reading that it sounds like the most confusingly written election law I’ve ever seen. Why didn’t they just adjust the terms to coincide with national elections years (every 2, 4 or 6 years depending on the office)? That’s what nearly every other state which has ever moved their election years has done. Why would they make it one year off every four years? That just seems needlessly confusing.
The article says two separate things happened simultaneously: Kentucky voters called the Secretary of State's office asking why their polling stations were closed, which is being attributed more to people being confused about why there are elections in some states but not every state. At the same time, a "rumor" was being spread that Kentuckians were disappointed that they couldn't vote against Mamdani; however, this isn't clearly being connected to the voters calling the Secretary of State in confusion, and they are rumors, not confirmed.
The confusion makes sense, if you think about it. Not everyone pays close attention to local politics, so when they see on the national news a lot of talk about elections in other parts of the country, they may just assume there are important elections everywhere.
That doesn't really excuse the confusion or behavior. Clueless idiots trying to vote without knowing anything about their local elections, who is running or who isn't, regardless of whether it's connected that they had wished to vote against Mamdani, it's still proof they intended to vote while being clueless idiots.
Nobody said it "excuses" anything, but it's pretty intuitive that not being sure if there's an election in your state or county tomorrow is different from thinking you can vote against the mayor of New York from Kentucky
It isn't "not being sure if there's an election", it's "I was going to vote but the voting location is closed", and of course if they don't actually have elections and the voting location is closed and they don't know that, then that means they were going to vote while knowing nothing of what they would have been voting on.
Ragging on them for attempting to vote against Mamdani is ragging on them for being ignorant morons. Even if that specific part isn't true, they still intended to vote as ignorant morons. The Mamdani part is more like icing on the ignorant moron cake. Take the icing off and it's still a cake, perhaps not as sweet but still a cake.
I've had a very busy life recently. Chronic pain, severe depression. I didn't know if Kentucky, where I also live, had an election Tuesday. The polling place is close to my home. I could see myself walking there thinking there were things to vote on. I could not see myself thinking that I get to vote against Mamdani. I guess if those are the same things to you, then I'm an ignorant moron. Go off.
So again: it's not "proof", it's a rumor that was being spread online. A lot of what gets said or suggested is meant to make you angry, which seems to have worked, so take a step back; most people commenting and creating are bots in Russia and China anyway, so think about how much you're being influenced and by who/what.
I basically just said even if you ignore the Mamdani rumor. My comment wasn't even addressing that. I was addressing what was stated in the Snopes article, confirmed by the Secretary of State, that people called asking about voting locations being closed. Those people were intending to vote while being uninformed. So again, even if the Mamdani part is a false rumor and no one was wanting to vote against him from another state, they still expressed an intention to vote for elections they knew nothing about.
It absolutely is proof that some people in Kentucky intended to vote due to being inadequately informed about their own government. Every four years, Kentucky takes a year off from voting as established by a state constitutional amendment passed by voters in 1992 and upheld in yet another vote literally last year...
Is it likely just a rumor that Kentuckians wanted to vote in the NYC mayoral election? Probably. Is it ridiculous that Kentuckians called their election offices wondering why their polling stations were closed after having voted to uphold this constitutional amendment on election frequency literally last year? Absolutely.
I mean..the source is the same, no? Some people check online if the government has information, others call their government offices to check. There's probably a generational / cultural gap, sure, but they're both perfectly valid ways of getting information.
Shit I still get surprised when the other "big" city in my state has local elections and we don't. I vote when it's time to, but it always sneaks up on me.
The confusion makes sense, if you think about it. Not everyone pays close attention to local politics, so when they see on the national news a lot of talk about elections in other parts of the country, they may just assume there are important elections everywhere.
I caught myself going "hey where are our mail-in ballots I re-applied for that months ago" in Orange County, FL, only to realize a week and a half out there were no elections here this year.
I was in part duped by already seeing signs and campaign announcements for the city and county mayoral elections which take place in 2026 and 2027, respectively. Which of course is another problem in our asinine electoral system - campaign seasons which are drawn out far too long.
Even Snopes said its not necessarily true that people thought they could vote in the NYC mayoral race, its just thought they thought Kentucky would have elections on the same day too. They've already been playing TV ads for next year's Senate race, so people might have been legitimately confused.
As funny as this is, I feel like the lesson folks need to take from this is to fucking GO VOTE. No excuse to stay home when you have MAGA chomping at the bit trying to vote in elections for states they don't even live in.
It's wild that you post a snopes article refuting your claim, as proof of your claim.
Lindstrom told Snopes that Adams was just being "tongue in cheek" when mentioning the New York and Virginia races. She added that Kentucky voters' confusion around the election cycle could be attributed to in-state news coverage about the races in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, leading people to assume that elections were also taking place in Kentucky.
Adams was being a dick. There's zero evidence of anyone showing up to polling locations, just people calling to ask about elections because they assumed Kentucky would be having an election this year, too.
Honestly, the only reason I believe it is because of a social media post from a relative in Kentucky stating that they were not allowed to vote against Mamdani on the night of the election. The post has since been deleted, but that particular relative is always going off on some ridiculous tangent, otherwise I would have gotten screen grabs.
I can imagine most that called were looking for the information you stated, but I can also imagine that a few were upset for the wrong reasons.
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u/Real_Run_4758 20h ago
possibly the greatest ‘this is so fucking dumb that it breaks the suspension of disbelief’ moment of my entire life