I agree there must have been a sizable chunk of voters who were unaware that Trump posed a threat to democracy itself, but I assume those people are just generally relatively uninformed. The way I knew he was a threat to democracy was through consuming mainstream media (and some podcasts).

By 2024 Trump had been on the political scene for almost a decade. This was post Jan 6. There was no excuse for putting him back in power. The voters sanewashed him to themselves. People are very adaptable. We are the same species who owned slaves, walked on the moon, tore out peoples hearts at the tops of pyramids, sit in boxes for 8 hours a day, and hunted giant fuzzy elephants to extinction by hand - and all of it is “normal.”

Even today, 37% of Americans think Trump is great!

You’re right, they look better as sixes. It’s just a goofy font.

*merther

What % of NYT readers voted for Trump? It has to be minuscule.

The election was so close, there are dozens of but-for causes that could have tipped the scale, but the NYT not being sufficiently alarmist about Trump (which is what that CNN article you linked claims - not that the paper was a proponent of Trump, as you say) probably wasn’t one of them.

Trump uses his grace as a tool to shape others’ behavior. All that matters is the last thing you said about him. His vice president once called him “America’s Hitler.”

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Joe Rogan

The Mothman Prophecies

Might have been some crank lobbying Trump to allow the sale of a particular snake oil.

Wake up, number thirty seven.

WOMEN??? Bleh!

That’s the controversial new electric Ferrari. Apparently it was not popular with Ferrari fans.

There are no ads on the iPad, so it’s probably a double din radio as you said.