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Jesus, centrist Democrats really imagine that people were that happy because Biden won?

Fuck no. People were happy because Trump lost.

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From the article:

I would estimate that a very tiny percentage of the joy was attributable to specific policy objectives of the incoming Biden administration and that virtually all of it reflected relief that the bad man was gone. The 81,268,924 voters who pulled the lever for Biden were united by the belief that Donald Trump’s presidency was a civic emergency

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Yes, I read the article. The headline is not consistent with the article, nor is it consistent with reality.

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Yeah, they didn’t read it. It’s a very pro-Biden anti-Trump article.

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Relieved Trump lost. I’ll be relieved if he loses again and will vote for whomever isn’t Trump again too though. No matter what.

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And cheered on Biden as he kept most of Trump’s worst policies.

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No? Lmao I remember the ecstasy of getting Trump out though

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Ecstasy? More like relief.

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More like… that same feeling when your flat tire takes air long enough to get you to service station.

yeah, it still sucks, but hey, at least you don’t have to call a tow. (Because, thanks Obama, my car doesn’t have a spare. the efficiency standards for cars were low enough that they decided to remove the spare to cut it’s weight out…)

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More like… that same feeling when your flat tire takes air long enough to get you to service station.

Except Bridgestone doesn’t keep demanding credit for no longer blowing up.

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it’s really a deflated feeling, isn’t it?

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Seriously. Never once have I worried that Joe Biden will start WW3 with a tweet.

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What kind of idiot gets this excited for presidents?

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They really don’t get it… They just can’t fathom that liberals are voting for Democrats to save democracy not because we have any interest in Joe Biden. We just don’t want to become North Korea. How hard is that to understand?

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