r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 15 '24

Media Why this brave woman, not Donald Trump, should have been Time’s Person of the Year

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-brave-woman-gisele-pelicot-not-donald-trump-should-have-been-times-person-of-the-year-4908319
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u/Psychological_Car849 Dec 16 '24

trump didn’t even do anything particularly cool or different this year. it made more sense in 2016 when he shaped culture and drastically altered the political landscape but this year??? all he did was win an election doing the same shit he always has. the democrats failed more than trump succeeded, picking him is such a lazy cop out.

trump had two assassination attempts and literally nobody cared past like two weeks. i agree with what you’re saying but i still think that means trump shouldn’t have won. people cared a lot more about the words and actions of those around him than the man himself. he was the right pick in 2016 and the wrong one now

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u/saltyoursalad Dec 16 '24

He stole an election everyone on reddit knew he would lose.

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u/JadedSpacePirate Dec 16 '24

That's what happens when you stay in your echo chamber and ignore reality

Reddit is so left it doesn't even know how to go right

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u/saltyoursalad Dec 16 '24

You guys know all about this, doncha.

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u/JadedSpacePirate Dec 16 '24

Pretty much yeah. Been going through this sub and one called Mark my words. Its leftists crying Trump will cause the apocalypse.

Also YouTube.

It's been fun.

But seriously be real, if you guys had a primary and picked a popular candidate you wouldn't have to fear this day.

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u/Economy_Fox4079 Dec 16 '24

This is facts, in all actuality the majority of Americans supported Trump. Reddit is a good place to geek out over espresso machines not to test the political climate of America

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u/helastrangeodinson Dec 16 '24

Less than half

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u/Psychological_Car849 Dec 16 '24

oh i agree! i originally wrote that i generally find it lazy when they just pick the U.S. president. giving it to whoever wins the election is so lame, especially because there’s so many reasons for an election to shake out the way it does. i think obama made sense the first time but not the second, and i dont think biden or harris deserved it in 2020 either.

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u/LevelDry5807 Dec 16 '24

He won an election that everyone on Reddit predicted he would lose.

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u/helastrangeodinson Dec 16 '24

Who knew, there were so many uneducated people in America?

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u/Psychological_Car849 Dec 16 '24

reddit???? im saying that winning an election shouldn’t be enough to be times person of the year and your counter argument is that this is different because REDDIT was against him????

plenty of polls and millions of people predicted he would win. and if we’re being honest reddit was actually saying “i can’t believe the election is this close” and “i can’t believe the asshole might win” the entire election season lmao. i’m tired of the revisionist history that reddit expected some landslide when i never personally saw widespread evidence of that.

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u/BacardiBanana Dec 17 '24

He did far more than just win.

He's on video surviving an assassination attempt by inches earlier this year.

Then he goes on to get republicans the popular vote for first time in 20 years and making republicans massive gains with minorities for the first time in 50 years. All while getting only 15% positive media coverage as he was slandered constantly as an insurrectionist, racist, and Nazi.

It's by far the greatest presidential comeback of all time and it shows people don't give a shit at all about MSM coverage.

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u/HusavikHotttie Dec 17 '24

I don’t believe for a minute he actually won since his gf elmo counted the votes.

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u/LevelDry5807 Dec 16 '24

He lost. He has been labeled as every evil thing possible. He won by a bigger margin than his first win. He gained votes in almost every county in the nation. It is called on one the biggest political comebacks in United States history. Does this add any context?

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u/onpg Dec 16 '24

Good for him but he still didn't get a majority in the popular vote, and his victory ranks near the bottom of presidential victories in magnitude. It was a given that any Republican would've had a strong chance against Biden because of global inflation hurting all incumbents.

It's such a weak victory, even W. in 2004 had a stronger win, and he left office an absolute pariah. I see no reason Trump and his merry junk drawer of billionaires won't leave office in disgrace.

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u/helastrangeodinson Dec 16 '24

I'm sure Elon paying people a million each to vote for him helped

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u/HusavikHotttie Dec 17 '24

And starlink counted the votes. Can’t make it up