Almost a week after Democrats swept the midterms with historic gains in Congress and downballot races, Donald Trump denied the legitimacy of election results across the country and resurrected old conspiracy theories about voting machines.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump posted on social media Monday morning. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”

Democrats saw historic, sweeping gains across the country last week. They won the largest majority in decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, flipped party control of the U.S. Senate and clinched control of local governments in numerous states.

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    Fuck him and his “minor update” in the swing states. Let’s not forget the fucking Russians and their banks of mobile phones that every single MAGA turd fell for. Let’s return to the Epstein Files.

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    I think his base is a lot less likely to swallow this shit when they know how dissatisfied they themselves feel.

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    No what happened is in spite of your blatant voter suppression efforts voters overwhelmingly rejected MAGA.

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      Remember, every accusation is a confession. Every accusation is a confession. “…the results must have been manipulated!” So, this blue wave happened despite efforts by Trump’s toadies to do the manipulation. They done royally fucked up.

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    He was chill after the election because the centrist Democrats promised they weren’t going to go at him too hard and tried to push that message. Once he saw that they didn’t have the power and are looking to get replaced as leadership, Trump changed his tune. Now it’s “stolen.” This fucker’s a narcissist. Never take his actions from any other perspective.

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    The midterm vote was not honest, we know that because of the open and obvious gerrymandering and voter suppression the GOP was leaning fuck you hard on. They fucked up so bad that in an election specifically rigged by them for GOP victories they got absolutely fucking trounced.

    “Could it be that we have fomented this unquenchable hatred towards ourselves and that we can only blame our losses on our own abject failures?

    ….No, it’s the voters who are wrong!”

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    It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter.

    And people, I think we just got handed a quote for the ages.

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    How could the Polls be so wrong???

    What polls? Show me any polls that didn’t predict a blue wave.

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        That’s one thing I haven’t been able to figure out. I know he’s surrounded by yes-men, but is he really that sheltered? He has to have directly been told he’s a piece of shit by hundreds, if not thousands. What goes on in his head? He’s consistently up there with Musk as one of the most hated people in the U.S.

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          Remember the hurricane prediction map that they drew on so he could be right when he said it was going to hit Alabama (or some other gulf state).

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          I know he’s surrounded by yes-men, but is he really that sheltered?

          More than you might think. They’re not just sycophants, but people who have now gotten jobs in or near the Oval Office itself, working for a highly volatile, unstable man-baby who screams at and fires people on the regular just because he needs someone to blame. I’m sure some of them, especially the younger ones, are traumatized.

          So it’s everything you said, but add some terror and the threat of losing everything you ever worked for, and that’s the level of information filtering he is surrounded with. Nobody’s going to tell him what he doesn’t want to hear, especially if someone else can do it, and in the end he just doesn’t get told a lot of things.

          This is the one shiny thing about Stephen Miller getting the Chief of Staff job: he’s no Susie Wiles, and he’s now going to be the personal target of all that demented presidential ire. Whatever happens from this point forward, at some point it’s all going to be Miller’s fault even to Trump, and the ketchup will fly, and he too will be thrown under the bus.

          (Note that Miller was also left on the decoy plane when Trump and Natalie Harp left via food truck to get on the real Air Force One in Turkey: to Trump, Miller wasn’t worth saving. None of them were, except Harp.)

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      I think they had him sedated or something so he wouldn’t pop a blood vessel when results came in. He was way too calm for those few days. Uncharacteristically for him.

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        In his interview with 60 Minutes, he actually talked about walking back his immigration policies. Of course, during the broadcast of this interview, 60 Minutes pointed out that after the interview he made Stephen Miller chief of staff and that seems to contradict this promise

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          We know he agrees with the last person he talked with so I guess Stephen Miller got to him after that.

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        Yeah it was weird. The day after he was just rambling about the ballroom like he was on another planet. Definitely not what he got us used too. Either they sedated him, he brain snapped and he’s in total denial, or he’s cooking something bad.