re: Bring Us Your Memes Thread

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Lol. Did he actually say that?

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Yes, apparently so.

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Anyone know if this is real?

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I haven't researched that one, but I have looked into the 2020 results on their own merit. Shortly after the election results were proclaimed one could find that there were 139 million registered voters in the United States. That hard number can no longer be found, and any attempt to track it down yields wildly varying and unverifiable numbers with no method to back check it. (The numbers presented by Reuters, Wikipedia, and a study by UCSB differ wildly.)

That leaves a ton of questions.
1) 139,000,000 - 74,000,000 = 65,000,000 How did Biden get 81MM votes from a remaining pool of only 65MM?

2) 139,000,000 - 81,000,000 = 58,000,000 How are 74MM votes counted as having been cast for Trump out of only 58MM?

3) We would presume that the votes cast for Trump are verifiable since no one has challenged that number. But WHY has no one challenged that number when it throws the total count off if Biden did indeed collect 81MM?

4) What was the percentage of voter turnout for this election? With 155 million votes being cast for the two top candidates, one must assume that turnout was in the high 90s (if not in excess of 100% of the registered voters).

In a Jan 1, 2021 article, Reuters claims that there "may be" as many as 206.5 million registered voters in the US as of that date, however, they do not provide any evidence to back this claim. (Wikipedia claims 240 million, again without evidence or data to support this claim.) Yet, even with that number of registered voters, turnout would have had to have been slightly over 75%.

In the following pics, keep in mind that the numbers do not reflect REGISTERED voter turnout, but rather the turnout of the VOTING AGED POPULATION and the VOTING ELIGIBLE POPULATION. The number of registered voters is obviously somewhat smaller. So . . .





The last time voter turnout exceeded 60% was in 1968 for Voting Age Population. The only times that the Voting Eligible Population surpassed 60% were in 2008 and 2012 when the hugely popular Obama was elected to office. (I won't go into it here, but I have my suspicions about the legitimacy of those presidential results.)

The above numbers were provided by UCSB in 2021 in the following study:
The American Presidency Project

I'll leave it to you to make up your own mind. Accurate raw data is difficult to track down, but I've presented what I have been able to assemble.

Sorry for the massive tome that distracts from the awesome memes that have been running for better than two years and more than 2000 pages in this thread. Keep it up, y'all. We'll only get to enjoy these memes until they/them can figure out a way to declare them misinformation and/or hate speech and declare memes illegal.