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Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts) Sat Jul 23, 2016, 08:12 PM Jul 2016

Republican Family Values TV: from our stage to your living room, rubes====>

what if Obama had 5 kids from three different wives, and trotted them all out in front of the 2008 convention? would anyone have paid any more attention to that hypothetical than they did this past week?

just imagine the reaction. was it brought up by ANYbody over the last few days?

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Republican Family Values TV: from our stage to your living room, rubes====> (Original Post) Gabi Hayes Jul 2016 OP

The really fucked up part of it is asking his supporters about those hypocrisies liberal N proud Jul 2016 #1

if you lack as much self awareness as it apparently takes to be a pub, it means they're Gabi Hayes Jul 2016 #2

I don't think they even try to explain away their cognitive dissonance... sarae Jul 2016 #3

The clintons have never divorced SheriffBob Jul 2016 #4

Excellent point . K&R Person 2713 Jul 2016 #5

Everybody knows that Jesus forgives Republicans... Wounded Bear Jul 2016 #6

liberal N proud

(60,332 posts)

1. The really fucked up part of it is asking his supporters about those hypocrisies

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 08:18 PM

Jul 2016

They are not bothered by them. They can ignore the shit their candidate does and then hate a Democratic candidate for much less.

You know they are going to attack Hillary for things Bill presumably has done.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

2. if you lack as much self awareness as it apparently takes to be a pub, it means they're

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 08:34 PM

Jul 2016

either morons or psychopaths, right? total self absorption, all the way.

at the low functioning end: all energy is devoted just to maintain some sort of life focus; survival

at the other end, people like Trump and his followers: a modicum of intelligence, spent entirely on building up a protective shield of unreality, in order to deal with severe, crippling, coping mechanism inadequacies, resulting in a virulent strain of narciss-o-megalo-sociopathology, spreading to the top of their emotionally fractured food chain.

the lower the function, the easier to hoodwink, ala Fox news consumers

the higher the function: Hey! I WANT what THEY have, and I'll do whatever it takes to get it.

sarae

(3,284 posts)

3. I don't think they even try to explain away their cognitive dissonance...

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 08:55 PM

Jul 2016

probably because they can't.

They loved the speech by Melania Trump...before they found out it was actually Michelle Obama's speech. LULZ

And when Ivanka gave her speech Thursday night, stressing the importance of equal pay for both genders, the necessity for maternity leave, etc....the Republican audience cheered and clapped (meanwhile, I was in shock). Had anyone else said it, I'm sure they would have been booed out the door.