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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumscnn had a half-dozen deplorables on discussing trump and russia
these people live in an alternative reality.
they feel trump is being persecuted by democrats and the media
'putin has done a pretty good job with his agenda' wtf?
they don't care about russia
it's Hillary's people who are bringing all this up on trump.
i personally don't give a shit about these people and they are deplorable.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Twisted into knots trying to justify the unjustifiable.
JHB
(37,166 posts)These are axe-grinding addicts, accustomed to frequent snorts of the grinding dust, and they're convinced their suppliers are such nice men who are absolutely not pushers.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)So much FOX and Clear Channel propaganda for so long has turned Americans into pro-Russian brainwashed sycophants.
gordianot
(15,259 posts)In my effort to develop situational awareness I have identified those Trump supporters close to me especially relatives. They get no breaks from me in perpetuity.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)They all seemed incredibly misinformed and incable of critical thought.
I'm not sure what the point of this segment was, other than to demonstrate that Trump supporters are ignorant.
spanone
(135,950 posts)there was not one critical thought, as you said. it was all about their love for the donald.
oh, and they thought our own government was listening to all their conversations....dumb fux
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,804 posts)He's twitting today about Flynn taking immunity followed by mentioning media and Dems, Russia equals a witch hunt and how he won a landslide.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847766558520856578
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ksoze
(2,068 posts)It is a reminder what we face in a country so divided. Ignoring that segment is costly, so best to have it exposed for all to see.
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)Folks, it's one minute to midnight
and these idiots aren't getting it.
Facepalm.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,038 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)CousinIT
(9,275 posts)...and won under the SAME circumstances -- would they be pissed off THEN?
You KNOW they would.
spanone
(135,950 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,786 posts)................she would have been impeached within minutes of taking the Oath of Office. It wouldn't have mattered. She could have been the reincarnation of Jesus and Superman in one body, and the Congressional Republicans still would have impeached her long ago. They were talking about it months before the election was even held. She's almost better off having NOT won. The Republicans would have blocked literally everything she tried to do, would have complained she was ineffective, and then would have impeached her based on nothing a long time ago. At the very least, this way people actually get to see Trump's incompetence, and it will result in everyone but the hardest of the hardcore deplorables turning on the entire Republican party. I predicted that Trump would be SO bad that we'd see a tsunami of Democratic wins in 2018 and 2020, and I stand by that. It would have gone the other way had Hillary actually been allowed to win.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)Are they motivated because they don't want to be wrong?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Politics,religion, sports teams etc. Humans are not rational creatures. Like everything our brains are products of our evolutionary past. Our brains are not optimized for reason, our brains are optimized to keep us alive and to hopefully have some kids.
So the natural state of human thinking is not reason, it is not logic. It is emotion. And we come up with excuses to think why we believe something after the fact.
In politics, we make a decision and then minimize the facts against us and emphasize those facts that agree with us.
Everyone does it.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)You start with your conclusion and work backwards to justify it, ignoring facts that disconfirm your conclusion.
See confirmation bias.
We do it too but not as extravagantly. I can't imagine acting like they do.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Assholes.
spanone
(135,950 posts)it's so simple to call all things politics.
Johonny
(20,965 posts)so they either live in their own little world or the world of make believe.
mopinko
(70,388 posts)when cheeto goes down, the ct's will fly in every direction.
there is a big correlation between believing in ct's and supporting this human garbage.
they will likely never believe that he did anything wrong. and that he was hung by the "deep state"