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OldBaldy1701E

(5,291 posts)
7. After hearing
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 02:14 PM
Jan 2021

about how so many have been caught and charged thanks to their inability to stop seeking attention, calling them stupid is an understatement. So many truly think that, even if their attempt failed, they can just go home and get back to that puzzle. All I can say is there had better be some consequences or there will be a serious lack of faith in anything governmental after this.

bucolic_frolic

(43,836 posts)
2. They all seem to have enough time, money and means to travel
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:17 PM
Jan 2021

If they'd use their resources to improve their lives maybe they wouldn't be so angry about whatever is fed into their heads?

Amaryllis

(9,528 posts)
3. Many of them sincerely believe that the election was stolen and their vote was taken
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:31 PM
Jan 2021

from them, and that Congress and the courts have done nothing and they have no recourse to remedy that. I heard one guy in the crowd asked by a reporter why he was doing this, and said this election was stolen, and no one will help them, not Congress, not the courts, even the Supreme Court, so this was the only thing left to do. This does not excuse what they did but it does explain the thinking of many of them.

bucolic_frolic

(43,836 posts)
4. Um, they might seek to validate their beliefs before committing crimes to support them?
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:36 PM
Jan 2021

I mean, like, watch another news channel, or listen to the other side, or read a few court rulings?

Amaryllis

(9,528 posts)
8. THey believe other viewpoints are lies. THey dont know there is another side. I actually had a
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 02:42 PM
Jan 2021

Fox news watcher tell me once that Fox is the only one that tells the truth. ANd you can't just chalk it up to being stupid. It's hard to explain. CErtainly Josh Hawley is not stupid, or Ted Cruz, as far as IQ goes. What makes some people vulnerable to brainwashing and not others?

riversedge

(70,781 posts)
5. Trump cult stooge Peter Navarro on Fox saying Trump won the Nov 3 election!!
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:39 PM
Jan 2021

This is why so many trump cultists believe the election was stolen. Over and over and over the lie is told.


@EricKleefeld
Peter Navarro: “The Democratic Party did violence to this country by attacking a president who I believe was legally elected on November 3,” “74 million Americans out there” are “pissed off” like him.

Maria Bartiromo: “We know that there were irregularities in this election.”


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Jimvanhise

(305 posts)
6. SHE'S BEING MOVED
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 02:05 PM
Jan 2021

Fox News is moving her show out of prime time into early afternoon. I expect she'll be gone soon.

dreamland

(964 posts)
9. There needs to be serious deprogramming here.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 03:10 PM
Jan 2021

Fox news, Risk Limbah, Alax Jones, all contributed to America's ignorance with their lies. We need to pop them in a cell with MSNBC playing 24/7 to wake their dead brains. Already it's done harm to our military personnel when they are only showing the one side.

 

magicguido

(6,315 posts)
11. Used by trump; then Thrown Under the Bus as he now claims he despises violence too late.
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 03:45 PM
Jan 2021

I suspect when they wake up ; thousands will turn on trump

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