One thing that Donald Trump and his supporters need to understand.

[kentuck]

A jury does not have to consist of only people that support Donald Trump, in order to be "fair".

An investigation does not have to consist of people that voted for Donald Trump in order to be "fair".

Just because someone says something critical of Donald Trump does not make it a "hoax" and does not make them un-American.

Just because someone states a fact that Donald Trump disagrees with does not make it false.

This bullshit needs to cease.

[Ilsa]

1. We saw what happened with Manafort's trial.

I'm sure there was more than one trump voter on that jury. But one of them refused to convict on a blatantly obvious crime among the charges. She didn't uphold her oath.

The others on the jury gave me hope in believing that not all trumpers are cultists.

[barbtries]

2. how are you going to make them understand?

they don't even think Democrats qualify as Americans, let alone "fair."

they will not do what you say they must do. it's frustrating, depressing, and about as wrong as wrong can be, but it is what it is.

[kentuck]

3. Sometimes people have to be told the obvious.

To their faces.

Including Donald Trump.

I said they "need" to understand. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

[Wounded Bear]

4. It should be that simple, but...

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It doesn't always work.

[Marcuse]

15. You can lead people to knowledge, but you can't make them think.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Amen to that Marcuse

The Huff picture is hysterical, but you know what will be even more humorous
When the people are pictured, kneeling down and kissing his ring.............

I suspect that will take place prior to the election.........

[lastlib]

13. Dimensional lumber over the head....

It may not make them see the truth, and you will break a lot of good boards, but it will be immensely gratifying.

[CaptainTruth]

30. I am enjoying your comment far more than I should.

[totodeinhere]

17. You are right, and sadly, even if a Democrat wins back the presidency this country will

remain deeply divided, and the struggle will not be over.

[Denis 11]

18. Very true

My in-laws are incensed that I'm a Democrat.
They hold my beliefs as throughly illegitimate.
They have overdosed on Fox news.

[czarjak]

5. Administering medicine to the dead?

[Nature Man]

6. They don't care

If we learned anything from our last Civil War, you cannot treat traitors with kid gloves, you don't seek to understand them, you don't reach across with arms outstretched to "reconcile."

We've been paying for this crap ever since the North didn't completely and utterly destroy the south and punish them for their intransigent traitorous ways.

[CaptYossarian]

10. The problem is we think they're traitors. They insist we are.

It's a brainwashed cult that's been germinating since Raygun.

[pwb]

7. Fewer people buying his shit everyday.

.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. It's been authoritarian thinking and strategy from the get go

It was plumbed during the GWB years. "Soon I will be president!" And Stephen Miller - no one shall disagree with the President!

Anyone who didn't see these clues for what they were -- brain dead in my view. Question is where are they going with it? Theft and plunder of everything public and private? Which by the way was the subcurrent of Nazi atrocities.

[CaptYossarian]

12. It began with the "Moral Majority", increased with hate radio and FOX, and now we have the Dontator.

[Kaiserguy]

14. Our problem was we didn't

standup to hate radio (and Fox) by offering radio based on facts and stopping the consolidation of the media into a few companies. As for standing up to Fox since our MSM has become owned by conservatives it will never stray to far from what they want. We are paying for that mistake today by the RW having a monopoly on radio and in other medias.

[The Wizard]

21. Republican propaganda is in

your face on Pox but more subtle in the major corporate outlets.

[CaptYossarian]

23. We never had the startup capital to counter all that these bastards

had to fill empty heads with. We're the intelligent, moral, patriotic Americans who read, respect laws and each other, and love our country. The other side are greedy, hateful mofos who barely walk erect, but are callous-free.

We work our asses to make these overprivileged heirs and heiresses even more rich--then we die from the crumbs of health care THEY choose for us.

Then our offspring make their offspring even more rich, which allows for more of their G**-damned propaganda to pollute the airwaves. The BS continues. We're American serfs who can't afford to convey the truth the same way they lie.

[defacto7]

9. That's how cult mentality works.

Breaking that cycle is one of the most difficult processes is psychology. It can be broken in some but not in others.

[Aristus]

11. 'Understand'.

See? That's where you went wrong...

'Understand'...

[Kablooie]

16. You will be totally wrong about all of this...

If we don’t win in November.
This insanity will be instilled as the new morality for America permanently.

[volstork]

19. I don't disagree,

but good luck with that.

[The Wizard]

20. The cult believes in Divine Rights of Trump

They are weird and stupid anti American cowards willing to be subservient to please their "Dear Leader." They think professional wrestling is a competitive sport and reality TV is rooted in reality. They wouldn't care if Trump seized all their possessions to pay for a golf outing. Where I grew up we called them jerkoffs.

[blakstoneranger]

22. THE NEVER-TRUMPER LABEL

Is used anytime you say anything negative or critical of trump. Its a defense mechanism created by a trio of organizations, trump, conservative talk radio, and foxnews. They've spent a lot of money and time coming up with these childish, weak defenses to build and maintain a base of support for any republican candidate they choose--it just happens to be trump. But remember: THEY ARE DEDICATED REPUBLICANS WHO "HATE" DEMOCRATS. THIS TRIO WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT TO A FUNKY TURD AS LONG AS IT IS A REPUBLICAN. THAT FUNKY TURD WILL ALSO HAVE A STRONG REPUBLICAN BASE WHO WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING COMING FROM IT.
We have to worry about the independents and the centrist. These are the ones who will use common sense over childish name calling and outright lies.

We are dealing with liers and cheaters. They don't care how they win as long as they win. Lie, cheat, steal, it doesn't matter, just win--this is trump. This is why he stays in trouble.

[oldsoftie]

24. But good lord thats exactly what they THINK!!!!! I mean to a "T".

NO criticism allowed.
I saw someone on FB, who is a trump voter, lose THREE FB friends because he posted the video of trump acting like a 5 yr old during the Super Bowl national anthem.
NO criticism allowed.
They all LOVED Judge Napolitano. Many suggested he be put on the SCOTUS. But now that he's criticized trump a few times, based on THE FREAKING LAW, he's now a damn pariah
I've never seen anything like it.

[Moostache]

27. I have....in grainy black and white newsreels dated 1933 circa Berlin, Germany...

Also in places like:

Musolini's Italy, or
Franco's Spain, or
Pol Pot's Cambodia, or
Idi Amin's Uganda, or
Jim Jones' People's Temple in Guyana, or
Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate, or
David Koresh's Waco bunker

It is always the same playbook, always the same blind loyalty, always the same bad ending.
The "believers" are ALWAYS betrayed by the "leader"...led astray, sacrificed to make a distraction or get away chance, or just flat out killed outright. The "leader" then tries to make it on the lam but realizes too late that they NEED to be the center of attention and life without their cult of followers is hollow and empty - or they are captured and held to account for their crimes...

When Trump's end comes, I hope he goes out like Saddam did - hanging on a rope and being mocked as he gasps out his last breaths and claws at his throat while his eyes bulge and he shits himself. I volunteer to carry out the sentence if and when he is convicted and put to the gallows, I'll pull the lever to drop him...or I will administer the drugs for lethal injection, fire the rifle for a firing squad, hit the switch for the chair or gas chamber...I do not care how the sentence is set for him, only that it happens and that I can see its results.

In reality, his bitch ass will take to the Hitler playbook and bump off himself with poison or intentional drug OD (if Melania doesn't get him first)...

[Different Drummer]

29. "...lose THREE FB friends..."

A similar thing happened to me, but I only lost one friend as a result. I tried to advise the guy to "live and let live", but he was having none of it. To Trump's cult (of which this guy is obviously a member), you're the enemy if you're not 100 percent in with the cult leader.

[oldsoftie]

32. Yes, even if you voted for him!

[Mr. Ected]

25. They've been led to believe we are an existential threat to them

Tantamount to enemies of the state. They think we are their mirror image when we address Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. These thoughts come from existing in a factual vacuum that disallows them from learning the truth.

The John Birch Society, aka Tea Party, has been with us from the beginning. They are immune to learning. They can only be beaten by outnumbering them, at least that's the way it used to be, before Putin took over our once fair elections.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Naw, fair is whatever they want. Freedom is freedom for them not those they consider their lessers.

Religious freedom is only for the right religion. Gov't that comes between them and their greed is not fair.

and on and on.

[cbdo2007]

28. They don't care as long as they win.

[Warpy]

31. That is so far over their heads that they'll never get it

Our job is to convince them that we are all citizens of the same country and their fellow citizens who disagree with them on politics are not some sort of deadly enemy out to destroy their lives.

Thanks to Gingrich and his brand of tribalism, that is exactly how a lot of them think these days and it has to stop unless we want more of them shooting up churches and schools on the off chance there are Democrats around. They hate us that much.

[Under The Radar]

33. Correct!

Once that narrative fails they will claim bias on the judge for not being a trump appointee which will be their next justification for a mistrial for all of those under the Trump umbrella.

[jimlup]

34. Trump has decided that he will now take over

we need to stop thinking logically and start thinking full up war.

[Catherine Vincent]

36. Trumpers repeat what their king says

It's why I don't ever say "fake news". It's an Impeached Trump talking point.