Trump's Base

[kpete]

[SMC22307]

1. A third of the country is perpetually insane -- think back to the Dubya "Eye-raq" years.

The additional 4% must be from the dumbasses who consider themselves "independents." Or maybe just Q loons on the rise...

[rzemanfl]

2. They believe the 6% bullshit and think we have a not much larger number of deaths

than Canada in a much bigger country. Morons.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Just wait until they contract COVID-19

Who will they blame then?

[rzemanfl]

7. Liberals, protestors and the like. Certainly not Sturgis bikers or other "freedom loving" folks. n/t

[beachbumbob]

3. pretty much the hardbaked base of trump/gop and you don;t win many elections

with 40%

[musclecar6]

4. Yes

They are unbelievable fucking morons. Anybody at this stage who falls for trumps bullshit are imbeciles just like him. He’s a ConMan liar and cheat who is woefully incompetent. You really don’t have to think any further than that to disregard this person of having any substance or integrity.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Trump's base is very ill informed. Those that I know don't do any fact checking as long as

what they hear is what they want to believe. Most of them don't understand the issues and a majority don't want those issues explained.

It's known as willful ignorance.

[BlueWavePsych]

8. More here ...

Poll finds a third of Americans think they handled COVID-19 better than Canada, and are also delusional

More Americans died of COVID-19 during the four-day Republican National Convention than died on 9/11. What are they so happy about?

One has to wonder who the Pew Research people talked to in their survey of national reactions. Perhaps they chose randomly, but only from among Americans actually in their backyard pool at the time. Or people wearing hats. If that includes red baseball caps, there’s your answer.

Nearly as many Americans — 37 per cent — said the U.S. got its response better than did Canada. (And 25 per cent gave no answer, presumably because they had never heard of this “Canada” of which the Leger people spoke.)

No matter how miserable Americans get, they still think they surpass everyone else. This is American exceptionalism quantified. Whereas Canadians don’t expect happiness, not really, although they certainly welcome its visits.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2020/08/31/poll-finds-a-third-of-americans-think-they-handled-covid-19-better-than-canada-and-are-also-delusional.html

[lettucebe]

9. Some people can't do math

[CaptYossarian]

12. Their leader (Grand Dragon?) had a second-place victory in 2016.

Or it's "mathematical dyslexia".

[groundloop]

15. Many of them refuse to believe that Hillary had more votes

As you say, mathematical dyslexia - they can't grasp the concept that 65 Million is more than 62 Million.

[CaptYossarian]

22. Or--like Trump--they're all golfers

where the lowest score wins.

[Metro135]

14. Or as Kellyanne might put it . . .

These are alternative mathematical facts.

[LAS14]

10. Good post, but I keep wishing everyone would ALWAYS use per capita stats. Then...

... there's no incentive to say, "Well, yes but...." The per capita stats are plenting damning.

[groundloop]

18. Kinda' like this....

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-per-million-people?tab=chart&year=latest&time=2020-01-22..2020-09-05&country=USA~CAN~CZE~ECU~SLV~DOM

[LAS14]

21. Yeah, that's kinda compelling. Canada doesn't even make the chart. nt

[dalton99a]

11. "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."

- Paul Simon

[Pepsidog]

13. My sister, a Trumper, just sent me video of a Trump boat parade from Wildwood, NJ. I was suppose to

go down to her beautiful bayside home this weekend with my wife and kids. Their home is beautiful and my brother-in-law just bought a brand new $600,000 Cigarette boat. While in the car on the way to her home, we received a call from my daughter who is already there and said my niece, a school teacher, just received a call from her school that she had been exposed to someone with the virus during teacher orientation. The school pushed back opening and now my niece and daughter had to go get tested this morning for the virus. My wife and I turned the car around a drove back. A lot of support for Benedict Donald down the South Jersey shore. This is Jeff Van Drew's congressional district, you know the coward who flipped to the Republican Party. It's a very Red district formerly occupied by Frank Lobiondo (R) for years and one of the few reasonable R's left. Van Drew flipped the District from R to D running as a D then betrays his district. A real piece of shit.

[groundloop]

16. If your BIL can afford a $600K boat he's pretty much an automatic trumpster

As for me, my son and I are perfectly happy with the 22 year old boat we split the cost of which I've fixed up.

[Pepsidog]

19. My BIL is worth millions but is typical righty hypocrite who thinks going to Sunday Mass makes him a

good Christian.

[Sancho]

17. I had a roof leak repaired today, and the roofer was a trumper...

...he saw my Biden sign and told me that he couldn't vote for Biden because Biden was "controlled"?! No word on "who" is controlling Biden. He doesn't like MF45, but thinks that the virus is the fault of the Democrats! He is glad to work outside because he hates to wear a mask. He even quit going to Walmart because they made him wear a mask.

I'm afraid there is no hope of changing the minds of the uniformed at this point.

We can only try to get the majority to vote, and count the votes.

(At least he fixed the roof.)

[Pepsidog]

20. My plumber said the same this week. I'm like WTF are talking about.