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Watching CNN interview Trump voters (Original Post) Proud liberal 80 Nov 2020 OP
Cool story DrToast Nov 2020 #1
You are now on full ignore Proud liberal 80 Nov 2020 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author PutGramaOnThePhone Nov 2020 #20
What is this supposed to mean? You don't believe they were watching CNN? Squinch Nov 2020 #4
Or he doesn't think BainsBane Nov 2020 #24
I watched it too. It was just on and the reporter tried to explain... brush Nov 2020 #6
Thanks for the summary, brush BeyondGeography Nov 2020 #15
Undermining elections seems like a treasonous act. Iris Nov 2020 #22
One even denied BainsBane Nov 2020 #25
Plain as day, isn't it? BeyondGeography Nov 2020 #26
this comment makes no sense, perhaps you do not understand the meme Celerity Nov 2020 #33
Not everybody is watching CNN, so a little context would be nice? Blaukraut Nov 2020 #2
See post 6. brush Nov 2020 #7
ty n/t Blaukraut Nov 2020 #12
Didn't watch CNN. What people are you referring to? elleng Nov 2020 #5
See post 6. brush Nov 2020 #9
First hand experience with one on Thursday. Wellstone ruled Nov 2020 #8
He probably watches Fox - eventually the brain will succumb to repeated hate, lies, etc.. 42bambi Nov 2020 #16
Channel 11 Mpls or Souix Falls Fox. Wellstone ruled Nov 2020 #19
Kinda' sad for us to watch our friends change over time - I guess they 42bambi Nov 2020 #21
That slow moving change Wellstone ruled Nov 2020 #32
You cannot reason with that level of stupid and I damn sure know we better not appease it. onecaliberal Nov 2020 #10
But Joe Biden is a good man. He will be their president too and he will try to totodeinhere Nov 2020 #11
Remember all those interviews with clinton supporters 4 years ago? PSPS Nov 2020 #13
THIS! phylny Nov 2020 #27
Very true treestar Nov 2020 #34
The seniors talking about their fear of socialism are the ones that get me TexasBushwhacker Nov 2020 #14
Forty years of allowing the Texas Board of Education disalitervisum Nov 2020 #17
SURE has, AND 'talk radio.' elleng Nov 2020 #18
Oh, wow! There IS another platform. Iris Nov 2020 #23
Yes LeftInTX Nov 2020 #29
There has always been millions of dumb people Dem2 Nov 2020 #28
I don't understand why these people are being given any air time dflprincess Nov 2020 #30
All I can say to them is. . . DinahMoeHum Nov 2020 #31
We are healed after Biden's win. Fuck them. Kaleva Nov 2020 #35
Another Cletus safari Efilroft Sul Nov 2020 #36
What an hilarious description! DeminPennswoods Nov 2020 #37
They aren't stupid, They are Racist, hateful willing participants in the BS JI7 Nov 2020 #38

Response to Proud liberal 80 (Reply #3)

brush

(53,743 posts)
6. I watched it too. It was just on and the reporter tried to explain...
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:04 PM
Nov 2020

to them how trump's large early lead in several states was because trump himself told his supporters to not vote by mail, to vote in person and the in-person ballots were counted first, thus trump's early lead.

Most of the trumpers didn't want to hear that when the mail-in ballots started being counted, Biden's count started surging.

We're not exactly dealing with mental giants you know.

BeyondGeography

(39,351 posts)
15. Thanks for the summary, brush
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:15 PM
Nov 2020

That was Trump’s idea all along, wasn’t it? Trash the integrity of mail-in votes where he knew he was going to get thrashed, get all his supporters to defer voting until Election Day, thus giving them the impression he won before they went to bed and claim fraud when his lead “mysteriously” disappeared, upon which they would naturally fall in line.

Working like a charm. It won’t get him re-elected, but it will keep him as the legitimate President in their eyes, which he will be able to leverage for all sorts of political and financial rewards over the next four years.

BeyondGeography

(39,351 posts)
26. Plain as day, isn't it?
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:33 PM
Nov 2020

This is the guy who calls soldiers suckers and losers, because he sees how easy it is to sit tight in America and manipulate people.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. First hand experience with one on Thursday.
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:06 PM
Nov 2020

Known the fellow for thirty plus years,could not believe how far he has slid down the Rabbit Hole of Stupid.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
19. Channel 11 Mpls or Souix Falls Fox.
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:24 PM
Nov 2020

Limpballs in the pickup and in the Tractor cab,follow up with KSTP or Kfgo both AM hate spewing stations.

42bambi

(1,753 posts)
21. Kinda' sad for us to watch our friends change over time - I guess they
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:14 PM
Nov 2020

don't realize the changes we see, but they don't notice any difference in their thinking, it's so gradual.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
32. That slow moving change
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 12:52 AM
Nov 2020

best describes what is happening in much of the Midwest. As the Population headed into the Metro areas,the Rural areas consolidated School Districts to save money and cut their Educational Opportunities because of misguided austerity . Reagan and Reaganomics really put a stake through the Heart of the Midwest. .

totodeinhere

(13,057 posts)
11. But Joe Biden is a good man. He will be their president too and he will try to
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:09 PM
Nov 2020

do what is best for everybody including them.

PSPS

(13,580 posts)
13. Remember all those interviews with clinton supporters 4 years ago?
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:11 PM
Nov 2020

I don't either.

With any luck, the media's fascination with this clown show will wind down soon.

phylny

(8,368 posts)
27. THIS!
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:34 PM
Nov 2020

You know what I'd be interested in, though? A television or journalistic series on deprogramming these Trump supporters.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
34. Very true
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 09:31 AM
Nov 2020

the media could have interview Clinton supporters about how they felt about having the EC making the majority have to put up with a President elected by a minority through the EC. They could have started a lot of discussion about the EC.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,148 posts)
14. The seniors talking about their fear of socialism are the ones that get me
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:13 PM
Nov 2020

What do they think SOCIAL Security and Medicare are? SMDH

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
17. Forty years of allowing the Texas Board of Education
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:17 PM
Nov 2020

to determine what textbooks are used in our schools has taken its toll.

elleng

(130,749 posts)
18. SURE has, AND 'talk radio.'
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:20 PM
Nov 2020

We really have problems, 'social' problems, not easily solvable, and not solvable by talking 'down' to people.

Professor Lakoff would be useful here.

LeftInTX

(25,141 posts)
29. Yes
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:38 PM
Nov 2020

Some Democrats wanted to migrate there from Facebook, but I joined and was pretty disgusted. It's very right wing. Never posted and was out of there in a few minutes.

Dem2

(8,166 posts)
28. There has always been millions of dumb people
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:35 PM
Nov 2020

They generally aren't courted by a populist who has not morals or ethics and is not smarter than his typical supporter.

dflprincess

(28,072 posts)
30. I don't understand why these people are being given any air time
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:40 PM
Nov 2020

let them slither back under the rocks and rot.

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