If I never have to see the 400-pound slab of human gristle's face

[bif]

or hear his whiny-ass voice again, I'll be extremely happy! God he is so detestable, he makes my skin crawl. It just baffles me how anyone in their right minds, and seemingly intelligent people can still support this piece of human garbage.

[634-5789]

1. 'seemingly intelligent'... but no.

[LakeArenal]

4. Beat me by seconds!!

[LakeArenal]

2. "Seemingly intelligent people"? Really?

Seriously, I missed that.

[Turin_C3PO]

12. Some are (not many).

My grandpa has a PhD in psychology and education and is a Trumper. He’s a very smart man but his bigotry has blinded him.

[PatSeg]

25. Yes

I've encountered quite a few intelligent and well-educated people who for some bizarre reason support this obscenity. I seriously doubt that I will ever understand it.

[3catwoman3]

30. One of the kindest hearted couples we know...

...are Trumpers. The husband has a PhD in engineering physics, and the wife writes delightful children’s books. I was horrified when we learned of their politics, and it makes no sense to me.

I don’t know if they have any awareness of how my opinion of them has altered.

[LakeArenal]

33. They sound exactly like "our" Republicans.

She is an author, he a medical trend modeler.

For Xmas the had a home dinner party for twelve from at least 8 different households.
Said we just can’t go. Can’t.

[RKP5637]

41. Some IMO live in a bizarre world of denial, defining the GOP in their minds, but not able to

process what it has become ... or even attempting to recognize it as it never enters the forefront of their minds to examine what it is today. Being smart does not IMO exclude one from doing this. I have some similar friends I have politely written off. It is strange, almost like they have been mesmerized/hypnotized into the cult. And, a bit scary.

[RKP5637]

3. Apparently brainwashing is extremely effective, even in the US. n/t

[pandr32]

5. +1

[certainot]

21. at $1000/hr, 1200 radio stations x 15hrs/day $90M/week or about $5B/yr FREE to lie and

distort

unchallenged by dems and the 'left' and for 30 years, since reagan killed the fairness doctrine, dominating 40 states with 80 senators

no better propaganda operation, all repeating the same messaging, fed by rw and foreign/russian think tanks

and it continues unchallenged

[RKP5637]

23. "and it continues unchallenged" So incredible!!! n/t

[certainot]

31. may change - researchers at MIT have prototyped a mass scale transcription and analysis of rw radio

they used AI to help them get about 3bil words of talk radio transcribed from a few hundred stations over months and did some analysis


https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07073RadioTalk: a large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts

Doug Beeferman, William Brannon, Deb Roy]

[RKP5637]

35. Interesting!!! n/t

[certainot]

38. their research was pretty apolitical actually - they chose about equal numbers of rw and public and

college radio stations to sample with the 50 they listed but it should be applicable for more targeted monitoring

[Wounded Bear]

6. Can't wait until I can visit the VA Hospital again...

and not walk past his fucking picture with feelings of mayhem in my mind.

[Traildogbob]

13. Oh hell yes.

Forgot about that New Years treat. Hoping that mug is gone when vaccines start rolling out. Our VA is speaking of January opportunities. I had a GI doc that walked blocks to enter obscure door to not have to see it on his way to office each day.

[LeftInTX]

32. Oh gawd

Thank God, I did not have to visit Social Security during his tenure!

[ShazzieB]

39. I would not be ble to walk past a picture of him without flipping him off! 🖕

It would be a completely involuntary action, no conscious thought involved. I wouldn’t be able to stop myself!

[Hotler]

7. They support him because as president he has power to hurt (own) democrats.

The hate for democrats and liberals is all that drives these people day in and day out.

[RKP5637]

8. And that is Rupert Murdoch's agenda, and he never gets called out for it. Hell, I bet most Americans

don't even know who he is and he has basically sabotaged and changed the face of America with his outrageous newscasts which most right-wingers listen to and praise.

[The Wizard]

19. 100%

Pox (deliberate typo) News has painted Democrats as evil monsters that must be eliminated. Trump put Pox on steroids and crack.

[Ohiogal]

9. Agree with your post 100%

[DavidDvorkin]

10. It's not even gristle

Just pure soft fat.

[Yeehah]

11. 60-some million Americans look at Trump and think:

"That's a leader I admire."

It's mind-boggling.

[Paladin]

14. "trump supporter" aka "fucking moron"

That will continue to be my equation for as long as I live. I plan to spread it whenever the opportunity presents itself. Hope lots of others do the same.

[smirkymonkey]

17. It is just sickening.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Sociopaths love, support, congregate, and conspire with one another

It is an affinity like no other. They don't care how much they are used and abused because they are accustomed to it and find it enervating. To them, nothing thrills like abusing and dominating people, it makes them feel superior.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

36. and the gop is the sociopath party

it really is.

[Miigwech]

16. Had a friend that got a divorce and was told by our other friend

after the divorce was over ... "You look great, you just lost 300lbs. of ugly fat" ... meaning her ex husband ... LOL America, we are about to look great again! Make America Look Great Again, MALGA dump trump 400 .... hahahahah

[Mr. Ected]

18. I think we diminish our arguments by assuming Trumpers are all stupid or bigots

There are areas in the country, the deep south for instance, where one's political leanings are as generational as one's choice of religions. Certainly a person could be born into a Baptist family and convert to Catholicism, or even born into a Republican family and evolve into becoming a Democrat, but by and large, folks are Republicans because Mom and Dad were Republicans, and Joe next door, and the preacher, and the co-worker.

Problem is, they get their information from distorted sources, they've been brainwashed to avoid any other sources of information, and they truly believe that they are the patriots in the country and hold the moral and ethical upper hand. They don't deem themselves to be bigots, they think liberals are baby killers, and that sums them up.

I've lived in rural Georgia for a long time and unless you live side by side with these folks it's easy to assume that they're all borderline Klansmen. The truth is much more subtle, but unfortunately, they also are unwittingly aligned with the nastiest of nasties the country has to offer.

[The Wizard]

20. Or is it willful ignorance

fueling the go along to get along. At least Germany had the good sense and morals to outlaw all vestiges of Hitler and the Thousand Year Reich.

[luvtheGWN]

24. Germany has also had the good sense

to make sure every child is taught about the horrors of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, to help ensure it never happens again.

[samnsara]

29. they may not be stupid but i consider them ignorant...

...and they have made bad choices.

[Mr. Ected]

34. I do agree with that assessment

To choose to live in a bubble is indeed willful ignorance.

[pfitz59]

22. I have friends and family with advanced degrees who were all for Trump

Its either: "God told me", "he's showing them Radical Socialist Communist Libtards", "Mexican rapists", "the stock market" or "White Power". Usually a combination.

[housecat]

26. no advanced degrees for common sense

[housecat]

27. trump university?

[The Wizard]

37. Well trained is not the same as

educated. In m any cases an advanced degree means well trained. Educated means an open mind. The educated person can more easily adapt to different situations whereas the well trained person can do one job extremely well.

[flibbitygiblets]

40. ☝🏼This

[samnsara]

28. and to think that vile POS tried to OWN us!!!