It is fucking relentless.

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57. But hey, Jill Stein is there to tell us it's all our fault!

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I know how you feel, my friend. Discouraging. And the people we can't reach... I went onto Scott Baio's Twitter page regarding a story about him

http://www.mediaite.com/online/scott-baio-tried-trolling-starbucks-on-twitter-it-didnt-go-well-for-him/

The tweets on there... HOLY CANNOLI!!! They exist. The trump-humpers are truly there. And they see nothing wrong with their so-called pResident (or president*, as Charlie P. Pierce at Esquire calls him) or what he's doing, or what he's done, or what he's said, or how much he's lied, or ANYTHING. They see nothing at all wrong with any of it. Seriously. After I skimmed down that Twitter page, I felt like I wanted to shake myself awake - surely this had to be some sort of bad dream.

It's just astounding to me, wrapping my brain around this. These folks really seem to have bought the whole package. Stunning that they believe this shit, and support it so adamantly. Welcome to Bizarro World.

On edit - I just saw Sam Seder on with Joy Reid (who's subbing for Chris Hayes on MSNBC this week) shaking his head with discouragement, about the same thing. "There's no way to convince these people," he said, pointing out that whatever trump says, even if it's so easily proven to be a lie, they'll believe. Rock solid, too. Seder gave the example of trump's statement about the murder rate in this country which he said was the highest in at least four decades. WRONG! That's simply not true. That is FALSE. That is a LIE. It just so happens that the murder rate these days is at closer to an all-time low. But trump says something different and the deplorables out there just swallow it whole, without even bothering to chew.

Seder lamented that there's no way to reach these people. You CANNOT convince them. But THEN (yikes!), Seder said - in such a case, the only thing you can do about those people is to keep them OUT of power. And his next sentence was - "and, well, we failed that test."

So, Stinky, you're FAR from alone in the way you're feeling, these days. FAR from alone.