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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:49 AM Oct 2018

'What's in the water in Trump country?': Conservatives refusal to accept MAGABomber evidence;

‘What’s in the water in Trump country?’: MSNBC panel baffled by conservatives refusal to accept MAGABomber evidence

Some supporters of President Donald Trump have simply refused to accept the fact that Cesar Sayoc Jr. — the MAGABomber — was a Trump superfan who had attended at least one “Make America Great Again” and watched Fox News.


“Once you’ve got a certain segment of the population kind of believing that there is no fact — there’s no such thing as truth — it’s just about, you know, their belief in Donald Trump,” she explained. “So they believe the messenger no matter what he says.”

“It’s a very scary place to be, and probably a long conversation to be had about how we got here.

“You know, I don’t think that there are any facts we could show some people in this country at this point that would convince them of a narrative that they don’t want to believe,” she continued.



“That is the most dangerous, perhaps, thing that Trump is doing in this era,” the former prosecutor concluded.



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/whats-water-trump-country-msnbc-panel-baffled-conservatives-refusal-accept-magabomber-evidence/
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'What's in the water in Trump country?': Conservatives refusal to accept MAGABomber evidence; (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2018 OP
They're just colossal dicks. That is what being a MAGAhole is right now. Initech Oct 2018 #1
According to a study of the so-called Trump country released some months ago... Hugin Oct 2018 #2
There's so much talk out there frogmarch Oct 2018 #3
The media helped create this situation. yardwork Oct 2018 #4
At huge cost pretzel4gore Oct 2018 #9
trumpers naturally want to minimize 'the MAGA BOMBER' empedocles Oct 2018 #5
should have mentioned 'King Sawed', Cohen 50 hours with Mueller, etc. empedocles Oct 2018 #8
So let's stop talking about bringing the country together BeyondGeography Oct 2018 #6
Blood is in the water and they want more guns. nt UniteFightBack Oct 2018 #7
Well said. yardwork Oct 2018 #10
Reminds me of a quote...There are none so blind as those who will not see. libdem4life Oct 2018 #11
Not surprised a bit and don't give a FUCK what they think......... Bengus81 Oct 2018 #12

Hugin

(33,162 posts)
2. According to a study of the so-called Trump country released some months ago...
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:52 AM
Oct 2018

It's oxycotin in the water.

frogmarch

(12,154 posts)
3. There's so much talk out there
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 11:55 AM
Oct 2018

that a person don't know what to believe anymore

is what I heard a rally goer tell a reporter (CNN, I think) yesterday.

 

pretzel4gore

(8,146 posts)
9. At huge cost
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:12 PM
Oct 2018

This all began long ago, and rooted in the self righteous ignorance that reluctantly defeated slavery in Civil War for example, or exterminated the bison (to destroy the first nations) ...the news has always fortified the MAGA idea, but ...has anyone here even considered the effect murdering FDR had on us- the pure evil of so much of what them bastards did! And the ease of just grooving along! Trump simply exposes them...

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
5. trumpers naturally want to minimize 'the MAGA BOMBER'
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:01 PM
Oct 2018

however, the news cycle is continuing to be very frustrating to them. The MAGABOMBER inevitably goes deep into the redstate news cycle. The stock markets are spiraling, mostly downward. Mueller/ flipping/corruption news is inexorably unstoppable. And, with all these trump news setbacks - some support is weakened.

Even from the pessimisstic side, avid trumpers will have to choose, and some will be on each side, between, 'Magabomber hero' and 'magabomber barely happened'.

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
6. So let's stop talking about bringing the country together
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:01 PM
Oct 2018

which is the default sound bite for too many of our Democratic politicians when terrible things happen. Call the Republican wingnut-enablers and their media machinery out and defeat them. You can’t unify with people who won’t believe today is Saturday just because a liberal says so.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
11. Reminds me of a quote...There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:15 PM
Oct 2018

It was that Arab Jewish guy back a couple of millennia, I believe.

Or as my Dad used to say, You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. The horse analogy is particularly pertinent.



Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
12. Not surprised a bit and don't give a FUCK what they think.........
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:16 PM
Oct 2018

Hope they keep up the BS and keep licking Trumps shoes. The REST of the World knows the truth......

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