cnn had a half-dozen deplorables on discussing trump and russia

[spanone]

these people live in an alternative reality.

they feel trump is being persecuted by democrats and the media

'putin has done a pretty good job with his agenda' wtf?

they don't care about russia

it's Hillary's people who are bringing all this up on trump.

i personally don't give a shit about these people and they are deplorable.

[Xipe Totec]

1. They are the Children of the Pretzel

Twisted into knots trying to justify the unjustifiable.

[JHB]

12. Naah, pretzels could at least deck Shrub...

These are axe-grinding addicts, accustomed to frequent snorts of the grinding dust, and they're convinced their suppliers are such nice men who are absolutely not pushers.

[Mr. Ected]

2. I think it would take years of deprogramming to depollute these feeble minds

So much FOX and Clear Channel propaganda for so long has turned Americans into pro-Russian brainwashed sycophants.

[gordianot]

3. Hillary accurately described it.

In my effort to develop situational awareness I have identified those Trump supporters close to me especially relatives. They get no breaks from me in perpetuity.

[TNLib]

4. I watched about 10 minutes then turned off the TV

They all seemed incredibly misinformed and incable of critical thought.

I'm not sure what the point of this segment was, other than to demonstrate that Trump supporters are ignorant.

[spanone]

5. well they gave them a forum to let the rest of the country observe their ignorance

there was not one critical thought, as you said. it was all about their love for the donald.

oh, and they thought our own government was listening to all their conversations....dumb fux

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. They are just like their leader...

He's twitting today about Flynn taking immunity followed by mentioning media and Dems, Russia equals a witch hunt and how he won a landslide.


https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847766558520856578

[Sunlei]

11. Why is Mr. Trump afraid to tweet that on @POTUS @White House ? coward!

[ksoze]

7. As much as it is difficult to watch that raw sewage

It is a reminder what we face in a country so divided. Ignoring that segment is costly, so best to have it exposed for all to see.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Duh-pocalypse

Folks, it's one minute to midnight
and these idiots aren't getting it.
Facepalm.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. it is hard to reach people that are so comfy and proud of their own ignorance

[Sunlei]

10. CNN shouldn't even have on Not-official government employees.

[CousinIT]

13. If the tables were turned an Hillary did EVERYTHING Trump has done...

...and won under the SAME circumstances -- would they be pissed off THEN?

You KNOW they would.

[spanone]

14. there would be dozens of congressional investigations

[ChoppinBroccoli]

20. Regardless Of How She Won Or What She Did.............

................she would have been impeached within minutes of taking the Oath of Office. It wouldn't have mattered. She could have been the reincarnation of Jesus and Superman in one body, and the Congressional Republicans still would have impeached her long ago. They were talking about it months before the election was even held. She's almost better off having NOT won. The Republicans would have blocked literally everything she tried to do, would have complained she was ineffective, and then would have impeached her based on nothing a long time ago. At the very least, this way people actually get to see Trump's incompetence, and it will result in everyone but the hardest of the hardcore deplorables turning on the entire Republican party. I predicted that Trump would be SO bad that we'd see a tsunami of Democratic wins in 2018 and 2020, and I stand by that. It would have gone the other way had Hillary actually been allowed to win.

[AngryAmish]

15. It is called motivated reasoning and it is a feature of human cognition.

[OldHippieChick]

19. Could you explain that a little further?

Are they motivated because they don't want to be wrong?

[AngryAmish]

22. No. Simply put people do not change opinions on politics very much.

Politics,religion, sports teams etc. Humans are not rational creatures. Like everything our brains are products of our evolutionary past. Our brains are not optimized for reason, our brains are optimized to keep us alive and to hopefully have some kids.

So the natural state of human thinking is not reason, it is not logic. It is emotion. And we come up with excuses to think why we believe something after the fact.

In politics, we make a decision and then minimize the facts against us and emphasize those facts that agree with us.

Everyone does it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. It's deductive logic as opposed to inductive logic.

You start with your conclusion and work backwards to justify it, ignoring facts that disconfirm your conclusion.

See confirmation bias.


We do it too but not as extravagantly. I can't imagine acting like they do.

[MrScorpio]

16. Fuck those people

Assholes.

[spanone]

17. agreed, it's frightening how blind they choose to be to the russian interference.

it's so simple to call all things politics.

[Johonny]

18. Trump chumps either 1) get no news 2) get only Alex Jones and Fox news

so they either live in their own little world or the world of make believe.

[mopinko]

21. the blowback from all this is gonna haunt us for a generation.

when cheeto goes down, the ct's will fly in every direction.
there is a big correlation between believing in ct's and supporting this human garbage.
they will likely never believe that he did anything wrong. and that he was hung by the "deep state"