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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJFC! The New York Times talks to more of 45's voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/politics/republican-voters-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsWhat in the world is left to be learned from talking to those ignorant, treason-supporting bigots?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I've used up my monthly allotment of NY TIMES views.
thanks
MagickMuffin
(15,953 posts)I was told about this workaround and it works!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,953 posts)To open a new tab or open in incognito.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)riversedge
(70,306 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I haven't seen ONE video segment filmed in a diner or on a random sidewalk interviewing former Hillary Clinton voters.
Not a fucking ONE.
I could go to town right now, walk into any restaurant and find a dining room fucking FULL of Hillary voters but not a TV crew or journalist anywhere in sight asking them how they feel!
Interview ME! I'll tell you how I feel. Ask my family and all my friends, they'll tell ANYONE how they feel right now!
I'm pissed almost beyond words!
hotrod0808
(323 posts)It is obvious that he has a base. We see it with the rallies, the social media comments, and the FOX coverage. We see that support does not waver despite the lies, the tacit racism, or the overt contempt for decorum Trump has. The article mentions problems supporters have, yet they drive for hours to his imitation Nuremburg rallies to listen to him do his Rickles-sans-jokes drivel. I just wonder what they are trying to prove by showing us the equivalent of Good Germans in this piece.
maxrandb
(15,359 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)The truth is nobody or anything that is going to come in and save us from ourselves.
The only thing really is the how will go down. And it's a choice, so will it be together for each other or each for his own?
Sometimes we get to do things in spite of who is on the other side. It really is our choice
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)See the below NYT comment for a good explanation:
Confucius
New York City
"The psychology behind the entrenched support of this administration is relatively simple: the longer a person believes in the con, the harder it is to admit they've been scammed. People who are anxious about their finances, their status, their privileges (racial and otherwise) are receptive to quick, non-intellectual and facile "solutions"...and become easy prey for the con game.
Once they're scammed, they find it almost impossible to admit it."
fallout87
(819 posts)they just dont think they've been scammed. If they did, deep down, they wouldnt admit it in public, but they would vote against him and the GOP. This simply isn't happening.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)"If any one American county can be said to exemplify Trump Country, Squatabit County might be it. The rust-belt county went to Trump by an overwhelming 81% of 187 registered voters who cast ballots in the 2016 general election.
We met with Hodgkins and Thomas at The Dirty Spoon, the only remaining restaurant in the county. We were the only customers during lunch, with the four of us taking up nearly half the available tree stumps. Over truly shitty coffee, the two men admitted some misgivings, but confirmed that they stand solidly behind Trump.
Both were employed at the local Betamax factory, but have struggled to find full-time employment since it shut down in 1985. "There were some training programs a while back," Hodgkins noted, "and it would have been about 90 minutes away, which wasn't too bad. But then I found out that it was training people to build hybrid cars, and I wasn't going to have anything to do with that faggot stuff." Thomas agreed: "I worked at the Betamax plant, and my Daddy pressed vinyl LPs, and his Daddy made Victrolas. That's what we do here in North Elbow."
Neither man has health insurance, thanks to rising premiums that put ACA out of their financial reach. Because of part-time employment, both earn just enough to put the state's Medicaid program out of reach. Under new GOP-enacted rules, official eligibility kicks in at annual earnings of $192 or lower for a family of four). "Yeah, thanks, Obama", Thomas sarcastically noted.
If one issue has caused second thoughts, it's been the the abduction of 11 of their teenage grandchildren for involuntary organ donation by mercenaries hired by Trump supporter Peter Thiel. Under the new health care program referred to by the president as "outside the box thinking", American citizens meeting certain health criteria are eligible for euthanasia so that wealthy Trump donors, known as "Pancreatic Pioneers", can extend their lives through a special transplant program.
Families of those abducted receive "Make America Great Again" baseball caps, while those losing five or more members get a day pass to Mar-A-Lago during the summer off-season, with opportunities to visit the gift shop and order lunch. Thomas has made the trip; Hodgkins is waiting to sell a few rifles from his collection of more than 175 AR-15s to pay for bus tickets.
"I think that was just a bit too much," Hodgkins remarked after being reminded of the new health care program. "It wasn't so much that Abbie (Hodgkins' 13-year-old granddaughter, now presumed dead) was killed so that rich people could use her liver, heart and kidneys. It's that her organs might be going to Mexico or Saudi Arabia. That kind of pissed me off. If we're going to make America great again, this program ought to be helping rich Americans, y'know?"
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)You forgot to mention tooth donation...
If they've got 11 teenage grandchildren, the other half of the town is comprised of other families. Probably moved up from South Hernia. lol!
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)and presented her as a "Real Amurican." When this oversight was pointed out to the reporter, he got pissy and blocked the
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/06/derp-they-did-it-again