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Cyrano

(15,071 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 11:59 AM Jan 2020

I'm convinced. He could shoot someone on 5th Ave and

get away with it.

Given what he's done over the past three years, someone explain to me why I'm wrong.

I guess the only thing that's amazed me over this time is how many millions of Americans are stupid beyond belief.

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OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
2. Hardly. He's not facing any real consequences and we know
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:01 PM
Jan 2020

for a fact Republicans will not convict him in the Senate.

mnhtnbb

(31,408 posts)
3. They're not stupid. Just self centered. Greedy. Insecure and
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:02 PM
Jan 2020

threatened by power shifting from white males to women and people of color.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
6. I dispute this...SOME of them, I'm sure, are good people...to quote their golden calf.
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:17 PM
Jan 2020

BUT the majority of Trump rally attendees are on-par with these yokels: All-white, all ginned up on pseudo-facts (at best, but let's be honest, they believe flat out lies if Trump spews them), and all very, very angry about diversity, changing demographics and anyone who won't tell them that their outdated, racist and archaic views are just fine and dandy...or won't say the magic Jesus words to them to signal it is OK to use 'god' to discriminate still (regardless of how sincere or insincere they may be).

THIS is what the majority of Trump supporters are - Angry, Misled, Small Minded Bigots (who HATE being called out for their bigotry):











NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
7. I think a lot of them know that Trump is lying
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:20 PM
Jan 2020

but, they don't care because he's "owning the libs" when he does it

brush

(53,922 posts)
8. Stupid beyond belief is right. They first surfaced in Palin's crowds...
Wed Jan 15, 2020, 12:22 PM
Jan 2020

(as she is one of them), and they've gotten bolder ever since, especially under trump, another fellow traveler.

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