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One can only hope that this is a put-on- but given the demonstrated nature of
Don the Con and his Trumpkins, there's a good chance it isn't...
https://boingboing.net/2016/08/16/watch-these-trump-supporters-a.html
The attendees were not told that the commercials were fake, even though the ads had proposals that were crazy, even by Trump standards: outlawing abortion everywhere except in depressed areas like Atlantic City, trapping Mexican day laborers in porta-potties and shipping them back to Mexico, locking shock collars on the neck of every Mexican citizen in Mexico so they'd get zapped if they tried to go past an invisible electric fence on the US-Mexico border.
The focus group members seemed a little surprised at first, but quickly came around to the seeing the logic of these proposals, and expressed their support. One woman was concerned about the dog collar proposal, though. She said the Mexicans were likely to cut off the dog collars and sell them.
This video is like a scary Milgram experiment.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)This is one of those times I feel like this country is unsalvageable. These people are the ones who should have been aborted.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)sakabatou
(42,159 posts)I swear, people who accept this have to do it themselves. Want to use waterboarding on terrorists? You have to go through it yourself. Use electricity/shock "treatments?" You have to go through it yourself.
And so on and so forth.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I went to school with a guy who suggested the same things. Deport them and then put shock collars on their necks so that they would get shocked if they tried to re-enter the United States.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)If these people were not in on the joke they are stupid. First, the young woman at the beginning of the video said she supported Donald Trump because she thought he had a plan. How can she think he has a plan if he has not put out any plans? Second, that voice did not even sound like Trump.
At some point I kept thinking they would realize this was a joke. How could they really believe what they were watching?
Demonaut
(8,919 posts)comedy
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)My favorite part was the calm way that the presenter talked about everything. That guy deserves an oscar.
Demonaut
(8,919 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)They had to have signed a release allowing the production company to use them in the video. Of course that matters.
Demonaut
(8,919 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)But they are, as you yourself point out, absolutely stupid, which often has a worse effect on someone's life than being in a comedy video.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)I'm sure most people in their lives already know what kind of people they are. What do you think will happen to these people lives because of this?
Also, they must have signed a release allowing it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were compensated for it.
cleveramerican
(2,895 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)but sadly I cannot.