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Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:21 PM Feb 2017

I am absolutely seething about tbe GOP and the ignorance of many Americans

Both are apparently OK with an ex-KGB agent being able to blackmail the President of the United States and are oblivious to this same man putting banned missiles in Europe.

Neither seem to have an issue with a Russian spy ship patrolling up and down the Eastern Seaboard and a President who doesn't understand what a junior in high school knows about the 3 branches of government.

Both were fine with wasting 40 + million dollars and 4 years investigating non-scandal with Benghazi, but with a straight face say no investigation of Trump is needed.

White nationalism with Nazi overtones is mainstream and we are losing allies around the globe. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON??????

I am stuck in a twilight zone episode.

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Skittles

(153,164 posts)
1. I hear you
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:26 PM
Feb 2017

I feel like I live in Bizarro world, surrounded by people who are completely unable to see the obvious....I don't know how I'd feel if I didn't have my oasis of sanity in DU

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. Here is how simple this is, almost half of America is OK with us being ruled
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:27 PM
Feb 2017

by a murderous dictator from Russia, as long as they can hate gays, blacks, Latinos and Muslims.

It is that simple.

3catwoman3

(23,996 posts)
3. The thing about Twilight Zone episode, bone-chilling though they...
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:38 PM
Feb 2017

...may have been is they only lasted an hour.

This mess feels like it has been forever already.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)
5. Ain't that the truth.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:53 PM
Feb 2017

I've been perusing #TrumpPressConference tweets on Twitter. His cult followers think it was "The. Best. Press. Conference. Ever.", and that he "schooled the media." SAD!

https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpPressConference?src=tren

 

starshine00

(531 posts)
9. that is completely depressing
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:22 PM
Feb 2017

it was bad enough when we had the rt wing media and the left media and now since trump knows no one supports him he is brainwashing his followers to distrust all media. I mean, something tells me these folks are not avid readers anyway so it is no loss on their part but my god.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
14. There are some pretty funny ones, too!
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:56 PM
Feb 2017

I was reading them and twitter suggested his feed. I clicked on it on a whim. I checked out the people he follows on Twitter. Whoa! He is very limited in his news sources. All low end stuff. I think he can't really understand the others. That is why he calls them "fake" and "bad". And he is saying it over and over because that's how he gets his followers and supporters to believe it.

better

(884 posts)
6. I'm still furious
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:06 PM
Feb 2017

about 50 million people failing the "don't vote for the guy who tells you he'll be a dictator" test.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
7. Many of the Trump supporters don't have much education or income so they hate
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:13 PM
Feb 2017

the people who make so much more money and love it when they get stomped.

Iris

(15,657 posts)
8. I just keep thinking about the Holocaust
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:20 PM
Feb 2017

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and I know it's not considered good form to make comparisons to Hitler, but that's not what I was thinking. In the movie, the Woman in Gold, gentiles enjoyed seeing successful and intellectual Jews "put in their place." It feels like that's what's going on here. Anyone who spent their time on "fancy book learnin'" needs to be brought down a notch.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
17. What I worry about his constant use of Rallies to energize his base.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:25 PM
Feb 2017

Going to have another one in Florida this Saturday and it is strictly to cheer lead his voters. Now this process reminds me of Hitler and Mussolini.

 

starshine00

(531 posts)
10. according to Nate Silver the median income of the trump voter
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:24 PM
Feb 2017

was 70k to 80k vs. the Hillary voter being less at 50 or 60k. I have quoted this stat more than any other during this election, the greatest fallacy I hear repeated is that these voters are poor and uneducated, many of them are rich educated assholes who know exactly why they voted for one of their own.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
16. Thanks for Reminding about the 70,000 average income of the Trump voter
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:21 PM
Feb 2017

the rich white raise the poor white voters income. Same with Hillary but with Minorities. Not exactly a balance of everyone. I know West Texas has mostly white voters sot it catches the rich and very poor.

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Zambero

(8,964 posts)
15. Ignorance has always been there
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 10:03 PM
Feb 2017

As far as capitalizing on it goes, the GOP propaganda machine would get the gold if it was an Olympics event.

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