they are a special breed and believe what they want to, not matter the truth. We see them regularly spouting that the election was wrong and he is just going to move back in.
The MAGA people are living in an alternate reality. They’ve lost sight of the truth and project their lies onto everyone else. This goes far beyond sour grapes when their favored candidate lost. The foundation of trust we have on our elections has been seriously undermined and our Country is at great risk of becoming authoritarian and losing our Democracy forever. What happened in Hong Kong is slowly taking root here at home
• Why It’s So Hard To Gauge Support For QAnon — Maybe, in an attempt to minimize the power of QAnon, a secretive clique of polling elites signed a contract with Satan and Marina Abramović to offer wildly different survey results … or maybe it’s just difficult to poll about QAnon. (FiveThirtyEight) https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-hard-to-gauge-support-for-qanon/
Their lives have been spent competing to see who could believe the biggest, most impossible miracles, and now those well-developed muscles of gullibility are working to keep them trapped in this astroturf war that only benefits the rich authoritarian supporters who give them their ongoing assignments in swallowing implausible stories designed to keep them mad at their fellow victims.
Why bother to play the game if you will only accept the winner’s trophy even if you lose? May as well skip all the time and effort of playing and go straight to the trophy presentation… I suppose they’re not quite that brash yet (emphasis on yet)…
We’ve known about the problem for some time, as witness the old sayings: “If wishes were horses…” and “Wishing will/won’t make it so.” Barbara Ehrenriech did a whole book on it: “Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America”
LookingGlass Premium Member almost 3 years ago
You can’t argue with STOOOPID!!! Besides, 15 August is just around the corner!!
/SHMIRK/
braindead Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Your basic Trump Disciple analysis skills.
And off screen, the Disciples are giving death threats to the umpires, scorekeepers, groundskeepers, ushers, ticket takers, and some of the vendors.
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Because they are the Party Of Law&Order.
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Now, Scott, do you see what the rest of the world feels?
Sanspareil almost 3 years ago
Hey, If I want Jewish space lasers to be true, then, by golly they are true and I will fight all libruls to prove that they are not true!
Ignatz Premium Member almost 3 years ago
And when you have a PRESIDENT who thinks something must be true just because he wants it to be true, that’s actually dangerous.
MaryBethJavorek1 almost 3 years ago
they are a special breed and believe what they want to, not matter the truth. We see them regularly spouting that the election was wrong and he is just going to move back in.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The MAGA people are living in an alternate reality. They’ve lost sight of the truth and project their lies onto everyone else. This goes far beyond sour grapes when their favored candidate lost. The foundation of trust we have on our elections has been seriously undermined and our Country is at great risk of becoming authoritarian and losing our Democracy forever. What happened in Hong Kong is slowly taking root here at home
Wichita1.0 almost 3 years ago
AND shooting people because their businesses require safety precautions like masks. 600,000 dead now, folks.
William Robbins Premium Member almost 3 years ago
• Why It’s So Hard To Gauge Support For QAnon — Maybe, in an attempt to minimize the power of QAnon, a secretive clique of polling elites signed a contract with Satan and Marina Abramović to offer wildly different survey results … or maybe it’s just difficult to poll about QAnon. (FiveThirtyEight) https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-hard-to-gauge-support-for-qanon/
Kip Williams almost 3 years ago
Their lives have been spent competing to see who could believe the biggest, most impossible miracles, and now those well-developed muscles of gullibility are working to keep them trapped in this astroturf war that only benefits the rich authoritarian supporters who give them their ongoing assignments in swallowing implausible stories designed to keep them mad at their fellow victims.
Holden Awn almost 3 years ago
Democrats are up against that same panel 1 dilemma getting their agenda enacted in Congress.
ferddo almost 3 years ago
Why bother to play the game if you will only accept the winner’s trophy even if you lose? May as well skip all the time and effort of playing and go straight to the trophy presentation… I suppose they’re not quite that brash yet (emphasis on yet)…
Bradley Walker almost 3 years ago
We’ve known about the problem for some time, as witness the old sayings: “If wishes were horses…” and “Wishing will/won’t make it so.” Barbara Ehrenriech did a whole book on it: “Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America”
https://www.amazon.com/Bright-sided-Relentless-Promotion-Positive-Undermined-ebook/dp/B002SKDGQ0/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2V8JQ8DX7KOW1&dchild=1&keywords=bright+sided+how+positive+thinking+is+undermining+america&qid=1623770158&sprefix=bright+sided%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-2
RobinHood almost 3 years ago
Rest in Peace Ashli Babbitt. May her family find some answers.
theotherther1 almost 3 years ago
Is this the same authorial mouthpiece who thinks Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, Bin Laden is still at large, and abortion is murder?
rossevrymn almost 3 years ago
There’s your team Carmen. They’re all around my domain.