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unblock

(52,196 posts)
3. if he returned alaska to russia, plunged us into depression, and got us into a world war,
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 10:15 AM
Jul 2018

his minions would still support him.

we would have to be the victims of the equivalent of the bombing of dresden before his popularity dipped below 30%.


very few of his supporters will see the light unless and untll foxnews tells them to. i don't see that happening.

H2O Man

(73,536 posts)
6. The answer:
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 10:17 AM
Jul 2018

"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.
How long? Not long, because you still reap what you so.
How long? Not long, because the arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr; Match 25, 1965

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
7. logically it would have happened
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 10:18 AM
Jul 2018

so I must assume that logic plays no part.

Therefore, the blinders will never come off.

These people are like the remote Japanese soldiers on scattered islands after WWII... they will never believe that Japan lost the war.

The party of Trump, reinforced by state run propaganda for years now, will never accept that Trump and his cohorts are traitors.

spanone

(135,823 posts)
8. his disciples will follow him off the cliff...good for America. most of the country already sees it
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 10:20 AM
Jul 2018

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,994 posts)
9. We're getting there. But most media prefer to play stupid for profit:
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 10:39 AM
Jul 2018



David Roberts
‏Verified account @drvox

David Roberts Retweeted NBC News

This kind of willful, forced naivete is the *whole business model of the US political press* right now. The would rather pose as credulous dipshits than explicitly acknowledge the truth, because acknowledging the truth would mean doing things differently.

David Roberts added,

NBC News
Verified account @NBCNews
Analysis: As President Trump meets Putin, will we finally see "the art of the deal"?


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