Storming The Capitol Didn't Change The Election, Some Trump Backers Realize

[DonViejo]

January 7, 202112:36 AM ET

CAMILA DOMONOSKE

On Wednesday, Michelle Laughlin realized something: Joe Biden would be the next president.

She had traveled from Nevada for the "Stop the Steal" rally hoping that a second term for President Trump was still possible. She sang patriotic songs as Trump supporters forcibly invaded the Capitol building. But as night fell, and the occupiers were pushed out and Congress resumed its operations, Laughlin saw with clarity where things are headed. "I think they're going to certify Biden," she said, "and I think that's a terrible, terrible thing."

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Laughlin, the Trump backer from Nevada, saw the crowds break in, and she said it "wasn't great." But she mostly faults the police at the Capitol who didn't do enough to block the mob, arguing they "let it happen."

She reserves her irritation for right-wing media and politicians who encouraged the baseless hopes that brought her to D.C.

"On the news, they keep saying now that they shouldn't have said that [Vice President] Pence can stop the certification, that was just a big lie ... They didn't say that before," she says. "Maybe some of the other news stations that I don't trust, but the ones that I do, that's not what they were saying."

"Had Pence come out and said flat out like, 'no, I can't change this,' ... I would have been like, 'well, that's a big old bust,' but I would have believed him," she said. "I mean, people would have moved along. "

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full article:
https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954257324/storming-the-capitol-didnt-change-the-election-some-trump-backers-realize

[gopiscrap]

1. fucking idiot

if she would have unplugged herself from Fox News and hate radio a bit maybe she wouldn't have wasted all that time and money

[C_U_L8R]

2. Michelle. Dear.

It's your responsibility to not be an idiot. Or a criminal. Go walk off a cliff. They world has no use for you.

[SharonAnn]

13. There were plenty of media sources saying Pence couldn't do it. You avoided knowing.

[The Roux Comes First]

3. I Take It These Are the Ones With MENSA Applications Pending?

[cayugafalls]

4. Fuck her and all those who believe that bullshit. They marched at Dumps orders.

Fuck them all and arrest them for sedition and treason.

[Piratedog]

5. Pence did say he couldn't change it nor would he.

[MANative]

6. A person with two active brain cells to rub together might consider

revising where they place their trust.

[RAB910]

7. The poster girl for cognitive dissonance

"On the news, they keep saying now that they shouldn't have said that [Vice President] Pence can stop the certification, that was just a big lie ... They didn't say that before," she says. "Maybe some of the other news stations that I don't trust, but the ones that I do, that's not what they were saying."

[Locrian]

9. perfect isn't it? 1+2 equals 4 - n/t

[JDC]

8. The one's she trusts lied and the ones she doesn't trust told the truth

She still won't figure it out. I'm done with these stupid, arrogant a-holes.

[Kaleva]

18. It's human nature to trust that which reinforces one's world view

She went to sources which put out the news in a way that reinforced her own world view and because they said what she wanted to hear, she trusted them.

[tulipsandroses]

19. Pretty much. These were the people I was told we need to try to understand.

Their "economic anxiety", " the forgotten man". Fuck her and the horse she rode in on. I have no patience for the willingly stupid.

[Javaman]

10. Her coming to dumbass moment

Next, in her slow propaganda addled mind she will eventually realize that she had been a useful dimwit in the oranges assholes psychopathic fever dream.

[roamer65]

11. We need two years of civics classes in high school.

Minimum grade to pass the classes should be B-.

[CentralMass]

12. I blame her stupidity for believing chronic liars/propagandists.

[obamanut2012]

14. Pence did say that, many GOP said that

[central scrutinizer]

15. I know who you can blame

Step 1: Find a mirror

[Cha]

17. Yeah, you're right.

[Cha]

16. I just read a blurb of complete brainwashing..

It's Sickening. trump got her to Not trust other stations that had the Real Fucking news.

Interesting that she blames "the police".. from what I've read.. that is part of the reason. She should be Blaming fucking trump himself, too.. whose orders were the capitol police acting on?

TY Don

[JHB]

21. I doubt Trump is the one who got her to not trust the real news

Odds are that happened long before The Escalator.

Maybe it was Glenn, maybe it was Billo, maybe it was Rush, or most likely the overlap of the whole cloud of them, but unless she's a kid (and most of them weren't) she started trusting the people who lied to her long ago.

And they did it to put Republicans in power. Didn't care who, as long as he could hold a pen to sign laws, their laws.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. She's an idiot. Hey Google...

[Solly Mack]

22. I trust the news that lied to me but I don't trust the news that told the truth.

Damn

[Wounded Bear]

23. It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they have been fooled...

Prime example of that axiom.

[David__77]

24. What a letdown.

Seriously. It is amazing. There were many people who really thought that Trump likely won nearly every state and it couldn't possibly be otherwise. Thankfully, there's not much of that type of thinking on the anti-Trump side - I think nearly everyone who's anti-Trump are keenly aware of the large number of Trump supporters.

[Midnight Writer]

25. They trip over the truth again and again, but they just keep on the same path.

[Goodheart]

26. She's a fucking idiot, but she does have a valid point about Pence.

Pence should have said CLEARLY AND WITHOUT ALL THE DOGWHISTLING that NO, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS.

[Johnny2X2X]

27. IDIOT!

"On the news, they keep saying now that they shouldn't have said that [Vice President] Pence can stop the certification, that was just a big lie ... They didn't say that before," she says. "Maybe some of the other news stations that I don't trust, but the ones that I do, that's not what they were saying."

Um, your news lied to you, the other news told the truth, but you don't trust the truth telling news still, you're an irredeemable moron.