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A Look at Unshakable Trump Supporters

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They just don't care about anything but having someone reflect their anger, it seems.

All this, perhaps, is not so surprising, considering polling continues to show that—in spite of unprecedented unpopularity—nearly all people who voted for Trump would do it again. But as I compared this year’s answers to last year’s responses it seemed clear that the basis of people’s support had morphed. Johnstown voters do not intend to hold the president accountable for the nonnegotiable pledges he made to them. It’s not that the people who made Trump president have generously moved the goalposts for him. It’s that they have eliminated the goalposts altogether.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...rump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800

“The thing that irritates me to no end is this NFL ****,” Schilling told me in her living room. “I’m about ready to go over the top with this ****. We do not watch no NFL now.” They’re Dallas Cowboys fans. “We banned ‘em. We don’t watch it.”

Schilling looked at her husband, Dave McCabe, who’s 67 and a retired high school basketball coach. She nodded at me. “Tell him,” she said to McCabe, “what you said the NFL is …”

McCabe looked momentarily wary. He laughed a little. “I don’t remember saying that,” he said unconvincingly.

Schilling was having none of it. “You’re the one that told me, liar,” she said.

She looked at me.

The NFL?

“Niggers for life,” Schilling said.

“For life,” McCabe added.

Well, okay. I guess I understand now.
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They just don't care about anything but having someone reflect their anger, it seems.



https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...rump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800



Well, okay. I guess I understand now.
:roll:

Agreed, they wouldn't care if Vladimir Putin moved his desk into the Oval office.

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A very good article on the Trump supporter mental capabilities is right here.
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/a-...at-may-be-wrong-with-trump-supporters-brains/
 
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The fact the man has any support at all is a pretty bad sign for America.

Even among Trumps opponents, his behavior and election has been normalized to a degree but what occurred was not and is not normal.

Doesn't bode well for the future of the country because if people can elect someone like HIM with a straight face... Well... They'll elect anybody :shrug:
 
They are nowhere near the norm in my experience.

They've been living in a right wing media bubble for the last 20 years--refusing to turn the channel from FOX NEWS. They are more than likely attached to the hip to right wing news sites, and right wing talk show hosts that attacked Establishment Republicans over the last several years and promoted Trump to no end. Whom take information regurgitate it and then spoon feed it back to them in several daily hours of right wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions that lead to enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling. All designed specifically for the news they want to hear.

IOW--they're thinking has been done for them for the last 20 years--by turning on FOX NEWS or listening to the political soap box opera's. right wing talk radio. While at the same time they have convinced their audiences that all other news is FAKE news.

It is not entirely true that Trump engineered a “hostile takeover” of the GOP, provided that the party is defined more broadly than elected officials and party insiders. As Conor Friedersdorf wrote last year in the Atlantic: “the elements of the party that sent pro-Trump cues, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O'reilly, Jeff Sessions, Rick Scott, Rudi Guiliani, Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio Chris Christie, Ben Carson, Breitbart.com, The Drudge Report The New York Post, —are simply more powerful, relative to National Review, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and other ‘Trump is unacceptable’ forces, than previously thought.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/10/the-gop-that-failed-215243

Now they're all running like a bunch of rats leaving a sinking ship.
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Donald Trump breaks the conservative media - Business Insider
 
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Doesn't bode well for the future of the country because if people can elect someone like HIM with a straight face... Well... They'll elect anybody :shrug:

Not true. We did not sink to the level of Hillary.
 
They've been living in a right wing media bubble for the last 20 years--refusing to turn the channel from FOX NEWS. They are more than likely attached to the hip to right wing news sites, and right wing talk show hosts that attacked Establishment Republicans over the last several years and promoted Trump to no end. Whom take information regurgitate it and then spoon feed it back to them in several daily hours of right wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions that lead to enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling. All designed specifically for the news they want to hear.

IOW--they're thinking has been done for them for the last 20 years--by turning on FOX NEWS or listening to the political soap box opera's. right wing talk radio. While at the same time they have convinced their audiences that all other news is FAKE news.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/10/the-gop-that-failed-215243

Now they're all running like a bunch of rats leaving a sinking ship.
conservative-media-cover-edit.png

Donald Trump breaks the conservative media - Business Insider

I don't find fox news any worse than CNN or any other entertainment news organization. The only difference is that they have a conservative lean... while 90% of other journalism media has a left lean. It's actually quite difficult to not be exposed to left wing media, IT'S EVERYWHERE....

I believe I remember like 90% of journalism students coming out of college vote democrat, could be wrong, but it is at least the VAST majority. Even Fox News itself, half their employees are liberal(not the hosts of course).

You're demonstrating the most common thing left wingers do, and that is a lack of the ability to understand the other side, and you often use the most extreme examples as if those are the majority of the people who disagree with you. This is a study that you may find useful, if you are interested, in the difference between how conservatives and liberals think... it's quite fascinating and may help you understand people better.

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~jessegra/pa...ations of liberals and conservatives.JPSP.pdf
 
I don't find fox news any worse than CNN or any other entertainment news organization. The only difference is that they have a conservative lean... while 90% of other journalism media has a left lean. It's actually quite difficult to not be exposed to left wing media, IT'S EVERYWHERE....

I believe I remember like 90% of journalism students coming out of college vote democrat, could be wrong, but it is at least the VAST majority. Even Fox News itself, half their employees are liberal(not the hosts of course).

You're demonstrating the most common thing left wingers do, and that is a lack of the ability to understand the other side, and you often use the most extreme examples as if those are the majority of the people who disagree with you. This is a study that you may find useful, if you are interested, in the difference between how conservatives and liberals think... it's quite fascinating and may help you understand people better.

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~jessegra/pa...ations of liberals and conservatives.JPSP.pdf

I. Guess you didn't see the study that said the more you watch knees news the more uniformed you get??
 
The fact the man has any support at all is a pretty bad sign for America.

Even among Trumps opponents, his behavior and election has been normalized to a degree but what occurred was not and is not normal.

Doesn't bode well for the future of the country because if people can elect someone like HIM with a straight face... Well... They'll elect anybody :shrug:

Very True. But it's collapsing down on their heads right now also. No one could have watched any of those debates either in the primary or with Hillary Clinton and walked away believing that Trump was competent or qualified to be POTUS. If they tell you otherwise they're lying through their teeth.

They really couldn't have found a worse President than Trump if they had gone out on a midnight scavenger hunt in search of one.
 
Not true. We did not sink to the level of Hillary.

I guess you helped more 911 families and African kids than she did?
Still believe the uranium garbage and she did in Vince Foster?
 
Very True. But it's collapsing down on their heads right now also. No one could have watched any of those debates either in the primary or with Hillary Clinton and walked away believing that Trump was competent or qualified to be POTUS. If they tell you otherwise they're lying through their teeth.

They really couldn't have found a worse President than Trump if they had gone out on a midnight scavenger hunt in search of one.

Hey give the C grabber/5 deferment guy credit.
the biggest con in history, fooled 40mm? Rubes who fantasize about America First, our WWII Nazi group name.
 
Another silly attempt at "Deplorable" Shaming...


How well did that work out for you in the 2016 election?


"oh my! ohhhh MY! I soooo wish I could belong to the elite club of superior Progressives... but I'm not worthy...."


*chuckle...

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Another silly attempt at "Deplorable" Shaming...

How well did that work out for you in the 2016 election?

"oh my! ohhhh MY! I soooo wish I could belong to the elite club of superior Progressives... but I'm not worthy...."

*chuckle...

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There was no 2016 election Silly, we all died from Obamas super ebola remember?
 
They are nowhere near the norm in my experience.

I agree with you. I'm not even sure how "norm" they are for depressed post-industrial rust belt towns. But they do seem to prove Trump's comment about there being folks who would support him even it he walked out and shot some random person in the street.

I guess the shocking part for me is that those folks are the ones that really seem to need Trump to deliver on his vacuous promises. Trump's not delivering, and they don't care.
 
They just don't care about anything but having someone reflect their anger, it seems.



https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...rump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800



Well, okay. I guess I understand now.
:roll:

The thing that caught my attention was when he built a dune in front of an old Scottish ladies North Sea house after she wouldnt sell.
What a total low life
Short fingered vulgarian - well named
And ..
Trump = name for fart in the UK
To be trumped in NY = to be stiffed
 
I agree with you. I'm not even sure how "norm" they are for depressed post-industrial rust belt towns. But they do seem to prove Trump's comment about there being folks who would support him even it he walked out and shot some random person in the street.

I guess the shocking part for me is that those folks are the ones that really seem to need Trump to deliver on his vacuous promises. Trump's not delivering, and they don't care.

The thing that amazes me are the so Christian evangelicals.
No problem with 3 times married, C bragger/grabber
 
I. Guess you didn't see the study that said the more you watch knees news the more uniformed you get??

What made you think I don't believe that? But I'm pretty sure there are people who only watch CNN, msnbc, comedy central for their news as well.
 
The thing that amazes me are the so Christian evangelicals.
No problem with 3 times married, C bragger/grabber
I think if they had a better option, they would rather another candidate.... but there weren't any... If everyone voted for whoever they thought was best possible individual, the crazy group with the largest following would win every time. People make sacrifices and exceptions based on the options they have.
 
Did you read the article? Those people are every bit as real as you and I.

Racist people exist (referring to the quotes you put up in Post #1) in the United States. Some Trump supporters are white racists, yes. But remember when Americans were allies of communist Russia and The Man of Steel Stalin? The communist Russian soldiers carried out atrocities like going through one or more countries and murdering Eastern Orthodox monks. In at least one case they murdered some Orthodox monks by chaining them to the walls in a basement cellar and other monks at that same monastery they murdered by hanging from trees by hooks to their jaws.

Nicer white people than the racist ones you quoted?

So, the left might be the Nazis of Germany in this case and the American white racists the communist Russians. But that's how life is complex at times. If the left were going to lynch mob murder Jesus (the Hebrew one, not the Mexican one) and most white racist were going to help Jesus escape a lynching, do I find myself allied (if temporarily) with the white racists or the holier than thou zealot left?





I don't know if most Trump supporters understand the majority (majority, not minority) of Democrats and liberals of today. But I do. You all view Trump and the white racist that support him as holding up "progress," setting the country back, and magically "dividing the country" from out of no where. You all are self deluded in some fairy tale you all have created, or rather bought into, that we all as humans are going to hold hands, accept all radical differences among us, and skip with each other into a bright Western future of paradise. And to achieve this you all subscribe to hate as a vehicle to bring about love.

Aside from the fact most of you have no idea what the hell love is, there can be no paradise on this earth, best we can achieve is a world with a lot less war whereby we are tolerant of differences (that includes the differences liberals and Democrats don't like) and humanity across the global subscribes to a basic viewpoint that we need to promote and facilitate cooperation between nations.

Furthermore, you can't at the city level just be content with sprawling despair, massive wealth inequality (breeds too much resentment and other issues--does not matter if the poor have microwaves and air conditioning), and attack the family (partly by attacking American wage earners by flooding their country and cities with low paid Mexican workers [Mexican workers are great workers and people, they of themselves aren't the problem nor need be the "scapegoat"]). But this is pretty much what both establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans want. And so, the fairy tale liberals, Democrats preach they will create is entirely BS. They will bring discord and break people a part, because they want revolution and non-violent war, and people hating each other. Period.
 
I agree with you. I'm not even sure how "norm" they are for depressed post-industrial rust belt towns. But they do seem to prove Trump's comment about there being folks who would support him even it he walked out and shot some random person in the street.

I guess the shocking part for me is that those folks are the ones that really seem to need Trump to deliver on his vacuous promises. Trump's not delivering, and they don't care.

To be fair, Trump has had a LOT of obstacles to deliver. It's not like he hasn't tried. Much like Obama, who had a LOT of obstacles himself after he lost congress. Thing about Trump though is he is fighting is own party as well, which Obama didn't have as much of an issue with when they controlled congress. The Republicans seem to be not united on ANYTHING.
 
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