Donald Trump voters: We like the presidents lies.
Donald Trump supporters in hardscrabble Ohio have finally figured out that he is lying a lot. The truth is, they dont care.
NEWARK, OHIOJames Cassidy didnt need the director of the FBI to tell him Barack Obama never wiretapped Donald Trump at Trump Tower. Cassidy knew from the start that Trump made the whole thing up.
He was happy the president lied.
Hes ruffling every feather in Washington that he can ruffle. These guys are scrambling. So: yeah! I like it. I think its a good thing. I want to see them jump around a little bit, Cassidy, 58, said on Tuesday.
It was the first afternoon of spring. Cassidy, an unemployed former construction worker, was smoking outside a bar on one of the faded downtown streets of Newark, a city of 48,000 people about 45 minutes east of Columbus. When a buddy rolled up on a bicycle, they soon got to talking about their chronic pain.
Cassidy is hurting, and he wants powerful people to hurt too.
So when Trump sent Congress and the media and the big intelligence agencies into a perplexed frenzy with a four-tweet lie in early March about supposed surveillance McCarthyism by his sick predecessor, Cassidy smiled to himself.
Sure, Cassidy thought, Trumps claim was obviously false. Why would he? Why would Obama do that? But Trump had promised to slap some sense into the out-of-touch Washington elites, and he was doing what he said he was going to do, wasnt he?'>>>
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/03/26/donald-trump-voters-we-like-the-presidents-lies.html#pq=5Sha2X
JDC
(10,125 posts)But it's called for with this type of idiot.
*Edit was due to equal sign disappearing.
elleng
(130,864 posts)but the problem is there are SO MANY of them, and they VOTE.
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)I know a few people like that and they, like Trump, have the attitude of a jr. high school bully. Their vote this time was a big "fuck you" just because it made them feel powerful. They had seen him on tv and they liked his crass, bullying style so they decided to back him just to piss people off. It's an immature attitude, much like Trump's.
elleng
(130,864 posts)wanting to feel powerful.
MOST people outgrow this stage, but it appears that many don't, due to lack of proper guidance.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Does half = most?
elleng
(130,864 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)elleng
(130,864 posts)so 'most' equals more than half.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)elleng
(130,864 posts)The matter at issue: 'jr. high school bully,
wanting to feel powerful.
MOST people outgrow this stage, but it appears that many don't, due to lack of proper guidance.'
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)We need WAY more than half + 1 to have any chance at a secure future.
elleng
(130,864 posts)I responded to a simple question.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts).. the Government, i.e. rational, responsible government).
"A Conservative's Courage: Punk Talk" - it applies perfectly to Trump
louis-t
(23,292 posts)They only care that he is ruffling feathers, making liberals angry.
ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Too bad that they'll be saved if Dems ever get control of the WH, Senate and Congress again. People like that ignoramus in the article NEED to suffer for their dastardly sins, and as a Dem I'm not going to reach out to them because assholes like this fool are unreachable and not worth reaching out to.
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)Keeps him entertained I guess. Poor sap.
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)Well, when Pootie takes their guns away, they will be singing a different tune. Can't have an armed population in fascist America. Wonder what the Nuge will think of Trump then.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Conspiracies...And why you can't educate them
ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)They don't understand how democracy works, don't care to try to understand, and would throw it all away in a moment for the right demagogue.
rock
(13,218 posts)Then you're wrong. You don't even have to be of average intelligence to see this (sorry Donald, this let's you out).
silverweb
(16,402 posts)Vinca
(50,261 posts)eyeofnewt
(146 posts)that stood out to me:
I suppose this passes for critical thinking:
What he was wanting to do was keep things stirred up so it was all confused. He said he was going to do that from the time he started running for the election, said the man on the bike, retired factory worker John Tolliver, 75. Thats what its going to take. When theyre confused, they dont know what theyre doing, theyre going to make a mistake, and hes going to grab them.
I suppose Mr. Tolliver is right, he might grab them.
And I thought I'd heard every descriptor utilized, but humorous has never been one:
I think that was just something just to rattle Obama. I dont think any less of him because of it, said Grumme, 60, as he waited for a McDonalds order in Zanesville. As long as he dont keep it up continuously every once in a while, sure, take a little stab and crack at him or something. You expect that. Hes a humorous guy.
Oh, yes, he slays, Mr. Grumme. It's hysterical until someone loses a testicle- to cancer they couldn't afford to treat.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Beartracks
(12,809 posts)Nothing.
No, really.
So, in Trump voters' view, he annoys or pisses off liberals. So what?
So he's supposedly got "elites" and the establishment scrambling. So what?
If that's what you voted for, you're doing it wrong.
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irisblue
(32,967 posts)I worked in Zanesville for almost 2 yrs. sigh