What's with these Trumpers

[Catherine Vincent]

What's with these Trumpers now regurgitating that they don't want the presidency decided by the media?

Projections by media have been called as long as I remember. I do realize it's a talking point for these idiots.

[LizBeth]

1. Well, you see, I was there. While some of us were saying call it, other Dems were saying we can

celebrate without media calling it. It doesn't matter if media never calls it. And I guess it has filtered to the right.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. Some are even saying it's up to the courts to decide elections.

Totally bypassing the fact that it's the citizens of this country the does the choosing.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. They repeat what their cult leaders say.

Whenever coworkers were in that cult, and they said something that seemed improbable and weird about "current events", I could always later find the reference from a recent Fox News broadcast and such.

Edit: And in hindsight, those people were a lot like Trump because they'd often use a general "they say" when repeating the nonsense. If I pressed them for a specific source, it would be more of "they say" until I later found the answer online. That was happening even before Trump ran for President.

[underpants]

4. Yep. Even Trump is tweeting the same today.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214509077

[Bengus81]

5. The Media call Saint Ronnie's first win five seconds after the polls close on the east coast

They sure as shit didn't have any problem with that.......

[JHB]

6. What's with them? An ingrained habit of parroting talking points...

...spun by their favorite ranting cranks in conservative media.

[handmade34]

7. they need to be told

that each state's Secretary of State calls the results and the media merely reports on those results... they merely need to be deprogrammed


...for many Fox News tribal hate media consumers who self-identify as a “proud Deplorable” or “Proud Conservative,” they sadly have become ensnared in the downward gravity of our society’s new 21st-century digital feedback loop of “identity fusion” whereby their political or cultural tribal identity comes to dominate their existing self-identity...

...What do the ratings tell the producers are the most engaging meta-narratives for the over 80 million Fox News viewers on all digital platforms?

Conspiracy theories.

Why do people love conspiracy stories? It’s human behavior. Being in on a good conspiracy theory makes you feel like you know something the other guy — in this case, any liberal — does not. The emotional payoff from being on the inside of a conspiracy is a self-esteem jolt that makes you feel smarter than your tribal foe and keeps your eyeballs glued to screens — television, laptops, tablets, cellphones —

[yonder]

9. +1. "Jolts". A Kalle Lasn or George Lakoff term?

I think they're key for advertising/marketing schemes to work, right?

[Shermann]

8. Hey can we get a DU hell yeah for CNN?

There was speculation that CNN was holding out on calling the race in order to maximize prescription drug advertising revenues.

So that wasn't the case. They were waiting for Giuliani's Four Seasons Total Landscaping meeting to drop it. They disrupted his shenanigans and we got a viral real time reaction video on YouTube.

Epic!