Deplorables pay little heed to revelations rocking DC

[DemocratSinceBirth]

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s loyal backers say they don’t know, don’t believe or don’t care about the explosive revelations that forced the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between Russia and the Republican campaign.

From the quiet streets of New York’s working-class Staten Island to small-town Denison, Iowa, and even smaller Rutledge, Georgia, Trump may be as popular today as when he was elected. Voters are standing with a president who tweeted on Thursday that he is the target of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!”


The tumult that began last week with the firing of FBI Director James Comey has consumed Washington, roiling the White House and putting congressional Republicans on the defensive.

Not so in Trump strongholds.

“I tuned it out,” said 44-year-old Michele Velardi, a mother of three sons, during a break from her job at a Staten Island hair salon. “I didn’t want to be depressed. I don’t want to feel that he’s not doing what he said, so I just choose to not listen.”

A few blocks away, die-hard Trump supporter Joseph Amodeo, 19, incorrectly praised the president for raising New York’s minimum wage, something enacted by Democrats in the Legislature. The college student had little understanding of the Trump administration’s deepening political struggles, but he offered a stern message to Trump’s critics.

“If you’re wishing for him to fail, you’re basically wishing for the pilot of the plane to crash,” Amodeo said. “You just gotta stick by him and hopefully he does things that benefit everyone.”


https://apnews.com/780cc65e99354b00877c870acf2cdaf0

[irisblue]

1. Paying attention requires interest, intelligence& the ability for critical reasoning

and some education. Those are not deplorable traits.

[muntrv]

2. "....so I just choose to not listen."

That's the deplorable mindset.

[dalton99a]

3. They already know the truth

[volstork]

15. I believe

you are dead.

Oh wait-- that's true...

[ProudLib72]

4. If you've never been to Staten Island

you should do so. It's an incredible microcosm of right wing weirdos. Then there's the fact that half the island is a landfill. It's 180 degrees the opposite of Manhattan.

[Jacquette]

5. Even when all this over

We still have to deal with these people they're not going anywhere and they're not changing. Idk what the answer is.

[mreilly]

7. Same as always...

... we marginalize them and tie their hands. Ignore their braying just as you would the demented drunk uncle at a family reunion. They've proven over and over they don't deserve to run the country, haven't earned a seat at the table, and are not to be believed, taken seriously or even listened to.

I have NEVER supported the concept promoted by some on the left that we should "reach out" to this filth, nor "listen to their concerns." I can tell you their concerns: they want it to be all about THEM, 100% of the time. Not 98%. Not 99%. 100% or "it's just not fair!"

This may sound like a parody but I'm being totally serious. We block them from EVER holding any decision-making power over the rest of us and let attrition do it's work until their kind of gleefully sadistic ignorance and selfishness is wiped from the face of the Earth.

[VOX]

11. Agreed. They are forever lost. Contain them and move forward. n/t

[Jacquette]

12. That would work....if they were

at 10, 20 %. 40 plus percent? They can't be marginalized.

This is as much social as it political. The left has to listen to that. I don't advocate going back to some myrhical Good Old Days ...but some of this ultra progressive, politically correct, in your face dogma turns ME off and I'm a 60 yr lifelong black democrat.

This is a center right country. Sometimes more right or left leaning but basically? Center right. Always has been.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Shun and outvote them.

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[geek tragedy]

17. demoralize them into not voting nt

[DBoon]

26. Distract them

What ever happened to UFO sightings? Shouldn't these people be investigating the cover up of alien flying saucers?

The right wing has collected all these loose nuts into a political movement. We are living with the consequences.

I'd rather have them back into harmless fringe activities that don't endanger the rest of us.

[lunasun]

6. They are in it doubling down

Oh that lady will not change now, and and its even hard to appeal to Joseph Amedeo , 19 I bet.
My 17 yr old came home a few days ago and said his one teacher talkedon and on near half the class period about how bad Obamacare is.

[Phoenix61]

9. If they had any real interest in politics

They wouldn't have fallen for his bs to begin with.

[winstars]

10. Lived in SI age 3-17, a great concentration of idiots in one place. I moved to Manhattan!!!

Staten Island gave us Guy and then Susan Molinari in Congress, also idiots....

Staten Island has ALWAYS been Republican.

Mostly filled with people who moved from too liberal Brooklyn...

Mostly filled with Italian-Americans who have watched The Godfather, Raging Bull and Goodfellas waaaay too many times. I have also but I realize these are only MOVIES and art should imitate life and not the opposite...

[volstork]

14. Pay attention,

MORANS!

[geek tragedy]

16. the goal is to demoralize his fans so they don't turn out in off-year elections.

getting them to stay home is a victory

[barbtries]

18. actually those 2 quotes

don't sound like they're coming from people thinking this guy can do no wrong. to me, they sound like people who are not ready to let go yet. just not yet.

[maryellen99]

19. These are morans who believe that Obama and HRC called ABC personally to have Tim Allens show canned

[Initech]

20. They're in full on denial mode.

[Orrex]

21. They are proudly stupid little fuckers

“If you’re wishing for him to fail, you’re basically wishing for the pilot of the plane to crash,” Amodeo said. “You just gotta stick by him and hopefully he does things that benefit everyone.”

A colorful analogy that I'm sure Amodeo gleaned from some RW media source. But I'm not wishing for the pilot to crach; I want the lunatic hijacker to jump out of the plane and to let a trained and experience pilot take the controls.

[FigTree]

22. The "basket of deplkorables" has been a consistent 25%

of the polled population over the past 50 years at least. That's how many had a favorable opinion of Nixon the day he left and how many had a favorable opinion of shrub at the lowest. That's what is meant by "basket".

[Blue_Tires]

23. Fuck 'em

There needs to be a two-year moratorium on going out into Trump country and giving his cultists free ink/airtime... Some MSM outlet or another is running the same lazy bullshit weekly and the comments from the Trump cult never change...

Until these people grow the fuck up, they don't matter politically and should be ignored.

[muntrv]

24. No Joseph Amodeo. I am rooting for the removal of this flunkie of a pilot

from the cockpit and replacing him with someone who passed flight school.

[dawg]

25. If we really believe in Democracy - and we do - we must convince some of these people.

Okay. Maybe not any of the idiots quoted in the article. Or the woman with the "grab mine" t-shirt.

But millions of our fellow citizens voted for Trump. He was acceptable to them.

And what is worse, many of them had their reservations about Trump personally, but were willing to vote for him in order to get the Republican agenda. That just blows my mind.

[louis-t]

27. They all say "I just stopped watching cable news!"

Slowly, the dumbfucks in my office are puffing their chests out a little less. They don't bark out the talking points anymore. You don't hear anything about walls being built. And I'm starting to hear hushed conversations opining:
"Ye know what trump shoulda done? He shoulda...."

[pansypoo53219]

28. low information voters & their emperor.

[d_r]

29. I was thinking about this

I watched a little bit of Hannity last night flipping through the channels. He was straight up telling people emphatically that it was all lies by the media and the pathetic democrats because they were jealous. He was like giving a lecture, it was like propaganda. Also, on Sunday I was flipping through the channels and stopped at a local Baptist church service. Basically, they were going through revelations and talking about how persecuted they were, they had digital clock things in the background counting out a Christian martyred ever six minutes, then he said that thank God that Trump signed the religious freedom bill but they could still be persecuted any time now so they had to always be ready.

So I thought about it. I think at this point it boils down to only three reasons somebody can still be supporting this guy. I mean a russian stooge mafia casino owner billionaire with third wife who posed naked, etc. One, they just don't believe it, they believe that it is all lies, they only believe what they want to believe and what the preacher and fox tells them. Two, they get it, but they are OK with it because the think he will support other issues they support so they think the ends justify the means. Or, third, they agree with him. They are just OK with it, they are ok with the racism, sexism, etc. They are either gullible, dissembling or deplorable (or all three).

They are a bunch of hypocrites who are willing to sell their souls to the russian mafia to put trump in the whitehouse, and now with the gop running the House and the Senate and stacking the supreme court, damned if abortion ain't still legal.