Pic Of The Moment: CNN Checks In With Independents Who Voted For Trump In 2016

[EarlG]

Regretful Trump voter begs for forgiveness on CNN: "I am sorry I voted for him — I've enabled this monster"

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[Botany]

1. Who knew that an insane con man who is owned by Russia with long time links to the mob ....

... both the American and Russian ..... who pays off sex workers, who braged about sexually
assaulting women, walked into a dressing room with underage girls in it, pays to have people
cheer him, has 5 kids w/the different wives, has declared bankruptcy 7 times, had to go to
a military prep school because of his behavior, doesn't pay his bills, and is an outright asshole
would be a bad President?

[PatSeg]

4. I know

How could anyone know he would be a bad president?

[Botany]

10. The 4,000 times that Trump has been sued and or filed law suits might have been a clue.

Trump scratched the racist/sexist/proud to be a dumb fuck itch for millions of Americans.

[PatSeg]

21. Its a shame

that none of that information was available to the public before the election!

[Doitnow]

23. Absolutely----People in New York knew what kind of person he was. Why on earth

didn't the media publicize his bad reputation? His RECORD, which I keep on mentioning every opportunity I get. Everyone has a RECORD, even if there is NONE. If someone doesn't have one, they should first go and get one, so people know what they have to offer. And someone without a record has no business applying for the presidency of this country. Period.

Candidates who don't have a record and who run on promises are the least qualified. Deeds are what count. A RECORD.

I understand Texas knew what W. was like. And the rest of the country was unaware. Where was our media in all this?

As far as the media is concerned right now---once again, they are selecting whom we will be considering---and leaving out others. Note who are interviewed CONSTANTLY ----and who are not.

Have I mentioned "RECORD" enough? The media is responsible for getting information to us. All of it. Now, not after the elections.

[LisaM]

25. The media ENABLED him and normalized him. And they won't face up to it.

All during the Republican primaries, they followed him around. He was on TV constantly. His grossness was overlooked.

I guess it's easier for the media to cover big rallies than to do the leg work and see what the normal candidates were doing - smaller events, one-on-one interactions with voters, developing real (and complicated, sorry) plans for this country.

Nope, easier to go up to a big rally and turn on the camera. I do blame the media for creating this Frankenstein's monster. If they'd ignored him at the beginning, like they did with a lot of other candidates, he never would have gotten the momentum he did. Of course, the Republican's winner-take-all primaries didn't help either. It gave him too much of a padded lead over the other candidates, who were splitting whatever there is of a sane vote in the Republican party.

[PatSeg]

28. True

And they should have been ignoring him long before he decided to run for president. Giving Trump one on one interviews for major networks was absurd for stupid crap like Obama's birth certificate. The man always managed to get publicity he did not merit, but somehow the media came running and let him ramble on like the clownish buffoon that he is.

Trump was an oddity, a train wreck, hardly a newsworthy individual, but over the years journalists treated him like he was a legitimate individual and rarely challenged any of the off-the-wall crap he said. They were enablers.

[cstanleytech]

36. The media helped feed him but they did not create him the Repugnant party

and its members like Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell types are what created and enabled him and they are still enabling him and they clearly have no intention of stopping which is why they need to be removed from office.

[PatSeg]

29. I agree

The media bears a lot of responsibility for where we are now. Trump played them, like he's done for decades and they fell for it. Because no one really believed he would be elected, they didn't take him seriously and do the necessary investigations. They sure did cover Hillary's emails a lot though.

[ffr]

9. The only way out, is to educate them to think for themselves.

They must get civically involved in their ability to quickly recognize grifters.

[PearliePoo2]

2. Jeez, FINALLY they're doing interviews with people who AREN'T still trump-humpers!

Nice to see for a change!

Man, these people are PISSED! Hey CNN, put this on an hourly loop!

K&R

[PatSeg]

5. Yes, finally

I quit listening to these damn focus groups, because it is almost always Trump supporters who have no regrets.

[PatSeg]

8. Yeah, that too

Too stubborn to admit they were wrong.

[not fooled]

20. It's the Sunk Cost Fallacy

Willful ignorance and stupidity among other factors got them in, and now they won't change:

[link:http://leepublish.typepad.com/strategicthinking/2015/03/sunk-cost-fallacy.html|]

Definition

Sunk cost fallacy (also called the "sunk cost effect," "sunk cost heuristic," "Concorde fallacy," "argument from waste," "investment trap," "escalation of commitment," "irrational escalation" and "escalation bias.&quot

In economics, a sunk cost is any cost that has already been paid and cannot be recovered. The sunk cost fallacy is a mistake in reasoning in which the sunk costs of an activity - instead of the future costs and benefits - are considered when deciding whether to continue the activity. The sunk cost fallacy makes it more likely that a person or an organization continues with an activity in which they have already invested money, time, or effort, even if they would not start the activity had they not already invested in it. The greater the size of the sunk investment, the more people tend to invest further, even when the return on added investment appears not to be worthwhile.

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Psychologists cite "cognitive dissonance," "plausible deniability" and "regret avoidance" as reasons for the sunk cost fallacy: Continuing one's past behavior, in this case extending and enlarging a prior commitment that otherwise does not make economic sense, is seen as justifying our past behavior, maintaining the appearance that we did not make a mistake, and avoiding the regret that we would experience by stopping the activity in which the investment was made.5

[OhZone]

6. I think his cult members -

would rather destroy the earth and all humanity rather than have to share it with minorities and people not in their tribe.

[niyad]

11. so these people are sorry now, begging forgiveness? what in the fucking hell were they

doing during the campaign??? it isn't like anything the boastfully self-admitted sexual predator in chief is doing anything new and surprising.

want our forgiveness? work your asses off for Dems, contribute lots and lots of money, time and energy. and bring your friends along with you, showing them the light.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

13. Sounds like they are working. It'd take a HELL of a lot of work for me to vote Repub

even on their best days. These people are admitting they were wrong. That's huge in a day and age where the presdident lies literally ALL the time. What choice do we really have but to welcome them and hope they truly see the light? I dunno.

[niyad]

16. I do understand that we do have to "welcome" them, but I do not forget what they foisted

on us through. . what? racism? sexism? xenophobia? ignorance?

[Initech]

12. Fake news media! Sad!

So sayeth the orange asshole.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

14. Too bad you have that in your subject line.

On top of the sentiment wo even a bit. The words 'fake media' shouldn't be uttered in this room without good grounds, or discussing fox. It's a don t concept that needs to be quashed, hard. The media is going to save us. Even kidding around about it should be verboten. Just me though. I know I'm going to watch what I say too. Some folks just read the subject lines.
fake media...groannnnnnnn.

[Initech]

17. Yeah the bad thing is my Trump impression gets lost in text.

But what I was getting at is that you can almost predict he's going to say that. He's like a broken record at this point.

[irisblue]

15. ::SIGH::

I really am very challenged by this, on one hand.. "Hell Yeah!" on the other "YA DAMN FOOLS!".

Glad for their votes, but the damage,...yeah...

[Gothmog]

18. K&R

[LittleGirl]

19. FINALLY! Let's hear from more regretful voters

I wanna see more, more more!!!

[Stuart G]

22. K AND R.thanks for posting.It is a wonderful video..(entire video, 3min & 54 seconds)please watch

[maveric]

24. Morons

That is all.

[PatrickforO]

26. Many of the people who voted for Trump were conned.

I have no sympathy for the racists, xenophobes and homophobes though.

But, you know, fear works. It really does. And that is exactly the kind of campaign Trump ran - fear based.

To win, we're going to have to replace fear with hope.

[gordianot]

27. At various times Trump amost sounded like an agent of change.

Besides the majority of the time he acted and sounded like a total ass. The best lies have an element of truth, Trump lies are usually free of any truth.

[Doitnow]

31. A change to what? Always ask.

[gordianot]

33. He was going after the investor class.

Provide even better deals for healthcare. Just about anyone with a functioning brain cell could figure out that was lie. When he pronounced health care was too complicated even the dullest should have figured him out.

[Honeycombe8]

30. It takes a big person to publicly admit a mistake. I hope the majority of them feel this way.

And it's not just a handful that CNN found.

Yeah, they were stupid for the initial vote. Still, it would be easy to say nothing or even double down on their mistake. I hope they DO go to the polls and vote Democratic and aren't just saying that.

And then there's "Rusher"....

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

38. Yes, I really appreciate people who can admit to mistakes.

Those people have good character. People that can admit they are wrong are ones that can do better in the future. Those people make me hopeful.

[Beartracks]

32. Glad they see he's not a Republican anomaly. Trump is...

.. symptomatic of the entire Republican party. They support him, the defend him, the cover for him, they worship him, they kiss his ass.

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[Raster]

34. ...but her emails...

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. Shows how easily Americans can be duped.

Most now live in a world of reality shows, social media blitz and bling, shallow entertainment-mode news media, and 24/7 product advertising. I don't think these folks did little if any in-depth study or fact checking.

During the campaign, anyone with even a modicon of curiosity would have suspected most of tRump's statements. We did, many outside America did, but few other Americans (or our useless media) checked or brought these issues to light.

They were asleep at the wheel and fell for the flim-flam and con.......

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

37. I'm glad these people woke up. n/t

[dalton99a]

39. Trump is the apex of the evolution of the Republican Party

He is no anomaly or incongruity

[smirkymonkey]

40. We need to hear from more of these voters.

And we also need to hear more from independents and Democrats who didn't vote for Trump and will never vote for Trump and why, and what they believe he is doing to this country. I have heard enough from the brain-dead Trump cult. Enough from them. Give the rest of us a voice. Let us be heard!