101 points

If only quotes, evidence, and objective reporting had any hope of getting through to his supporters…

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It’s almost impossible to reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

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They would never have become his supporters in the first place if that were the case.

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6 points

A very good point

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12 points

There’s a big intersection between conservatives and people who find it very important to support the military. You don’t necessarily have to get them to engage with an argument so much as associate him with something they don’t like.

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23 points

MAGoos. “I love Trump because he’s not a politician; he says exactly what he means.”

Also MAGoos “…this is what Trump MEANT to say…”

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45 points

Why slam/ eviscerate/ blast when you can torch

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26 points

B I D E N

B L A S T

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7 points

It’s super effective!

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14 points

Don’t forget “rip”.

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8 points

Torched me

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4 points

Absolutely slammed

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40 points

And yet people will still vote for him to “oWn ThE LiBs” Republicans propaganda is really good at getting people to vote against their own self interests

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8 points

Thank their decades long war on education for that.

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Judging by what I hear from the Republican-voting folks around me, unless this airs on Newsmax or OAN (etc) the people who need to see it, won’t.

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It’s not like this would change their position anyways. The man has admitted, on record, to raping women, barging into children’s changing rooms, and wanting to fuck his daughter.

Anyone who still supports him is just flat out a bad person.

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I agree mostly. Part of what I meant was that those networks will never sit such material, so it won’t get to the viewers, but if they did for some reason, some viewers may believe it because it came from a trusted source. But it will likely never sit on those networks, those viewers will never see it, and as you say, they will continue to behave poorly.

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11 points

True, my in-laws even stopped watching Fox News because I guess they weren’t lying enough or something.

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21 points

He didn’t mean it, multiple times.

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6 points

Over the course of months, generally, and personally.

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*years, publicly

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