The GOP is broken beyond repair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is how misinformation happens....

What they don't tell you? 11 of the 13 died of COVID because they didn't get vaccinated.

Great example.

The GOP’s willingness to walk over a cliff to “own” us is absolutely surreal.

[Anonymous]

"patriots"

[Anonymous]

This is sheer insanity.

Half of the GOP doesn't know they are being lied to, and are genuinely convinced that there was a massive orchestrated effort to steal the election from Trump.

The other half knows full well it's a lie but doesn't care rationalizing it away with the false belief that no matter how bad their side lies and cheats, they (wrongly) think the Dems are even worse and that the ends somehow justify the means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is sheer insanity.

Half of the GOP doesn't know they are being lied to, and are genuinely convinced that there was a massive orchestrated effort to steal the election from Trump.

The other half knows full well it's a lie but doesn't care rationalizing it away with the false belief that no matter how bad their side lies and cheats, they (wrongly) think the Dems are even worse and that the ends somehow justify the means.

+1

I seriously keep expecting to learn someday that Fox and similar have been using subliminal messaging or something.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is sheer insanity.

Half of the GOP doesn't know they are being lied to, and are genuinely convinced that there was a massive orchestrated effort to steal the election from Trump.

The other half knows full well it's a lie but doesn't care rationalizing it away with the false belief that no matter how bad their side lies and cheats, they (wrongly) think the Dems are even worse and that the ends somehow justify the means.

+1

I seriously keep expecting to learn someday that Fox and similar have been using subliminal messaging or something.

I wish this were true, but the real answer is that people are just that stupid.

And it's not confined to the GOP, they're just the ones evil enough to weaponize it. I live in a heavily democratic but also very undereducated neighborhood (think Trayon White's constituency) and sometimes it's painful to hear the idiotic things my neighbors believe. I have absolutely no doubt that if the media that they consume started pushing the same kind of us-vs-them political conspiracy nonsense that FOX and OANN does that many of them would end up just as brainwashed and radicalized as the Q and Trump loons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is sheer insanity.

Half of the GOP doesn't know they are being lied to, and are genuinely convinced that there was a massive orchestrated effort to steal the election from Trump.

The other half knows full well it's a lie but doesn't care rationalizing it away with the false belief that no matter how bad their side lies and cheats, they (wrongly) think the Dems are even worse and that the ends somehow justify the means.

+1

I seriously keep expecting to learn someday that Fox and similar have been using subliminal messaging or something.

I wish this were true, but the real answer is that people are just that stupid.

And it's not confined to the GOP, they're just the ones evil enough to weaponize it. I live in a heavily democratic but also very undereducated neighborhood (think Trayon White's constituency) and sometimes it's painful to hear the idiotic things my neighbors believe. I have absolutely no doubt that if the media that they consume started pushing the same kind of us-vs-them political conspiracy nonsense that FOX and OANN does that many of them would end up just as brainwashed and radicalized as the Q and Trump loons.

The difference is that governments, especially state & local but also federal, really have conspired against blacks throughout American history, but governments haven’t and don’t conspire against the paranoid white groups. They have always been favored by US governments, but they think they are oppressed if the government does not serve only them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is sheer insanity.

Half of the GOP doesn't know they are being lied to, and are genuinely convinced that there was a massive orchestrated effort to steal the election from Trump.

The other half knows full well it's a lie but doesn't care rationalizing it away with the false belief that no matter how bad their side lies and cheats, they (wrongly) think the Dems are even worse and that the ends somehow justify the means.

+1

I seriously keep expecting to learn someday that Fox and similar have been using subliminal messaging or something.

I wish this were true, but the real answer is that people are just that stupid.

And it's not confined to the GOP, they're just the ones evil enough to weaponize it. I live in a heavily democratic but also very undereducated neighborhood (think Trayon White's constituency) and sometimes it's painful to hear the idiotic things my neighbors believe. I have absolutely no doubt that if the media that they consume started pushing the same kind of us-vs-them political conspiracy nonsense that FOX and OANN does that many of them would end up just as brainwashed and radicalized as the Q and Trump loons.

The difference is that governments, especially state & local but also federal, really have conspired against blacks throughout American history, but governments haven’t and don’t conspire against the paranoid white groups. They have always been favored by US governments, but they think they are oppressed if the government does not serve only them.

Both of you have great insights. Yes, a lot of people are dreadfully, dreadfully stupid, but entitled White racists are also entitled.

[Anonymous]

They are in the last gasps. The only way they have any power is by rigging the vote via blocking turnout and gerrymandering, and now by trying to seize power via coups where they simply ignore legal votes. They’re still incredibly dangerous for now, but so long as we prevent these nuts from stealing control, they’ll die off within another decade. All the demographics show that GQPs are largely old and uneducated. They’re slowly killing themselves through their own grift and stupidity. We will replace them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are in the last gasps. The only way they have any power is by rigging the vote via blocking turnout and gerrymandering, and now by trying to seize power via coups where they simply ignore legal votes. They’re still incredibly dangerous for now, but so long as we prevent these nuts from stealing control, they’ll die off within another decade. All the demographics show that GQPs are largely old and uneducated. They’re slowly killing themselves through their own grift and stupidity. We will replace them.

That’s a lot of “ifs.” And I see no evidence that the brainwashing will stop. The number of people who still vote Republican is about a hundred percent too many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are in the last gasps. The only way they have any power is by rigging the vote via blocking turnout and gerrymandering, and now by trying to seize power via coups where they simply ignore legal votes. They’re still incredibly dangerous for now, but so long as we prevent these nuts from stealing control, they’ll die off within another decade. All the demographics show that GQPs are largely old and uneducated. They’re slowly killing themselves through their own grift and stupidity. We will replace them.

That’s a lot of “ifs.” And I see no evidence that the brainwashing will stop. The number of people who still vote Republican is about a hundred percent too many.

If anything the brainwashing will increase. You can already see it on this board and every other one on the internet. In the past couple years the number of people spouting coordinated GOP talking points have increased exponentially. Once you learn to spot it you see it everywhere, and it all traces back to that media brainwashing. Any of these little chestnuts sound familiar?

"Oh, you think black people are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID? That makes you the real racist!"

"Democrat leaders have failed their cities/states and let them become cesspools, that's why people are moving to red states!"

"Covid is worse than ever and Joe Biden campaigned on getting rid of it!"

They're all carefully crafted, focus-grouped messages that get seeded into conservative media and astroturfed on the internet until all the good little conservative commentators know exactly what they're supposed to say, and say it so much they get others to believe it. Why do you think Bannon was so focused on internet demographic data, to micro target the people most susceptible to propaganda with propaganda tailored to what they are most likely to believe and spread.

It's absolutely genius sadly. Notice they all have just enough of a grain of truth to make even a hardcore liberal stop and think "huh, maybe they've got a point," but of course when you look deeper they're all completely false and misleading.

Not being able to get an ID because the GOP government shut down all the DMVs in black neighborhoods and the public transit system is a joke due to GOP cuts doesn't make you stupid, it makes you a victim of GOP voter suppression.

Liberals aren't moving from blue states to red states because they've seen the light on GOP policies, lower income people are moving from blue states to red states because blue state policies have made the economies there such powerhouses that more people can afford to spend more money on houses making them out of reach for people who can't or won't qualify for those high paying jobs.

Covid is worse than ever, but it's not for lack of Biden trying, it's because the very same people blaming Biden for not doing enough are refusing to do any of the things Biden is telling them to do, like get vaccinated, wear a mask, reducing travel, or anything else.

The GOP propaganda machine is working better than they could have ever hoped. They're only going to ramp it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are in the last gasps. The only way they have any power is by rigging the vote via blocking turnout and gerrymandering, and now by trying to seize power via coups where they simply ignore legal votes. They’re still incredibly dangerous for now, but so long as we prevent these nuts from stealing control, they’ll die off within another decade. All the demographics show that GQPs are largely old and uneducated. They’re slowly killing themselves through their own grift and stupidity. We will replace them.

That’s a lot of “ifs.” And I see no evidence that the brainwashing will stop. The number of people who still vote Republican is about a hundred percent too many.

If anything the brainwashing will increase. You can already see it on this board and every other one on the internet. In the past couple years the number of people spouting coordinated GOP talking points have increased exponentially. Once you learn to spot it you see it everywhere, and it all traces back to that media brainwashing. Any of these little chestnuts sound familiar?

"Oh, you think black people are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID? That makes you the real racist!"

"Democrat leaders have failed their cities/states and let them become cesspools, that's why people are moving to red states!"

"Covid is worse than ever and Joe Biden campaigned on getting rid of it!"

They're all carefully crafted, focus-grouped messages that get seeded into conservative media and astroturfed on the internet until all the good little conservative commentators know exactly what they're supposed to say, and say it so much they get others to believe it. Why do you think Bannon was so focused on internet demographic data, to micro target the people most susceptible to propaganda with propaganda tailored to what they are most likely to believe and spread.

It's absolutely genius sadly. Notice they all have just enough of a grain of truth to make even a hardcore liberal stop and think "huh, maybe they've got a point," but of course when you look deeper they're all completely false and misleading.

Not being able to get an ID because the GOP government shut down all the DMVs in black neighborhoods and the public transit system is a joke due to GOP cuts doesn't make you stupid, it makes you a victim of GOP voter suppression.

Liberals aren't moving from blue states to red states because they've seen the light on GOP policies, lower income people are moving from blue states to red states because blue state policies have made the economies there such powerhouses that more people can afford to spend more money on houses making them out of reach for people who can't or won't qualify for those high paying jobs.

Covid is worse than ever, but it's not for lack of Biden trying, it's because the very same people blaming Biden for not doing enough are refusing to do any of the things Biden is telling them to do, like get vaccinated, wear a mask, reducing travel, or anything else.

The GOP propaganda machine is working better than they could have ever hoped. They're only going to ramp it up.

Very, very well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are in the last gasps. The only way they have any power is by rigging the vote via blocking turnout and gerrymandering, and now by trying to seize power via coups where they simply ignore legal votes. They’re still incredibly dangerous for now, but so long as we prevent these nuts from stealing control, they’ll die off within another decade. All the demographics show that GQPs are largely old and uneducated. They’re slowly killing themselves through their own grift and stupidity. We will replace them.

That’s a lot of “ifs.” And I see no evidence that the brainwashing will stop. The number of people who still vote Republican is about a hundred percent too many.

If anything the brainwashing will increase. You can already see it on this board and every other one on the internet. In the past couple years the number of people spouting coordinated GOP talking points have increased exponentially. Once you learn to spot it you see it everywhere, and it all traces back to that media brainwashing. Any of these little chestnuts sound familiar?

"Oh, you think black people are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID? That makes you the real racist!"

"Democrat leaders have failed their cities/states and let them become cesspools, that's why people are moving to red states!"

"Covid is worse than ever and Joe Biden campaigned on getting rid of it!"

They're all carefully crafted, focus-grouped messages that get seeded into conservative media and astroturfed on the internet until all the good little conservative commentators know exactly what they're supposed to say, and say it so much they get others to believe it. Why do you think Bannon was so focused on internet demographic data, to micro target the people most susceptible to propaganda with propaganda tailored to what they are most likely to believe and spread.

It's absolutely genius sadly. Notice they all have just enough of a grain of truth to make even a hardcore liberal stop and think "huh, maybe they've got a point," but of course when you look deeper they're all completely false and misleading.

Not being able to get an ID because the GOP government shut down all the DMVs in black neighborhoods and the public transit system is a joke due to GOP cuts doesn't make you stupid, it makes you a victim of GOP voter suppression.

Liberals aren't moving from blue states to red states because they've seen the light on GOP policies, lower income people are moving from blue states to red states because blue state policies have made the economies there such powerhouses that more people can afford to spend more money on houses making them out of reach for people who can't or won't qualify for those high paying jobs.

Covid is worse than ever, but it's not for lack of Biden trying, it's because the very same people blaming Biden for not doing enough are refusing to do any of the things Biden is telling them to do, like get vaccinated, wear a mask, reducing travel, or anything else.

The GOP propaganda machine is working better than they could have ever hoped. They're only going to ramp it up.

Very, very well said.

Thank you, I even forgot the most successful one of them all; "Terry McAuliffe wants to teach your kid Critical Race Theory and doesn't want you to have a say in what your child learns." That one message alone swung VA red and of course it was absolute, total nonsense but was probably the number one reason Biden voters went for Youngkin.

It sounded bad, real bad. What kind of unfit monster wants to shut parents out of the education system?! Of course what McAuliffe really meant was "I don't want crazy people who can't even define Critical Race Theory telling the school board whether to teach it or not, or crazy people who don't believe in COVID telling the school board whether to keep schools open or not," but that's the huge disadvantage Democrats have when fighting GOP propaganda - the republicans don't have any qualms whatsoever about midleading and outright lying, and as the old saying goes, "a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are in the last gasps. The only way they have any power is by rigging the vote via blocking turnout and gerrymandering, and now by trying to seize power via coups where they simply ignore legal votes. They’re still incredibly dangerous for now, but so long as we prevent these nuts from stealing control, they’ll die off within another decade. All the demographics show that GQPs are largely old and uneducated. They’re slowly killing themselves through their own grift and stupidity. We will replace them.

That’s a lot of “ifs.” And I see no evidence that the brainwashing will stop. The number of people who still vote Republican is about a hundred percent too many.

If anything the brainwashing will increase. You can already see it on this board and every other one on the internet. In the past couple years the number of people spouting coordinated GOP talking points have increased exponentially. Once you learn to spot it you see it everywhere, and it all traces back to that media brainwashing. Any of these little chestnuts sound familiar?

"Oh, you think black people are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID? That makes you the real racist!"

"Democrat leaders have failed their cities/states and let them become cesspools, that's why people are moving to red states!"

"Covid is worse than ever and Joe Biden campaigned on getting rid of it!"

They're all carefully crafted, focus-grouped messages that get seeded into conservative media and astroturfed on the internet until all the good little conservative commentators know exactly what they're supposed to say, and say it so much they get others to believe it. Why do you think Bannon was so focused on internet demographic data, to micro target the people most susceptible to propaganda with propaganda tailored to what they are most likely to believe and spread.

It's absolutely genius sadly. Notice they all have just enough of a grain of truth to make even a hardcore liberal stop and think "huh, maybe they've got a point," but of course when you look deeper they're all completely false and misleading.

Not being able to get an ID because the GOP government shut down all the DMVs in black neighborhoods and the public transit system is a joke due to GOP cuts doesn't make you stupid, it makes you a victim of GOP voter suppression.

Liberals aren't moving from blue states to red states because they've seen the light on GOP policies, lower income people are moving from blue states to red states because blue state policies have made the economies there such powerhouses that more people can afford to spend more money on houses making them out of reach for people who can't or won't qualify for those high paying jobs.

Covid is worse than ever, but it's not for lack of Biden trying, it's because the very same people blaming Biden for not doing enough are refusing to do any of the things Biden is telling them to do, like get vaccinated, wear a mask, reducing travel, or anything else.

The GOP propaganda machine is working better than they could have ever hoped. They're only going to ramp it up.

Very, very well said.

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