Tired and true.
A faux-news post will typically start out with ‘mainstream media isn’t reporting this’ and ask for people to share the information before Facebook pulls the post. Just every once in a while you’d think that the information that isn’t being shared by mainstream media would pan out to be true, but nope. False. It’s usually easy to tell that it’s false, especially when I’ll have already seen several news outlets carrying the story. The actual story without lies inserted.
At times I will peruse a person’s page to see what kinds of stuff they share and what their sources of information are. Often on a conservatives or Trump supporter’s page there won’t be a single legitimate source of information referenced. Often the posts are just memes of false information and super-duper patriotic stuff mixed in with racist crap. Sometimes subtle. Sometimes not.
There is NO changing his cult followers’ minds!
Because of the outrageous things President Trump does and says on a regular basis it’s easy to see why people call him an idiot. I’ve done that a time or two myself. It’s easy to drift into name calling, especially on social media.
But Trump isn’t really an idiot. He isn’t really average either. He ends up being below average mainly because he refuses to be educated. His followers embrace that aspect of his nature.
Trump messaging:
Crime is rampant! But it isn’t because things are better than they’ve ever been. Cities are on fire! But they aren’t. Keep America great! Trump is in charge. The virus is deadly. The virus is a hoax. (Trump said it. Trump repeated it. His cult believes it.) Trump stopped the virus. There’ll only be 50,000 dead. He accepts no responsibility. He’s in complete power. Anybody that wants a test can get one. There’s a deep state controlling things. He is in charge. Vaccines don’t work. Everyone will get a mask. Voter fraud by mail is rampant. Mailed ballots are safe. Vote by mail. Don’t vote by mail. Masks don’t work. The virus is deadly. The virus isn’t deadly. The Dems! Mexico will pay for the wall! Illegal immigrants are murdering rapists. Muslims are evil. The Russians are innocent. Hillary’s emails! He already has a better healthcare plan. He will have a better health care plan. Trump won’t have time to golf. He’ll throw Hillary in jail. Treason! Liberate! The Dems are stealing the election! He’s in charge.
We’ve turned the corner. They know all this because….
Trump said so.
No proof accepted in Trumplandia.
They are true believers. They are armed with the uncontestable truth of ignorance and AR15s. There is no truth other than what they accept to be the truth as told by their Chosen One. Their Duce. They agree with what they want to believe. They view the world through an orange haze.
Shocking the pool.
Currently there are at least twenty to thirty million people in this country that don’t have a real good idea of what’s going on in the real world. Their source of what’s “true” is the President of the United States along with Fox News Pravda, the state news outlet, Russian bots and fake sites. They are deniers; just like the holocaust deniers they have all the requisite fake support for their ridiculous counterpoint.
Sometimes to clear a pool up it has to be shocked chemically. Then conditions get back to being normal and usable. Same thing for a well to get the stink out of it.
Holding back.
The oh-so-righteous right to life Vice President Pence as well as Trump is telling seniors along with the nation that the corner is being turned in dealing with the virus! It’s going away…. again. Pence tells this to some of the most vulnerable to Covid-19 and they believe him. They believe him even though the President caught it and hosted a super spreading event at the White House. Honesty isn’t a part of Pence’s religious beliefs. Like the President he’s a killer with actions and words.
By the way, the Vice President is also a young earth believer. Probably a lot of people don’t know that. The earth is less than ten thousand years old. There’s no such thing as dinosaurs. Jesus was a white guy. The earth is flat. There is a firmament in the sky holding back the waters. The bible says so. This is the guy in charge of the pandemic response.
Pence is holding back the virus.
What’s the point?
IF Trump loses they won’t have an inkling as to why he lost other than the President telling them that the vote was rigged and our form of democracy doesn’t work. They won’t believe all the polls taken up until the election. It will be unacceptable to them that President Trump lost. Their Ducé.
There will be no trusting of the honest information of others on their part.
Trump is their soul source.