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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 02:36 AM Sep 2020

Here is the only way Trump is maintaining his loyal followers

Here's How Your Q-Loving Relatives React To Fact Checking

Anything that contradicts what they're told is all part of the plot.


FB is their main source of belief re-enforcement.

CNN did an investigation into the closed circle of Trump-driven disinformation, and it's hard to see how to get through to these people.


"What are the results of the deliberate misinformation campaigns being staged by President Trump and his campaign? What are Trump supporters voters actually hearing? Well, really for the first time, now we know. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan spent time at a Trump event and heard some just amazing things."

And boy, he sure did.

TRUMP SUPPORTER: When people say it's fact checked, it's wrong because it's taken out of context. Like when Joe Biden fell asleep during a live interview on television.

REPORTER: Claimed that he fell asleep -- I think that was an edited one, right?

SUPPORTER: I didn't think it was -- it looked pretty live to me with no cuts in it.


https://crooksandliars.com/2020/09/cnn-takes-look-disinformation-your-q

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Here is the only way Trump is maintaining his loyal followers (Original Post) UCmeNdc Sep 2020 OP
Fakebook is definitely contributing to the downfall BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #1
. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2020 #2
Facebook of the 30s canetoad Sep 2020 #4
These people probably believe the (photoshopped) vid of the bird carrying off the baby. fierywoman Sep 2020 #3
Well, considering these were the same people who lapped up supermarket tabloids... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #5
Last night Bob Woodward said more effort should be made to understand Trump voters wishstar Sep 2020 #6

BigmanPigman

(51,554 posts)
1. Fakebook is definitely contributing to the downfall
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 02:40 AM
Sep 2020

of our country and is as bad for us as tobacco. Cut the habit!

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
5. Well, considering these were the same people who lapped up supermarket tabloids...
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:19 AM
Sep 2020

...is it any surprise that the same people who seriously believed that Bat Boy had escaped from a top-secret government lab or that Satan's face was seen in the smoke on 9/11 are ready to embrace whatever Twitler and his followers tell them? They've been trained to believe that, the more lurid and improbable the story, the more likely it is to be true.

wishstar

(5,267 posts)
6. Last night Bob Woodward said more effort should be made to understand Trump voters
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 06:34 AM
Sep 2020

I wanted to tell him that Trump voters are operating in a distorted/false state of mind due to their reliance on Fox and rw social media and rw radio plus influence of rw churches.

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