The cult believes that Trump united the country.

[kentuck]

That is why they find it so hard to believe that Biden won the election.

They saw the huge rallies. They saw the adoring audiences. They were part of the circus.
It looked like the entire country was supportive of the arrogant and loud-mouth autocrat. How could he lose to Joe Biden?

But he did. The cult could not believe that so many Americans disagreed with them. And Trump was able to persuade them that they were right. There was no way he could lose to Joe Biden. If he lost to Joe Biden, he would leave the country, he said.

That was how the Big Lie spread. They wanted to believe. They had no evidence, just what they saw at the circus.

[secondwind]

1. Trump knew he was going to lose.... so he started the Big Lie....

HE KNEW.

[underpants]

3. He knew after Tulsa

[2naSalit]

28. +1

[gab13by13]

2. DOJ allowed the Big Lie to spread

by not prosecuting the Cyber Ninjas who violated federal and state election laws.

[mikeysnot]

4. He did unite

some Americans..

Losers
Bigots/racists
fascists
Religious fanatics*
Gun nuts
Grifters
Ignoramuses


You know…. Assholes







*this group is alarming because how could a guy that cheated on all his wives and lies all the time appeal to so called “christians”.

[kentuck]

6. Surprisingly...

we had no idea there were so many.

[paleotn]

9. Yep, the flotsam are attracted like moths to a flame.....

He's their savior from cultural oblivion. In their minds, he made being a hateful, racist, Jebus nutter cool again. A political and cultural leader who's as much knuckle dragging throwback as they are.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. When you live in a cult bubble

And speak only to the echo chamber … you have a distorted idea of the real world.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

24. Exactly!

They only watch "news" that they agree with. They only hang around with people they agree with. They generally live in rural areas where they don't understand the concept of population density-so if everyone around them thinks like they do they can't grasp that their entire town has less votes than a single voting district in a more populous area. The kind of people who look at a voting map and say "ooh, look at all the red" not understanding (and I won't even use a big city to demonstrate this) that a single county like Montgomery in MD or Bergen in NJ or Montgomery in PA have more people than entire states like WY, ND or SD. It's beyond their comprehension. (like so many other things)

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Apparently, they didn't see 7 million more people voted for Biden.

[Slammer]

8. "They saw the huge rallies."

In the 2016 election cycle, I talked til I was blue in the face trying to explain to people how that rallies work: all the people within driving distance of the event site can come.

"Driving distance", anywhere outside of Alaska and Hawaii, includes the population of several states.

So getting 20,000 to come see a TV celebrity, for free, out of a population of millions isn't a huge feat.

Additionally, the Trump campaign was notorious at the time for handing out several times more tickets than the event venue could actually seat. So many of the people who'd travelled hundreds of miles, with a ticket in hand, couldn't even get inside to watch the event.

That's a terrible way to treat your "supporters" and credible candidates who care about people don't do such things (i.e. everyone else who's ever run). But I guess celebrities can get away with treating people like dirt and be loved for it.

People showing up to see a TV personality doesn't mean that the TV personality is widely popular or wildly popular. I showed up to a grocery store one time to get my picture taken with a guy wearing a Chester Cheetah costume (the mascot for Cheetos).

But that doesn't mean that I'd vote for the guy...or even that I eat Cheetos.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. United the Confederacy.

Made it OK to whistle Dixie and hate the Union.

[kentuck]

12. Same mindset...

...that many, mostly Southerners, had 160 years ago. They were like a dangerous cult also.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Unite the White

The old time tribal religion that holds one race (nation) superior and the others inferior.

What a different world this would be were we to appreciate one another for what we can discover from the Other.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

After all, Trump 'tells it like it is'.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. A true man of the people.

[keithbvadu2]

31. Good Schtuff

[HAB911]

11. The same people think Obama DIVIDED the nation

Idiocy

[kentuck]

13. They hated him because he was black and was chosen to lead this country.

But it was not Obama that "divided" the nation, it was their own hatred and racism. It was not a defensible reason.

[leftyladyfrommo]

36. I think they hated Obama because he is everything

that they aren't. I think they may hate his intellectualism and just the sincerity and just plain classiness that he exudes. And he's biracial.

[Cosmocat]

14. I know these people and I have to disagree on two points

To these people ...

1) He DID unite the country. The country being white, non liberal people. He did that very well. They don't care, in fact they have absolute hatred, for POC and those of us who are traitors to the race - and in their minds we don't count relative who deserves to be here. What we think does not count to them at all.

2) They know Biden won. Either completely or deep down inside. They know they game that is being played, that they are part of a slow moving chrisofacist authoritarian coup of the United States of America. The "big lie" is part of the game they know the have to play to win the game.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Well, they believe it because of the coverage on Faux News.

And because it's what their shriveled up brains want to believe.

[Demsrule86]

17. And Senator Sanders had huge rallies to over the years...a rally is a snippet of the

millions who will eventually vote...and honestly kind of meaningless.

[Martin68]

18. Trump united the wingnuts, conspiracy theorists, the uninformed and ill-informed,

and conservatives without marketable or employable skills who can't understand that their party's policies are the reason they are unemployed and uninsured.

[world wide wally]

19. Trump was behind in every poll taken for a long, long time.

Does the word stupid ring a bell?

[Freddie]

20. Plus in 2020, huge rallies in the middle of a deadly pandemic

Our side was smart enough to not do that. Biden didn’t even have rallies for that reason.

[keithbvadu2]

25. Trump rallies where you had to sign a waiver to not hold Trump accountable when you caught COVID.

Trump rallies where you had to sign a waiver to not hold Trump accountable when you caught COVID.

[GB_RN]

22. Putin's Puppet...

Tore the country apart in ways not seen since the years prior to the Civil War.


The Reich Wing accused Obama of being divisive, etc., but that was tRump. And he did it deliberately.

[Claire Oh Nette]

26. United Hates of America

They saw the huge rallies. They saw the adoring audiences. They were part of the circus.
It looked like the entire country was supportive of the arrogant and loud-mouth autocrat.

He united the uneducated, mouth breathing, non political sports fans into an electorate block easily manipulated and duped.

We don't elect anyone by rally.
Rallies are not even mentioned in COnstitution they never read. Limbaugh infected sports radio, and turned politics into bloodsport.
They were semi literate, proudly ignorant (m)asses united in hatred of non-male, non-white, educated, literate, non-Pauline CHristains.

[AZLD4Candidate]

27. Reminds me of similar propaganda from two leaders during the 1930s.

[Stuart G]

29. K & R

[slater71]

32. Biden won because the normal people saw the danger of Trump.

I hope we can do it again to Trump or De Santis if he runs because he is more dangerous than Trump.

[Skittles]

33. what they failed to comprehend

was how many people would have voted for a freaking ham sandwich if they had run it against Donald Fucking Trump.

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. He did unify the far right wackos. nt

[kentuck]

35. He was just like them.

They believed that with all their hearts.