agip wrote:
do you know the expression 'politics is about giving people permission to believe what they already believe?'
in this case Trump is just giving gary types a reason to ignore the mueller investigation and its findings. Trump is building an alternate reality for his base to live in. that tweet is just one more brick.
and it's working for Trump. No way his base will ever believe a single word from the Mueller indictment. They aren't interested in truth, law, rules, norms, facts. They want to roar out and own the libs. that's their politics.
If you want to understand the mind of a Trumpette, just think of a school shooter (SS) - they are basically one and the same mindset.
1) They are losers. They have always been losers. Nobody has ever respected them. They were always on the outside looking in, wishing that they were one of the cool kids.
2) They are victims, in their own minds, of an unjust world that has always victimized them. In some ways they are right. They were bullied at school. And the Trumpettes, fearful in their whites-only basements, have indeed been looked down upon for some time.
3) But they will teach those OTHERS. They will MAKE those OTHERS respect them.
4) Now is their time.
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For Trumpettes, nothing could possibly have validated how right they were all along more than a fellow loser being in the WH. Without any doubt, Trump even running for POTUS was an act born of his desire to get even with the ELITES who have so despised him his entire life. For the SS, their time is when they walk into the classroom, guns drawn.
And nothing is more satisfying than watching those OTHERS cower in fear, impotent, as the SS takes aim at them. For Trumpettes, nothing is more satisfying than watching the ELITES, the LIBERALS, the MEDIA wail impotently and endlessly about Trump.
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Trumpettes are the SS.