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Understanding Conservatives - From an Article back in January 2020 -  (How SPOT ON is this..???)        
                                                                                                        
Kip Brown
Answered January 16
                                                                                             
"Anything that goes against what a Conservative believes to be true will be labeled “liberal”, regardless of the non-partisan origins of it or the impartiality of the source because Conservatives are largely incapable of admitting when they are wrong. Most Liberals have engaged in discussions with Conservatives and have seen the mental contortionism that they will go through to defend something they believe even in the face of concrete evidence that it is false. Most of the time even attempting to have the conversation results in the Conservative clinging to their beliefs with even greater ferocity.
 
Politics is not Snopes’ forte and there are far better sources to use when questioning a claim related to politics and current political events. They are good for urban legends like the Statue Of Liberty Pepsi can hoax and things of that nature, but for political issues that usually have a significant amount of depth and complexity, they are not the best choice when looking to fact check.
 
Yet, a significant number of the urban legends and hoax memes that circulate on the internet are clearly intended to appeal to a Conservative belief system. The aforementioned Pepsi can hoax is clearly intended to appeal to an audience that is focused on hyper-patrioitsm which is a pronounced feature of the Conservative mindset.
 
Fact checking is a difficult issue in general largely because Conservatives are loathe to admit when something they believe is wrong and will go to great lengths to discredit any source that shows what they believe is factually incorrect. They will claim Liberal bias or involvement by boogeymen and super villains like George Soros in order to provide them with that off-ramp from having to accept that they were wrong about something. This is one of the primary reasons propaganda is so successful with Conservatives. It goes back to the old axiom that it’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
 
What also complicates this issue further is that Conservatives almost never fact check what they share on social media! Liberal internet trolls have purposely made up fictitious political memes and dropped them into Conservative social media where they take off like wildfire where they are shared far and wide without anyone ever fact checking them. Internet trollers don’t normally mess with Liberals because they fact check, but Conservatives, in the words of the trollers themselves, “believe anything, fact check nothing and share everything”.
 
I am not sure how we as a society come back from this or if we even can. The refusal to reconsider your beliefs and opinions in the face of factual evidence that contradicts them is a cognitive, psychological disorder that would require some sort of professional intervention, almost akin to a “deprogramming” done when someone is removed from a cult. Trumpism can accurately be classified as cult like mentality. How we would scale that into something that would be effective with literally millions of people will be a question for the ages."
 
 
 
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Supreme Court tosses GOP bid, to throw out PA mail ballots, without hearing it...

The Supreme Court denied a request from GOP allies of President Trump to overturn Pennsylvania's election results on Tuesday

The high court left intact a decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which tossed a lawsuit from Rep. Mike Kelly challenging a 2019 law to expand mail-in voting. The GOP appeal to the high court was referred to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who then referred it to the full court. 

"The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied," the order said.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alito-moves-up-pennsylvanias-response-date-on-emergency-application-to-day-before-safe-harbor-deadline

1. Fox news, so it's true.

2. no discussion, no reasoning, just f**k off and don't waste our time.

cue :: Corsi

 

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US election: Legal experts label latest Trump lawsuit the 'dumbest' they've ever seen

Legal experts have shredded an audacious new lawsuit challenging the results of America's presidential election in four swing states, calling it the "craziest" and "dumbest" case of the entire post-election period.

Today Texas Attorney-General Ken Paxton, a Republican, announced his intention to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the US Supreme Court.

The latest legal challenge by President Donald Trump's supporters has been labelled as a "press release masquerading as a lawsuit".

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Texas Attorney-General Ken Paxton  :  You’ve been indicted on felony securities fraud charges and you are CURRENTLY under FBI investigation for abuse of political power. This is not a lawsuit. This is a request for a pardon.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/us-election-legal-experts-label-latest-trump-lawsuit-the-dumbest-theyve-ever-seen/ETROAN4IAKT2PMIVPSICQHA2HI/

 

 

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