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If you think he’s deplorable

Published by digby on September 26, 2017

If you think he’s deplorable

by digby

Then they are too:

Matt: We wanted somebody to go in and flip tables. We’re tired of the status quo, as some people wanted on the other side. We were tired of that. 

Oprah Winfrey: In your mind, what table got flipped? 

Matt: Every time he does a rally or a tweet, he’s speaking for people that are sitting at home in Iowa or Oklahoma or Montana, that just wanna say it that way. For years we asked for a president who would just say it the way we do. We got that.

He is their voice.

That’s from the 60 Minutes show last night with Oprah Winfrey. It’s interesting. But depressing. We are living in different worlds.

And new wounds were inflicted nearly every time we brought up a contentious issue, starting with the investigation into Russian collusion in the U.S. election, which we introduced by way of a presidential tweet.

Oprah Winfrey: “You are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in American political history, led by some very bad and conflicted people.” He’s talking about the Russia investigation. Does that matter to you?

Paul: I don’t wanna hear one more word about Russia. That’s so over the hill for me. What good is it doing anyone?

Oprah Winfrey: Do you think the Russian investigation is valid?

Voices: No. Yes. No. Yes. No.

Oprah Winfrey: Who here thinks… Who here thinks it’s not even valid? Really? OK.

Tim: We had a foreign country attack our country. That is…

Jeff: –you know what, spare us the fake outrage. When you wanna go back–

Tim: It is! That’s the truth—

Jeff: We changed regimes in Egypt. We changed regimes in Libya!

Tim: In Libya. We’re talking about our shores influencing an election.

Jeff: So it’s perfectly acceptable for us…

Rose: He is considered guilty until proven innocent right now, in my opinion. Because where’s the crime? Where is the crime? Tell me. Where’s the crime?

Kailee: When he fires the FBI director for performing the Russia investigation. That is obstruction of justice. He invited the Russian ambassador into the Oval and said, “The pressure is off.” Are you kidding me?

The same people who think there’s nothing wrong with Russia interfering in the election are the ones who would be the first to scream “love it or leave it” in your face.

If you go over to the program and watch the discussion on Charlottesville, it will make you queasy…

This is pure tribalism. And one tribe thinks Donald fucking Trump can do no wrong.

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