You Have a Better Chance of Teaching a Pigeon to Speak French

[GURPS]

Than Changing the Mind of a Diehard




Have you tried to convince stage 4 TDS-riddled Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the band of fools who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were not a legitimate “threat to democracy?”

Or, that Donald Trump could take over the federal government and destroy democracy in America? Good luck with that. Speaking of Trump, try to convince the former president and his diehard followers that the 2020 presidential election wasn’t “rigged,” “stolen,” or “illegitimate.”

Again, grab the pigeon and the French book and give that a shot, instead.

So why the inability to accept reality?

Consider the following explanation from David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the founder of the Center for Anxiety:

Denial is defined as a cognitive and emotional process by which a person avoids facing aspects of reality, especially when it is difficult to assimilate the details of reality into one’s current thinking.
Arguably, denial is a coping or defense mechanism meant to address the tension that arises from trying to change an individual’s current way of thinking and understanding of reality.
Another form of denial is choosing to focus only on one’s perception of reality and struggling to see the other side of an argument. We can see this form of denial play out in COVID-19 pandemic denial and in certain political narratives.
Denial in its most potent form causes individuals to disconnect from any conversation around the salient topic, which can make denial even worse.

As the above relates to the Democrats and their irrational hatred of all things Donald Trump, they long ago convinced themselves that Trump was and remains guilty of everything with which they’ve charged him — regardless in most cases of the lack of substantive proof to back up their beliefs, from the Russian “collusion” hoax to what would be revealed by his tax returns and the unprecedented raid on his personal residence at Mar-a-Lago, to attempts to “overthrow” the federal government.

 

[SamSpade]

Have you tried to convince stage 4 TDS-riddled Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the band of fools who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were not a legitimate “threat to democracy?”

Disregarding every other conspiratorial idea I probably hold fast --

Does it make ANY SENSE to believe a bunch of unarmed doofuses, most of whom just sauntered into the Capitol with a wave of a hand by the police - half of whom walked out after taking selfies - some took a few things, left a dookie on the desk -

THIS WAS the imminent demise of our government? Democracy itself hung in the balance?

I mean, damn, if that's all it took, then 70+ years of Russians and Chinese attempts had it all wrong - all you needed was a boozed up crowd of nuts to enter the Capitol and trash the place. I mean, the heck with all the missiles and soldiers. What were they thinking?

 

[Hijinx]

Nancy Pelosi knew for certain that the Jan. 6th. entrance into the capitol was not an insurrection because she planned the whole thing and have the FBI and others working for her to see that it happened.

Why would I try to propose to Donald Trump that he wasn't cheated, when I know he was.
The Democrats destroyed democracy when they cheated and they are still trying to destroy Democracy by not using the Constitution to remove a sick man that is sitting in the Oval office. ( when he isn't on vacation).

You can call what is happening among the woke denial if you like, I call it insanity.
Anyone who cannot see that Joe Biden is unfit or who believe men can become women and have periods , or that we need millions of invaders at our border, or that we should be printing Trillions of dollars with nothing to stand behind it, or that criminals should be released with no bail, or that the only requirement for the SCOTUS is being a lesbian or black is freaking insane.

 

[Kyle]

 

[vraiblonde]

Speaking of Trump, try to convince the former president and his diehard followers that the 2020 presidential election wasn’t “rigged,” “stolen,” or “illegitimate.”

Um, is it still a conspiracy theory if it's the truth and there's a piss ton of evidence to support it? That election and a number of others WERE rigged, stolen, and illegitimate.

I get tired of these journo types casually pushing chit they're paid to peddle. It really wasn't that long ago they were also saying that covid was killing everyone and we were all going to die if we didn't get vaxxed and masked. This ****er's the one in denial, not me. You have to be some kinda mental to look at Joe Biden and go, "Oh, yeah, that's a popular guy, he absolutely got the most votes in history. People came out in droves to elect that guy, they love him so much."

 

[Gilligan]

sacre bleu!!

 

[Hijinx]

Joe Biden will go down in history as the first President to ever campaign from his basement and win an election.

 

[vraiblonde]

Joe Biden will go down in history as the first President to ever campaign from his basement and have an election cheated and stolen for him.

fixed