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Right. A close relative and I were talking to an acquaintance, let's say (not a friend) who is totally in the tank for donnie - a magabrain if ever there was one. This woman simply could not grasp that most of the country thinks donnie is weird, delusional, that he's dangerous, not normal, and very unlikable.
She's like...."but over half the country likes him?!" And I don't even know if she actually believes this bullshit, or if she's just playing mock outrage at someone giving her some truth about her fat golden boy.
Where to even start with this shit? Half? I asked her where she gets half? And she says more than half the country voted for him but he only lost the electoral college, it was stolen, etc...good grief. They are just stuck in a total fact-free bubble. I didn't even want to continue the conversation at that point. I'm sure all these magaferbrainz think they "win" arguments, but the truth is that most adults just don't have the patience to walk them through all the ways they are wrong and how fallacious their arguments are: not all Americans qualified to vote, donnie lost the popular vote by a fucking LOT, etc...