Arguing with a Trump supporter is like playing chess with a pigeon

2seaoat wrote:No matter how many time you win the chess game the pigeon chits on the board and struts around like they won the debate.  Our resident pigeon just keeps chitting on the board.

Telstar wrote:

2seaoat wrote:No matter how many time you win the chess game the pigeon chits on the board and struts around like they won the debate.  Our resident pigeon just keeps chitting on the board.

You don't need to be Gary Kasparov to see what pigeons and Trump supporters refuse to see.

RealLindaL wrote:

Telstar wrote:

2seaoat wrote:No matter how many time you win the chess game the pigeon chits on the board and struts around like they won the debate.  Our resident pigeon just keeps chitting on the board.

You don't need to be Gary Kasparov to see what pigeons and Trump supporters refuse to see.

You mean, that Trump seems likely to be outmaneuvered by Putin, if he hasn't already been?

2seaoat wrote:Try to do some objective research into where Russia was when Hillary Clinton hit the "Reset" button and where they are today.

So the Russians lost their puppet in Ukraine. They lost their puppets in the baltic states. All of those nations have connected with the western alliance, and had to physically invade Crimea because they had lost control of their own damn naval bases and you want us to do research on what you are incapable of comprehending. You do understand what the sanctions have done to the Ruble? You are aware that our intelligence has discovered the Russians celebrating after the election because Hillary was not elected and Trump won. Why even bother to respond to a pigeon. You keep chitting at the party and actually do not have the capacity anymore to understand when you are simply wrong.

RealLindaL wrote:

Telstar wrote:

2seaoat wrote:No matter how many time you win the chess game the pigeon chits on the board and struts around like they won the debate.  Our resident pigeon just keeps chitting on the board.

You don't need to be Gary Kasparov to see what pigeons and Trump supporters refuse to see.

You mean, that Trump seems likely to be outmaneuvered by Putin, if he hasn't already been?

Sal wrote:I was listening to an NPR reporter yesterday describing his awkward exchanges with Trump supporters, who would say things that were completely divorced from reality and objectively and demonstrably false.

When he would point this out to them, they would become indignant and the conversation would devolve into the Trump supporters demanding, "Do you think that I'm stupid??", and the reporter was left speechless, because the question could not be answered honestly and graciously.