A Puzzle For The Reality-Based: How To Rebut Bogus Trump Claims Without Amplifying Them?

Senator Gary Peters, top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the challenge of rebutting bogus, already debunked election claims by Donald Trump, irresponsibly amplified by Republicans like Wisconsin's Senator Ron Johnson, in a way that doesn't damage Americans' faith in democracy. Aired on 12/17/2020.
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A Puzzle For The Reality-Based: How To Rebut Bogus Trump Claims Without Amplifying Them?

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    1. I do not know if we ever had these things. When a country is always involved in a war and military conflicts somewhere on the globe somebody has to front the bill. Usually what is known as the middle class.

  1. Conservatives in pursuit of long-cherished policy goals can no longer avoid the reality that the GOP is vandalizing the principles and integrity of our democracy.

    1. @Rob Leonard You never will, either.
      I can’t get behind a single con-servative policy. Never have, never will.

  2. And that’s why, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t vote for republicans. Having a healthy sense of reality matters.

    1. @Jim River Not by a long shot! Can’t wait to see all you weak minded liberal losers Meltdown after President Trump is re-elected in January!

    2. @johny lee walker Hey nut job Trump lost many times over. So you republican losers are going to fall apart on January 20th, but do not worry I am sure they will give you another date to look forward to. Crybaby loser!!

    1. The republican meeting on July 4,2018 should have been a clue that they planned on doing what they’ve done in other Countries worldwide ,good to see true patriots fighting back.

    2. His weak pathetic protests have been totally transparent and shamefull, and what a time to bring it all up again! The man is a mystery to me, he seems so lap doggish and reasonable at first.

    3. The man behaves differently than but just as idiotic as his Lord and master. An eyesore to any civilized person. Obviously not used to a situation where HIMSELFISH must go into defence mode. Then makes public harakiri.

  3. Such nonsense. Trump did the same thing in 2016 when he signed an EO to form a commission on voter fraud. After eight months they disbanded.

  4. FACTS MATTER. That should be self-evident to anyone over toddler age. Denying the existence of a virus, or of an evidently-robust democratic electoral process, demonstrably does not end well.

  5. Ron Johnson so reminds me of Wisconsin’s earlier democracy destroying Senator, Joe McCarthy. I expect Johnson to come striding into the Senate tomorrow carrying an 1952 era briefcase stuffed full of his fraudulent claims.
    “Have you no shame, Senator Johnson? Have you no sense of decency?”

    1. I see Americans who voted for Trump thinking they were voting out both political parties, Trumps’
      biggest accomplishment being people thinking he’s not Republican. No leading Democrat wanted
      to run against George Bush after he became a war-time president by attacking Iraq. That’s how a
      governor like Bill Clinton became president, politicians being wrong about public opinion.

    2. @Cindy Brewer: You must have too much Drano in your meth mix. You should come down a little before you publish here.

    1. I believe there is an article in the constitution that they can use to remove all 126 members who signed on to the Texas lawsuit. It is my sincere wish that every one of them who signed on to it is removed from their position unable to work in politics again.

    2. I agree with you. These people have been corrupted, some by a foreign power. The fact that they supported a coup against the government of the United States should make them ineligible to serve. I don’t know what was going through what they are using for their thought process, the fact is they supported a coup. As such they become domestic terrorists. They all took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. They broke that oath by supporting a mentally deranged man, becoming domestic enemies. They need to be expelled from Congress and forbidden to ever serve again.

    1. @Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay The first word you write really shows who you are and just exactly that, poor you. Did you donate any $ to your dear leader today yet crackhead?

      Don’t just donate a few bucks, how about take out mortgage on your house and give it all…oh don’t forget to go lick your orange man child ground it’s walking on and wipes its mouth off because it’s been spewing garbages a lot lately.

    2. Yes trump is running scared and pulling every trick out of his hat to avoid criminal charges against him, and all the republicans that support trump are slowly destroying any chance of a career that they had, matter of fact they are destroying they’re own party. Biden is going to have a very difficult presidency trying to straighten out all the damage trump has done over the last 4 years and he will be heavily criticized for it.

    1. He can’t very well belong to any senate or alike in the world. Reminded me of the Kavanaugh hearing in the Senate. Both exposes their own real character 100%.

    2. @GoGreen1977 do you think please has the strength to get people who believe a different worldview to change their minds?

    3. @Silent Wisdom – West central Wisconsin here. I’m embarrassed we have Johnson attached to us like an ankle bracelet. It’s nauseating.

    4. @A. Barker – Do NOT equate us with Kentucky. Biden DID win Wisconsin. Kentucky gave the country both McConnell AND Rand Paul. We can still save the country if GA does the right thing and votes out both Perdue and Android Barbie.

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