Well you see. With a lot of these things, it's a lot like how a young child tells lies.

It starts with something like "no, I didn't eat the cake," but because the evidence is right there, with the empty cake pan, they have to then blame someone else. A random burglar maybe. Who just came in to steal the cake.

Then they have to explain why there's crumbs all over their room.

Well, you see, the random burglar decided to break into there room, and eat it there, and they spread the crumbs around very messily to frame the kid.

and then they have to lie about why the frosting is on their face, and how come the dog got some on theirs, too, so the dog now used mind control to force the robber to give him some.

And on and on it goes. round and round and round, with each 'but what about', getting a new lie, and a bunch of new holes, making each and every new lie more problematic and more ridiculous by the moment.

The only real difference is that they want to believe. They don't want to admit trump lied to them, that they've been duped into believing and following a fascist, that they are the problem, that their favorite sports jock turned radio host lied to them. (or himself is an incomprehensible idiot. which really. Sports commentator. being an idiot kinda comes with the territory. Madden, need I say more?)

The president hired people to show up to rallies if they didn't expect a big turnout, they ran ads on craigslist, 15/hour the ones I saw.

I mean, I... would much rather the money be spent on legal aid funds or something... if they even had the kind of money to pay us. 18k protestors last friday. even just a 5 dollar giftcardis $90,000.

The food and coffee and stuff were pretty much donated, lol. (shout out to misfit coffee for anyone in the area. They didn't close. They were still open. but they were handing out free coffee to protestors.)

If you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life.