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CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment

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CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment
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CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment
Attendees at this years Conservative Political Action Conference seem more lost than ever.
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Bittererr Mar 28, 2026 +9844
>“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” >The crowd erupted in cheers. >“No,” Schlapp responded, shaking his head. “That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” he asked the crowd for a second time. Trumpists are so entrenched in the mindset of being eternally oppressed by the government that even 15 months into this admin they still forget that they're now the ones wearing the boots on their own necks.
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Titfortat101 Mar 28, 2026 +2621
And a good handful clapped again and Schlapp cut them off gave an awkward chuckle and poorly joked to bring these people some coffee.
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worstpartyever Mar 28, 2026 +327
The bottom of the article is even funnier: >In a separate instance Thursday, the crowd again did not know when or how to cheer. In a [conversation](https://www.rawstory.com/cpac-fails-to-boo-biden/) with White House border czar Tom Homan, CPAC host Melody Schlapp asked how Trump immigration policies compared to the “Biden years.” >Waiting for a reaction, Schlapp paused and turned her head to the crowd. She was met with silence. >“I’m not hearing a boo when I say Joe Biden, people! Come on! We do audience participation here!” Looks like that call-and-response trick isn't working anymore.
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hasordealsw1thclams Mar 28, 2026 +151
Any time I think they couldn’t be bigger losers they prove me wrong.
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nox66 Mar 28, 2026 +120
"Please clap" all over again
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BasvanS Mar 28, 2026 +29
Too smart for this audience, too dumb to understand they’re screwed too.
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hydrino Mar 28, 2026 +1486
This is supposed to be the place where they are tossing the crowd red meat. The fact that free potus has screwed up this badly is probably getting hard to ignore for even the most brainwashed among them. Shlapp was genuinely surprised. Had to be like when a cult leader realizes he just lost the room.
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wannaseemycar Mar 28, 2026 +1637
This wasn't a change of mindset at all, it's that they are so conditioned into loving everything said by these f****** ghouls that they don't even understand the words
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Drift_Life Mar 28, 2026 +1047
Exactly. They weren’t clapping for Trump to be impeached. They’re just conditioned to agree with whatever Daddy says that they aren’t even listening. More boots to lick, please!
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deepasleep Mar 28, 2026 +328
Rush Limbaugh used to call them ditto heads…so he was making fun of his own listeners on the air while they listened… (If the insult doesn’t make sense to you, search for ditto machine on YouTube for so fun and stupidly simple old tech.)
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Star-K Mar 28, 2026 +217
Ditto heads was not an insult. When people would call into the show they would always say the same thing "I love your show and have been listening for years." It got so repetitive that people just started saying "Ditto" and then ask their question, saving time. I used to listen to Rush in the 90s.
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Lost_Birthday_3138 Mar 28, 2026 +77
Same as Jim Rome calling his listeners "clones." It just becomes a term of endearment after a while.
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Cyndakill88 Mar 28, 2026 +29
Difference is Rome actually gave idiots the boot from his show
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XGhoul Mar 28, 2026 +10
Is nba circlejerk leaking? I f****** hate Jim Rome. Absolute clown, from a decade lost on his own "bro-culture". I am unsure to hate him or Skip, etc. The list goes on for these jokers.
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deepasleep Mar 28, 2026 +36
You’re right, they adopted it as badge of honor. But to my way of thinking that’s even more sad. It’s like proudly proclaiming the only thing you want to hear is something that feels truthy and reaffirms your existing beliefs…which ultimately means you’re divorced from reality and incapable of growth. Huh, that seems to track with the current state of things.
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OfficeSalamander Mar 28, 2026 +48
> I used to listen to Rush in the 90s. Glad you're better now
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imisstheyoop Mar 28, 2026 +69
It's much more difficult to listen to him now.
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Parapsaeon Mar 28, 2026 +62
On the contrary, I find it much easier to listen to him in his current position
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JdFalcon04 Mar 28, 2026 +12
Eventually people called in with Mega dittos
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kittyswann Mar 28, 2026 +23
Okay, I’m a 90’s kid and so I have never heard of a ditto machine, and that is, in fact, some delightful trivia. I also saw the connection to the scene in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” where they sniff the paper, and although I’ve seen the movie several times, no one ever explained the joke, so I just thought it was a weird 80’s thing for no reason.
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Turbulent_Stick1445 Mar 28, 2026 +41
I think the GP thought "ditto" was sourced from this printing press thing rather than the printing press being named after the term "ditto" which just means, more or less, "the same thing repeated", ie: * Aldi is selling eggs for $1.70 * Walmart: Ditto * Publix: $11.80 I seriously doubt Limbaugh or his listeners were referring to a printing press. It was common when I was growing up to hear something like one person saying "I love chocolate" and their friend responding "Ditto". Nobody I knew had heard of this printing press thingie.
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ThePenguinVA Mar 28, 2026 +24
How have we forgotten this in the last 30 years? It's crazy how much language evolves, especially in the digital age.
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rkcth Mar 28, 2026 +21
People now use “same”, in the same way people said “ditto” in the 90’s.
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PersistentBadger Mar 28, 2026 +11
Suspect the machine's name is based on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditto_mark
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sirhackenslash Mar 28, 2026 +64
They just clap like trained seals whenever one of their cult leaders says anything. Most of them probably thought he was talking about some insane scheme to impeach Biden, Harris, Hilary, and Obama all at once.
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Several_Hospital_129 Mar 28, 2026 +22
That's exactly what I thought. They were reacting instinctively, thinking it was a Democrat who would be getting impeached.
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JRBlue1 Mar 28, 2026 +21
Braindead lemmings
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tyleroni81 Mar 28, 2026 +50
Correct. They really have to be careful confusing these people.
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Maximo_0se Mar 28, 2026 +26
They just want to bring him peaches!
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enters_and_leaves Mar 28, 2026 +12
Millions of peaches, peaches for me
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Starfox-sf Mar 28, 2026 +7
Impeach the peach
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tazebot Mar 28, 2026 +17
"Impeachment" is a big word for a six year old mind.
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Otherwise_Surround99 Mar 28, 2026 +10
100% they were just cheering. Not really listening, just cheer at any question
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TheWix Mar 28, 2026 +159
No, the audience is just dumb and brainwashed. He could have gotten up there and yelled, "Who's ready to murder some babies?!" And they'd have faithfully cheered.
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Candid-Piano4531 Mar 28, 2026 +17
I mean, raping underage girls seems to be highly supported…
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Daft00 Mar 28, 2026 +10
Yeah, I was going to say don't d******* the idea that these people are dumb as rocks and have no f****** clue what "impeach" means
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spacedoutmachinist Mar 28, 2026 +28
You can’t gaslight someone’s bank account or gas pump when they fill up. People notice those things.
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Bittererr Mar 28, 2026 +40
>You can’t gaslight someone’s bank account or gas pump when they fill up You can gaslight about whose fault it is though, it's literally a huge part of the reason Trump won in 2024.
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spacedoutmachinist Mar 28, 2026 +5
I guess you’re right. Vance the other day did say it was Biden’s fault
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mywifeletsmereddit Mar 28, 2026 +38
I actually think the "bring these people some coffee" line was hilarious. It was both perfectly timed and phrased to communicate the rapist's exasperation, but on a meta level it signified that the crowd wasn't paying attention to his propaganda, and on a meta-meta level there was the irony that a rapist wouldn't normally want to wake up the recipient of their unwanted f******.
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WhoStoleMyBicycle Mar 28, 2026 +73
They were so close to thinking for themselves before falling back in line
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jackospades88 Mar 28, 2026 +35
Yeah this means nothing if these folks still fall back in line at the polls.
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GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Mar 28, 2026 +36
"sure, he's a pedophile, but the democrats are SATANIC pedophiles, so he's got my vote"
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Lost_Birthday_3138 Mar 28, 2026 +17
The idea of voting for anything other than the racist party will never enter their heads, no matter how bad things get. It's the same in every authoritarian county.
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shit_mcballs Mar 28, 2026 +20
A lot of them are paid attendees. They kinda give no shits and you can see them goofing off and sometimes being outright disruptive in trump's rally videos. I bet a majority of the "idiots" cheering after that were just the paid attendees with no skin in the game.
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always_unplugged Mar 28, 2026 +19
Oh, is that why they always accuse actual protestors of being paid actors? Goddamn every accusation is projection with them.
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turbo_dude Mar 28, 2026 +10
> In a separate instance Thursday, the crowd again did not know when or how to cheer Who says they're morons, who is saying that, WHO?!
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Bootsykk Mar 28, 2026 +5
Yeah I'd like to say this is cultists waking up but it genuinely just sounds like they're getting stupider than ever. Has anyone put them out in the rain yet, see if they drown themselves by looking up?
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bassbyblaine Mar 28, 2026 +128
Schlapp would hate it if people knew about all the SA allegations on his Wikipedia page
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UnquestionabIe Mar 28, 2026 +40
That sounds like something that needs printed out and pasted in the area he lives and places he works/visits. Maybe some billboards taken out.
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bassbyblaine Mar 28, 2026 +18
People don’t pay half a million when they’re innocent!
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_Uptilt Mar 28, 2026 +14
I dunno, isn't that just like a CV for these guys?
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LevitatingTurtles Mar 28, 2026 +4
Yeah he’d be in trouble if his supporters could read.
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Deardog Mar 28, 2026 +335
So their host is Schlapp, who can't stop groping other men - to the point where he's getting sued for assault? Seems on brand.
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Foxxie Mar 28, 2026 +10
Matt Shclapp is comically pathetic. Insurance pays out 500k to bury a lawsuit over sexual assault, and less then a year later he's being accused of same thing yet again. He could just be gay and have a normal life, but nope, he was born into one of the worst families on the continent and fascism is apparently in his blood.
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Cleavon_Littlefinger Mar 28, 2026 +106
The amount of actual cocksuckers (I mean those with the propensity to desire an actual c*** pressing against the roof of their mouths and not just jerks) the anti woke crowd is willing to let lead them around is absolutely baffling to me.
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suckyousideways Mar 28, 2026 +136
> actual c*** pressing against the roof of their mouth that's...not how you do it
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Decker-the-Dude Mar 28, 2026 +115
Username checks out
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DarkSchnider Mar 28, 2026 +35
don't tell me how to have a good time!
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evelution Mar 28, 2026 +38
They may be cocksuckers, but it doesn't guarantee they're any good at it.
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GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Mar 28, 2026 +27
yeah you're supposed to do it sideways
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Brndrll Mar 28, 2026 +8
They need to hit up that rest area outside of town and let one of those MAGA men show them how it's done.
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few23 Mar 28, 2026 +16
Have you seen Ozark, by chance? I was totally not surprised >!Russ Langmore shoved his redneck tongue down Roy Petty's throat after assaulting him and calling him a f*g!<
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orangesfwr Mar 28, 2026 +102
*"Am I out of touch?"* *"No, it is the people who are wrong"*
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WontThinkStraight Mar 28, 2026 +127
The brain cell was lonely in that room.
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orangesfwr Mar 28, 2026 +36
It died by suicide
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MelodyDust Mar 28, 2026 +31
Exactly, It really does highlight a kind of disconnect. When someone has spent years framing themselves as the victim of power, that mindset doesn’t just switch off the moment they are in power it becomes part of the identity. So even obvious contradictions, like cheering for accountability and then being told that’s “wrong,” just get brushed aside.
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HappyLittleGreenDuck Mar 28, 2026 +80
Could also just be morons not paying attention, usually when the speaker asks a question the crowd is supposed to cheer
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yumcake Mar 28, 2026 +70
Watch the video, he told them that was the wrong answer, he repeated the question and still got a considerable amount cheering for impeachment. Subsequent interviews of I attendees noted discontent with a new war in the middle east. The GOP base still identifies as GOP, but the war in Iran is definitely putting at least some of them off. It's not necessarily enough to stop them from voting GOP, it's their "team", but it can change engagement, discourse, and momentum within a party.
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WakingWaldo Mar 28, 2026 +36
Oh I definitely think the last year and a half will drastically decrease Republican turnout for the midterms. I do wonder, however, how many Republicans are "MAGA" (AKA Trump supporters) and how many are now in opposition to him while still being capital-C Conservatives. Trump, I believe, usually shows up to CPAC but isn't this year. That may seem small to some people but to anyone paying attention you know that he loves a crowd cheering him on. It's possible that he got word that the CPAC crowd wasn't quite as hot for him as they were previously. What I want to ask Republicans, MAGA and non-MAGA who still voted for Trump is, "is this the America you want? You've got control of all three branches of government and we've got high prices, a new war, no closure on Epstein, and now the Democrats are going to probably sweep the midterms. What about the last year has 'made America great?'" I think a lot of them would lie and say they're content or give a lame answer like "there's more work to be done." But I also believe that *a lot* of Trump '24 voters have enough buyer's remorse to prevent them from voting this fall and take down the GOP merch from their yards.
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Wise_Hovercraft799 Mar 28, 2026 +6
Level-headed take. Sometimes I think Trump's detractors doubt his difficulties more than his own supporters.
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meneldal2 Mar 28, 2026 +8
For previous times in the Middle-East, there was a build up to explain why it was necessary. Now you already bragged about how you put their nuclear program back to square one with your attacks last year that already weren't super popular, people are just not convinced this was a good move.
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v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y Mar 28, 2026 +16
They probably are stupid enough to think it means impeaching Biden or Obama or Clinton or something 
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No_Quiet_2029 Mar 28, 2026 +35
I would LOVE to see trump impeached but this reaction was a combination of how he asked the question and the crowd simply being stupid. The way he asked the question ("alright grapevine texas how yall doin?! i said how yall DOIN!? how many of you would like to see IMPEACHMENTS?!" not exactly like that but you know what i mean.) made it sound like he was looking for applause and they likely assumed by the way he asked that he meant impeachment for democrats or something. Im sure theres countless moments in the same conference where they cheer like idiots for trump at the appropriate times.
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Ok-Lengthiness-7417 Mar 28, 2026 +17
They probably thought impeachment of democratic politicans. Not a presidental impeachment. Dumb people do dumb thinking.
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ICantSpellorWrite Mar 28, 2026 +6
I think it's more, I don't know what to think and they were waiting to be told what to think. They didn't realize the question required the tiniest amount of thinking before responding.
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JoJackthewonderskunk Mar 28, 2026 +6
As much as id love to believe theyre turning on their god im just certain they're so brainwashed litterally anything he says at that podium they're gonna cheer for. Not even knowing what hes talking about or saying.
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Turbomattk Mar 28, 2026 +13
Please clap
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SelfDestructSep2020 Mar 28, 2026 +8
I think this is the media making a lot out of a nothing burger. I watched the clip, I'm pretty sure the crowd interpreted this as "do you want to see impeachments of democrats".
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Hyperica Mar 28, 2026 +4739
When you train a seal to clap, it'll clap. The seal doesn't know what it's clapping at.
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BrianWonderful Mar 28, 2026 +887
That is exactly right. It was a typical call-and-response type setup, so they just followed the motions. Most of those attendees can't actually process what's being said, so they are just looking for cues to see what they are supposed to like or not like.
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Daft00 Mar 28, 2026 +285
>Most [...] can't actually process what's being said, so they are just [waiting] see what they are supposed to like or not like. I really wish this didn't describe about 1/3 of the country. We'd be in such better shape as a society if people could critically think and had a shred of empathy for others.
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renfsu Mar 28, 2026 +70
Living in the US is why I can't be religious. You will meet dogs smarter than some people.
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Radiumbird Mar 28, 2026 +72
They have it so hard-wired into their brains that when they hear 'impeachment' they think 'Obama' or 'Biden' that they just automatically cheer in support.
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BigMikeInAustin Mar 28, 2026 +26
Yeah, that’s what I think happened here.
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Atomic_Wrangler38 Mar 28, 2026 +16
They’re accustomed to doing it at church I’m sure
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Malaix Mar 28, 2026 +26
Kind of reminds me of when my mother decided to suddenly start taking me to church at like age 6. Didn’t know any of the words or meaning so all it was to me was a weird game of Simon says of rising, mouthing words, and sitting. I bet a lot of them attend church the same way.
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Ok-Sheepherder7898 Mar 28, 2026 +22
That's where people are first trained to stop thinking and to just have blind faith.
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possibly_being_screw Mar 28, 2026 +104
>In a separate instance Thursday, the crowd again did not know when or how to cheer. In a conversation with White House border czar Tom Homan, CPAC host Melody Schlapp asked how Trump immigration policies compared to the “Biden years.” >Waiting for a reaction, Schlapp paused and turned her head to the crowd. She was met with silence. >“I’m not hearing a boo when I say Joe Biden, people! Come on! We do audience participation here!” [Please boo](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/160204075148-jeb-bush-audience-please-clap-new-hampshire-sot-00002230.jpg?q=x_434,y_64,h_619,w_1100,c_crop/w_800)
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Kakistocracy_0 Mar 28, 2026 +37
pathetic lmao
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ShermansAngryGhost Mar 28, 2026 +24
It’s funny as f*** to see them say it out loud that it’s all just a theatrical performance for them.
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campelm Mar 28, 2026 +184
Or like the counting horse stomping its hoof, except their IQs are lower than seals or horses
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KinkyPaddling Mar 28, 2026 +48
Seals and horses definitely have better self preservation instincts than MAGAts.
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Whiteshadows86 Mar 28, 2026 +25
Horses also have a very high emotional intelligence.
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Novxz Mar 28, 2026 +4
Donald Trump supporters also have a very high emotional intelligence, if by emotional you mean dependance on social systems they actively vote against and if by intelligence you mean...not intelligence...
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cjandstuff Mar 28, 2026 +25
Reading The Grapes of Wrath for the first time, and that’s all I could think about when the grandma would start “amen-ing” every time the preacher would talk. Like a trained animal, no thought. Just response. 
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Hyperica Mar 28, 2026 +8
Oh, that's definitely a timely read.
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lianodel Mar 28, 2026 +38
And these are the same folks who were unironically calling other people NPCs.
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ShermansAngryGhost Mar 28, 2026 +19
Every accusation and all that
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jupfold Mar 28, 2026 +3147
Sounds like this is less about them actually wanting Trump impeached and more about them just being on autopilot and cheering for anything they hear
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AAA_4481 Mar 28, 2026 +846
Baaa
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absat41 Mar 28, 2026 +128
*two legs better..* vibes
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Electrorocket Mar 28, 2026 +54
They were the sheeple the whole time?!
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aculady Mar 28, 2026 +42
The fact that they claim to be Christian while they deride others for being like sheep is deeply ironic, when you consider that [Matthew 25:31-46 The Sheep and the Goats](https://share.google/6vsOhne6xYbVS2iDQ) is a core teaching of Jesus.
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Indercarnive Mar 28, 2026 +449
The crowd thinks he means impeach Democrats. As another commenter stated, conservatives are so entrenched in thinking themselves the victims that over a year into Trump controlling all 3 branches of government they still think it's someone else's boot on their neck.
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IniNew Mar 28, 2026 +207
I go read the Con sub to see what's circulating in their news feeds. The number of times I see something like, "This can't be true! If Trump did this, it would mean corruption. This is just the dems lying!" is crazy. It's like... they're sooooooo close to seeing it. So close. They're RIGHT there. And then take a left turn just before the exit.
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Sroemr Mar 28, 2026 +44
It is pretty hilarious to watch them call each other bots and "'fellow' conservatives" every single time they disagree about something. Any post with 30+ comments, that hasn't been covered on Fox News yet so they know what to think, usually has it.
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IniNew Mar 28, 2026 +12
I won't do this, because I'm lazy and don't see the value in it, but if I were to make a bot, I would have it post stories on that sub from random right-wing blogs, pause for an hour, then go comment, "The brigade is here. "Fellow conservatives" everywhere!" It'd rack up comment and post karma so fast.
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70ms Mar 28, 2026 +14
That’s basically what already happens. They’re constantly eating their own and bitching about being brigaded. I don’t brigade; I just read the sub every day to find out what their media is saying and how they react. I downvote everyone who complains about downvoting, but I do that as a rule in every sub, not just theirs. It just so happens they complain about it a lot.
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SkylineGTRR34Freak Mar 28, 2026 +10
Some genuinely have some solid takes in there only to immediately get labelled "fellow conservative", "brigadier" or whatever. And the number of people who still haven't realized that people without a Flair simply cannot post is way too high! "Uuuuh you don't see any lefty saying anything here because they know it makes them look bad" Mhm, no. You're just in a safe space darling.
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Sroemr Mar 28, 2026 +8
It's their safe space. What are you banned for? I was banned for linking one post in their sub (James Woods slobbering over Trump) to another post about how LeBron should shut up and no one cares what celebrities think They were the first two posts that popped up for me when I opened the sub
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LoyalWatcher Mar 28, 2026 +46
A right turn, you mean?
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Twerlotzuk Mar 28, 2026 +4
In this economy, all they can afford is a downturn.
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caseydreams Mar 28, 2026 +9
Translation: I don't care if it's corruption since it's my guy and I will defend him and attack Democrats regardless
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beepbop110 Mar 28, 2026 +8
"Trump couldn't have done that, because that would be illegal! And the president can't do illegal things!"
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jupfold Mar 28, 2026 +65
The “Deep state”. The “Swamp”. The “Other”. Trump could be declared dictator for life and there will always be some baddie making their life miserable.
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JohnGillnitz Mar 28, 2026 +51
"My life sucks. Must be the fault of that guy that dresses like a lady and reads books to children. Surely not the billionaires that own and control everything. They are on MY side!"
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mountainbride Mar 28, 2026 +7
“Conveniently, King Trump has officially eliminated all the criminal illegals and trans people because he’s so effective, so much more than Democrats, but also, they are still the reason I can’t afford my basic needs” /s
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_PredatoryWasp_ Mar 28, 2026 +9
Hello again, 1984
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JackBurton___Me Mar 28, 2026 +33
That tracks with them being zombie brained morons
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SuperstitiousPigeon5 Mar 28, 2026 +103
It’s kind of a split. They were on autopilot for sure, but the boos weren’t at the same level as the cheers when they asked again. I’m glad someone else listened to the recording and picked up the fact that the call and response was poorly executed.
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Edogawa1983 Mar 28, 2026 +31
I'm wondering half of them don't know what impeachment is
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DSharp018 Mar 28, 2026 +11
They probably just liked peaches and got excited that they thought someone else liked peaches too.
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ObscureAcronym Mar 28, 2026 +5
Impeachments come from a can.
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LoneStarTallBoi Mar 28, 2026 +23
I mean that's just crowdwork 101. *Everyone* does that. The MC comes out and says "who here wants to see ________?!" and everyone cheers. The band comes out and the frontman shouts "HELLO [CITY NAME]!" and everyone cheers. That's just the standard structure of this kind of event. It's so f****** weird to come out and announce yourself with a line you expect to get boos if you're not, like, a wrestling heel.
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QQXV Mar 28, 2026 +9
Yup, it's 100% that. In fact, I think even a crowd of, like, smart people *might* fall into the trap of cheering when a speaker says "Who here wants ___?" (But would be less likely to, I'll grant.)
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Excludos Mar 28, 2026 +9
Yeah. Pretty sure he could have said "Banana Bob left lane mountain beer in shoe?" with a little bit of upwards enthusiasm at the end, and the crowd would have cheered too
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LostMyBackupCodes Mar 28, 2026 +6
>just being on autopilot and cheering for anything they hear This is why dictators like rallies, you can appeal to the lowest common denominator in the crowd and say some populist phrase that they’ll cheer for. The rest of the crowd will hear a cheer do the same because they think it’s the appropriate response and suppress the part of them that’s thinking “why are we cheering for [impeachment of my god emperor / mass deportations / forced sterilizations / death of others]. They wouldn’t necessarily cheer for these things if they critically thought it through in their own home, but if you have a thousand people cheering around you, you cheer as well. This was studied by a guy named Gustav Lebon in a book called [“the crowd: a study of the popular mind”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind), which influenced Hitler and others.
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FlowofOd Mar 28, 2026 +1304
Disingenuous headline, but as usual - reality is damning enough without sensationalism. The reality is, we got to see the perfect display of how MAGA is a literal cult. The speaker asked a question, people cheered (with a few boos) - he told them that wasn't the reaction he wanted, asked again and people boo'd (with a few cheers). No one had told them how to think yet, so they didn't know. This IS MAGA. MAGA hated mask mandates and other COVID measures because Trump created COVID conspiracies to save capitalism from taking it on the chin at the expense of thousands of lives. However, in an alternate reality where Trump was pro-masking, and made a MAGA branded COVID mask with gold stitching that cost $60... the same people calling it fascism would be wearing them for facebook profile pictures. This is the MAGA cult.
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orangesfwr Mar 28, 2026 +138
Like a WWE audience booing the "face" even though they're "not supposed to"
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ER_Support_Plant17 Mar 28, 2026 +46
This! It’s all scripted just like WWE
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hydrino Mar 28, 2026 +63
I had someone trying to say that Trump didn’t close the straight of Hormuz a few days ago. Like he literally go there and flip the “open” sign to “closed” or something. I’m sure that’s what they were told was the truth and that it was all the Iranians fault. The logic that Trump started a war with them and this is the exact expected outcome was too far a bridge to cross for them. Also, it was Obamas fault somehow. It’s surreal to interact with people who are so detached from reality and are under complete control by someone they’ve never met that cares nothi nh about them.
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FlowofOd Mar 28, 2026 +45
Its utterly terrifying. It sucks to live in a time where nearly 40% of the voting population of the country is unwittingly in a fascist cult. The fascism aspect helps the cult mentality thrive too. Fascism is anti-intellectual and promotes machismo. No one can tell them they are wrong, and of they are caught being wrong the priority is to save face even at their own expense.
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CrankyYankers Mar 28, 2026 +17
Many are quite wittingly into helping create a punishing dystopia for all who disagree with maga.
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MrBrawn Mar 28, 2026 +51
Little bit of A, little bit of B. They weren't expecting the cheers and I'll give the group that cheered the second time the tiniest amount of credit.
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tocatcharedditor90 Mar 28, 2026 +25
Agree they deserve more credit than that. He told them the answer he wanted and asked again. The ones that cheered the second time sure as Hell meant it
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kittyswann Mar 28, 2026 +8
I think you could be right. But in my head- it came across like when you were in elementary school and the principal is trying to be cool and get everyone pumped up and says “Good morning everyone!” And the response from the kids is “… good morning…” and then the principal is disappointed they aren’t excited so they are like “let’s try that again… Good Morning Everyone!!..” and then the kids have to cheer louder so the principal will just move on. It was kind of like that energy, they weren’t paying attention and thought they were supposed to cheer louder.
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GenevieveLeah Mar 28, 2026 +11
I always said if the f***** branded masks (which is something he would totally do) he would have saved lives and maybe even won the 2020 election with ease. All he had to do with Covid was stand back, let the experts handle things, and calm his mob. F***’s sake.
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FlowofOd Mar 28, 2026 +6
Capitalism would have gotten its nose bloodied and his base might have seen the value in social programs if Trump's team didn't create conspiracy theories to ensure things would go the way they did.
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RedBMWZ2 Mar 28, 2026 +22
Man, you so hit the nail on the head with this. It comes down to critical thinking skills. MAGA will claim that it's the liberals that can't think but this just shows how much of the opposite is true.
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musical_bear Mar 28, 2026 +12
How is the headline “disingenuous?” How could you possibly make that headline more accurate without lengthening it to an entire compound sentence? The crowd did cheer for Trump impeachment. The host was stunned. It’s not really the headline’s job to profile the psychological nuance of what was happening here; that’s what the article is for.
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hoofie242 Mar 28, 2026 +103
They don't know what words mean.
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MangoSalsa89 Mar 28, 2026 +276
I'm not convinced they weren't just too dumb to know what they were clapping for.
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ForensicPathology Mar 28, 2026 +47
Yeah, the question was delivered in the way they're used to music stars hyping up the crowd "who wants to rock?" They don't go to these things to think.
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Fuzzy-Butterscotch86 Mar 28, 2026 +138
Republicans still don't understand the concept of impeachment.
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_YouDontKnowMe_ Mar 28, 2026 +37
They have a problem understanding the concept of object permanence.
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tinticred Mar 28, 2026 +66
A better headline would be "Cult Members Behave Like Trained Seals When Demagogue Onstage Says Anything; Demagogue Realized Too Late That Means He Needs To Be Careful What He Says."
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edwardothegreatest Mar 28, 2026 +61
It’s CPAC. The prolly thought he was talking about Clinton
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HolyBubbiDiver Mar 28, 2026 +31
​"Cut! Cut! Guys, we went over the script in the green room. Your motivation today is 'aggrieved victim,' not 'bloodthirsty mob.' Fox News goes live in five minutes, so let's take it from the top. Lights, camera, manufactured consent... Action!"
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Freddydaddy Mar 28, 2026 +26
TL/DR: According to the article, **the crowd cheered for impeachment, twice, then didn't boo when Joe Biden was mentioned**, even after being reminded they're there for unquestioning R support. An attendee told the reporter that a lot of MAGA who loved Trump last year are questioning their vote. So it may not be that they don't understand what they're cheering for (which seems to be the general consensus here), some of them may actually be coming around. Billionaire-centric policies are clearly not good for the average person, some may be realizing they were duped. I f****** hope so
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pasterhatt Mar 28, 2026 +64
The Republicans who would attend CPAC are brain rotted sheep, foot soldiers for the worst people imaginable.
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restore_democracy Mar 28, 2026 +18
“No no no - that’s not what you are approved to think!”
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Embarrassed-Bother43 Mar 28, 2026 +21
This is what happens when you ask them a question instead of telling them what to think
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BadgeOfDishonour Mar 28, 2026 +22
Just a side note about CPAC - There are reports that the Grindr app is crashing in and around the area of CPAC, due to too many users. The load (ha) is too much. As usual around Republican events. Juuuuuuust wanted to add that touch of flavour to the event.
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Crawgdor Mar 28, 2026 +21
The crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. -Terry Prachett
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Yadahoom Mar 28, 2026 +18
Were they cheering for impeachment or just brainless lemmings trained to cheer everything Republicans say?
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OpenImagination9 Mar 28, 2026 +15
Maybe they’ll get some of that Jan 6th energy …
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DT-Sodium Mar 28, 2026 +13
Don't anthropomorphize them too much, it's a crowd of really stupid people. You can never tell what information what actually processed by their tiny brains and how.
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Yx2ucca Mar 28, 2026 +10
They’ll still vote straight R till the day we die.
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Odd-Supermarket-3664 Mar 28, 2026 +11
A CPAC crowd is like an amoeba. They don't know what they are doing other than hating on immigrants and taking away rights from America
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BicFleetwood Mar 28, 2026 +9
I think this is more the fact that MAGA crowds are primed to cheer for anything and aren’t actually internalizing the words being spoken, than them cheering for Trump’s impeachment. They didn’t understand what they were cheering for because they never do. It’s all “call-and-response” Southern Baptist preaching. The real idiot on the stage is the guy who evidently didn’t understand that dynamic when he started asking “no” questions to a crowd that does nothing but cheer “yes!”
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HugoJStiglitz Mar 28, 2026 +8
I think they’re all just idiots tbh. They forgot Biden isn’t in office anymore, because Trump is turning the country into what they thought it was when Biden was
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katara144 Mar 28, 2026 +9
They are insanely stupid. Sorry its the truth, the lack of simple critical thinking skills is exceptional.
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FBSenators12 Mar 28, 2026 +7
Cultist have to be told what to cheer for!
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Mediocritologist Mar 28, 2026 +8
It’s not because the crowd actually wanted Trump impeached, it’s because they dumb as f*** and didn’t know what they were cheering for.
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Some_Ride1014 Mar 28, 2026 +7
Then he went backstage and sexually harassed a young male republican.
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gerryf19 Mar 28, 2026 +7
Trump: I love stupid people.
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treesarethebeesknees Mar 28, 2026 +7
I was with a trumper last week, who a couple months back posted how excited he was for the DOJ grabbing election records from Fulton County in Georgia, start yelling at Trump on a commercial during an ncaa basketball game about how Trump is a dumbass, the Iran war is fucked up, the economy is in shambles, the market manipulation is insane and they were fleeced. It gave me some hope for America for the first time in a long time.
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HardcoreKaraoke Mar 28, 2026 +8
>In a separate instance Thursday, the crowd again did not know when or how to cheer. In a conversation with White House border czar Tom Homan, CPAC host Melody Schlapp asked how Trump immigration policies compared to the “Biden years.” >Waiting for a reaction, Schlapp paused and turned her head to the crowd. She was met with silence. >“I’m not hearing a boo when I say Joe Biden, people! Come on! We do audience participation here!” What f****** weirdos. Like how pathetic do you have to be to fish for approval on a Biden "burn?" They were probably so excited to pop the crowd. These people are so lame. It would be hilarious if they weren't horrible people causing a lot of damage.
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nucumber Mar 28, 2026 +12
Are we sure they're not thinking "impeach Biden"? I'm not sure if I'm kidding or not
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GreenDavidA Mar 28, 2026 +6
“I’m not hearing a boo when I say Joe Biden, people! Come on! We do audience participation here!” His “please clap” moment. I love that for him.
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sumpfbieber Mar 28, 2026 +6
>“I’m not hearing a boo when I say Joe Biden, people! Come on! We do audience participation here!” They are so lost. Politics in the US has become like a sports team fan mindset. Red vs blue. Politics should be boringly working on ideas for a better togetherness. 
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Tommy__want__wingy Mar 28, 2026 +6
You should see some of the comments now in the conservative sub. So many people can’t handle other flared users criticizing Trump. Their safe space, wah.
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BeKindBabies Mar 28, 2026 +5
“I’m not hearing a boo when I say Joe Biden, people! Come on! " The dog has caught the car and doesn't know what to do with it.
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TheFinalEdict Mar 28, 2026 +7
Core values of a liberal=justice & equality. Core values of a conservative=obedience & loyalty.
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ladyhaly Mar 28, 2026 +6
Everyone's focused on the impeachment cheers, and fair enough. It's funny. But the part that actually matters is buried at the bottom of the article: Melody Schlapp asked the crowd to boo Biden and got silence. Autopilot explains the cheering. People hear an enthusiastic call-and-response setup, they cheer. That's crowd psychology 101. But failing to boo Biden on cue? That's a trained response that should fire automatically. These people have been booing Biden reflexively for years. If even that's not landing anymore, the conditioning is cracking. Add in Trump skipping CPAC entirely this year, MSNBC reporting "a lot of empty space," and Bannon... **Steve Bannon** telling the crowd from the stage to "come to your own conclusion" and "weigh and measure the evidence." Hmm, sounds like damage control to a fracturing base.
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Dangerous-Analyst818 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Just another example of how idiotic the MAGA lot are. They don’t know what they’re cheering for, let alone voting for!
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Embarrassed_Fee6951 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Then he tells the sheep to not cheer and they go bah bah like good sheep
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RoadtripReaderDesert Mar 28, 2026 +5
Did they really cheer in large numbers or was a couple of folks? A lot of these *"Republicans are feeling the pressure"* *"Republicans turn away from blah blah" Republicans regret their vote*" articles feel like a deliberate attempt at placating the Left into feeling like you stand a chance at flipping and voting out the rot and trying to salvage what is left of the US. Like whenever people talk about the President's approval ratings lower than ever, meanwhile it's still at 38% or whatever is needed to make a significant dent in any potential voting trajectory. And lest we forget, voter apathy basically strangled your democracy. If the people cheering are numbered in the hundreds of thousands (Magats/Trumpians) congratulations, making headway, if not, welp, might just be a nothing burger meant to trick you into thinking you just got something. EDITED TO ADD: Just read the article. well it's worse right? sheeple
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BallisticHabit Mar 28, 2026 +5
Voter apathy is only part of the problem in the US. The corporate (billionaires, 1%) giants have made it so people can't leave work to go vote, can't get to a polling location if they don't own a car, long voting lines in strategic places, the blatant gerrymandering, and now ICE being possibly deployed to polling locations. It's absurdly clear that Democracy has been stolen and sold for profit.
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mrcsjmswltn Mar 28, 2026 +5
“No one told us what to think yet.”
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Fr4ct4lS0ul Mar 28, 2026 +5
Crowd: [cheers]. Schlapp: no wrong try again Crowd: [cheers]. Schlapp: O_O. I love how the article tries to say that they just don't know what impeachment means but I'm sure at least one of them did. Schlapp wanted the optics of them booing that question, and they didn't - ignorant or not
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EclipseNine Mar 28, 2026 +5
Half the people in that room were cheering for impeaching Obama and Hillary. These people have no idea what's going on, they don't care how government operates or who is in charge. They're monkies trained to howl at slogans and their handler forgot to specify a target.
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Antique-Brilliant535 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Is it me, or does CPAC seem to happen every few weeks?
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lulu_l Mar 28, 2026 +6
That's how stupid the vast majority of them are, they can't even understand the simple words they are hearing.
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fy1sh Mar 28, 2026 +5
It's the delivery. The audience is trained in delivery and cadence. We sometimes forget they are gullible, blinkered, and dumb as posts.
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Cannabisjarad Mar 28, 2026 +5
Because they have no idea what they are cheering, they just cheer when they think they should or told to. They have no thoughts of their own. They think what they are told
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transfixedtruth Mar 29, 2026 +4
Caught those idiots off guard. They need to realize many magas are done with Trumph's antics.
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Sgt_Fox Mar 29, 2026 +6
The guy asking whether they want an impeachment said it in a positive tone with a smile. Proving that they don't really listen to details and go with the vibe of things and follow the rest of the room, they all gleefully cheered. He tried again, but half of them still hadn't figured it out. They don't want him impeached, but they really showed us how their "thinking" works
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JayWaWa Mar 29, 2026 +5
These dumbasses probably thought they were going to impeach Obama
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beatrixotter Mar 28, 2026 +4
The question was asked in a way that confused their little heads. I dont read a ton into it.
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goingofftrack Mar 28, 2026 +4
Critical thinking isn’t their strong suit. They had no idea they were supposed to boo because they aren’t actually listening to the words.
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lancea_longini Mar 28, 2026 +3
I think they needed to be herded into a diner and asked about their fee-feez.
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Califrisco Mar 28, 2026 +3
Validation of what we have thought about this cult; collectively dumb as rocks.
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TomOgir Mar 28, 2026 +4
Maybe, with how much Trump blames Biden they think they're talking impeaching Biden?
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Particle_Rain1199 Mar 28, 2026 +5
The silence at the mention of Joe Biden was deafening.
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theheadofkhartoum627 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Hasn't Schlapp been accused of sexual harassment a few times??
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doktor_wankenstein Mar 28, 2026 +3
Ain't it a b**** when your Two Minutes Hate fizzles?
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BeenDragonn Mar 28, 2026 +4
"I love the poorly educated!"
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