Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

Post by hotdog1492 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #4

zer0zzz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and deny the results of that election. The dividing line is the denial itself: the willingness to hold that an election was stolen in the absence of evidence. That single belief turns out to be a genetic marker. Everything else travels with it.” He doesn’t seem to be talking about conservatives or republicans broadly; seems like he’s focusing on a much smaller minority…

Do you seriously buy the "explanation" that "liberals vote so much more by mail-in" that both Pennsylvania and Georgia flipped even though Trump was largely ahead in both? Two states that, btw, were won by the Republicans in 2024. Which should give some food for thoughts too. I think Trump is both crazy and senile now but I also think he may be the only US president to have ever won the elections three times. Now I d…

Post by elzbardico » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

rafterydj wrote: post #5

is the author of this post in thread? i do not like the AI voice it reads like.

Post by aaron695 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC

Post by jbotz » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

Cpoll wrote: post #9

rafterydj wrote: post #5

is the author of this post in thread? i do not like the AI voice it reads like.

I didn't notice any obvious markers, weird prose, or meandering in this one.

Post by AnimalMuppet » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

elzbardico wrote: post #14

jazz9k wrote: post #2

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I learned that I don't need to agree 100% with an author's premises to find value in what she writes. She is a bit partisan, but on the other side, it is about time for us on the right to completely re-evaluate MAGA, and go about creating a third way, distinct from the old mainstream republicanism of the McCains and Bushes, but also critical of what MAGA turned out to be.