dgrochester55 Posted April 25 Posted April 25 (edited) Seven years later from the original post, and democrat politics have gotten worse. Typical online arguing with Dems in 2025. Normal poster: I prefer tart tasting apples to sweeter tasting ones Karen Dunning-Kruger: I don’t like tart apples, what are you an idiot? Normal poster: No, I just prefer the taste Karen Dunning-Kruger: But it says here that more people prefer oranges, what the hell is your problem? Normal Poster: I thought we were talking about apples Karen Dunning-Kruger: Don’t change the subject, oranges with thicker rinds are sweeter! Normal Poster: What does that have to do with this? Karen Dunning-Kruger: Are you a botanist? How dare you question scientific research! Normal Poster: I don’t see what this has to do with apples Karen Dunning-Kruger: Stop gaslighting me! Edited April 25 by dgrochester55 1
B-Man Posted June 3 Posted June 3 "Probably the most alarming single state in the country for Democrats is looking at the Republican gains all along the border in south Texas." "And the county that jumps out to me, there is Starr County. Starr County is the county that has moved the most in the entire country from 2012 to 2024. Hmm. This is a county that Barack Obama won overwhelmingly in 2012, and that Donald Trump won comfortably in 2024..... It's moved continuously in the Republican direction, and the sum of that movement is 89 percentage points. And what's interesting is Starr County isn't just this county that has moved the most, it also is the most predominantly Latino county in America. And it's not just shifting away from the Democratic party, it's stampeding away from the Democratic party. And while Starr County is this one small county in the Texas border, what you see is that same type of movement in counties with broad Latino populations, whether you're talking about the Bronx in New York City, Queens, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, places with diverse populations have moved steadily to the right, even in a lot of them, where Democrats are still winning, they're winning by less and by a lot less. I mean, to use like a fancy political science term, we're talking about racial depolarization.... For, for a long time, one of the most important markers of how a person was going to vote in America was what race are you?" From today's episode of the NYT "Daily" podcast. Audio and transcript here (at Podscribe). https://app.podscribe.com/episode/134390679
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