I don't want any of this to happen but there is a part of me that is morbidly curious about the breaking point of maga people and how far beyond the brink one person can royally fuck them and they still worship him. There definitely exists in every heart a line across which it breaks, but you know. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

tylerjameshill.com • 9 days ago

I don't want any of this to happen but there is a part of me that is morbidly curious about the breaking point of maga people and how far beyond the brink one person can royally fuck them and they still worship him. There definitely exists in every heart a line across which it breaks, but you know.

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."

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lordedemii.us•9 days ago

I agree— want to know what is the breaking point

nwelp.bsky.social•9 days ago

this will cause food prices to spike, because there won't be as much reason to produce as much. USAID shutting down is also going to do the same thing.

thelionseye.bsky.social•9 days ago

"I don't mind"...says the "leader" of the free world 🤦🤬

2littlegaypuppies.bsky.social•9 days ago

Have you met the Catholic Church over the last 2000 years?

aolgrandpa.bsky.social•9 days ago

I've studied enough shit about cults to recognize that those truly committed to the cause will go the extra mile, but literally everyone has a breaking point

catfrat.bsky.social•9 days ago

That’s exactly how I feel. It’s obviously going to have to be something that directly affects them because otherwise it’s “fake”. Maybe all rural schools abruptly shutting down? Or everyone figures out if their regional economic engine shuts down it affects ALL the jobs, even theirs?

intractable-exp.bsky.social•9 days ago

A cult has a breaking point, but it won't be the admittance or understanding of the terrible choices they made. It will be the panicked demand for help when sh*ts already burning down.

risettemd.bsky.social•9 days ago

As long as Fox News exists and is completely, unfailingly willing to come up with increasingly ridiculous bullshit to justify what he does - this shit will keep getting worse, and conspiracy theories will be the way it's waved off.

packingsmacky.bsky.social•9 days ago

The folks in r/conservative are really incensed about the possibility of OSHA being dismantled. I was utterly shocked.

pwr2dppl.bsky.social•9 days ago

As long as Black people are worse off, I think they will ride or die. ride and die really.

tracylacy84.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean, I remember nearly ruining thanksgiving one year by arguing with my uncle about GWB, and then by the next time I saw him we were in illegal wars, but still everyone was on pins until he came up to me and apologized saying he understood now. So yeah, everyone has a breaking point.

andraste.fuckbgp.com•9 days ago

yeah, this is what my wife and I were discussing last night.... she was reading posts from military people saying "I'd rather have a drunk hegseth than a dei pandering general" and I just have to wonder where their last straw is...

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Like would it take helsgeth literally stabbing them in the heart with a rusty spoon screaming die fellow whitey for them to go maybe dei wasn't as bad as this? or could the line be a little more farther upstream

indiecornwall.bsky.social•9 days ago

George w Bush is a hood example imho

ruhmer.bsky.social•9 days ago

I genuinely relate to this sentiment. You might be disappointed to find out where that line is for some.

risettemd.bsky.social•9 days ago

Learn about it at the Herman Cain Institute for Terminal Political Obedience

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I'm already disappointed, we should have crossed that line in totality almost ten years ago now. That's what I mean by morbidly curious. Will it take a bullet in the heart to change it? Do people wake up only when they are already in free fall? In a sick way it's kind of fascinating.

annaleehq.bsky.social•9 days ago

I get u
I feel cold & detached but it is fascinating to observe m.mag&ts in real time r n

I had dinner w a low info djteejit voter this week (T’s colleague)
He noticed a few things & started bitching
ALMOST💡!!!

I could NOT pounce & nudge him along as it was T’s work event
Keeping tabs on him tho

ruhmer.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s a totally valid question.

I said “disappointed” but I was thinking something more like “chilled to the fucking bone.”

cenobiteyogapunk.bsky.social•9 days ago

They can only get screwed so much and too long after Biden has left before it finally hits them that Biden is not the cause. It is all their damn fault! I have three MAGAtes in my inner circle and while one will probably never bend, at least two will cave fast when they realize they are lost at sea.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I know people will say "they'll never abandon him" but that isn't true, it just feels that way. I'm very curious about what the breaking point is. It DOES exist. I wonder what would finally do it.

weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social•9 days ago

I read a book about people getting out of QAnon, and yeah, there is a breaking point. It can be frustrating for people like us because that point is a) different for everyone and b) invisible until the moment it's crossed

megalu.bsky.social•9 days ago

I can report that my neighbors garage is still sporting a MAGA COUNTRY banner 🙄

80hd.bsky.social•9 days ago

Medicine going away maybe?

ruhmer.bsky.social•9 days ago

Autocrats DO come into power. Enough of those populations didn't reach their breaking point before that happened. I don't think Americas is different.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

People are already missing my point. Yes, the line of decency should have been crossed a while ago, and yes fox news et al will make this get far far worse, but there IS a Rubicon in everyone. Will a heart have to be shot before it changes? It's possible you can't even get to that line in 4 years.

halaylah.bsky.social•9 days ago

That guy in Butler, PA died believing Trump was a hero - even as he took a real bullet for the sake of a staged assassination.

weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social•9 days ago

One of the keys to understanding conservatives is this:

"Your problem is your problem. My problem is our problem." As soon as Trump becomes their problem AND (this is key) they can no longer blame anyone else, they'll turn on him

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•9 days ago

There was a rash of suicides after Hirohito stepped down and japanese parliament was given provisional executive power.

Sometimes people don’t reach the Rubicon. There’s never a guarantee.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Tbh suicide feels like a pretty big Rubicon leap to me

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s an avoidance. It’s deflection. It’s the backfire effect dialed to eleven. Rather than admit that they were wrong, the empire wasn’t permanent, and the emperor was not a God, they chose the coward’s way out. They died never having admitted they were wrong. Dead before touching the river.

evanka.bsky.social•9 days ago

Mass unemployment will do it

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I would like to agree but I've been saying for ten years there will be two decades where there is literally no work through no fault of one's own but culturally it'll still be that person's moral failing for not having a job and we're seeing it happen

evanka.bsky.social•9 days ago

But this time it's tons of Veterans with the federal firings with more to come, and then the tariffs will cause all sorts of other layoffs, etc. People don't blame Veterans, usually, even if the administration tries.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I think the non-maga people will care about that but they already do. If all of them are out of work, maybe, but there's a way to spin that anger at minorities that will work for a long, long time.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Not even the media can convince people they aren't literally starving. Orwell/Huxley bullshit works really well but only if there's a group that ISN'T literally starving and Trump might crater the entire everything to the point where even the most ardant magaite notices.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Like I know that for a really, really, depressingly really long time they will just turn their hate at leftists and minorities and blame them for everything, of course. It's just darkly interesting to find out when that won't be sufficient. Will it take a loss of electricity? Internet? Food? Water?

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I will say that because the capitalist oligarchs are actually in charge, things might only change when all other people finally have 0 money for them to profit from, then they might execute members of the GOP on the street with their newly funded corpo armies

zachrabiroff.com•9 days ago

Real talk: if he feels that support slipping, that's when he'll start a war

bowlerhatscience.org•9 days ago

The fat cat capitalists mostly seem aware of how interconnected the world is, but not Trump

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Also lol