[tristor]

> The Republican party doesn't have any credibility left. So, I'll continue to do the rational thing, which is to ignore the folks that have a long history, and ample evidence in the present, of intentionally lying.

You're making politically motivated reasoning and ignoring the people who are telling you something from the ground. You're free to continue to do so, and this HN subthread is not the right place to re-litigate the entire history of American politics. Just be aware that motivated reasoning is not necessarily the best approach to find the truth.

[malcolmgreaves]

I wouldn't call this "motivated reasoning." It's rather simple cognitively: I have made observations and only the barest form of logical inference.

I've observing mountains of evidence that clearly shows multiple crimes committed by Mr. Trump. I've also observed how the Republican Party has decided to ignore this evidence and reject truth to rally behind him. Perhaps most notably was the GOP's 2020 platform (more accurately, lack of a platform as they didn't actually publish anything of substance other than a re-iteration of their positions 4 years prior), that included "party's continued support for Trump's America First agenda" [1]

I'm so curious as to what you could possibly mean by:

> who are telling you something from the ground

Because there's only conspiracy theories and outright lies left fueling the fabricated "outrage" in the Republican party.

[tristor]

I would suggest you simply re-read your comments and mine. You are so far down a rabbit hole here that's completely irrelevant to the original thing that was shared you replied to, that I'm not even remotely going to engage in what you are writing. I'd suggest you take a deep breath and read.