cassius-clay.bsky.social
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The govs also seem to have the knack of explaining what matters in plain language.
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Don’t think it’s that, actually. Zuck had the money and the lawyers to defeat every clumsy, illegal Trump foray against him. And he folded like a cheap suit. Most Trump targets have. Newsom is actually serious about his blue states good, red states bad view, and knows Trump will make the US into MS.
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Nah, he made things horrible for the kids unfortunate enough to have to spend time around him.
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Sure. That outcome was never in doubt, because they’re terrible at governance. But they are great at acquiring power, and Dems aren’t, because Dems continually work within the confines of Republican-created frameworks. This is Roberts’s point.
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Also - “we need answers now”?? To what? There are no questions left to ask. We need action.
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Their job isn’t business as usual anymore. This is existential.
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And yet the GOP created fictitious pretexts - eg, Saddam Husseins’s active WMD program, and his alliance with Al Qaeda - that got most of the country behind this futile war, and the Dems did almost nothing to rebut their spurious case.
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How does the party out of power hold the other party “to account”? The trick is not to lose winnable elections. The Dems are contemptibly bad at politics, and it’s allowed the wolf to get through the door.
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This is the point: Dems look at how getting tough on immigration polls, and decide they need to get tough, too. They don’t consider why it is that this issue polls so strongly, or how the GOP bullied it into the public’s mind. And they never think about how they could shape the agenda themselves.
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This divergence is the crux of absolutely everything.
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She’s the best.
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If they didn’t know he was a US Senator, it would not be any better.
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This is how Trump needed to be handled after 1/6.
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California is both the richest and the most diverse state in the country. To a lot of us, that’s America at its best. And we see the multiculturalism and economic success as going hand in hand. To others, it’s an utterly foreign place with an incomprehensible way of life, and inherently threatening.
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The rightward shift wasn’t limited to the US. The prevailing theory is that inflation hurt incumbents globally. Maybe it was something deeper and subtler. In any event, we will continue to uncover the negative impacts of the Covid pandemic - political, economic, and medical - for a very long time.
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The implied theory here is that the potential consequences of future free & fair elections can be cited to deter the very same people who are actively working to end free & fair elections, and that expectation seems unwarrantedly optimistic if not downright naive.
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Trump is less civil than anyone we’ve ever seen in public life—the threats of violence, the use of state force against constitutionally protected protesters, the withholding of aid, all the cruel and petty insults. The RW insistence on liberal civility isn’t a serious request, it’s a mocking taunt.
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Erratum: “a lot [more] death and suffering.”
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“Have you sexually harassed your direct reports? Have you nominally governed as a Dem but covertly kept Republicans in power? Have you made millions from a memoir that you made state employees draft for you? No? Well, do you have any relevant experience at all??”
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A handful of them know what they stand for, and why they’re in office. They are communicating exactly that message. As for the rest, their silence is eloquent.
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Walsh claims that critics of a man who voluntarily joined a war to support an ongoing holocaust can’t comprehend honor and integrity. That seems to get things backwards.
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The MSM insistence on neutrality instead of truth is what’s causing its collapse. The MAGAs respect neutrality no more than they would an outright partisan liberal source—if you’re not with them, you’re against them. And lib viewers know they’re being fed worse-than-useless, both-sides pablum. Sad!
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IQ is an immutable reflection of innate intelligence when it comes to black-white comparisons, but utterly irrelevant re: the intellectual superiority of lefty elite university alumni vs the MAGA horde.
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The original meaning of the term “boycott” was the nonviolent but brutal complete social exclusion and shunning of a community member who breached basic rules of decency, as was done to an English landlord’s agent in late 19th century Ireland named Charles Boycott.
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Edit: “[more] deaths.” His adventure in American Samoa was just a start.
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MAGA rule will end via a color revolution. It will come to exactly what you foresee to force Trump out. There won’t be any other way.
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100 available rental apartments in a town when 150 people are looking = rent increases on the horizon. 150 available apartments for 100 tenants = rent decreases. Fewer units in a market means less price competition to fill them all. More units means more price competition.
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100 available rental apartments in a town when 150 people are looking = rent increases on the horizon. 150 available apartments for 100 tenants = rent decreases. Fewer units in a market means less price competition to fill them all. More units means more price competition.
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The city, an ancient form of societal and economic organization that extends back at least 5,000 years, and which plays a central role in the life of essentially every nation on Earth, is now somehow the most terrifying realm to experience outside of Hannibal Lecter’s basement.
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I’d rather not find out.
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We all understood that when auto production slowed during Covid, cars would and did get more expensive. We get that a bumper tomato crop makes for cheap tomatoes. But somehow people don’t connect the post-2008 collapse in home building to exploding prices. It’s all those devilish developers & LLs!
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Your (excellent) point is largely being missed. Nearly a decade in, the hapless MSM still has no idea how to address growing fascism. As the administration becomes ever more boldly lawless, CNN obsesses about the fine points of decorum.
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Alas, the “Trump is too stupid to seize power” view relies on wishful thinking. He’s learned what his Term 1 constraints were and methodically eliminated them. He’s only “lazy” re: others’ expectations of him—that he will repay investors’ funds or read briefing books. Power, he is laser focused on.
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Smart point. Insta-follow.
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Interesting. Thanks.
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As neither an Ezra stan nor a hater, I am puzzled by what a lightning rod he is. “Abundance” in significant part tackles the very real issue that, in the bluest realms, it’s exceptionally hard to get big and important things done. Eg, the costs of our rail projects dwarf those in other rich nations.
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That’s an instant follow.
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“We hate foreigners. Also, foreigners, please invest here.”
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Elon Musk cares about exactly one person on this planet, and you’d have to be intentionally stupid to think otherwise.
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Spot on.
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Male person here. Yep, checks out.
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He’s what Roy Cohn would have been if McCarthy were president.
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I’d add in a weekly countdown to the midterms, plus kicking off the biggest voter registration drive in history. If these fucking weak sauce electeds really believe we’re in a crisis of democracy, and aren’t just paying lip service, let’s see them act like it.
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Underrated.
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Hoping it’s all bulk purchases by Take Japper.
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Necessary? Convenient, for sure.
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Merits a follow.
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The Dems lost voters in ‘24 because the massive turnout in ‘20 to expel Trump led to precisely zero consequences for our former criminal-in-chief. Too many voters won’t pull the R lever but have concluded that a D vote is wasted on a passive party frantically, desperately committed to biz as usual.
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Use of the term “blob” is a tip-off that a stale and predictable take is about to be presented as a boldly insightful one.
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100%. They exist.