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MA student, early modern religious history at QMUL. Huge BYU fan living in London. BYU grad (political science '21). Latter-day Saint. Utah Jazz, RSL, Utah HC. I love politics (centrist), history, sports, aviation.
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Also, they've already got Egor at the 5th-best odds for rookie of the year. Make of that what you will.
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Nah, SB Nation's breakdown is dumb. I maybe wouldn't have taken him at 8, but he's the best passer in the draft by a country mile and has incredible positional size. And he cooked in his pre-draft workouts.
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We'll probably see a lot more top talent from overseas come to the US and get big NIL deals instead of staying in the EuroLeague, for example. The money is better at the college level, frankly. Egor made more in one year at BYU than he could have in several years in Madrid.
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I suspect at least part of the difference this year is that guys who have played pro ball overseas are now eligible to play at the NCAA level and earn NIL money. In years past, Egor Demin, for example, wouldn't have been able to play college ball because he was on Real Madrid's youth team.
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If Mamdani does somehow cause the Democratic Party trouble on a national level, blame the idiots who affirmatively decided that backing a serial sex pest was both morally acceptable and a sound political strategy.
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It would have been trivially easy for the party to quash Mamdani's candidacy with a concerted effort in favor of some other moderate. They did not need Cuomo. And the fact that they so willingly went to him says that they are ultimately not much better than him.
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They didn't Cuomo's history of misconduct or his disastrous handling of COVID-19 were problems. And that's really bad, because it means they don't understand their own base at all and their instincts for candidate selection bypass any sense of morality.
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Yeah, this is a pretty serious vote of no confidence. And hitching their wagon to Cuomo of all people makes them vulnerable, because that's a really obvious line of attack: "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
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I really feel like there is a Democratic Tea Party on its way in 2026. Perhaps not a radicalizing force, as with the actual Tea Party, but a wave that sweeps out the current party elites and replaces them with a group that isn't quite so painfully elitist and obviously out-of-touch.
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And given that both of the senior Democrats in Congress are part of that NY old guard, it's not especially surprising that the party in general seems to be either unaware of, or paralyzed in the face of, the discontent growing among primary voters.
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going back to 2004 and telling younger me that the resistance to the wannabe republican dictatorship will be led by matt drudge and bill kristol and giving myself an immediate stroke
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With the exception, as you said, of very specific elements of the Court's jurisdiction, literally every aspect of its function is subject to Congress's control and oversight. There is very little the Court could do if Congress were determined to stop it.
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Even if red states were smart enough to figure out how to parlay key issues into original jurisdiction cases, a Congress that wanted to stop this Court could easily do so. Pack the court, limit the number of cases it's allowed to handle, punish the justices if they don't behave.
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Yeah, Republicans have the major disadvantage of being wedded to their tax cuts. Democrats can do "austerity" while retaining their core entitlement spending because they're not also trying to cut taxes for billionaires.
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They've basically been cosplaying as fiscal hawks while allowing for both entitlement spending and billionaire tax cuts. Except now, the cosplayers have been replaced by the crazies who think they actually are fiscal hawks and that they have a mandate for massive entitlement cuts.
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The irony is that this time, they probably won't get away with it because the fiscal hawks are finally going to catch the car they've been chasing. If they really do try to cut social spending in favor of more tax cuts for billionaires, their whole 45-year charade will come crashing down.
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In the past, they've gotten away with this because, contrary to what they're constantly preaching to their fiscal hawk base, they've never really been punished for drastically expanding the national deficit.
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Those are safely termed "unreachable voters".
To be clear, I think you can probably govern as a progressive--Biden was, on paper, a very successful president! You just can't run and coalition-build as a progressive. It's about how you present yourself.
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Yeah, I think *this* is the key. Even if American voters might broadly like policies that can accurately be described as progressive, they balk at the actual progressive label. I've said it before, but the next Democratic president has to govern like Biden but communicate like Clinton.
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The problem is that Trump will never call them on this even if he realizes it's a problem for him, because he doesn't want to look weak.