Oh man I’m glad the shit folk were saying was bullshit. we gotta stop getting baited by every dipshit who claims stuff without a source or the dumbfucks at Axios with an axe to grind, though them triggering a flood of calls all the time probably works to our advantage.
The real value of Hickenlooper at this point is that he decreases the odds that we end up with Senator Jared Polis
TBH this bullshit probably isn’t worth protecting a single house seat over
At this point it’d probably be worth it for him to lose to a Republican
primary
My favorite genres
1. discovering something crazy about the nature of reality but there’s also personal angst and maybe a regional politics angle
2. America is really big
3. assembling a team
4. people jockeying for something sneakily
Exhibit MCXVII in 'policy polling is trash and the thing that matters is outcomes'
I’m not in NJ so I haven’t seen the ads but I wonder how much of this comes from him being a fucking freak and her seemingly having a normal personality
Like I’m pretty confident that healthcare reform and social democracy appeal more to the average voter than big fiscal and antitrust do, but you can’t do social democracy when Manchin and Sinema are your deciding votes on everything.
I think that this is true as far as electoral impact goes but IMO part of the problem is that Bernie’s signature issues were things that would’ve required Congress to buy into (which is tough in a 50/50 senate) and Warren’s pet issues were things he could do from the executive branch.
the problem with this discourse is that people say that the left needs to “speak to young men” in some general way, but no specifics are ever given because then you’d realize these people actually have no solution
It was almost the exact same segment of the parkway too
I’ve hauled ass going northbound on the Fairfax County Parkway between 7:30 and 8:00 PM two nights in a row and that’s kind of a weird thing to have happen twice back to back if it’s not for a commute
And that includes stuff like transportation, land use, and energy that would persist even if one of those places managed to completely eliminate economic hardship.
I don’t think that this is necessarily wrong on the long-term but I think it overestimates how close we are to the post-problems phase. Even the most affluent suburban counties in the U.S. still have enough concrete issues that they can’t go completely post-material.
I think that this is true to an extent but I also don’t think you can ignore the droves of evidence we have that a lot of people legitimately didn’t understand what was going to happen (like that IVF lady from a few days ago)
This is probably a hot take on here now but I’d still probably rather have a somewhat liberal senator in their 60s than a Warner/Spanberger clone in their 40s
It’s too bad that Ghazala Hashmi is already 60 bc on policy she’s probably the best plausible successor to Kaine or Warner long term.
Bera, Case,Hímes, Houlahan, and maybe Costa represent solid blue districts FYI
Crazy part is that it wasn’t even reelect, he’s a freshman
Man I hope we don’t get McAdams 2.0
It’s interesting bc I feel like nowadays even pols with technocratic agendas try to play up the identity politics side, which is how you get nonsense like neoliberals claiming that YIMBYism and free trade are going to win back low-propensity Trump voters.
My hobbyhorse in my final days on Twitter was that it’s “the groups” all the way down. None of us or anybody else who posts about politics every single day represents anybody’s views in the real world.
For all the talk about "the groups" not representing the people they claim to, online moderates are wildly detached from IRL moderates
Would I need to RSVP?
This weird obsession with gratitude is the most infuriating part of this whole thing to me. It’s another point for the divorced dad theory of GOP politics.
Ridiculous that in 97 years they’ve never given an Academy Award to the single most important person on every film: whoever takes the lens cap off
Is the Brandywine Valley basically Philadelphia’s version of the Hunt Country?
Yeah, I’m here because I had to get away from my Twitter circle but I’m still addicted to scrolling, but this place is so clearly not going to last without a huge influx of normies. And as much as I’m a lib the echo chamber issue makes the politics side pretty useless too.
