Nothing about helping workers or dealing with 🇨🇳 required continuing to dismantle international trade institutions or keeping Trump’s awful, bad faith tariffs on our allies. Or using CFIUS against 🇯🇵 in…2025.
Again, Biden got awful advice from Sullivan & Tai & I’ll never understand why he followed it
Once again, it is difficult to overstate how disastrous Katherine Tai's tenure at USTR has been for US trade policy & standing in the multilateral trade regime
The reason TikTok is bad is the same reason all social media is bad, that you replace your sources of information from "people who know what the fuck they're talking about" with a million deranged idiots such as yourself. That way you get like Libsoftiktok or the autism telepathy podcast
Germany, INSA poll:
CDU/CSU-EPP: 31.5% (-0.5)
AfD-ESN: 19.5% (+0.5)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11.5% (-0.5)
BSW-NI: 8%
FDP-RE: 4.5% (+0.5)
LINKE-LEFT: 3% (-1)
+/- vs. 2-6 December 2024
Fieldwork: 6-9 December 2024
Sample size: 2,004
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
#btw25 #Bundestag #wahlen
Moving here more because my Twitter followers are in decline and the site doesn't reward intelligent text.
I might eat my words, but I think Vance is DOA.
Trump can say anything and voters don't care. The rest of the GOP insanity has festered under the surface. When that's revealed and "normal, post-Trump" leaders start talking, the ceiling caves in.
🧵 Democrats need to stop promising sweeping policies like this w/o ever discussing <institutional> reform. There was <no way> any of this was going to pass the Senate. It's no wonder voters get disillusioned. You promise them magical 🦄 & can't deliver. The <platform> needs to be institutional reform
what i think most people don't understand is that defense spending is not actually high--in fact, it is *near record lows* as a percent of gdp. and we're not living in the end of history anymore--we're headed into a new era of instability and great power conflict.
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it would not be wrong to say that the project of the conservative movement since watergate has been to ensure that another watergate could never happen. fox news exists so that the base will never be exposed to media that has them calling representatives in outrage about the president's behavior.
Voters support low wage growth.
Welcome to the club, but this is precisely the type of language that the left has always been using ("elites", "wage suppression") and precisely the reason i found all the Bernie and Warren (not to mention even more radical ones) stuff so off-putting
Yeah, and the Democrats need to move rightward again.
No, Corbyn was too far-left and couldn't capitalize on a tough-on-crime position in the 2010s. Labor was being so far-left that they allowed Tories to win for 13 years.
NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.”
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the key thing with the recent Marc Andreesen debanking stuff is that he's mad the companies he invests in have to follow anti-money-laundering rules and many normal banks won't touch them because they don't
dismantling the institutions upholding american hegemony and affluence because it would make the libs really angry if we did this
The alternative to democracy isn’t the policies I prefer, it’s destroying the incentive people with power have to care what ANY regular people think, whether they agree with me or not.
True!
I'm asking it semi-earnestly because it seems like some reactionary policies are popular
And yes, part of the solution is to start breaking some rules to stop those unpopular things from happening, rather than sitting on our hands and saying “but the norms say we have to let bad things happen to people.” Yeah, fuck that.
yeah, but what if the voters prefer reactionary policies?
Peak of evangelicalism
Feel like two of the big linger questions of this century are gonna be "how do you build back to a high social trust society" and "how do you deprogram people who have completely melted their brains in a democracy"
"Trump is too old"
"Trump deficit"
"Tariff farm crisis"
"Abandoned Ukraine"
and there is a non zero chance that Iowa has two senate seats up in 2026 because Chuck Grassley is Very, Very old
