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@angel_0f_deathx in richards name we pray 🙏🏽

@janecoaston I went to a party with a roommate who went to Yale. It was a bunch of premed students interning at NIH. Somehow they were unaware that some people in the US did *not* have health insurance.

there's a broad anti-striver strain in American politics and culture and while I understand it, I do not like it

The most compelling reason to vote for Trump is that whoever is president will oversee the 250th celebration of our founding and the left, if in charge, would do some woke nonsense.

@AJentleson id wager there’s a 100 different ways a legislator can be successful advancing a policy outcome other than voting. Eg. Ted Kennedy /w ADA

I don’t care who won that primary because their voting records are going to be like 99% the same, which is my point. What I’m curious about is the theory of change — with M4A ~100 votes shy of passage, how does replacing one person who supported it with another get you closer?

@AJentleson it’s really not complex, cosponsoring isn’t enough. it doesn’t look like the establishment is trying hard enough. if they are, they need to get better at showing it

DeGette is a cosponsor of the Medicare for All Act of 2025-26. The main problem is it is about 100 votes shy of passage. Replacing a yay vote in DeGette with a yay vote in Kiros doesn’t get you any closer to passage. A real strategy to get there probably needs to engage with the possibility that people oppose it for reasons other than the monocausal explanation favored by this faction, since it didn’t stop DeGette from cosponsoring M4A and the hand-wavy suggestion that she should have “done more” is a cop out.

@brianros1 if the loss is close, most will blame the dem infighting for the 1-2% margin though

If we piss away a Senate seat, every person who endorsed him should get so much blowback. And those Fight Agency consultants should never work again.

@noturtlesoup17 Yeah might have to go take a look just for the history books

I do recommend the fair. You *can* see some actual cultural performances that would have been part of a nonpartisan production. And some of the states have neat displays (milk a fake cow!). But also I think it's important to see the failure. It's unbelieavable and kind of sad.

@ResistanceSean some will, some won. will have a legit gripe against establishment dems suppressing voters

Here is what bothers me. If Platner loses in Maine, the left will not ever accept that he was a mistake. They will blame everyone but themselves and their candidate.

@noturtlesoup17 Is it worth a 30 min drive?

Can’t stay away from my favorite place, the Great American State Fair.

Who would you trust to run the world?

@tracewoodgrains I don’t get the meltdown about her. At worst she functions as republican flip and throws sand in the gears opposing everything from the left, but in reality I’d bet she just voters party line and doesn’t have any outsized impact

Democrats should straight-up not allow Chevalier in their party. If the will-of-the-primary-voters-in-NYC is to put a scumbag communist into office, fine. Let them put a scumbag independent communist into office. My tent is not big enough for her—get her out.

@jessesingal @KonstantinKisin because he realized it led to an unacceptable level of excess death to the public with no budget savings.

3/ @KonstantinKisin what made you change your mind from viewing DOGE as 'incredible' to being unable to assess its impact? Genuinely curious what new information came in to cause you to become more bearish on it.

Don't wanna go back and forth on this forever but I don't understand how can you be upset about the *tone* or *words* people are using to describe a policy decision unless you also know enough to have an opinion on the policy decision itself!

@CathyYoung63 @jbarro my favorite x.com/jbarro/status/…

@jbarro What aged poorly in your view?

A lot of things people (including me) said about Trump in 2015 aged poorly, but not this. His political success has hinged on forcing the GOP leftward on issues including Social Security, Medicare, gay marriage, and (until recent idiocy) Mideast wars.

@FishTariffs @DapperDomo it’s not liking Jesus, it’s forcing others to that’s republican

@DapperDomo Why does liking Jesus Christ have to be associated with being a republican

What the fuck is Josh Hart talking about. Are them Knick niggas fucking republicans?

@ThirdWayTweet @DanielBShapiro if this is true, why is everyone crying about them winning three seats in NY? let the voters of these blue seats choose their representatives, just like Cuellar, and MGP. This whole debate is fueling so much negative resentment against both the DSA and mainstream dems.

The data speaks for itself: the DSA has a -27 rating among all voters. They may win in ultra-blue places, but cannot win back a Democratic majority nationwide.

@CoreyWriting @CathyYoung63 if they could’ve kicked Yglesias from relevancy, they would have. this is something but not bravery

Matt Yglesias correctly affirming there is no genocide in Gaza is quite brave given that progressives are clearly using Gaza/Israel as a gatekeeping mechanism to kick ideological adversaries out of the Democratic Party.

@mcuban not a proxy but a both and more situation

It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers. They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating. Until those running the big LLMs understand this and start a community tour, not to explain the benefits of AI, it’s too late for that, but to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses (and I’m a believer their will be a net gains in a few years), this battle is only going to get more intense and let me tell you now , no matter how much money you pay to buy politicians and races, you will lose. One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business. How can they help ? They will tell you. You will need to do what they ask. Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it’s a cost of doing business. At the same time, I would go to LA and NYC and ask the arts and creative unions what kind of programs would help and protect their artists. DO NOT GO TO THE MUSIC OR FILM COMPANIES. that will make it worse. Don’t try to pay famous people to endorse what you are doing. That’s dumb. Talk to artists and ask them what you can do to provide financial and creative support. Every creative I know is TERRIFIED about what AI will do to their profession. You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say. The big LLMs have lost the PR battle. Why ? Because they all suck at putting people first. They have an SV attitude that makes them all think they are John Galt saving the world Given the number of data centers and power that is needed, today and going forward , If you don’t kiss the asses of the people that go to work every day, and are just trying to pay their bills, you will fall far far short of the capacity you need to make your business work.

@mattyglesias also, when they do win- they aren’t perceived as doing anything about “it”

It's true that this happened, but also anyone who is halfway honest understands that the establishment lost to Trump again because of inflation and asylum-seekers not because Biden wasn't left-wing enough.

@ArmandDoma @Noahpinion her more silly views have no chance of becoming policy, but she will serve as a good bulwark against trumpism whilst also giving a gut punch to AIPAC. if she’s too crazy she’ll get primary’d before dems even have shot at the presidency. Seems like a win/win/win

Avila Chevalier genuinely crosses the line from "policy positions I disagree with" to "has opinions that make her a genuinely repugnant human being" and she's about to become a Congresswoman. fucking insane

@Scholars_Stage today? lol

Every Republican who ever said anything against the JCPOA, myself included, looks very silly today.