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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Wordle 1,456 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. Robert Garcia making this too exciting
  3. Mine only went up $7. I’m not sure if I’ll renew tho. The only person who wants to go with me lives in the UK!
  4. We renewing our season tix or ?
  5. Have we ever considered that she and Catgirlkulak are the same person?
  6. Petty beefs, basically
  7. My man there are homeless people camped in the parking lot of the police HQ. It’s hard to argue they are doing their best. But, yes- absolutely Greg led the effort to rescind the ban. Which is kind of my point that was absolutely a social justice cause that was driven by affluent Democrats, who are very out of touch with the reality of chronic homelessness. And since the lives of working class people are more directly impacted by that reality, he missed the mark. But importantly, he emerged somewhat unscathed, an incredibly valuable skill!
  8. I’m not sure I understand. Do you think Greg Casar is Hispanic?
  9. Well OK. I mean, that seems more like “the idea of Greg Casar” than the actual Greg Casar. But I do like him, and more importantly, he wins.
  10. Related to the Hogg thing: right now a small group of traditional Austin Democrats are very quietly feeling around for a “moderate” to primary Greg Casar. Somehow my name came up as a possible supporter or even challenger. What I told them was that even though Greg Casar‘s ideology is not the model for what Democrats need nationally, purging well liked incumbents who represent their district well in a misguided attempt to enforce some kind of hypothetical majoritarian ideological baseline is exactly what we don’t need to do. If someone thinks they can do the job better than Casar, they should run. But I’m not going to participate as a donor or opponent in an attempt to take him down because he wins, and winning is job #1.
  11. They aren’t even unified now. They simply get along well enough to cooperate fully when it involves defeating their tribal/cultural enemies.
  12. Completely disagree. The GOP is so weak it was taken over by a lifelong Democrat who now rules by fiat. “They” didn’t unify.
  13. I don’t think that final part is true. Disruption is the best means of making noise, but scapegoating isn’t required. See also Obama. I’d argue he didn’t do nearly enough scapegoating. Donald Trump wasn’t disruptive because he’s the biggest hater, but because he’s a rizz king with a huge brand, bottomless energy and incredible comic timing who also happened to be the biggest hater, and he was competing against interchangable mediocrities.
  14. This entire framework is wrong and the reason why Trump won. Politics in 2025 is about who, not what.
  15. Great post, well put
  16. To me it’s JB, Pete and Newsom, but I wonder if JB is more our Chris Christie than he is a leader who can galvanize a national majority.
  17. It’s all part of the same complex of being out of touch with their voting coalition. Democrats in 2023 were still operating under the old principle that GDP growth+full employment = good economy. But in an environment of steep and accelerating growth income inequality, that’s not a good economy for most people because the benefit isn’t tangible. And yet, there were literally Democrats saying that people were lying or brainwashed when they said they were hurting, because the economy was supposedly doing so well.
  18. Well, but see our ideologically pure Democratic partisans are living their version of the American dream. They get to drive allies and cobelligerents out of their coalition and lose elections and let the world go to hell, but they keep their hands clean and face no personal consequences. And then, ironically, they blame “the oligarchs.”
  19. There are 1000 places for you to have this argument as vaguely and with as much hand waving as you like, but, you’re ultimately talking about what you only get to do if you win. The part that is relevant to this thread is that Democrats fucked themselves with elements of their coalition that they couldn’t afford to lose.
  20. Wordle 1,455 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  21. Certainly more than enough to make the difference, absolutely. I think you are fooling yourself. It’s part of the general phenomenon of Democrats getting way out of sync with the financial and class anxieties of their base. There are 55 million people who own at least some crypto directly, that is, they have invested their money in an asset and have an interest in it. Those people are more likely to be Asian, black, or hispanic than voters as a whole. Around 2/3 make under $100k/year. if support among those groups for Democrats erodes from 2020-2024, either in the form of moving towards the GOP or simply staying home, Democrats lose. Which is exactly what happened. Agreed and we should move on. But, there’s a ton of data on this for those who care to look and it’s not even particularly controversial. This forum is a bit of an echo chamber, and as such is representative of the blind spots that have put us where we are. One of those blind spots is crypto. I’m not advocating for anything here or trying to get y'all to like something you think is problematic. I’m simply stating the self-evident fact that the horse has left the barn.
  22. You did, though. Did I stutter? By allowing Elizabeth Warren and her 1965 GOP views on the same banking system set the agenda for the party, dems fucked themselves across the full complex of issues that touch on “crypto.” Not only was the policy angle generally bordering on delusional, but it was also deeply politically damaging, because it was so out of touch with core, foundational parts of their own coalition, ie millennials, male ones especially, minority especially, middle income especially. in other words, not y’all. Nevertheless, there are more of them than there are of you, and weakness with those groups cost Harris the election and pushed the house to the R’s.
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