In retrospect Betomania was the wrong strategy in 2018. You want GOP voters to fall asleep. Based on what happened yesterday in the special election Talarico may be that boring guy who can win. Donald is truly vulnerable in Texas even it’s a still heavy lift.

Have you ever seen a movie a movie or read a book where a British person used the word kosh as a verb? Per chatgpt - “If a British person uses ‘kosh’ as a verb, it means to hit someone hard, usually on the head.”

A way you can tell an account is probably being run from Pakistan is when they assume that any white person whose face deviates from a Victorian ideal is Jewish. Katheryn Hahn. Not Jewish at all. No Mediterranean or Slavic ancestry either. 100% Northern European white person.

There's no evidence that people who move to red states are generally Democrats. There are democrats from blue states moving to places like Austin. But for every new blue voter in Austin the GOP is usually picking up a red voter in a place like Anna TX. All the data suggests it's mostly a wash.

We need a national holiday for boring but extremely competent people.

I empathize with the guy. If some bro is harassing your wife with stories about his pornography addiction at her job yeah. You should go beat him into a bloody pulp. Except you know, that is actually illegal. So he's a public figure and feels people expect him to do performative anger.

Yup. Though this does say something about the adaptability of capitalism. In 1995 an Offspring album might cost $15 and a ticket to see them in person might be as low as $13. That worked for the time, doesn't work after widespread piracy/streaming. But artists still have many ways to make money

When I was a small child a show that I really liked got cancelled. And my mom said "Write a letter to the network. It worked with Cagney and Lacey." So I did. And I waited patiently for it to come back. But it never did. And then I realized voting never solves anything. And America is rigged.

Democrats are going to have to win at least one sunbelt state, all good.

The evidence on whether it's at all possible to ramp up manufactured housing in America and save costs is pretty murky. Worth trying. Sweden does a lot. I wish YIMBYs would just be more like "We want more economic growth in California. Won't promise you that cost of living goes down at all" etc.

What Canada has going for it is that the extreme progressives are in their own party rather than polluting the Liberals.

Fetterman did everything right. Except appease the people in his own party who are really ok with losing.

Neoliberalism: A) If you mean "cutting social security and Medicare" - politically problematic but largely inevitable. B) "excessively tight monetary policy" - bad on merits and unpopular. C) "no new taxes on anyone making less than 400k a year" - very popular for the indefinite future.

The tragedy of mental health is more that therapy is monopolized by rent seekers with a PHD. If the goal is to let you rent a friend or give you "something to believe in" insurance should cover other options. Priests, rabbis, random 30 year dudes in arkansas who are good listeners etc.

I laugh when progs say something so off base like this. Evangelicals aren't apolitical. They're just better at politics than either secular Magas or progressives. They don't care that Trump hasn't shut down gay marriage or abortions in California. They play the long game with judges.

I liked Connor Lamb and I also like John Fetterman. So I have no dog in this fight. But I think her statement is largely inaccurate. Fetterman beat Lamb because he had higher recognition statewide.

Refreshing for the guardian to consider this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What do these people think Israel should do about the fact that palestinians are so determined to kill Israelis? Letting palestinians rule gaza is how gaza came to be ruled by hamas. Time new strategy instead. If you think BOP is not the best option try to come up with a reasonable alternative.

No thanks. I'm going to stick to locking doors and avoiding dangerous neighborhoods.

A very marginal benefit of mandatory voting my be that disengaged young voters would be more open to limiting entitlement spending on the elderly like social security and Medicare. There is some evidence this may happen in Australia. (Marginal improvement though.)

Medicare 4 all isn't popular. It's not politically realistic any time soon, stop talking about it.

I tend to take a dim view of people with a platform who say things that are clearly not true. So not a fan of E in that regard.

Plenty of billionaires love Trump, plenty hate trump. Reducing inequality comes from higher taxes on the top 10% optimal means testing of programs like social security. So no, don't blame billionaires.

If you think 1) the root cause of Maga is bigotry and 2) The Democratic Party should be a platform to preach against bigotry rather than listen to voters. You need to take a deep breath. And realize you are largely the cause of maga. It's a paradigm shift. But you'll get there.

The problem with Democrats is how they campaign on immigration. Not that it couldn't in theory be positive. "Orangeman has gone too far" is quite a bit different from "everyone has a right to be here, stop enforcing laws."

He may end up being the least bad option. Democrats aren't even close to really thinking "boring white guy no one has ever heard of but is really likable" is the answer. So if it's Gavin vs Harris vs Warren then idk.

I am a Democrat. I am also a conservative. IN the sense that I do approve of occasionally telling young adults to STFU.

Palestinian orgs are continually planning attacks on Israel. You wonder when the far left gets that this is a problem and there are some tough trade offs. Palestinians aren't slaves. Their labor is worthless to Israel. But surveillance/control yeah. Israel will monitor the terrorism gazans plan

There's nothing wrong with being a "resister". If you enjoy participating in various protests and blue meetups, it's a social activity. It's just that "resisting" doesn't do much to stop the maga agenda. The problem is that Democrats have a toxic brand and Kamala and Hillary didn't exactly help.

Kamala had never won a tough election when she was annointed as the 2024 POTUS candidate. As Whitmer had. As a bunch of other women had like Masto and Rosen. She had never overperformed fundementals as Amy Klobochar had.

I always forget that everyone assumes that anyone who admits Kamala sucked is either far left or Maga. You're forgetting that third category. People who actually want Democrats to win elections.

Trump and Israel have serious disagreements just like Kamala and Israel would have. The difference is Israel sees criticizing maga as very risky. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Biden was 18 when Mr Ed premiered on TV. 24 when the flying nun debuted on tv. 31 when Jimmy Conners won his first grand slam. 42 when Madonna became engaged to Sean Penn. 47 when Taylor swift was born. 57 when Dirk Nowitzki debuted in the nba. 65 when REM stopped touring.

Trump is pausing the student loan garnishments.

The reason the question "does trickle down economics work" gets so much talking past each other is no one really agrees on what it means. Do lower corporate taxes lead to higher wages? Yes. It's a given. The debate is only on the magnitude. Progressive economists say only modest effect.

This stuff is starting to feel like a template that's getting tedious. They did it with 1984(winston's liver) and Huckleberry Finn (Jim). Next do Catcher and the Rye from the perspective of the sex worker Holden visits.

Conservatives are pretty robustly happier than liberals. This is not completely survey design/aversion to mental health. That doesn't mean "liberals are generally mentally ill" is a reasonable statement. Religion and gender are a huge part of the story. The whole story is a long list of things.

The best Democratic messaging is usually no messaging. Agree?

For those of you jumping to conclusions. The woman who’s suing Sinema for sexing her husband isn’t Ann Romney. I know that would have made the story better but it’s someone else.

Things I liked about Kyrsten Sinema. That she moved to the center. Things I disliked about Kyrsten Sinema. That she moved on married men.

I like Ben Shapiro on a few topics where I think he's speaking authentically (especially Israel) but he's like any other conservative talk show host. He has to make money telling right-wing people what they want to hear. How does a sit down with Gavin Newsom go?

I would have done this: lust and gluttony for boomers (yeah I know but that's what they were originally known for) greed and wrath uppper right. (crime and taxes dominated 80s talk). Sloth, Envy - millenials prog politics. recession excuses Zoomers - pride, best I can do for a new group.

Hmm.. Perhaps Trump's worldview here is sort of "idealistic"? I hate to give him that much credit but idk. Israel may believe: Another bombing exchange with Iran fought purely as a symbolic gensture to the protesters is just not reasonable. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

here's how I think you should see things when you see Canadians or Brits make fun of Americans for electing Trump If Carney or Starmer actually had to appeal to the far left in the way the Democrats do they would probably also lose to the far right parties.

Dems want to change society in a pretty dramatic way. Republicans want to end liberal democracy. The radicalism on the left is that they want to change how society works. The GOP wants change how government works which is why it's seen as less important to disengaged voters.

Yup. What he said. Scapegoating billionaires is the most wholesome enemy Dems can make, and much preferable to scapegoating rednecks and Israelis. Preferable to self flagellating against privledged white liberal women "not doing enough". But still.

Trump has done many awful things. Ending TPS status for Somalis is not one of those awful things.

Here we are in 2026 and leftists are still hanging on to the idea that there’s some emerging progressive majority among the youth. Pathetic

I'm going with no. (And that's bad). But nonaction is both bad and understandable.

If your sole issue was the USA putting the breaks on Israel there probably is a case for voting for Trump. Only Trump actually has some leverage over Israel because Bibi would just thumb his nose at Kamala. That said palestinian terrorists are bad and will be neutralized either way.