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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. 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.
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  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Good. Hogg should run for something or be an activist. Otherwise he’s just a noisemaker and has negative value in a party management role. Good. Adopting Elizabeth Warren’s hopelessly out of touch and unrealistic “war on crypto” as the Democratic party default was political malpractice and probably put Donald Trump into the White House. Not bringing stablecoins under some kind of regulatory regime and leaving the whole question in limbo or worse, spending political capital to fight unwinnable battles that have no relevance to the bulk of your coalition is just dumb.
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  7. Totally agree on all points NYC and Israel have a pretty unique connection. Jews first arrived in New York City in the 17th Century. It’s the largest Jewish population in one place outside of Israel, the home of American Zionism, and I think someone could make a strong argument that there would not be a Jewish nation state called Israel in Palestine without the Jewish diaspora community in New York.
  8. I’m not sure where else to put this, so, enjoy
  9. So there’s this guy, Javert—tremendous law and order guy, okay? Nobody respects the law more than Javert. He believes in rules. Big believer in justice, no exceptions. Some people say too much justice—too tough! But not me. He’s doing what he thinks is right. Very strong! Now there’s this other guy, Jean Valjean—total disaster at first, stole a loaf of bread, can you believe it? One loaf. Sad! But then he turns it around—starts a business, helps people, really classy stuff. But Javert? He’s not buying it. He says, “Once a criminal, always a criminal.” Very tough, very focused. He’s like a border wall with legs—nothing gets by him! But then— Javert starts to crack. He sees Valjean being a good guy and He can’t take it. Doesn’t compute. Law or mercy? Rules or humanity? It’s a mess. A big, beautiful existential crisis. Eventually, Javert can’t handle it, and—boom—he’s out. Walks off the job forever. Very tragic. Very French. In the end, great story, tremendous drama. Very emotional. People cry. I don’t cry, but people do. They cry to me! Big strong guys, with tears in their eyes coming to me all the time they say “sir,” -they always say sir. Javert—strong guy, but not so strong in the end. Very sad.
  10. Sure thing. This is geared towards the audience he’s addressing (an important skill!) but is a very good interview. I particularly like how he connects chaos in cities with the passage of the budget bill, and Democratic party being about stuff working.
  11. Look, people follow leaders and messaging that is clear, tangible and immediate. They don’t understand the magic words or care about checking the boxes The Groups want checked. They don’t follow ideological abstraction and they don’t want to support politicians who run away from the language of class. Cuomo talks about real stuff that matters using short words and definitive, meaning statements people understand. he’s too damaged and too much of a New Yorker to win a national race, but his messaging is good.
  12. He’s not the optimal vehicle for it, but Andrew Cuomo’s messaging is very good.
  13. lol, Jane Coaston is the greatest
  14. Ok, Mr Burn-it-all-down.
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  16. Yep. I mean I think for a lot of those people, ie, the ones who know better then and now, they convince themselves this is politics and usual- the way to get lower marginal tax rates and deregulation and so forth. They still haven’t fully grappled with the reality of the dark forces they have released. And they won’t until it either impacts them personally or Republicans lose a lot of elections, and then they’ll be either crying or tut-tutting, respectively.
  17. No. He was just the pretext. Remember back in 2008 when @TahoeHorn was spouting that bullshit about Obama being a secret revolutionary black nationalist? He didn’t actually believe it, however, he was a locally advice partisan towing his party line. But what he hadn’t fully internalized at that time* was that his party had become an insurgent outlier working against the constitutional order. *he has since, which is a big reason why he no longer posts here or anywhere.
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  19. It don’t make a shit
  20. It’s implicit. Look, this isn’t about arrogance, or demeaning any other school. It’s simply a reality that we are Texas and as such we are in a category of one.
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