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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. They don’t even have a code of ethics. The Buda Planning and Zoning Commission is more bound to conduct itself subject to the law than the Supreme Court.
  2. I agree with that, but Trump’s supporters suport him because he acts like he wins. Just pause for a moment and imagine how Trump would have been eviscerated by Reagan, Obama, Bill Clinton, Biden in his prime, or even W? And it wouldn’t have been because they were bigger liars, or because of policy or any of that. They would have made him the butt of the joke constantly, jammed him up until he popped, and made him look weak. Among many other things, Democrats need to change their style. That’s why I said their best play for this ridiculous speech was to just sit there, roll their eyes, and laugh out lough at the stupid parts.
  3. I believe the end game of all of this is to undermine the global role of the dollar.
  4. Of course I do. But it’s not impenetrable yet. Democrats can still get on Twitter, Fox, Rogan, etc. And of course one of you will say the deck is stacked against them, and of course it is. But asymmetry is interesting and comes with its own set of advantages.
  5. We aren’t there yet, come on.
  6. He’s so bad.
  7. Nope. The resolution passed because what the voters cared about was their problems and developing a clear and immediate sense of who was on their side. Getting them to support the resolution was just a question of aligning to those things. The policy, if you can call it that, was just the outcome.
  8. This is another symptom- Democrats aren’t held by it. They just choose to play by the rules of a media ecosystem as they were in 2008. We no longer live in that world. Democrats are free to do other things and make their own weather. They just don’t, for some reason.
  9. Of course you can, that’s ridiculous. Trump’s voters generally know he lies all the time and probably half of them dislike it. They vote for him in spite of it, not because of it.
  10. @TwiceHorn has assured me that the first duty of a lawyer is to their client and that the legal profession is definitely NOT in an ethical crisis, so everything’s jake!
  11. Hmm. Well most of them are one-offs, but in terms of degree of difficulty I was pretty proud of convincing 97% of the mostly baby boomer and older attendees of a neighborhood association meeting to support a resolution to ask the Austin city council to upzone their own neighborhood, despite opponents of the resolution stacking the room with ringers and lying about what the resolution said. Not many examples of that…
  12. Lie about policies? What on earth? They should almost never even talk about policies. I don’t see how I can be more clear here.
  13. No, but holding a majority coalition in such contempt and disdain is also symptomatic of why Democrats lose.
  14. The more closed a loop is, the more quickly it collapses and fragile it becomes. Democrats need to focus their energies on infecting and coopting the GOP propaganda apparatus, an equivalent apparatus would just make things worse and efforts to that purpose are wasted.
  15. Nope. I’m advocating that they get good at marketing, which I’ve been saying consistently on these boards for 20+ years. To equate being good at marketing with deception is a category error and symptomatic of how lost Democrats are right now.
  16. No, they aren’t stuck. They delude themselves into believing that campaigns are won and lost on policies instead of delivering targeted calls to action that resonate with a sufficient cross section of the electorate to capture majorities. Policy is what you get to do if you win. chatGPT, show me a picture of how Democrats lose:
  17. “That good” meaning good enough to beat somebody good who doesn’t rely on deception. Democrats lose because they aren’t good. They don’t understand their target audience or what drives attention and behaviors. Or care to, apparently. They act like campaigns are court cases, like people choose how to vote based on the preponderance of the evidence. Also/ Democrats need to get it out of their head that Trump wins because he lies. That’s not true. It’s his biggest weakness. Trump wins because he understands his target audience and how to make his opponents compete in his choice of ground. That’s why this isn’t a messaging problem.
  18. What do you mean “kinda?” It’s extremely difficult. But Republicans know how to do it because they value marketing as a professional discipline. as in Texas, the Democratic Party is dominated by lawyers and activists and does not value marketing as a strategic professional discipline. The closest they have are refugees from journalism-turned-flacks who do “strategic communications” and chant magic words only activist groups can hear.
  19. No, he’s very good. Because he understands his target audience and gives them what they want. Republicans in general do. That’s their strength. But their weakness is deception. My position on this thread is and has been that Democrats are bad at sales and marketing, but literally all of the few times they executed the basics well, they won. If they weren’t so averse to it they would win.
  20. What are the bonds for? Serious question.
  21. There’s some real irritation (to put it mildly) at the administration in the bitcoin world right now. I suspect a pardon of SBF would be like dropping a firecracker on an anthill.
  22. MCI Worldcom cheated, lied, got caught, and collapsed less than 5 years from their peak- in no small part because their sales organization was a meat grinder that got beat on all the good business they didn’t buy. I don’t see how that’s a counter example. That’s simply not true. If they need to lie about the big stuff to they aren’t that good.
  23. If your job is to find product-market fit and you don’t, it either means you didn’t understand your the reality of your market, or your product didn’t address it. It’s really hard to do, but it can be done in a single cycle as long as you don’t institutionalize barriers to achieving it, but Democrats have.
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