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chainsaw

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  1. You think pollsters are siloing? People who make a living by getting these things right, are doing their jobs poorly on purpose?
  2. The Gen Z who voted in previous elections used to be reliably Democratic. They are no longer reliably Democratic. This is true in the low-turnout counties of South Texas, and it's becoming true of Gen Z. You can no longer see a long line of voters on a college campus and assume that's a good thing for the Dems. Because they're less reliably Democratic.
  3. reading comprehension wasn't your strong suit, was it?
  4. This is the part I still am not seeing a coherent explanation for. There is just no way an outcome like this is possible without a bunch of dead canaries in coalmines. They could not have been as confident as they were ("blindsided") unless they were ignoring obvious signs. But, what would those obvious signs have been? A bunch of flags and yard signs? Nope. Yuge crowds? None. What about enthusiasm and approval ratings? Not there, either. It hasn't been adding up for me.
  5. Dems (the party leaders) once again took a previously-reliable voting bloc for granted.
  6. LOL at the idiots disappointed that Stein "only" got .5% get fucked
  7. how else can they get probable cause on black drivers
  8. Without career servants, they won't know how to govern. Imagine what Elon did to twitter, happening to all branches of the federal government.
  9. Don't forget Cuellar (TX-28) will be gone in a few months.
  10. Way to completely miss the point, which is: You don't get to clutch pearls.
  11. Where would you recommend someone relocate to
  12. 90% of Americans aren't paying attention because they're too exhausted trying to eke out a living or they're too distracted by stupid bullshit. Either way, we're in Idiocracy.
  13. I am not glad Kamala lost. It's unforgivable what Bibi was willing to do to influence this election. But at a certain point I just want the killing to stop.
  14. Good thing for a bad reason is still a good thing
  15. I'm not sure that theory explains it. In all of those races there were probably alarm bells that clued people into the eventual results. Nobody understands the working class like Dick Cheney
  16. Who sounded the alarms? The data was not projecting an enthusiasm gap in this direction or of this magnitude. I can believe the results (this is what I feared would happen to Biden or a post-Honeymoon Harris) but what I am having a hard time believing is that this was a complete shock to the insiders. These kinds of things don't just happen without a bunch of leading indicators in agreement. It's really not that different from hurricane forecasts. I've never seen anything this far outside the cone.
  17. Yes, silicon valley is fond of Zuckerberg-style mass deployments of unvetted, unethical social experiments. They took the formula that radicalized the Boomers and let it loose on the others. They all self-radicalized.
  18. I think you just described Initech
  19. Here's the problem I see with Gen Alpha, Gen Z, and Millennial men: there's no way to change them. They are driven by entitlement. The have been force-fed propaganda about how they're failures unless they have trad wives and nuclear family to rule over. This has fundamentally changed who they are deep down and what their values are. Once the GOP accomplished that, the only thing they needed to do was make clear appeals to those values. The details never mattered. Trump is the guy who "fights" for those values, and everyone standing in his way is the enemy. They don't know or care what Project 2025 is, and the few who did look into it said "that sounds great!"
  20. Biden has been the most progressive president of our lifetimes and he holds the all-time record for the most votes.
  21. The part I agree with is that "Trump Bad" is a losing message. I voiced my concerns about this many times in the other threads, about how all these clapback and snark videos were implementing the wrong strategy. I didn't want to be right, though.
  22. I'm sure they will immediately reform the tax code to match the campaign promises about tips and overtime.
  23. I disagree. The "big tent" strategy no longer works. If it's true that Harris failed at the one thing she needed to do (drive up turnout) then we should gather as much data as we can about the people who stayed home. I have a feeling they didn't stay home because she was from California. If the racism/misogyny theory holds, then a bold Gavin Newsom who stands up to Trump could energize the people who had stayed home.
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